The Devil In Disguise (Bad Things Book 1) by Cynthia Eden

Author:Cynthia Eden [Eden, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Hocus Pocus Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2016-06-27T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“I’m…sorry.”

Mina forced her eyes to open. She really just wanted to sink into sleep and forget all the worries out in the real world, just for a while, but…Luke was apologizing. An event she was sure didn’t happen often.

His fingers trailed over her arm. “I shouldn’t have given you that drink.”

“No,” she agreed. “You’re an asshole.”

His lips twitched. “You need to stop doing that.”

She settled deeper into the covers. “Then stop being an asshole.”

His smile stretched. “I meant…stop making me like you.”

He liked it when women called him names after sex? She’d make a mental note of that.

“It’s…dangerous for me to trust the wrong people. I have to be very careful,” he added. “Because if something happens and I were to ever lose my control…”

He hadn’t lost his control, not even when things got all hot and heavy between them. “Can’t imagine that,” she whispered.

His smile faded. “That is a very good thing.”

Was it?

“I wouldn’t want you…hurt.”

Nice, considering she didn’t want to be hurt.

“So I needed the truth from you. And I still need it.”

Uh, oh. Alarm bells went off in her head. He was not about to interrogate her while she was still naked in his bed. No way. No—

“The wine won’t be in your system much longer. And I won’t be giving it to you again.”

“You’d better not,” she rumbled. Some of that nice, after-sex languor had left her body.

He kept stroking her arm. “How did you get those marks on your body? Tell me who gave them to you.”

“I don’t know.” Damn him, the wine was still making her talk. Her muscles tensed. “They were just there as long as I can remember.” It was…scary, being the one who didn’t have a choice, who had to speak when compelled. It made her hate her own power even more. She yanked the covers up to her chin, feeling far too vulnerable. Don’t look at my scars.

“What about your parents?” Luke asked her. “Do they know what happened to you?”

“My father was a Navy man.” And her heart twisted. “He was lost at sea before I was born.”

He bent toward her and pressed a kiss to her cheek. “I’m sorry.”

So was she.

“Your mother?” Luke prompted. “Tell me what happened to her.”

Her heart wasn’t just twisting now. It was being squeezed by an ice-cold fist. “You know…I would have told you all this, without the weird wine. Maybe you should have tried asking me.” Her past wasn’t exactly pretty but…I would have told him. “My mother stayed with me until I was six years old and then, one day…she walked into the water.”

She felt him stiffen beside her.

“We lived along the California coast,” Mina continued. “She left me with a friend…” The friend who would later turn Mina over to children’s services. “And she just…she went straight into the water.” That memory was one that had haunted her forever. Seeing her mother just walk away. The waves had beat at her, getting higher and rougher. And Mina had just been sitting on the beach, screaming.

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