Into the Dark: A Dark Romance Collection by Stella Noir

Author:Stella Noir [Noir, Stella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-19T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Meadow

“So, this is how it’s gonna’ be?” he asks. “You’re gonna’ sit there crying every time I show up, and beg me to fuck it away?”

I frown at him. This guy really sucks at consoling people. Besides, there were many times when I wasn’t crying when he showed up. So what he’s saying doesn’t even make sense.

“You don’t have to do anything,” I hiss at him, and hurry to wipe away the tears from my face. “I’m fine.”

“The fuck you are,” he objects, closing the door behind him.

He walks over to the counter and places another bag of groceries down. I wonder what it is this time. Pasta? Sandwiches? I haven’t seen much else since he brought me here, but I don’t mind one bit. Food has become nothing but a necessity for me. I don’t enjoy it one bit and couldn’t say what I like or dislike because it just doesn’t matter to me anymore. The only reason I eat is to silence the pain of hunger.

Kade hates that. He has commented on my eating behavior before. According to him, I don’t eat enough, and I don’t display the kind of enjoyment one should from eating.

“Come here,” he says, while taking off his jacket.

I get up from the sofa and approach him like an obedient puppy. When I come to a halt next to him, he does something unusual. He wraps his arms around me, pulling me up close against his hard and strong body as he claims me with a greedy kiss. I’m too stunned to protest, but once I taste him, I no longer want to anyway, I just want to melt away into him. He has never welcomed me with a kiss, never craved me as soon as he walked through the door.

“You can’t go on like this,” he says between our kisses, catching my eyes with his.

My heart sinks. He wants me out. I should have known.

“I know, I’m sorry I—”

“No, you don’t know,” he interrupts. “You know how to take pleasure when I force it on you. But you don’t know how to appreciate life. The little things, as they say.”

His grip around me loosens and I lower my eyes, feeling ashamed. I don’t know if he’s calling me ungrateful, but I’d hate for him to see me that way.

“It’s not about the little things sometimes,” I say in a low voice.

He places his hands on my shoulders. “Look at me.”

Again, I obey, lifting my gaze to meet his.

He’s looking especially handsome today. I hadn’t noticed it before, but his hair is different. It’s not as tousled as usual, but instead it’s combed to the side and styled with hair gel. Usually, one of his eyes is partly covered by hair strands falling down over his face, but there isn’t. And he’s shaved, too. The stubble around his strong jawline is shorter and almost non-existent. It’s the first time that I notice a little scar right next to his left eye. The kind of scar that could have resulted from someone punching him in the face.

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