A Devil in Disguise by Caitlin Crews

Author:Caitlin Crews
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781408974537
Publisher: Harlequin (UK) Ltd
Published: 2012-10-01T21:00:00+00:00

Leaving her to make sense of what was happening to her—to them—on her own.

Fighting off emotions she couldn’t understand, much less process, Dru obediently followed Frederic through the villa. There were tall, vaulted ceilings and the same rich, dark wood she’d seen outside. Airy, spacious rooms without proper windows, simply cutout spaces in the walls to let in paradise on all sides. Bright-colored wall hangings, low and inviting sofas in magentas and creams. Polynesian artifacts on built-in shelves in the walls, and glorious flowers scattered across ornamental tables. She followed Frederic down a level and then outside again. They walked along another, far shorter path that delivered her to a private bungalow splayed out over its own private pier. Here, too, the walls were open to the night, letting the softest of breezes into the expansive suite. Dru couldn’t seem to breathe deeply enough to take it all in.

And again—still—all she wanted to do was dissolve into the tears she knew were waiting for her and cry herself dry. Cry until she couldn’t feel this anymore, whatever this was: Cayo and the dark and that touch, imprinted on her skin. Claiming her.

With a smile, Frederic showed her the glass floor hidden away beneath a rug in the sitting area.

“In the day,” he promised, “you will see many fish. Even turtles.”

“Thank you,” she whispered, summoning her smile from somewhere.

“Sleep now,” the man said kindly. “It will be better when you sleep.”

And she wanted to believe him. She did.

Everything felt too huge, too unwieldy, she thought when he left. Her own head. This place. Cayo, of course. Cayo most of all. It all felt impossible, and painful. It hurt from the inside out. She moved over to the opening across from the four-poster bed draped in filmy mosquito netting from high above, and looked out at the water and the smudge of orange light behind the mountain in the distance. Daybreak was coming. And she was in paradise with the devil, and she burned for him as if she’d already fallen. Perhaps she had. Perhaps that was why this had hurt so much from the start.

There was no reason at all she should cry now. She wiped away the tear that tracked its way down her cheek. And then all the ones that followed. She felt her face crumple in on itself, and had to pull on reserves she hadn’t known she had to breathe through it—to fight back the sobs that she knew lurked just there and would be the end of her.

She must not give in. She must not start. It was only two weeks, and less than that now. She needed to be strong only a little while longer.

Oh, Dominic, she thought as she crawled on to the bed, not even bothering to change out of the clothes she’d been wearing across several continents and more time zones than she could count. I wish you could see this place. It’s even better than you dreamed.

Her last thought as she drifted off into blessed unconsciousness was of Cayo.

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