Find Me in Darkness by Julie Kenner

Author:Julie Kenner [Kenner, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Paranormal, Action & Adventure, Dark, Romance, Erotica, Bdsm
ISBN: 9781940673301
Google: RuEkBgAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 23731804
Publisher: JKInk
Published: 2015-01-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

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“Me?” I laugh, then glance at Brayden. Like me, he looks as if he’s expecting a punch line.

“You,” Malcolm says. His voice is flat, but I see what I think is humor in his eyes. “Is that so hard to believe?”

“Honestly? Yes.” I look around the room, now even more edgy than I’d been before. He must be teasing me—lord knows there’s no reason that I would be on the radar of an exclusive private club. But all that does is underscore the strange sensation that I know this man from somewhere. And since I’m drawing a blank, my discomfort is climbing.

I clear my throat. “So, um, if you’re trying to recruit us, shouldn’t you at least offer us a drink?”

He hesitates, and for a moment I think that he’s going to apologize or offer an explanation or say something that sets me at ease. But all he does is incline his head and then indicate a nearby table. “Please,” he says, this time bringing Bray back into the conversation.

As we walk the short distance to the table, I admire his lean, athletic frame that seems made for the fine, tailored suit he wears. He pulls out a chair for me, which is a good decision on his part, as it knocks my irritation down a notch. I’ve always been a sucker for a man with good manners.

I settle into my chair at this intimate round table, and as I do, I take the opportunity to study his face, with its sculptured, classic features that manage to be both elegant and ruggedly masculine. I want to reach out and touch him, the urge so powerful that I press my palms to the armrests in order to keep them in place.

But there is no saving me from his eyes. I’ve fallen into them. Those storm gray eyes that I am so certain I have seen before, even if only in my dreams. He holds my gaze for what must be only seconds but seems like millennia, and I let the tempest take me, a wild, passionate heat that holds the promise of danger and excitement—and so much more, too. I don’t understand it, and yet I crave it. And I feel as though I could stay this way forever, Brayden and the world and everyone at Dark Pleasures be damned.

Then he lifts his hand to signal the waitress, and the spell is broken. I feel a blush creep up my neck, because even though we didn’t touch at all, I can’t shake the feeling that we have just shared something deeply intimate.

A college-aged waiter arrives, and Malcolm orders a plate of artisan cheeses along with three glasses of The Macallan 18 year scotch, straight up for him and Brayden, on the rocks for me.

I cock my head. “How did you know I like it over ice? For that matter, how did you know I like scotch?”

“Would you believe I guessed?”

“No,” I say as Bray laughs.

Mal joins him. “I take it from your reaction that I guessed right?”

“You did,” Bray says.

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