Escaping The Beast: A Darkhills Romance (The Darkhills Series Book 2) by Elizabeth Greene

Author:Elizabeth Greene [Greene, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-15T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Katherine

Silence enveloped them as they took the private elevator up to Lucian’s apartment. Katherine fought against the urge to fidget. She almost wished they could be caught up in a mad tangle of rushed and frenzied passion. It would have felt less intimate. Instead, her mind was currently running through every possible scenario as to what the man standing opposite her had planned once they stepped into his penthouse.

The anticipation was killing her. The sense of impending passion hanging in the air between them like a heavy mist was making each breath feel laboured. They didn’t say a word as they stood facing each other in the small space. Lucian was eying her like the predator she knew him to be, but she refused to react as though she were his prey.

As the elevator slowed to a stop, Katherine felt a thrill of excitement race down her spine. Lucian’s mouth curved into a smile that was loaded with dangerous intent. She kept his dark gaze and tried to make herself smile in response, instead all that came out was a quiet gasp as he took her hand in his and led her out into the large lobby. The place was clean and cool with floor-to-ceiling white marble, the delicate scribbles and smudges of pink and grey that graced its surface were the only hints of colour in the room. Walking through the simple yet imposing black door, Katherine’s jaw dropped at the view that greeted her.

His apartment was huge, open-planned, and sparse. While the rooms at Tumbricane held a touch of opulence and had an old-world charm, Lucian’s city home took minimalism to the extreme. The same white marble floor continued throughout, only broken up by a few carefully selected pieces of gleaming black furniture, chosen to compliment the immaculate white kitchen with sparkling black granite tops.

If she had been concentrating on just the room alone, Katherine would’ve shivered from the lack of warmth and life in the place. Instead, she shivered for an entirely different reason. The sparkling glow of the city lights beckoned from the wall of glass that was in front of her. She absently handed Lucian her jacket and bag as he went to take them from her, and drifted quietly towards the windows.

She thought she loved city life, seeing it laid out in front of her as if she were a goddess looking down upon the world, made her heartbeat loudly in her chest. She’d never experienced the city from such a perspective and she suddenly felt like she were some kind of voyeur, guiltily enjoying a view of a world that had no idea that she was watching. She was so high up, she doubted if anyone would even be able to make out her silhouette at the window.

“What are you thinking?” Lucian asked quietly from behind her.

Katherine’s eyes refocused on the glass to look at him in the reflection.

“It’s hard to know how I feel about this view. I’m trying to decide,”

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.