Angels Like You by Elizabeth Muse

Author:Elizabeth Muse [Muse, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781957666129
Publisher: Plot Bunny Publishing
Published: 2023-04-13T16:00:00+00:00

16

HENRY

I reach out and tuck my hands underneath Eloise. She snuggles further into her comforter and smiles up at me.

“One more song, Henry?” she requests.

“Miss Eloise, you have had three songs and two chapters from Peter and Wendy,” I argue. “It’s time for sleep now.”

“Are you going to work?” she returns.

“Yes.”

Her lips tremble. “But I want you to stay.”

My heart clenches at the sight. Oh, Lord. I can barely tell her mother no, and only when her safety is at stake. I don’t stand a fucking chance with Eloise.

“I stayed home last night, remember? I watched a movie with your mum. I have to go back to work or it’ll all fall apart.” Her eyes well with tears. “I will be here when you wake up,” I rush to promise her. “All right?”

The tears that were just threatening to fall disappear the instant she gets her way. Absolutely devious. She wiggles a little to get comfortable and then rolls to her side. “Good night, Henry.”

I chuckle quietly, leaning over to kiss her head. “Good night, Eloise.”

As soon as I hit the hallway again, I run my hands over my face. I’m smiling, though. It’s only been two days and I’m utterly smitten with them both. The Hayward women always were more lethal than us, but damnit if this isn’t getting out of hand.

Too bad I have no intention to stop any of it.

I push off the wall outside Eloise’s room after another second, adjusting my cufflinks and the holster under my suit jacket as I jog down the stairs. But I stop halfway. My eyebrows furrow in confusion as I catch sight of Amelia at the bottom. Her back is still to me.

She’s wearing another dress, but this one is longer than the other I’ve seen her in. Parts of it are longer, anyway. The sleeves and most of the skirt are sheer. It touches the floor, but the parts that aren’t see-through barely cover her ass. If she bends over, I know exactly what I’d find.

Marks.

Marks I left.

Angry, red marks in the shape of my hand.

I shiver involuntarily as I think of last night.

The minute Eloise had fallen asleep, we’d become a tangle of limbs again. And we’d fucked until the sun came up too. My life in the last two days had been reduced to catnaps, but I was more than happy to survive on very little sleep if that was my reward.

Her hair is up with soft tendrils framing her face, from what I can see from behind. And as she turns, she offers me a coy smile. With the way she was riding me last night, though, coy isn’t the word I’d use to describe my Darling anymore.

“Where do you think you’re going?”

I’m entirely serious, but I imbue my words with a hint of sarcasm to keep the depth of my emotions out of my voice. It’s too soon. Too much.

“Out,” she replies.

I nod. She is certainly allowed out. I hate it. I’ll likely become murderous if anyone dares breathe the same air as her, but it’s fine.

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