A Touch of Dark (Painted Sin Book 1) by Lana Sky

Author:Lana Sky [Sky, Lana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lana Sky
Published: 2019-10-21T18:30:00+00:00

You’re never lonely with a…

“Smile so hard and you might hurt yourself!” Sharla from accounting makes the assessment as she drops a stack of documents onto my desk.

My mouth practically waters at the prospect of more work. These will take hours, if not days to review. Less time to think. When I swipe my hand longingly over the pages, the perky blond raises an eyebrow.

“You must be having the best day ever. You haven’t stopped smiling since you came in.”

She’s right. I haven’t. My mouth aches with the effort it takes to maintain my flawless expression. I’m happy, all right. So damn happy.

“Thank you.” I beam wider as Sharla saunters off and closes the door of my office behind her.

The moment she’s gone, I lift a mug from the corner of my desk and drain it in one go. The liquid running down my throat isn’t coffee—the one risk in my façade I’m willing to take. As they have since the moment I woke up, memories from last night play tauntingly across the inside of my skull and only alcohol can counter them. This sinister brand, to be exact.

Maybe I’m as much of a masochist as I am a coward. The bitter taste serves as a harsh reminder of just what Damien is capable of. Stalking. Drugging. Abandoning.

It took two hours after he left for me to regain control of my limbs and crawl into my bedroom. I only had enough strength left to switch on every damn light before a pounding headache drove me beneath the blankets and into a dreamless sleep—a quick Google search revealed a headache could be a potential side effect of succinylcholine. So that was that. He hadn’t poisoned me at least, and somehow, I woke up in time to hobble into my closet and get dressed for work.

But something else he said makes me compile another search, and the results are more puzzling. Legal cases have never interested me before—not even my father’s before he took the bench. A cursory search reveals a few of his landmark cases as a defense attorney, but little else.

Erased, Damien said. In fact, the only thing even remotely out of place is a single headline from over twenty-one years ago reading “All Charges Dropped Against Child Murder Suspect.” My father was briefly mentioned as the defense attorney, but the police apparently had no solid evidence and the suspect was never named. Nothing nefarious in that. Still, the topic of murder makes me shudder. Could that case be why Heyworth Thorne picked me, of all children, to adopt? Misplaced guilt?

Perhaps Damien thinks that fact might shock me. Oh no, my father didn’t happen across me by chance, but he sought me out because my case paralleled another he’d worked on. How evil.

But the bastard is a liar. And he’s ruthless. There were some lines even Simon hadn’t crossed. I asked my questions last night, but this morning brought my answers: Damien is more than just creepily intuitive.

After fishing out

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