Treachery: A Betrayal and Redemption Romance (Unchained Hearts Book 2) by Eve Black

Author:Eve Black [Black, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-12-19T00:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

She closed her eyes against the flood of emotion. God, despite how deeply he’d hurt her, she wanted to comfort him, to rid him of that hitch in his voice that told her he was feeling regret. He regretted what he’d done to her…that’s what it seemed like, anyway. Dammit! How could she let someone who literally fucked her for information back into her life? He’d stolen her self-worth, made her feel like garbage, like she was something he could throw away because she meant nothing to him⁠—

But he came when he didn’t have to…that has to mean something! It was definitely more than Joe had done when they’d dated; he would have told her to call the cops, then asked her to stop by the liquor store for his favorite, expensive brandy, and then the post office to pick up his latest order from Neiman Marcus; a new suit…that she’d paid for, of course.

When she was dating Joe, all the red flags were there, but she’d ignored them because she was so hard up for companionship.

You were so needy you willfully ignored all the signs…but James, he never asked you for anything, he paid for everything, and always came when you needed him. Like today.

Hell, there was that voice again, that winged-haloed creature on her shoulder pointing out all the non-asshole-ish things James had done.

Maybe you should let him explain…. Yeah, she’d overheard what he’d said to Cluster, and Frost had all but revealed the truth to her, but…she hadn’t let Locust—James—explain things to her. Was she being an easy bitch, thinking his thoughtful Chinese dinner, and riding to her rescue were sign enough that he actually cared about her? She’d read thousands of romance novels over the years, and she always loved the push and pull, and angst of the “he wronged her, he grovels” trope. But…she always hated how the heroine made the hero grovel so hard he lost a part of what made her love him in the first place.

Was that what she wanted with Locust? Did she want him to prove his love and grovel until his knees bled, or did she want to just leave him in her past, and hope her heart healed one day?

She had no idea what to think…what to do, and in that moment she felt so conflicted, she could only focus on the now.

Fighting the urge to reassure him, to tell him that the man she met almost six months ago was good enough for her, she stepped away from his hand. He didn’t drop it, though. He reached out, looping his fingers in her hair, twisting the end of a lock around his fingers. The blonde hair looked good sliding through his tanned fingers.

She shuddered, remembering too well how good it felt to have those same fingers making a fist around her hair.

He hummed, and the sound made her nipples hard, and she trembled at the sensation. Nothing, in all her life, felt as good as when Locust touched her, poured all his focus on making her light up, fill up, then empty out—satiated.

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