Seduced: A Menage Rejected Mates Werewolf Shifter Romance (Rejected & Claimed) by Celia Kyle

Author:Celia Kyle [Kyle, Celia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summerhouse Publishing
Published: 2024-02-14T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Delilah

Delilah thought back on the past day, her mind full of euphoria and conflict. She could still feel the sensation of being embraced by Jude and kissed by Graham. She couldn’t believe what had happened, finally… that she had been seen by somebody wholly for who she was and not for what she offered or looked like.

No, not just valued by somebody—she was valued by two men, who were capable of caring for her simultaneously, noncompetitively, and selflessly. She was cared for by two men, who she could feel in her gut, would lay down their lives for her and never betray her.

Her mind couldn’t stop playing back the previous night. She remembered the smells of the vanilla candles as Graham and Jude embraced her in tandem. She remembered the sensations of the two men rubbing against her, caressing her skin.

But with her recollections of the previous night, which never stopped, she also remembered her reason for meeting with Graham and Jude in the first place. She remembered his voice—the true reason she had run away and come to the city.

He was her captor and her lover. He was everything she hated, and everything she had once loved. She remembered his threats and the bile he spat. She remembered her imprisonment. And then she felt cold and hollow, and she wanted to crawl back into the corner she had worked so hard to escape from.

She wanted to be strong and fight for herself as well as for Miranda, Jude, and Graham. But a part of her was still buried deep, a part which remembered life before this place. It threatened to unravel everything.

She couldn’t let that part of her win.

So even as she wanted to savor the sensations of the night before and let them envelop her, she needed to keep moving. It was her day off, and she wasn’t going to spend it longing for a perfect moment on the edges of her memory, even as she fought back the trauma in the nooks of her mind.

She picked up the phone and called Miranda.

“Hello?” She heard the ambient noises of the cafe, of pouring coffee and idle conversations among strangers.

“Hey, Miranda,” Delilah said. “When you get off, do you want to hang out?”

“You haven’t been letting me in. Are you finally ready to talk? What happened yesterday.”

“You get off in about an hour?” Delilah asked. It had been a late night, not that she was complaining. She had fallen asleep in the small hours of the morning.

“That seems about right,” Miranda answered. “Why don’t I meet you outside the teahouse, and we can have that girl’s day we always talked about?”

Miranda hung up. Delilah had a hard time finding the right clothes for the occasion, her head still spinning. She eventually settled on a light-yellow sundress with a brown straw hat.

She sat outside the teahouse waiting for Miranda, watching birds flutter by as the wind chimes spun with the gentle breeze. She appreciated that even as her life was changing rapidly on so many fronts, nature moved at the same pace as it always did.

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