Dark Love by Conn Claudy

Author:Conn, Claudy [Conn, Claudy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

DARK X WAS working furiously to accomplish his goal. Everything he had done, all the killings, all the torture he had allowed his demon Asgard to inflict—all of it, he had allowed and the promises Asgard had made had thus far, turned out to be empty. He was no closer to achieving his goal than he had been when he first started.

He didn’t give a rat’s ass how many he had to maim and kill for the demon if it would accomplish what he so desperately had to have. He had but one need left on this earth, he told himself, he had but one last achievement that had to be his. There had always been only one goal.

And now new complications arose.

Olivia for one—ah, the lovely Olivia. She had become something of a nuisance. She was forever eyeing his collection of antiques and he thought he had been generous, but her hunger for more had become annoying.

She was delicious in bed and knew how to please and ingratiate herself, but she was always asking too many questions.

However, she knew nothing. She was what she had always been—a pleasurable piece of ass. Nothing more. He had never felt anything more for any of them.

In the meantime, he certainly had been absolutely brilliant when he had formed his latest plan. He deserved, he told himself, the pat on the back he gave himself for thinking to enlist the help of someone everyone in town trusted. It gave him a birds’ eye view of what was taking place in the heart of the investigation.

Asgard had become a part of everything he did, but he didn’t really mind. He was, however, frustrated. He had allowed the beast entry on the promise of a great reward, and now it appeared that his demon would not be able to deliver.

Asgard kept demanding more of him, and in return he had received nothing but a slight grade increase of power. It was very possible that the demon had tricked him and really couldn’t give him what he wanted. It was possible that only one person could give him that which he so needed—Chazma Donnelly.

He would have to investigate her further.

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Chaz ducked out early the next morning for her usual hour hike around the extensive grounds of Brionn. By the time she had hit the deep woods, she had managed to quiet herself as she reviewed the latter part of her evening. Excuses and rationale never substitute well for the truth—and they didn’t.

She relegated McBain to another part of her brain and tried instead to concentrate on what she knew about Dark X. What was Dark X’s death count now? Eight, ten, fifteen? She couldn’t be certain.

Without warning, her mind shifted and she remembered McBain—his touch, his kiss, his…? What had she gone and done? She got tipsy—so tipsy that she had not just allowed, but invited McBain to seduce her. Seduce her? No, maybe that wasn’t quite fair. Maybe she had done the seducing.

Who was that woman climbing onto his lap? Bad question, she answered herself with a grunt.

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