Muse: Trey Baker

Name: Muse: Trey Baker
Author: K.E. Taylor

167 pages

Trey
I’ve never had to chase anyone.
Girls come easy when you’re inked, famous, and born with a smile that spells trouble.
I live loud. I play louder.
But the night I crash into her, everything screeches to a halt.
Seraphina Carmichael.
All softness and secrets, wrapped in cotton dresses and whispered prayers.
She’s asking for a way out.
A fake marriage. No strings. Just escape.
Sounds easy.
But from the second I slip that ring on her finger, I know I’m screwed.
Because nothing about her feels fake.
For the first time in my life, I don’t want easy…I want real.
She thinks I’m her rescue plan.
But the truth is…she just might be mine.

Seraphina
My father says I was born cursed.
That my mother’s sins live in my blood, in my red hair, in every breath I take.
He says pain is purification. That obedience brings salvation.
Now…he’s giving me to one of his faithful.
A man with cruel hands and dark desires.
A man who says he’ll break me to save me.
Then I meet Trey Baker.
Tattooed. Loud. Infamous.
A warning in human form.
The only person who sees me.
I ask him to marry me…just on paper.
But with him, nothing feels fake.
Maybe salvation doesn’t come from above.
Maybe it’s wrapped in ink, lit by fire,
and whispered in the voice of a sinner who refuses to let me fall.