In Darkness Waits Desire by Elliott Rose

Author:Elliott Rose [Rose, Elliott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780473669164
Publisher: Cosmic Imprint Publishing
Published: 2023-03-04T16:00:00+00:00

22

It’s been six minutes. Lachie glared at the clock on the mantel above the fireplace. His fists clenched tight. White edges to his knuckles. Blood whooshed in his ears as he paced back and forth across his study.

“Bloody well go back and drag her here.” He argued to himself. “Don’t have time for this kind of nonsense.” His every muscle was tight and coiled. Ready to unleash. Shoulders set as though ready to take a blow in combat.

What if she doesn’t come?

He leaned over his desk, hands gripped so tight against the edge of the wood he heard a faint crack. Squeezing his eyes shut he barely held himself still despite the urge to storm back to Belle’s suite.

Suddenly a wave of her scent washed through his senses. Jasmine and rose. Spinning round abruptly, Belle stood on the other side of the room with hands on her luscious hips. A penetrating stare pinned him in place. Her eyes narrowed and lips pursed.

“You got me an easel.” A statement rather than a question. She stared at him unblinking for a long moment. Then a slow smile spread across her delicate features.

“Careful Lachie, anyone might think you’ve been missing me this past week.” Her voice was light and teasing. Little did she know he’d had the damn thing commissioned a month ago. Only every time he worked up the courage to give it to her, he’d stalled.

No more fucking stalling now.

Lachie launched himself at her. The tension snapped inside him. With two strides he crossed the room and grabbed her by the back of her neck.

“You are not to ever fucking do that again.”

Belle’s eyes glowed bright as her pupils dilated.

“I—” She breathed out. Pushed backwards ever so slightly by his intensity.

“Never hide from me again. You’re not to leave me like that.” His chest heaved in a rapid rise and and fall. Heart hammering. Power surged into his palms as his fingers flexed below her nape. His grip unrelenting.

“And why is that exactly? What am I to you?” Belle’s fists balled against his chest. Holding him at elbows length. Her expression was unreadable but he couldn’t keep fighting it. Fuck whatever the consequences may be. He might lose her but he’d never been one to back down from a challenge.

His eyes darkened.

“You are mine.”

He saw the slightest flare in her nostrils. A single pulse of golden light rippled out around the darkened room.

“You made it quite clear the other night you weren’t interested in anything between us.”

He let loose a growl. “Never said I wasn’t interested.”

“Well, it seemed otherwise from where I was sitting.” Her mouth quirked. His cock pressed against his trouser seam at the memory of her straddled naked across his lap.

“And you’re deflecting.” She added. “Why did you get me an easel?”

He dropped his forehead heavy against hers. “Your art shines out of you. It radiates through the air when you are in your joy. I wanted you to have something that might bring you that, even if I’m not the one to do so.

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