Christmas Obsession by Darcy Rose

Author:Darcy Rose [Rose, Darcy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-24T18:00:00+00:00

7

Faith

After that disaster with David and Vincent, I’m too exhausted to function, so I go upstairs and into my room, where I flop down onto the bed. I lie looking up at my ceiling for a few minutes, reliving the bizarre front porch showdown again and again. It was shameful, but watching Vincent breathing hard, veins popping out of his neck, glaring at David like he wanted to kill him…well, it was terrifying. But it was also really, really hot. Part of me hoped that he would lose control, lift me over his shoulder, and take me across the street and into his house.

I don’t know how he got into my yard so fast.

Was he listening? Was he paying attention to me? No way. There’s no way he’s been looking at me just like I’ve been looking at him.

Unless…he has been. Between how friendly he was last night and the way he spurned my mother…oh my god, those times I swore somebody was watching me.

Was that him? Was I possibly not crazy?

The thoughts swirl around in my head until they melt together, and I eventually nod off. I dream of the way Vincent glared at David, speaking to him as if he were no more than a bug on the bottom of his shoe. Vincent swooped in to protect me.

No one’s ever protected me like that before.

When I wake up, the house is empty, and Mom’s car is gone. I roll my eyes, figuring she’s gone out to find her own Santa Claus to get drunk with. Maybe this will be one of her longer benders, and I can have the house to myself for a while. A girl can dream, right?

Sitting up in my bed and stretching, I remember that I have Vincent’s phone number now. Anytime I want to, I could call or text him. Just to hear his voice. Not that I would, though. That would make me look like a clingy girlfriend. God, we’re not even dating.

I shake the last bits of sleep out of my head before standing up, grabbing my romance novel, and heading downstairs. I put on a pair of fuzzy snowman socks, pad down the stairs, and curl up on the couch in front of the Christmas tree.

With the snow outside, the setting sun, and warm glow of Christmas lights, I feel cozy for once. This, honestly, is my ideal Christmas. Reading on the couch, no one to bother me, a beautiful tree to look at. I take a deep breath and relax, reading voraciously. Before I know it, I’m losing myself in the story.

I’m nearly done with the Elf King novel but read slowly to take in every bit of depravity the king puts his peasant princess through. In the scene I begin with, he treats her to a full day of rejuvenating magical spa treatments, but she is forced to make love with every servant and Mage that applies the treatments on her. All while the Elf King watches.

Even though

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