Bennett (Bourbon & Blood #1) by Seraphina Donavan

Author:Seraphina Donavan [Donavan, Seraphina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sunflowers.DPG
Published: 2016-01-23T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Mia left the office a little early. She’d completed the paperwork she’d had to and anything that wasn’t completely necessary, she’d put off ‘til the following day. Preoccupied with thoughts of Bennett, she hadn’t been able to concentrate through most of the day.

The eagerness she felt for him, to be near him, to have his touch, was terrifying. But, she reflected, at least she was feeling something again. The unending, numbing sameness of her days had finally broken. There was something that she looked forward to, something that she feared losing. It had only been days but all the old feelings had come back almost immediately. But then she could admit, they’d never really gone away. Her relationship with Bennett had never ended, it had just paused.

Climbing behind the wheel of her rental car, she made the relatively short drive home without incident. She wasn’t paranoid, but she did find herself checking the rearview mirror more frequently, watching the road a little more carefully.

Entering the house through the backdoor, she hadn’t noticed her father’s car parked out front. Walking into the kitchen, finding him seated at the island, drinking iced tea and smiling flirtatiously at her mother’s new caregiver was not how she’d envisioned ending her day.

As always, Samuel was the epitome of an elegant and distinguished southern gentleman. His suit was perfectly tailored. His silver hair was well groomed and combed back from his high and perfectly bronzed forehead. He could easily have graced the cover of any magazine that catered to the old money set. It was a look that he’d always admired and strived to emulate but there was a darkness underneath it all. He was selfish to the bone and ugly with it to the depths of his soul. As far as Samuel Darcy concerned, everyone was fair game as collateral damage as long as he got what he wanted in the end.

“What are you doing here?” she demanded, uncaring that her tone was clearly cold and unwelcoming.

The caregiver, Elizabeth, gave her a sharp glance, but said nothing, as Samuel turned toward her with a cool glare.

His smile was perfect, all gleaming teeth and dead eyes like the shark he was. “That’s hardly an appropriate greeting for your father, is it?”

“Excuse me,” Elizabeth said and left the room quickly, obviously unnerved by the acrimonious undercurrent.

“You’re hardly an appropriate father, are you?” Mia shot back with a bitter laugh. They had an arrangement that worked. They saw one another at the office when he deigned to show up otherwise, he stayed far away from her mother and from her.

He set his glass down on the counter top, his controlled movements a stark contrast the fury in his gaze. “I am you father, regardless of what you think of me. You won’t take that tone with me, girl.”

“I’m not a girl. I’m a grown woman. And you don’t live here anymore. You hang your hat wherever your latest twenty-something mistress lives. You don’t get to just walk in and make yourself at home.

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