Ruby Tears: Dark Romance by Pepper Winters

Author:Pepper Winters [Winters, Pepper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pepper Winters
Published: 2024-03-11T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

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Henri

GODDAMMIT, I HAVE GOT TO stop kissing her.

Every time I slipped, her taste burned deeper into my psyche. Every press of our lips, I slid farther on the slope of wanting something I couldn’t have.

Never again.

No more kisses.

No more whispers.

No more truths.

She’d promised me she wouldn’t fight.

That was enough.

With her in on the ruse, I could act like them, fuck like them, abuse like them, all while Ily trusted that every bruise I gave her was for the greater good.

The greater good?

Shit.

Why did that make me feel so seedy? So dirty?

She thinks you’re a cop.

I stood behind her with a book in my hands. A book I had no intention of reading, ready to play my part.

She’d promised to play with me.

And in return, I made her a silent vow.

I would never kiss her again.

No matter what I did to her.

No matter how many times I had to fuck her, hurt her, make her sob and beg and cry, I would never steal another kiss.

Never allow such intimacy to form.

Never let her think I was redeemable.

This was a business arrangement…nothing more.

A kiss was for lovers.

For hearts and souls and ever afters.

We were not lovers.

Fuck, I didn’t have the words for what we were.

Whatever we’d become, we were bound by a common goal, and as long as we stuck to those rules, then whatever I did to her would be exonerated and explainable.

I could hold my head up high when Q came blasting through the gates and pretend I hadn’t broken. I’d found a way to prove I deserved him and his family, all while playing a slippery game of truths and lies.

She thinks I’m a cop.

The repeating thought wriggled like a pestering worm.

She’s only on my side because she thinks I’m a cop.

That tiny white lie was the only one I’d told.

It wasn’t my fault she thought I was a better man than I could ever be. My intentions were still honourable, even if my method was…questionable.

I had her permission to bruise her.

Her consent to fuck her in order to play the role of saviour.

So what I’d just manipulated her by allowing her to think I was law enforcement?

So what she thought SWAT would pour over the battlement at any moment, bringing righteous rain-fire?

Just because I hadn’t corrected her didn’t mean our truce wasn’t justified. I still intended to save her and the other slaves. I didn’t need a badge or a uniform to do that. I had something better—a half-brother with untold wealth and cutthroat connections.

I hefted the heavy book in my palm.

Ily looked over her shoulder, her face as white as her honey skin would permit, her body hunched and scared. But she didn’t move. Didn’t crawl away.

Her genuine fear was the sweetest perfume.

But her obedience? That…frustrated me.

I hated that the blackest parts of me craved her breaking. It hungered to chase as she bolted. It salivated at the thought of overpowering her—of snatching her submission with claws and teeth rather than having it given to me just because we’d reached an understanding.

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