Broken Hearts: A Dark Captive Romance (Heartbreaker Book 2) by Stella Hart

Author:Stella Hart [Hart, Stella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

11

Celeste

I chopped lettuce in silence, stealing glances at Alex every few seconds. He was going through the fridge, looking for the jar of capers he needed for tonight’s dinner—chicken piccata and salad. I was helping him make it, tasked with preparing the salad ingredients.

He looked at his watch and sighed. “I better take something to Baldwin,” he muttered. He looked up at me. “Can you finish chopping all the vegetables and put them in that?” he asked, pointing to a large silver salad bowl on my right. “You can add whatever else you want to it. Dressing and so on.”

“Yes, sir.” I nodded. “How about feta and olives? So it’s a sort of Mediterranean salad. I won’t add too much.”

He smiled. “I trust your judgment.”

With that, he grabbed some food out of the cupboard and headed outside. I watched him head for the shelter through the kitchen window. The sky outside was dimming, turning from a mixture of gray and turquoise to glowing indigo.

I looked down at my knife, remembering Alex’s last words to me before he stepped out of the kitchen. I trust your judgment. It wasn’t really about the cheese and olives. It was a test. Usually I wasn’t allowed alone with knives, but he was checking to see if he could begin to trust me again after I’d admitted to trying to get on his computer (which as far as he knew was all that happened in the study that day).

If he could leave me alone for a few minutes without me doing anything crazy, I would start to get back on his good side. He might even begin sleeping with me again. Not that I really wanted that at this point.

Ever since my discovery of his lies six days ago, my mind had been plagued with thoughts of what else he might’ve lied to me about. Some things may not have been lies, but they could’ve been massively exaggerated for various reasons.

The Circle, for instance. I knew they were real, and they were a fucked up group of evil bastards who did sick things to innocent young kids. But were they really after me?

The more I thought about it, the more I thought Alex had led me down the garden path in regard to that, and the more I disbelieved the threat and doubted his words. The doubt was like a tumor, growing every day and slowly weaving its sickly, creeping tendrils through every inch of me, threatening to choke the life out of me.

When he explained why the Circle had allegedly kept an eye on me all these years and why they were still so dangerous for me, it made sense, given his persuasive silver tongue. But now I doubted it all. It no longer made sense to me that they would be looking for me, despite my recently-returned memories of the past.

They were a group of men with huge amounts of money, power and resources. Maybe they’d checked up on me and my mother

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