Dangerous Curves by Larkin Rose

Author:Larkin Rose [Rose, Larkin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781635553543
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2019-03-13T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Sellars dropped off the car, her heart racing, her gut knotted, and tugged the camera from Lacy’s grasp.

Lacy turned her chin up in defiance. Defiance that only fueled Sellars’s rage.

How dare this woman poke into her secrets? Into her heart.

Sellars trained the camera on Lacy’s face and circled around her. “Let’s talk about your skeletons, Lacy.” She started walking forward, forcing Lacy to walk backward.

“I don’t have any skeletons. My life is practically an open book. Especially with Billy blurting everything.” Lacy smirked.

“Is that so?” Sellars continued walking forward. “Is this the camera you used? The one you used to freeze-frame death?”

Lacy’s smirk vanished and her expression changed to anger. “Fuck you.”

“Ah. Yes. There it is.” Sellars pressed the button on the camera. “The ghost in the machine. The demon you can never outrun. Isn’t that right, Lacy?”

Lacy reached for the camera, but Sellars ducked backward. “Give me the fucking camera.”

“Why? You were so eager to capture my demon, weren’t you? So eager for me to air my dirty laundry.” Sellars snapped another picture. “Let’s talk about your skeleton instead.”

She continued walking Lacy backward when all she truly wanted to do was drop. Right there. To her knees. She wanted to open Lacy up. Wanted to feast on her. Drink from her. Taste her.

“How much blood money did you earn, Lacy?” Sellars snapped more pictures, seeing through the lens that Lacy was enraged. “Couple hundred thousand? More?” The shutter hummed. “No. Not Lacy. She likes that big money. The cha-ching! You went straight to the top, didn’t you? Only millions would do for the proof hidden inside this contraption.”

“Fuck you, Sellars,” Lacy growled. “You don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. Now give me the goddamn camera!”

Sellars continued walking toward her, pressing the button, capturing that beautiful rage. “I heard the rumors. All of them. How you sold the pictures to his family. How you leaked them to the press before the money could even get cozy in your bank account. Yep. I heard them all. And we all know how reliable those rumors are. Isn’t that right, sweetheart?”

Lacy’s legs buckled against the bumper and Sellars stopped walking. She trained the camera on Lacy’s lips and snapped another picture.

“Go to hell,” Lacy whispered.

Sellars moved the camera from her face.

Lacy looked so vulnerable trapped against the car, her eyes moist, her lips set in a narrow line. For the first time, Sellars saw the pain in those eyes. The pain Lacy forced herself to ignore. Or maybe she had convinced herself that it was part of life now. That the pain was part of life. Just like Sellars had accepted that her own pain was a permanent part of her life.

Sellars wanted to part those lips with her tongue. Wanted to hear a cry of release roll over them.

She slid the strap through her fingers and let the camera slowly drop to the ground beside her.

Lacy chewed her bottom lip, and her angered breaths grew shallow as she locked her sights on Sellars.

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