Her Shadow: The Dark Triad Book One by HR Jones

Author:HR Jones [Jones, HR]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2023-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

“So how come after we had sex, I didn’t turn into a faceless, nameless woman too?” I ask suddenly, pausing the movie we are watching.

He’d suggested we spend this lazy Saturday to ourselves watching all my favorite movies. He also claimed to have never had a day where he just lounged on the couch before, which is insane to me. Everyone deserves to rot at least once in a while; you just can’t stay there.

That’s called clinical depression.

I get the feeling he doesn’t understand the concept of lounging and has a hard time, in general, relaxing his body. Similar to how I can never seem to calm my mind— until he’s touching my body, that is. Then my mind is a blank slate, incapable of human-like thinking for some reason.

We’ve already worked our way through Pretty Woman, Scream I, and II and are now in the middle of John Wick. It’s taking a lot longer than it should to get through them, solely because we both keep pausing to ask each other questions. I don’t mind because I’ve already seen these a million times, and he hasn’t.

His questions are mostly what I’m thinking about while watching the movies. Why I sighed when Richard Gere’s character climbed the fire escape. If I was breathing heavily because I was afraid or turned on whenever Ghostface appeared on the screen. If I felt John Wick’s character is realistic. Just genuinely trying to figure out what I liked about these movies since I picked them to share.

I, on the other hand, have had far fewer interruptions, but they were always questions about us, or him, rather, while I tried to piece everything together.

Which is hard to do since he is still, currently, touching my body.

I also have learned far less than he has since he won’t tell me how he got hurt, who did it, and why. Those questions also spurred more questions about his job. And he gave me his usual run around. I’m starting to think he’s like some undercover CIA agent or some shit; otherwise, why all the secrecy? Especially since I can tell he wants to tell me, but something holds him back each time.

“That’s an easy one. You make me happy, you make me feel lighter, you make me want to be more than I am because I want to give you more.”

“Why, though? I’m just…me.” I shrug my one shoulder and shake my head. He’s lying behind me on the couch, one arm tucked around me, the other propping his head up so he can see over my hair while we face the TV.

I can’t see his face from this angle, but I can feel his voice reverberate through his deep chest across my back when he speaks.

“Exactly. You’re just you. Stubborn, smart, and beautiful, so wrapped up in that head of yours that you don’t even realize just how gorgeous you are. Your looks captured my attention the first day I ever saw you, but it’s been me learning more and more about you that’s held it since.

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