Midnight Obsession: A Hate to Love Romance (Beautiful Bastards Book 2) by J.L. Kenna

Author:J.L. Kenna [Kenna, J.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY

PIPPA

PRESENT

It wasn’t a matter of if Hayden and I would end up back in bed together; it was a matter of when.

Moving around each other felt like electricity and highly conductive metals within reach of each other. It felt dangerous. He’s lightning while I’m silver, and when we pass each other, the hairs on the back of my neck stand. When his inspection from across the room lingers for longer than deemed appropriate, my body reacts. First chaos and flutters of nerves and lust takeover my stomach, causing my words to falter and my steps to stumble. Then the lightheadedness, followed by the ache between my legs so striking, so consuming, I feel the utter hollowness of my body without him inside it.

I wasn’t sure if it was a thought too perverse to enjoy, or if it was a fact, an urge, bordering addiction I was looking to amend by satisfying.

The truth is, I like the way Hayden looks at me. Like he’s lusting after me, sure, but with a ribbon of something sinister threaded through it. Like I’m something immaculate he wants to stain and dirty up a bit.

I suppose he’s always looked at me that way. And I suppose I’ve always liked it.

Standing at the drink cart in the gathering room of the Foxes’ lake house, I pour three fingers of whiskey into a crystal glass, and shuffle toward my father.

“Here you go, Daddy,” I say quietly, setting his after dinner drink on the table beside him.

And, per usual, it went unnoticed. I live in a perpetual state of being ignored by my parents. Ignored until, one day, I’ll disappear like I never existed—at least not to them. I look up at my mother who is deep in conversation with Midge before my eyes lift to Hayden.

There it is, the warm flutter, the lightheadedness, the awareness that he was watching me just now obvious by the subtle smile playfully tugging at his lips while he swirls his butterscotch-hued beverage in its glass.

And maybe that’s why Hayden’s attention makes my senses come alive. Even when I can’t see him, I feel him watching me. I feel his eyes, his fists clenching, his body reacting to me from across the room.

I feel him.

Most women might be uncomfortable with a man who governs by the rule that her personal space and privacy are variable objects to be owned and molded by him.

I, on the other hand, live for it.

A minor smack on the ass of feminism, I know, but… I like to be spanked.

“Winter, my dear,” Richard’s joyous tone rings out, getting everyone’s attention. “What do you say we charm the socks off everyone with a number?”

“Oh, my gosh, yes!” She jumps up with a smile, ambling toward Richard as he takes a seat at his shiny black grand piano.

Aleck’s eyes light with pride, and he presses his pinky and pointer fingers to his lips, blowing a shrill whistle into the room. I glance at Hayden, his eyes rolling on cue, making me laugh.

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