Bombshell: A Sweet Monster Romance : Monstrous Ink Book 2 by Calliope Stewart

Author:Calliope Stewart [Stewart, Calliope]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-10-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

“This dress is itchy,” I complained as I tugged at the too tight black fabric that I had painstakingly zipped myself up in earlier. “And I can’t breathe.”

“Beauty is pain,” Odette intoned sagely as she finished applying the rosy pink gloss on her lips that accentuated the shimmering highlight cresting her cheeks.

Her blue eyes slid to mine and she frowned at the shawl that I was wearing over my shoulders. “Are you sure you want to wear that?” “

I shifted uncomfortably from one heeled foot to the other, picking at the frayed ends of the silver material.

As soon as I showed up at the mansion tonight Alexander had handed it to me wordlessly, its use abundantly clear.

My vines were usually unnoticeable when I had them curled against my back, but the low cut of the dress would do little to hide the green lumps.

“It’s chilly tonight,” I mumbled, pulling the shawl a little bit tighter around my shoulders.

That was a lie and Odette knew it. Even though it was only just the start of April it had been unseasonably warm on the west coast, bringing more and more people out to the beaches and to the Wharf to enjoy the early spring sunshine.

It was so warm, actually, that it was starting to err on the side of almost supernatural. I also had a sneaking suspicion the early onset of spring had something to do with whatever was making Dallan look so grave all of the time.

He hadn’t told me anything about it yet. I figured he was trying not to stress me out, but it was starting to bother me when he got up in the middle of the night to go and talk on the phone in the other room.

Long gone was the girl who couldn’t let a man sleep in her bed. Now the Cthulhu could barely get rid of me.

And by getting rid of me, I literally meant he couldn’t get physically rid of me. By the time we both woke up in the morning my vines were wrapped so tightly around him that it took quite a bit of cursing and untangling to get us free.

No, I was a new woman… even if I still wouldn’t let him tell me how he felt about me.

Baby steps.

Odette’s blue eyes narrowed at me in the mirror.

“Do you want me to throw it into the fire and pretend like it was an accident?” she asked seriously.

It was so serious that it made me laugh and shake my head. “I don’t mind wearing it. Wouldn’t want to freak people out looking like a plant Slenderman with my vines.”

“What’s Slenderman?” Odette frowned, her pink lips twisting in confusion.

I paused, not quite sure how to explain an internet myth. “Doesn’t your dad let you use the internet, like, at all?”

Golden brows drew together as her gaze shifted away from mine and her wings drooped to hang dejectedly against her back.

“Yes, but with parental controls,” she told me quietly.

The faerie had been

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