The Assassin’s Heart by Alexis Abbott

Author:Alexis Abbott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pathforgers Publishing

Charity

I bite my lip, standing in front of the mirror in our hotel room, wearing the long black gown Jake bought for me today, wondering how the hell I’m supposed to make this all look natural. During our shopping excursion today, the two of us stopped into a beauty shop to buy makeup and hair products, and luckily Jake seems to have an eye for this kind of thing.

Of course, it helped that the attendant at the store there was eager to give me a brief tutorial on how it all works.

She even gave me a quick mini-makeover (which she unfortunately wiped off before I left the store) to show me the basics. The woman must have thought we were an odd pair: this rugged, devilishly handsome tough guy in a leather jacket with a girl who looks as though she just broke free of a nunnery or some conservative boarding school. When she asked me what kind of makeup I usually wear, I truthfully admitted that I have never put makeup on in my life.

Her eyes went wide and her jaw dropped, as she was apparently unable to imagine that in this day and age, there are still women who go au naturel all the time. I was embarrassed, so I quickly added that on one occasion, my friend Aubrey secretly met up with me in a girls’ bathroom on campus after class to put lip gloss and a light coat of mascara on my face.

Even that had scared me to the core, as I was terrified that somehow my parents would find out and punish me. It was enough of a push to convince them to let me attend classes, but if they found out I tried on makeup at school? Well, I worried that would be the unceremonious end to my academic career. But the shop attendant seemed only more excitable about my makeover once I explained that I was a makeup virgin. I suppose she doesn’t come across that opportunity very often in her line of work.

Staring nervously at my bare face, with a tube of shiny mascara clutched in my hand, I think to myself, I’ve lost my virginity in more ways than one today.

I glance at Jake in the mirror. He’s already dressed for the event, after having left to collect the car he’s renting for this evening. He’s sitting on the bed, pointedly not looking at me. He’s on his phone, giving me a little privacy to work on my look. I still feel giddy and disoriented from the magic he worked on my body earlier.

I don’t understand how he was able to make me feel...like that. I have only touched myself a few times in my life, and it never turned out the way it did with Jake in control. In fact, it’s never felt particularly good or rewarding when I was by myself. It’s strange. I know very little about sex, admittedly, except for what I’ve sneakily read in magazines or heard second-hand from Aubrey.

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