Cruel Debts by Heleva Risque

We made our fallen brother a promise. His sister is determined to help us break it.

The Gunners were as tight-knit a unit as you would ever find–we’d been to war together, both overseas and in the streets. Our promise to our fallen fourth was that we’d watch over his sister, Trinity. None of us knew how hard it was to hold onto a free spirit like her. She did what she wanted, when she wanted, with whomever she wanted.

And what she wanted, now, was us.

They refuse to touch me because of my brother. But nobody’s stopping me from touching them.

My brother’s friends always kept a close eye on me growing up. Now, they’re sworn to protect me, a promise they made to him before he died, or so I was told. But I’ve always wanted what I couldn’t have, and now that they’re off-limits, I’m working overtime trying to show them why, sometimes, promises are made to be broken. The Gunners can’t resist me forever–I always get my way in the end.

Who wants an apple off the ground, when you can pick forbidden fruit from the tree?