A Countess Betrayed by Jade Alters

Author:Jade Alters [Alters, Jade]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Untamed Love Romance

Darius

His finger travelled languorously over her soft curves barely hidden beneath a cover, to the splash of raven hair spilling luxuriously across the pillows. The surge of heat he always experienced at the sight of her dark beauty rushed to his loins.

“For you, Officer Romero!”

Darius hid Sally’s incriminating photograph below his desk as a thick folder landed on his work surface.

Report from The Red Lantern, it was labelled.

A bitter gesture of his hand accompanied his groan, as he rubbed his scalp in despair.

As if he needed to be reminded of that hellish, heavenly place. For the past week, his mind had been nowhere else but the disorderly house on Basin Street.

“With all due respect, sir, you ought to change that pomade of yours.”

His hair looked like he just survived a hurricane. He knew that. It had everything to do with the tumult of the storm within him.

He acted like a man possessed ever since the Epiphany. His own reflection even caused him to jump whenever he had the misfortune of passing in front of a mirror.

Darius shot beams of fire through his eyes at the cadet. “Perhaps if you spent less time studying my hair and more time organizing that file cabinet, Hubbard, this city wouldn’t be the rat’s nest that it is.”

Alone again, Darius resisted the urge inside the crotch of his uniform trousers. What a curse to be consumed with wild, blind desire for days on end, when the only woman who could ease his sufferings filled him with nothing but hate!

Hate… That’s what this was, right?

The rational solution to the situation in his groin was to visit another tenderloin lady. Storyville abounded with wenches in all shapes and sizes.

But bile rose in his throat at the mere thought.

You’re doomed.

The only cure to his plight was that poison of a woman, the very perpetuator of his demise.

Hate, hate, hate. But the word didn’t sit well in his heart. What was this whirlwind of emotions that filled him to the brim. Ardent, agonizing and... addictive?

Wiping the sweat from his flushed face, Darius’ eyes landed once more on the suggestive photograph he hid on his lap. The sight of those elusive eyes was almost enough to make him take the first cab to The Red Lantern and beg to please, please take me back after all.

She could pocket his month’s salary. Anything she wanted, purely for the pleasure of a few more moments in her company.

Great idea. He began to rise.

Short of a proper solution, Darius hit himself hard with his palm and fell back on his chair.

When had he sunk so low, to let himself be led around by the nose – or some other hard and protuberant part of his body – by a dime-a-dozen doxy?

At least he knew he wasn’t lusting after a thief. Last week he summoned Spitzer from his cell, and the man confirmed what Ravenna said: he was the one who stole the black diamond necklace from his wife, in order to pay for his debts at The Red Lantern.

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