Mr. Real by Carolyn Crane

Author:Carolyn Crane
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Suspense, Adult, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781480134690
Published: 2012-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Paul gritted his teeth as Sir Kendall pulled him into the living room and introduced him as poor long-lost Paul, his twin brother. Be cool, he told himself. Alix needed to see he could be cool.

After introductions, Sir Kendall, who was going by the name of Sir Langley for whatever reason, ensconced himself in a couch, where he was immediately surrounded by the Gordons’ friends and neighbors. Paul stood back and watched Sir Kendall charm one and all with tales of Livinio, the ski instructor he’d had as a boy growing up in the Swiss Alps. The guests, including Alix, laughed uproariously.

And she’d been sleeping with him. The thought made him queasy.

Sir Kendall droned on. The story was far-fetched, but it was Sir Kendall’s injury-free face that was messing with Paul’s mind. Paul knew how hard he’d hit the man, knew what he should look like. He’d heard of people on drugs being able to perform superhuman feats, or mothers able to lift cars to rescue their babies. Maybe there was some crazy-man metabolism at work. He wouldn’t accept that it was magic. He couldn’t.

He needed to talk to Tonio about it, see if Tonio had ever heard of such fast healing.

Alix caught his eye from where she sat on the couch. She looked beautiful tonight. Her dress was short and black with a glittery horse head right on the front. Not only did she look incredibly hot in it, but it was the kind of dress that said, I’m here to have fun. He remembered how he’d loved that about her.

And he remembered how she twisted him up inside because she was twisting him up inside again. He wished she could trust him enough to let him in. She wasn’t crazy—her wit was too quick, the intelligence in her eyes blazed too brightly. And most of all, he felt her—felt her rightness in a way he couldn’t articulate. Like the rightness of sunshine.

Which made the fact that she carried on the charade, threw the magic bullshit into his face, all the more awful. Was it a way of holding him off? Was she trapped? Embarrassed? He hoped very badly she hadn’t encouraged the man to alter himself to look like that.

Fake Sir Kendall continued on. “…I say, old chap, I told the man, whatever you do, don’t go into the truck driver training business…”

Old chap. The phrase catapulted him back to a time when he was small and vulnerable, helpless with fear and rage, cowering under Gene and Gary’s blows, pain exploding in his face and body, wanting to hide and kill all at once. The fight or flight urge mashed into an unbearable lump of hell. He could feel the bark gouging his back, the ropes cutting off his breath, being forced to talk like Sir Kendall, with Gene and Gary mocking him and beating him more. We didn’t hear you, old chap…

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