Ruin: Slay Two by Laurelin Paige

Author:Laurelin Paige
Language: eng
Format: epub

Sixteen

“Have you ever tried role play?” Edward asked as he led me into the cabana two nights later.

The days between had been lighter than any I’d had since arriving on the island. While he continued to be stoic and aloof, he did it in close proximity. He’d invited me into his library while he worked. He’d dismissed Eliana and played chess with me himself. He accompanied me on my morning run. Heated glances had turned into subtle caresses, brushes of skin, a few stolen kisses that I’d given willingly. His moves still felt calculated, but there was an organic rhythm to the way we danced around each other, a natural ebb and flow that drew us to each other for heightened moments before we’d part and drift away.

Always, the drifting felt initiated by him. There was something he was hiding—a lot that he was hiding—and whatever secrets they were, they held him back. More than once, he seemed to start to say one thing then said something else instead. It often felt like a question was ready at the tip of his tongue, waiting for the right moment to be asked.

Was this the question he’d been hesitant to ask?

It didn’t seem powerful enough to give him pause, yet, at the same time, the question felt significant.

“I can’t say that I have,” I answered. But if role play was what he was after, I was down for it. I could be his naughty secretary, his sassy nurse, his frisky maid, his slutty nun.

Damn, role play sounded like a lot of fun, actually.

“Never? Never put on another persona just to see what it felt like? Just to see if you could pull it off?” He walked behind me, his fingers sweeping across my bare shoulders.

I shivered, but not just from his touch. Everytime he said something that sounded like it could be a veiled reference to The Game, I got cold. I was paranoid, I knew that, but Edward was the kind of man who made it easy to be suspicious.

I considered how to answer. I’d devoted myself to being honest with him and that meant not tiptoeing around truths just because I didn’t want to deal with the fallout. The Game, though. Talking about that wouldn’t be exposing how others had hurt me, but rather how I’d hurt others, and I wasn’t ready to let him see that side of me, not when he seemed to be starting to like the me that he had seen.

I decided to circumvent. “Is that a loaded question? You know I tried to play you. So you already have an answer.”

He circled around in front of me, his fingers wandering over my collarbone before skirting the top of my bodice. “This was an excellent choice, by the way. Quite appropriate. You’re stunning in it, too.”

I glanced down at what I was wearing. It was an Oscar de la Renta strapless gown with metallic leafing and lots of tulle. It was pretty and poofy and made me feel younger than I was, like I was dressed up for the prom.

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