[Invitation to Eden 20.0] The Island of Eden by Lauren Hawkeye

Author:Lauren Hawkeye [Hawkeye, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: invitation to eden, billionaire, virgin, dare to surrender, beach reads, alpha male, illusion
Publisher: Calluna Vulgaris Books
Published: 2015-06-08T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

THEO

My own words echo in my ears as we walk down the stone steps on the cliff. I’d chosen my words deliberately, to gauge how much research she’s done into my off-island... activities.

I’d gotten what I wanted—there hadn’t been any surprise on her face. But I’d also gotten more. Rather than firing off some snappy retort, she’d turned red and looked at her feet. A beautifully submissive reply.

One designed to make me think of that beautifully lush body of hers beneath me as I fucked us both into oblivion. Of her complete and utter submission, the one thing that made me forget my scars.

I try to keep my eyes on the path in front of me as we walk, but can feel them stray towards Noelle. I’m thankful that I put my mask back on, because I know my face would’ve betrayed me when I first saw her in that slip. A little scrap of nothing edged in lace, which the island actually provided when I asked, I’ve seen a hundred women in my lifetime wear something similar.

But Noelle wears the item I’d used as a challenge like a weapon. And it’s stabbing me right in the groin.

As we descend the stone steps, she chats non-stop, making my eyes cross. She asks me about the flora and fauna on the island. About my lilies. I tell her about all the flowers indigenous to the region, and about the rock lizards that are everywhere, and the cicadas that sing at night.

“If you snorkel,” I add, “there are friendly sea turtles and sea horses just off the reef.”

“I think I’ve had just about enough of the ocean for a few days. Or maybe forever.” She says it with such an indignant squishing of her nose, I can’t help but chuckle.

“You never did say what happened to your boat.”

She shrugs. “I honestly don’t know. One minute I was onboard and the next I washed up onto your beach.”

“That’s odd.” I frown. Surely Joely would have seen the wreckage while in the air.

“You don’t know the half of it, buddy.”

I laugh again, because no one has ever called me buddy before. Ever. Especially not some beautiful woman who I desperately want to bend over the nearest rock and spank until she cries out for mercy.

She looks at me sideways, but I see her returning smile, a sly blossoming. “You have a good laugh. You should use it more.”

The compliment has my steps faltering. “Thank you. I don’t often have the chance to laugh, but you are amusing.”

She arches an eyebrow, but doesn’t seem to take offense. Interesting.

Everything about her is interesting.

When we reach the castle lobby I immediately grab Jenna, one of my spa employees, like a life-preserver to take over the tour for me. I find it hard to be with Noelle without resorting to unprofessional behavior. Very, very unprofessional. She makes my hands itch for the whip and the rest of my body ache for release.

“Jenna will continue your tour.”

The woman

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