Blue Moon: A Smoke and Mirrors Novella by Skye Warren

Author:Skye Warren [Warren, Skye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Skye Warren, Smoke and Mirrors, contemporary romance, 1001 Dark Nights
Publisher: 1001 Dark Nights Press
Published: 2024-03-11T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Emerson

Every cell in my body wants to go after her, to hold her down, to make her tell me every detail, to snarl and fight and kill everyone who ever touched her, to fuck her until she forgets every single one of those times. To hold her.

I think that's the most alarming impulse—holding her.

I've had sex with a lot of women in my past, but I've never wanted, never longed to hold them, and that's it. I fight the impulse because for maybe the first time in my life, I'm out of my depth.

It seemed so easy to saunter into her circus. To find a way to take her, to keep her, to own her, to fuck her, because that's what I did, isn't it? I laid down money on her father's poker table. I can still taste her orgasm on my tongue.

Maybe that's why I let her retreat into her room.

Maybe that's why I feel like shit. Because I'm not much better than those men that used her, than the ones who crushed her dreams. That's the reason I sit in an armchair, staring at her door, brooding. There's a glass of scotch next to me, but I don't have it in me to drink.

I don't want to numb the pain.

I just want to feel it because that's what she had to do, isn't it?

The worst part is knowing that I would do it all over again.

Even as I curse every man who used her for his own dark purposes, including myself. I savor the taste of her on my tongue. It makes me hard just thinking about it.

Vlad comes and goes, I sent him away so she can rest.

Maybe she’s getting a few minutes of sleep, or maybe she's in there plotting her escape.

Either way, I need to get us out of this state and fast, even if I feel guilty for what I did to her. Her confession only strengthens my resolve to get her away from her father for good.

This time, as dawn breaks, I open the door only to discover the room is empty, the bathroom door’s open a crack, the light off. I know before I even push the door open and peek into the empty shower and tub that she's gone.

I can feel it.

Her absence, it's like a living, breathing thing, eating me up inside.

We're hundreds of feet in the air. No way she went out the window, but her exit becomes clear. There's one of those connecting doors, the kind you have to unlock on both sides in order to open.

And it's unlocked.

I swing the door open to reveal another hotel room smaller than this. On the other side, it's a mirror to the one that Vlad is staying in across from the suite. Shock runs threw me, along with frustration and reluctant amusement.

At least some part of her enjoyed escaping my clutches.

Then again, she would've gone right back to her father.

Now, that I can't stand for.

Is he going to punish

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