Devil's Promise by Samantha Cruise

Author:Samantha Cruise
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Book/Menage
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand
Published: 2010-12-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Stench of cheap liquor and cheap cigars and cheaper women wafted from the Blow-n-Go Tavern, smothered Randolph’s senses. He crossed the cobbled street strewn with litter, consciously aware of each polluted breath filling his lungs. His analysis turned inward while he took a long, discouraging glance at the peeling sign hanging above the tavern door.

Dingy rooms let by the hour above a whore-laden tavern were a far cry from the seaside inn Megan imagined. Before him stood a squalid hellhole frequented by lewd men with dubious reputations and money to spend on immoral vices. On this side of town, across the seedy docks, the price of bodily pleasure was beggarly.

If Katherine intended to escape her past, this was definitely the place. An ideal setting to start anew, launch a career in licentiousness if her intent was to begin at the bottom and remain at the underbelly of corruption and filth.

True, his triumph in the bedchamber constantly fed polite society’s voracious appetite for scandalous gossip. His reputation was already tarnished beyond repair. To be seen in this part of town would only add to his notoriety. Even so, he paused at the tavern’s entry to consider his mother.

Unlike ten years ago, when he had assisted an overly eager young girl in her frantic need to do away with her virginity, he had ruined her standing. It was a short-lived pleasure for which his father paid a tidy sum. The memory of his mother shamed to show her face in public for months lingered. If tongues wagged of his slumming, no doubt Mother would barricade in the house for well over a year after sanitizing the entire estate.

He had no qualms what other people thought of him. But a feeder from the bottom rung of a ladder he most certainly was not. Likely, in this dreadful section of town, the inhabitants never picked up a newspaper, much less took the time to read one. Thus, recognition was highly doubtful. He deemed pursing the impetuously spirited Katherine McKinley risk-free, save for possible medical intervention afterward.

When she had stepped from behind the screen completely naked, his loins had ordered his wits to take leave. Common sense bombarded, he had grown hard instantly. Personally and professionally, hundreds if not thousands of women paraded naked in front of him, though none was as lovely, well proportioned, and desirable as the virginal Miss Katherine McKinley.

Never had a woman’s beauty struck him so strongly. All it took was one look at her and he fell in lust instantly. Numerous women tried to tempt him on a daily basis at work. Not one to risk the only love in his life outside of his family— medicine—he ignored temptation.

When it came to Katherine, professionalism be damned. He wanted her. He had been on the verge of taking her, possessing her. If she had not spoken, stopped him when she did, he would have forgone restraint. Taken her into his arms and shown her the meaning of undying passion.

Since the moment he left her to get dressed, she invaded his every thought.

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