Bold Beautiful Love -- A Temptation Court Contemporary Romance: Temptation Court: Passion in New York by Payne Angel

Author:Payne,Angel [Payne,Angel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9780996286190
Publisher: Angel Payne Writes, LLC
Published: 2016-09-26T21:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

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Cassian

For a strange second, I ponder who’s taught her how to slap so well.

There’s real talent to this kind of shit—especially connecting hard enough to ring a guy’s ears. I’d actually be impressed, if I wasn’t busy forcing the neurons in my brain to reconnect.

“Are you out of your bloody mind?”

Now that you bring it up…

“Armeau—”

“Stop.” She whirls so swiftly, her hair whips across my chest. Three stomps in and she spins back around, slicing me with the fresh tears in her eyes and the desperation on her face. “You do not get to ‘armeau’ me into submission right now. You do not get to shut me out of the damn conversation. I will not stand for it like I did yesterday!”

Scowl. Deep. As in, I’m sure my face has some new permanent grooves now. “Yesterday? What the hell about yest—”

“You? My mother? My father?” she snarls. “Sealed off, signing more contracts that landed you in this very position?”

“Which would have made all of it worse, because you’d now be an accessory.” I pull in a deep breath. Drop my head and squeeze the bridge of my nose. “Above and beyond that, Ella, you are done with the poison of your parents—”

“You do not get to decide that!”

“The hell I don’t. When their bullshit affects your happiness and prosperity—”

“My prosperity?” She lifts it to a yell. “My prosperity, dammit, is you.” After another growl, swings a hand against the bedpost with an audible smack. “And you do not get to stand there and shatter my heart—my fucking soul!—again, and be Mr. Calm, Suave, and fucking Sophisticated about it!”

I take a step. She shoves against the bedpost, widening the space between us.

Shit.

“Is that what you think?” My riposte is so steeled, I wonder how a choke chain hasn’t appeared around my neck. “Seriously? Goddammit, Ella—do you truly think I’m just chillin’ with ‘suave’ and ‘sophisticated’ over here? That I’ve even invited Chantal Dunne and her crew down to record everything because I’ll look so fucking suave saying goodbye to the woman I love for God knows how long?”

Not. Smart.

I know it before the fresh blue blaze in her eyes. Bringing up the gossip TV reporter who outed our relationship to the world two weeks ago is close to knocking her down then booting her in the gut.

“I’m…sorry,” I mutter. “But if you think—”

“No.” Her locked teeth flash at me. “No, Cassian, you are not sorry.”

I approach her again. This time, I don’t care how quickly she scrambles back. There’s only so much space in this room. “Know what, armeau? Maybe you’re right.” Tightened jaw. Gaze full of triumph, as she backs against an overstuffed chair centered in front of the bay window. The furniture is positioned perfectly, with panoramic views of the sea and the sweeping cliffs of the island’s south coast. Right now, I don’t care if Atlantis itself is exposed. My concentration is consumed, solely and selfishly, on the woman now just inches away. “Yeah. Maybe you’re exactly right. Maybe, ultimately, I’m just a selfish prick.

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