Cruel Lust by MISSY WALKER

Author:MISSY WALKER
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: www.authormissywalker.com

13

EMILIA

I’m going to die.

I can’t reach my gun, and I’m going to die.

The floor is so slippery, and I can’t get up. I can’t stop what’s about to happen. No matter how I stretch and strain to reach the gun, it keeps sliding farther away. There’s nowhere to hide from the giant in the doorway, so tall, broad, and looming over me.

His thin lips stretch in a sick smile.

And he pulls the trigger.

“No! Stop!”

My eyes snap open in a strange room where I’m wrapped in inky darkness. My muscles are frozen. I can’t move. I can hardly breathe. There isn’t a sound except for the fading echo of the scream that woke me—my scream—and the heavy pounding of my heart.

“Emilia?” Luca runs into the room, breathless, before almost draping himself over me. It all comes rushing back in a sickening wave. I’m in the cabin. I was only dreaming about the events of this afternoon going much differently than they did.

He reaches over and turns on a small lamp to cast a warm glow over the room. Being able to see goes a long way toward breaking me out of the paralysis that gripped me after I woke up. Now that I can see his face, the concern etched across his features is evident when he leans over me again. “You screamed,” he whispers, his dark eyes wide and searching.

“I was having a nightmare.” Now, I feel the wetness on my cheeks and the pillow. I was crying. Luca Santoro has discovered me crying in bed like a baby. My humiliation knows no bounds. I run a hand over my cheeks, resenting the tears that make me look weak.

I can’t afford that.

I can’t look at him.

The thought of looking at my reflection the next time I go to the bathroom is something I can barely stomach. How can I look myself in the eyes after what I allowed to happen hours ago? I let him humiliate me. Hell, I practically begged him to do it and gave him the keys to my body. He knows how much I want him. There’s no use pretending otherwise now. I have completely lost what little leverage I had. I’m weak, he knows it, and I don’t have the first clue what happens next.

My only hope—small, like a tiny flame in the darkness—lies in whatever he feels for me. He talks like he wants to hurt me, but he hasn’t yet. Not really. Aside from a little rough groping, he’s left me unharmed. Physically, anyway. Emotionally? That’s another story for when I have the time to get into it.

I’m so weary. My limbs feel heavy when I shift my weight on the mattress. The only sleep I managed to get came in short, light bursts, and the few dreams I managed were gory, bloody, a little too close to reality, like my most recent nightmare.

He sits back, giving me space but stopping short of leaving me alone. “You scared the shit out of me.” He releases a dry, shaky laugh.

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