Fall (Jungle Oasis Book 2): A billionaire enemies to lovers dark romance by Autumn Archer

Author:Autumn Archer [Archer , Autumn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-09-13T16:00:00+00:00

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When I finally met myself again in the mirror, I gazed upon a young woman with a profile I’ve known all my life. It was me. Iris Kitson. Beija flor. One in the same.

A clone in appearance swamped in frizzy curls with freckled cheekbones. Jackson was right when he said my scar was practically invisible. It was, just like the unseen cuts carved into my psyche.

The reflection projected a familiar face with precise features. What it didn’t show was the wreckage beneath the surface. How I tried to hide the turbulent emotions within me. The person I was before my trip to the rainforest wasn’t there anymore. My eyes hold secrets and desires more powerful than I’ve ever known. The woman I once was has grown in strength and cast a new net into an unknown landscape, which isn’t simply the jungle––it’s him. Dante Valez. He’s a complexity of his own, with a changeable microclimate to match his moods.

I have the same face, but I’m not Iris on the inside. Not the innocent girl from Scotland who never experienced the true sense of dark desire. I’m a reformed woman who can’t decide if it’s for the best. Although I’ve survived the worst and taken pleasure in a fantasy, I’m not sure how to revert back to my old life––or if I want to.

Glacial water blasts from the faucet, freezing my cheeks when I splash it over my face to shock me out of this inner melee. I collect a few balancing breaths and chant inwardly. I’m going home to my family where I’ll be safe and loved. I’ll see my little sister again and watch her grow. My parents will rejoice in my miraculous reincarnation. Everything will work out as it should.

I spend the next few minutes rolling out my shoulders and loosening the knots in my neck. Scrunching my fingers into my hair, I rake out the curls and think of Laoch. The endangered jaguar I’ve rescued from an untimely death. I sigh lightly, happy with the small contribution I’ve made. Now he can father cubs of his own so the species will thrive. That alone is the one good deed I’ve accomplished when all my early research turned to shit.

Sunlight bursts in through the window, fracturing light over porcelain. Beams dance on the polished stainless steel faucet, refracting a colorful rainbow arc on the wall. It’s a reminder of my simple life in the Highlands. My real home.

I’m snapped out of the daze when the door handle jerks and the door opens. Dante stands in the shadowy corridor. His torso remains gloriously bare, and his gloved hands fist at his thighs. The muscles of his jaw work as he pauses before me in silence. We stare quietly at each other. Him preparing, and me, unsure what for. I sense an undercurrent of crazy rippling through him. Hunger vibrates around his form, suggesting he’s close to combustion, or worse, that a need for violence has blacked out the last wisp of decency.

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