The Season to Sin by Clare Connelly

Author:Clare Connelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-09-12T15:00:47+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

HER BODY IS sheened in perspiration and her cheeks are pink. Her eyes moist—not with tears but with heightened pleasure. I stand above her, watching her, my arms crossed, the thrill of power unmistakable.

I have done this to her. And I am pretty sure it’s the first time she’s ever known this kind of drugging desire. A thrill spreads through me.

Her ex was a bastard; I shouldn’t feel any kind of competition with him. I have seen his marks on her body now. Little marks, small scars, but I know without asking how she came to wear them.

He isn’t worthy of competing with, and yet the knowledge that I have given her so much pleasure, that he certainly didn’t, does something inside me.

Then again, at what cost?

Holly Scott-Leigh is dangerous for me—there is risk here, with her. She has entered my bloodstream and I don’t even bother trying to pretend otherwise. She’s not like any other woman I’ve ever known. If I make her feel new different pleasures, she does exactly the same to me.

Losing myself in her body has become my latest addiction, and not just because it seems to give me a reprieve from my dark thoughts—if only for a while.

Her chest, and those beautiful breasts, are shifting with each of her breaths, slowing down now, and I wonder if she is tired? If she would like to sleep?

I swallow past a throat that is constricted by pleasure and reach into my bed, lifting her. I’ve lost count of how many times she’s come. In the kitchen downstairs, on the bench, against my fridge, and then in my bed, when I used my fingers to drive her to the edge... I scoop her against my chest and her eyes lock onto mine.

Something shifts in my chest. Desire, surely, rampant and uncontainable. I look straight ahead, needing her as an addict needs their next fix.

My en suite bathroom is big—the kind of place I could never have imagined, growing up as I did. It’s at least twice the size of most bedrooms I knew as a kid and it’s covered in marble tiles. A spa bath is at its centre and to the side, with frosted windows that overlook the Thames, there is a shower. I like to shower. I like the feel of water on my skin and I have an overhead nozzle as well as one from either wall.

Holly lifts a brow with amusement. ‘You don’t think this is kind of overkill?’

It’s impossible for someone like her to understand. You grow up with nothing and it does things to you. Trust me, I know about this stuff.

‘You haven’t felt the shower.’ I grin, making light of it, not wanting to open the door to my reasons for living as I do. My bathroom is a palace and the rest of my home is like a loft—there’s nothing luxurious nor expensive, nothing particularly personal, anywhere in this place. As though I’m expecting to pick up a rucksack at any point and walk right out that door.

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