A Ruthless Lust by Raquel Belle

Author:Raquel Belle [Belle, Raquel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Naughty Bird Publishing
Published: 2019-07-05T16:00:00+00:00

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The knock on Abby’s door took her by surprise. She wanted to be left alone to wallow in her deepening despair. The conversation with her mother had been both eye-opening and depressing. She was thrown further into distress when she discovered who was at the door. After a few knocks, her unwanted visitor began to shout her name. There was no mistaking who the voice belonged to.

“Abby?” Damian shouted, followed by another boom on the door.

Abby jumped up, her eyes wide. Celeste confessed to giving Damian her address after her revelation about the decades-long feud between the Aldridge’s and Coldwell’s. It started with both her and Damian’s fathers, and Damian had taken it upon himself to continue the feud. To think she’d started to believe that Damian’s callousness had been exaggerated. After hearing the full story, it turned out that he was worse. He was as heartless and conniving as his father before him. Her resentment of him had returned and even grew the longer she sat in silence and processed everything Celeste had revealed.

He was the last person she wanted to see. Yet, there he was at her door, practically knocking it off of its hinges. “Damn it,” she said, looking around her living room. She didn’t have time to hide her painting, so she turned the easel around to face the window. He wouldn’t be staying long because he certainly wasn’t welcome.

Her mood darkened as she marched to the door. She had been drawn back into her mother’s scheme, and she was none too happy about it. Even a saint would agree that Damian deserved whatever was coming to him. Taking a steady breath, she yanked the door open.

“You’re disturbing the entire building, Damian.”

He stood there, dark eyes assessing before his brow furrowed. “If you had opened the door before my patience wore thin instead of deliberately making me wait, there would’ve been no need to beat down your door.”

Leaning against the door and folding her arms, she suppressed her desire to lash out. She looked at him closely, without emotion. He looked as handsome and smouldering as ever, meeting her stare head-on, his typical stoic demeanor in place. “What do you want?”

In the manner that never failed to heat her blood, his eyes ran over her frame from head to toe. There was a small smile playing on his lips that barely softened the hard edges of his expression. “There are a few things that I want,” he said, making her swallow hard. “But I mostly came to apologize.”

“After two days?”

“I thought I’d give you enough time to cool off. You’re as hot-headed as they come, Querida. A trait I find incredibly stimulating, but I didn’t want to approach you too soon and risk losing an important body part.”

She hated that he made her want to smile. She hated herself for hungrily drinking him in with her eyes. Even as she tried to convince herself that she hadn’t missed him in the least, there was no denying that her body did.

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