Lucifer's Bride by Roxie Ray & Skye Wilson

Author:Roxie Ray & Skye Wilson [Ray, Roxie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-01T16:00:00+00:00

15

Evie

Somewhere In A Memory…

The neon lights of Paradise glowed against the darkness. Men in suits and women in short dresses were drawn to it from the street, moths to flames.

I stood at Luke’s side as he helped each of the girls out of his limo. Charon held the door open for them as they climbed out.

“Thank you for this,” I told Luke quietly. I wasn’t sure that grateful was exactly what I was feeling now, but Luke had gone out of his way to help me. I might’ve been born in Jersey, but I wasn’t born in a barn. “You didn’t have to, you know.”

“It was no problem at all,” Luke said back, just as quietly. It felt like our words were secret somehow, even though they didn’t need to be. Only meant for each other’s ears. “The least I could do—”

“Unless?” I sensed an unless coming on—and I was right, too.

“Unless you’d like me to come in with you,” Luke offered. He inclined his head slightly, directing his voice at my ear. “If your man’s stepping out on you in there, perhaps a lesson should be taught.”

“If he needs a lesson, I’ll teach it to him myself.” I looked to the girls who were clustered a few feet away from Luke and me. They were watching us with wicked interest, even though our conversation was too quiet to reach their ears. “Thank you again though. I think we’ll be parting ways here.”

“You know what they say about parting, don’t you?”

“That it’s such sweet sorrow?”

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again,” Luke countered. He reached into his jacket and pulled out his card, holding it out to me. “Dickens.”

“I know who said it.” I shook my head and pushed the card away. Luke’s arrival into my life had brought the likely destruction of my engagement along with it. Handsome as he was, I didn’t think I needed to find out what might be destroyed next. “I don’t think we should meet again, Mr. Dawnstar. Keep your card.”

“Take it,” Luke insisted. “Burn it if you need me.”

Reluctantly, I reached for it. “Don’t you think calling would be easier?”

“Burn it,” Luke repeated. “It’s all the call I’ll need.”

I didn’t see how that was even possible. It was a simple business card with his name written on the front and nothing on the back.

Luke Dawnstar. Adversary Industries, CEO.

It hardly came with a smoke detector attached.

“Thanks,” I said, a little more uncertainly this time.

Luke took my hand, raised it to his lips, and kissed it.

It was the kind of kiss that lingered for just a second too long.

“Anything for you.”

Luke climbed back into the limo. His driver closed the door behind him, then slipped behind the wheel.

As the limo pulled away, the girls approached me, all smiling in disbelief.

“Who is he?” Ava asked with a laugh as she watched the rear lights of the limo disappear.

“Luke Dawnstar, CEO of Adversary Industries.” I flashed the card at her. “Apparently. Either

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