House Deviant by Kady Ash

Author:Kady Ash [Ash, Kady]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Flower Bone Publishing
Published: 2023-07-17T04:00:00+00:00

Twelve

Standing up, I bare my neck as he unhooks my collar from the chain. The drop in weight feels like a relief, and this time, I’m a little more prepared when he picks me up and throws me over his shoulder.

All I can do is mouth a silent plea of “not the cage” as he starts walking, then breathe a sigh of relief as he ascends the stairs. The sex room I can handle. It’s so familiar to me at this point that I can count the shackles on the wall before we even reach the first floor — but he doesn’t take me there. He takes me left, to his room.

If I thought the other rooms had a gothic feel, they’re nothing compared to his. It’s pitch black thanks to the blinds, but when he flicks on the dim lamp, I see nothing but blacks and charcoal greys. His bed is made almost professionally before he tosses me on top of it, the nightstand bare aside from a charger cord and a bottle of water, but it’s him who has my full attention as he strips. “How did you feel when he touched you?”

“Honestly?” I focus on the raven on his chest. I can’t believe I’m about to say this to him, and more than that... I actually mean it. “He’s handsome, but he’s not you. Every time he touched me, it felt wrong.”

He’s naked save for the mask now, slowly stalking forward until he’s close enough to grab my legs and tug me closer to him. “That’s because you know you’re mine. No one else will ever feel right again.”

I want it off. Whatever’s about to happen, I want to really face him when it does. “Mmhm. I belong to Roderick.”

His body stiffens, fingertips digging deeply into my skin as he takes deep, calming breaths. “Say my name, Odette.”

“I just did. Roderick,” I push. “Don’t know your fake last name.”

“Then say my fucking real one.”

My heart races as I realize this is it. Either I’m right or I’m wrong, and if I’m wrong... well, I’d hate to be me afterward. Sitting up, I slowly reach up to grip the bottom of his mask. “I belong... to Drake Rhodes.”

I rip it off his face, gasping when I see the face that has haunted my dreams for years. He looks more mature now with scruff covering his cheeks and chin, but he has the same crease between his brows I’m convinced he was born with, the same perfectly full lips I’d always wished I tried before cutting him off. He was every walking red flag ever, and in the first week of knowing him, every instinct I had told me to run.

Who knew I’d end up running straight toward him in the end?

Something in my demeanor has his deep blue eyes looking more panicked than I’ve ever seen, and when I move an inch, he assumes I’m about to run. Or at least, that’s how it seems when he grabs me by my throat and pulls me in to press his forehead to mine.

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