Into the Flames (Perilous Connections: Book Two) by Beazer Delka

Author:Beazer, Delka [Beazer, Delka]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-01-14T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Daphne

“Daphne? Right? Why are you guys travelling with Nate?” Stacy asks from beside me in the bus on the way to our newly rented house.

My eyes narrow though I try to fix a friendly to my mouth. “Same reason you are. To get away from Emmanuel.”

Her brows scrunch up. “But I don’t understand why Emmanuel would be after you?” She looks around at Elaine and Aubrey, “and your family.”

I should not have savored the feel of the answer on my tongue but I did, “because Nate was sleeping over at my house.”

Her witchy green eyes look honestly puzzled, instead of the spark of jealousy I had hoped to ignite. I need to cut this conversation short for both our sakes. I start to do just that when Nate gets up from the front of the bus where he’d been sitting with the driver and makes his way toward us.

He’d been listening. There’s no doubt about that.

Her face lights up at his approach. I turn away hurriedly to avoid seeing a similar response from him. He takes the only seat which is beside Stacy who is sitting at the end of the seat. Their bodies are molded together, his long muscled thigh dusted with short blond hair is smack against her slender, creamy looking one.

A muscle jerks in my jaw.

“Daphne is hedging because I conned her into marrying me.”

“You what?” Stacy’s eyes look ready to pop from her head. “But how … why?” There is a world of hurt in that little sing-song voice she uses which has already started to get on my nerves.

He rolls his shoulders in the too tight space, no doubt touching Stacy who I notice despite her shock at finding her lover wed does not have the willpower to move away from the intimate contact. “I needed a wife and … Daphne,” he stops and I feel his eyes burning lasers in the side of my cheek, “just wanted to be rid of me.” He finishes with a satisfied smirk.

I reward his flippant tone with a sour look. “Thanks for nothing,” I huff and then give my complete attention to Stacy. “Nate abducted me from Sunset-”

“Sunset Cove?” She supplies with a squeak.

I blink, and now it’s my turn to be taken back. How did she know that? Then the answer becomes all too plain.

Stacy turns like a condemned martyr to Nate. “You married her after you told me to leave the hotel?”

The wicked part of me wants to laugh at the dramatic break in her voice but I can’t. Nate has also made me taste this pain all too recently.

He is manipulative and dangerous.

Trapped he can’t quite hide his irritation, whether at his own callousness or Stacy’s pain I can’t be sure, but I would bet it’s neither.

He is staring at me again but I refuse to answer his silent challenge to look at him. “I married Daphne because I wanted to stay in the Caribbean, out of sight from Emmanuel.”

Stacy’s brows draw together. “You

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