Captive Of Desire (Beautiful Deceit, #2) by Felicity Brandon

Author:Felicity Brandon [Brandon, Felicity]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gothic romance, dark romance, romantic suspense, Women's Crime, captive romance
Publisher: Felicity Brandon
Published: 2022-08-31T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Tiffany

Whatever fragments of my sanity I’d clawed back over the last few days evaporated with his message.

You’ll find me in the Royal Suite.

The Royal Suite? The Royal Suite in this fucking hotel? The butterflies that danced in my belly huddled, knotting into an amorphous ball of churning apprehension. Kade was in this hotel? Oh, fuck...

My heart raced as I tried to fathom what he was telling me. If Kade was there, what the hell did that mean? Had he been there all along? Had he seen me, been watching me again? Panic flared in my chest, capturing my anxiety and threatening to send the lurid combination to meet the back of the toilet seat.

“Oh God.”

Closing my eyes, I tried to calm my breathing, but I felt as if I was breaking inside. How could any man affect me so profoundly, let alone one who’d done such heinous things? Kade had violated my home, my privacy, just about every right I’d taken for granted, and reveled in my suffering. He was a fucking fiend, so why wasn’t I running for the officer stationed in the foyer or calling DS Lucas? Why had I replied to his unwelcome advances?

“Because they’re not unwelcome.” The answer was as obvious as the horror-stricken look on my face in the mirror behind the chrysanthemums when I opened my eyes. “You want this,” I whispered, rising from the bed and wandering closer to my reflection. “It doesn’t matter what you tell the police or anyone else. You know you wanted it.” Heaving in a breath, I shook my head at the hapless woman in the glass. “You fucking wanted it. You were just scared of him—by him—that’s all.”

Fuck. Moving past the dresser, I rested my head against the mirror, steaming the glass with my breath. I had wanted Kade’s treatment—even though I hadn’t agreed to it and certainly hadn’t given him permission to be in my house. My body had betrayed my true response to his schemes.

I’d spent my life suppressing my cravings, ignoring the dark desires raging inside me, and choosing to focus on work instead of passion. In all that time, had I been happy with my choices? My brow furrowed at the question, though I already knew the answer. No. I’d never experienced real lust before Kade, hadn’t known how deep the yearning could be.

That first night he’d taken me to the attic, everything changed. As well as the fear that had coursed through me, there had been something else, something stirring that had shaken my soul—an awakening, awareness I’d finally collided with feelings I couldn’t fight. Despite the distress, I didn’t regret those emotions.

Managing a small smile, I relaxed into my new self-awareness. If nothing else, Kade had brought me a sense of who I was—a tsunami washing away all doubt on the subject.

The vibration of my phone in my hand brought me back to the then and there.

Tiffany.

I tensed at that one word, already sensing Kade’s tone.

Why am I waiting, little girl?

Leaning against the glass, I pulled in a breath as I replied.

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