Crimson: A Dark Mafia Romance (Colors of Crime Book 4) by Sophie Lark

Author:Sophie Lark [Lark, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-14T16:00:00+00:00

19

Nikolai

Nikolai and Nadia dressed in near silence. Nikolai’s head was spinning. He had never experienced anything like that in his life. His attraction to Nadia was all-consuming—but it was so much more than pure lust.

Nikolai was used to taking what he wanted from women. He’d had plenty of satisfying sexual experiences. Yet he’d never had one that was anything more than carnal.

What he’d felt with Nadia was completely foreign to him. He’d felt connected to her, obsessed with her, in awe of her, all at once. And when it was over, instead of the usual apathy—where he lost interest in the woman, and even felt a mild disgust—the exact opposite occurred. He was more drawn to her than ever, by an exponential factor.

He was already longing to tear the clothes off her that she’d only just put on again. Yet he also wanted to take her for dinner, and make her laugh, and show her all his favorite places across the city and ask her a thousand questions.

It was confusing, all these conflicting impulses, fighting for attention.

And above all, the desire to make her his, forever.

To learn everything about her and tell her everything about himself.

But he couldn’t do that.

Because he had a plan he was supposed to be carrying out, which did not involve falling in love with this girl and baring his soul to her.

So Nikolai could hardly speak to her at all, or even look her in the face, as they dressed and walked back out to the car. He was torn between what he was supposed to do, and what he desperately wanted.

Nadia seemed to be experiencing some of the same turmoil. He knew she was probably feeling guilty. Even though she’d broken things off with Maxim, she probably hadn’t planned to move on so quickly.

Only once they were back in his car did Nadia turn to him and say, “Well, that was...unexpected.”

“Yes, it was,” Nikolai agreed.

He had intended to seduce Nadia.

But the way it had felt, what it had done to him...That was unexpected indeed.

“Are you alright?” Nadia asked, searching his face with her vivid green eyes.

Nikolai looked at her. He wanted to admit everything to her. He wanted to tell her what his father had demanded of him. He wanted to explain that he had planned to make her fall in love with him, so he could use their families’ histories and her name.

But if he did that, he’d ruin the deal that was more important to his father than anything. And worse, he’d ruin his own chances with Nadia.

So he just forced himself to smile and said, “I’m better than alright. I’m on the fucking moon right now.”

Nadia laughed.

“Me too,” she said.

But he could see her watching him as he put the car in drive and pulled away from the spa.

He had the uncomfortable feeling that she could see right through him. That she could read him in a way that no one had before.

To distract her, he said, “Did you know our grandfathers almost killed each other in a bathhouse?”

“What?” she said.

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