Broken Curse: A New Adult Urban Fantasy Harem Adventure (The Horned Mage Book 1) by Liam Lawson

Author:Liam Lawson [Lawson, Liam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

A few moments later I’d carried her up the stairs—despite a half-hearted squeal of protest—and deposited her on my bed. I retrieved my first aid kit from beneath the bed, which our dickhead robbers had thankfully not stolen, and came up to find Scarlett blushing furiously. Then I realized what she might have thought I was doing, hauling her up to my bedroom like this, and felt my own cheeks heat up in return. I did not apologize though or try to explain myself. Instead I opened the first aid kit and set about tending to her busted lip with some Neosporin.

She made a face as the gauzy end of the cream-coated cue tip made contact. “I always hated how that stuff tastes.”

“Hold on a sec,” I said. “I’ll see if I can’t get you some ice for your face.”

She grimaced. “It looks that bad?”

“It looks like it hurts.”

She shrugged trying and failing to act tougher than she was, an illusion that was completely shattered when I turned to go down to the kitchen and she grabbed me by the sleeve of my shirt. “Don’t go.”

“It’s going to swell.”

“I don’t care.”

“I do.” But I didn’t go get ice. Instead I sat down with her on the bed and put an arm around her.

At first, she stiffened and then she melted into me with a huge sigh. “You said I was yours the other night.”

I had said that, hadn’t I? Several times.

“Who hurt you?”

She snorted. “Who do you think?”

Bullet and Dicario. “Why? I chased them out of here.”

“Yeah so they had to save face. Beat on me and then they came over to beat on your place. And they’re going to come after you again.” She looked at the wall on the far side of the room where a mirror hung. The glass had been broken by someone hitting it but it still worked well enough. “You weren’t around. You told them I was yours and then you…” her lower lip began to tremble.

I squeezed her tighter.

“You know I told her,” she said. “Soraya. I told her that she was the one you really wanted. Told her she should be with you.”

I wasn’t sure whether to flinch, flush, or beat my chest. “Why would you tell her that?”

“Because it’s true. She’s the one you want, not me. If I hadn’t stolen her phone she’d have been there instead. I know you want her. I can feel it.” She turned away from the mirror to look me at me with those magically green eyes. “I was just an accident.”

Her hand went to her chest in a reflexive gesture, found nothing, and fell back. For the first time I realized that she wasn’t wearing her heirloom necklace.

A surge of possessiveness washed over me. “You’re mine.”

She swallowed. “You don’t want me.”

I’d never been particularly close to Scarlett. We’d never spent enough time around each other to get anywhere near close, and the way she always acted like a bratty, party-obsessed wild child hadn’t exactly endeared her to me.

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