Devil in the Detail: A Forced Proximity Romance (The Northern Sins Saga Book 3) by Terry Nik

Author:Terry, Nik
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty Five

The Viking’s arm lay heavy around me, a great tree branch stretching over my stomach, holding me possessively. My eyes moved over the symbols and pictures scratched into his skin, a tapestry of black and grey, devoid of colour, ominous and sorrowful. Pictures of lives taken too soon. The thought still frightened me, filling me with a sense of dread and foreboding, of disgust if I let it. And I should let it. I should let it fill me with fear and hatred to think the man I lay with had killed so many people. And enjoyed it. But it didn’t. There was a stark honesty in his soul, black though it was.

My life had changed so much in so little time. I didn’t even know what day it was, what work was thinking about my sudden sabbatical, what Charlie was doing. Had Uncle Wes tried to contact me? Had anyone told him what was happening? Or were they keeping him in the dark just as much? How had my life become so fucked up? Not that long ago, I was a mere solicitor, doing my job, living my life. I had a partner, a career, freedom.

But had I really been living? My heart felt heavy, swelling with emotion, feelings I normally kept buried. For the last two years I’d focussed on moving forwards. Finding someone to settle down with, having my own family, filling the huge hole my father left after he was taken from me so brutally. Yet all I’d left behind was a plague of broken relationships. DI Steve Burrows, Carter, they were the same as the men that had come before. Not one of them feeling right.

Yet here I was, wrapped in the arms of a hitman, the pair of us so far opposite each other we’d need a map to somehow find some common ground. He was all I hated in a man; tattooed, heavily muscled, hair as long as my own, a criminal, a killer. Yet I felt the most comfortable lying naked next to him, after he’d ravished my body with the metal in his dick with the best sex I’d ever had, and been more honest with me than any man in my life, including my father.

My own father.

Something in my head clicked. A sudden need to get back to the files. Some information coming to life, buried in my memories long ago. A piece of a jigsaw puzzle snapping into place. I wriggled out from under the Viking’s arm, pulling on some clothes to ward off the cold night air that had crept into the apartment.

Lights twinkled in the distance, an orange glow from the streetlamps of the industrial estate outside the perimeter of the hitman’s compound. I pulled the boxes out from behind the settee, thumbing through the reorganised papers. I’d seen an envelope, thick with information and cuttings, yet I’d filed it, thinking it was the same as most of the articles in the boxes. I pulled

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.