An Angel for the Devil by Kane Jessa

Author:Kane, Jessa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Shelby

I wake with a start in an unfamiliar place.

The last thing I remember last night is losing consciousness on the couch in Alistair’s library. There’s a vague memory of being carried up a staircase, but that’s where my recollection ends. Slowly, I peek an eye open and look around, my eyes bugging out at the sight that greets me.

First of all, I’m in a man’s room. There’s no doubt about that.

Everything is decorated in deep, chocolate leather and hunter green hues. I’m in the center of a gigantic bed complete with the softest sheets I’ve ever felt on my skin—a far cry from the scratchy ones I’m used to. Light peeks in from around heavy curtains, an antique fan turns lazily on the ceiling. This is luxury.

I also suspect this is Alistair’s room. Does that mean…he slept beside me?

My skin flushes at the possibility. Not to mention when I think of what happened last night. I’m not a virgin anymore. Far from it. I’m not sure it’s possible for a woman to have one’s virginity taken so…thoroughly.

With a blooming smile, I roll over onto my stomach, bury my face in the pillow and let the images play out. Alistair’s neck cords straining above me, his hips bucking, the burn of possessiveness in his eyes, directed squarely at me. As if the soreness between my thighs isn’t more than enough to know who I belonged to in that library last night.

I would give anything to simply bask in the afterglow of being intimate with Alistair, but unfortunately I now have a fresh worry to deal with. I got so lost in the man himself, what he makes me feel, that I forgot to barter with him for my virginity—and obviously it is too late now. I can’t undo what happened…

Nor do I want to.

Alistair is so much more than the devilish landlord my family believes him to be. He’s a man with scars that haven’t healed. He’s locked inside the walls he’s built, but he’s capable of letting them down. To me. Unbelievably, to me. And I think he’ll do the right thing. Without me telling him it’s my family he’s supposed to evict. Last night, I could feel the change of heart happening inside of him and I have to trust my instincts. He won’t need to be coerced or convinced to cancel the eviction.

He just needs time.

With me?

I was already halfway in love with Alistair from a distance, but now…now that his pain has been presented to me so honestly, now that we’ve shared such moving passion, I can already feel my heart slipping deeper. What if he only wanted one night? Or worse, what if he finds out we met under false pretenses and I intended to seduce him for my family’s gain? Will he hate me?

With a gnawing in my stomach, I throw my legs over the side of the bed and stand. There is only one way to make this right—and it’s to tell my family the plan is off.

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