Insiders by Rosemary Rogers

Author:Rosemary Rogers
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Romance, Erotica, Fiction, Historical, General
ISBN: 9780380405763
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1978-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

EVE CAME FLOATING BACK to consciousness again, and she was still in bed. But a different bed this time, in a different room. Brant's bed? Brant's room? Horror washed over her all over again when she saw him there, sitting on the side of the bed, watching her.

There was no one else there now, but she was still defenselessly naked, and she hurt all over when she moved. Her body started to struggle again involuntarily. He put a hand on her shoulder, pushing her down against the pillows, and she wanted to scream again.

"You don't have to go on fighting. They've all gone home, and the party's over." His voice was even, betraying no emotion.

"Oh, dear God!" she said aloud in a ragged whisper. She stared at him, seeing his beautiful, corrupt face. Her mind was still freewheeling from the drug he must have given her, and she felt as if she were floating, without sensation. Numb inside and out.

"Hardly apropos," he said dryly, making the unreality sharpen. "Didn't you know I'm the Devil?"

Her subconscious mind believed him somehow, and she could feel herself shrink away, bits of long-ago trivia drifting back into her mind. Didn't they use forked, pointing fingers to ward off the Devil? Or, in later times, a crucifix?

Why don't I wear one any longer? She brought her hand up to touch her bare neck in a curiously childish, forlorn gesture.

"I had a friend, a physician, check on you while you were still out. He said you're going to be okay."

His voice was still even, but his eyes, flicking over her, had a strange and unrecognizable look in their depths.

She shrank into herself, mistrusting him, fearing him, suddenly wishing she could cover her body from his eyes even now.

"Goddammit, you should have been sensible!" he said suddenly. "The stuff I had the man put in your drink earlier on was supposed to turn you on and take care of all your damn stupid inhibitions, but I guess he miscalculated. So things got out of hand—I didn't mean for them to go as far as they did, but we were all pretty high, and you were supposed to be, too."

She winced at his offhandedly contemptuous tone. A stammer in her voice, she said, "You—you have to take by force? And what all of you did to me—was it just for kicks? Is that the only way you can make it with a woman? Is your appetite so jaded it has to be rape, or a—a gang-bang?"

He leaned over and slapped her coldly and deliberately. The pain brought tears to her eyes, but it helped clear her head, too. It gave her some pitiful measure of satisfaction to know that her words seemed to have gotten to him, and now, suddenly unafraid, she couldn't stop.

"Did what I just said hit home, Brant Newcomb? Did it get under your hide, you bastard? And what is behind the mask, anyway, man or—or fag?"

No, she wasn't afraid of him now. What

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