Beauty Tempts the Beast by Mink

Author:Mink [MINK]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MINK
Published: 2020-09-18T16:00:00+00:00

16

Helen

I drop my head in shame. It’s something I’ve grown used to with my family name, but this time it hurts more than ever. His words of what happened to him had sliced through me, making my own scars seem as if they were child's play compared to his.

I can’t look the other way this time or pretend that what my family has done didn’t happen. I can no longer ignore the reality of who they are. Not when it feels as if his dark eyes are not only looking at me but seeing inside my soul.

I knew what he was going to say. That my family name would roll off his tongue. I could feel it. That somehow the truth would reveal my family’s involvement. His thumb rubs back and forth across my throat as I will myself not to cry. The tears wouldn’t be from fear. I’m not afraid of him.

They would be to mourn the life that my parents had taken away from him. For the loss of his parents, his scars, and for every other thing that the Carrigan name had done to him.

“I’m sorry.” I lick my dry lips as a tear finally escapes. “I know my words will never be enough. That they can’t bring you the revenge you seek or change what happened. But I am sorry. It’s all I have to give.” His thumb stops drifting back and forth as his eyes drop to my mouth. The same mouth he’d kissed earlier. Did he hate himself for that? Was he mad because he was attracted to me even though I carried a name that he swore to destroy? Is that why he’d really stormed from the room?

“It’s not all you have to offer.”

I suck in a breath at the suggestiveness of his rough words as they leave his lips. He brushes my tears away with his soft touch. He looks pained at the sight of my tears. None of it makes sense. How can this be the same man who had such a horrible plan for me? When he looks at me as though he cares for me?

I don’t believe he would have ever really gone through with it. He’s hurting, and he’s trying to make the hurt stop the only way he can think of. Right now, I want the same. To ease the hurt for him that I’m sure never goes away. One that he’s reminded of each day when he sees himself in the mirror.

“You still want to kiss me?” I lean into him. I can feel his desire for me. It presses into the softness of my stomach.

“Kissing you was…” He trails off, but I wait. I want to know what it was like for him. “Like nothing else mattered. It gave me something I haven't known in a very long time: peace.” A million butterflies take flight inside me. My whole body buzzes with excitement and something else I don’t quite understand.

“Wow.” I rest my hand on his chest.

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