Masterful (An Erotic Dark Romance) by Joren Jesse

Author:Joren, Jesse [Joren, Jesse]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: KCK Communications, Inc.
Published: 2015-05-19T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

"For my own reasons," he said, "I don't have a personal life."

"You and I both know about chat rooms. They're the fast food of sexual fantasies, full of those who are busy, lonely, curious, cheating, predatory. Maybe you meet someone and there's a spark. Amusement for a night with no strings, forgotten by the next morning."

"On a winter night about two years ago, I went online. I was bored, restless. A job just finished, too keyed up to sleep."

"It was the same old crap in the chat room. Nothing to distract me. I was about to sign off when text appeared at the bottom of the window. 'Cherry-on-the-Bottom joined the room.'"

"I read your profile. Just one sentence. Tell me what it said."

I knew that I'd said. Those words were burned into my brain forever. Somehow, saying them out loud seemed to give him even more power than he already had.

"I'm waiting," he said.

"'If you're not willing to earn the right to dominate me, then fuck off,'" I said after a very long pause.

Just saying the words gave me a chill. It was like seeing my own tombstone. The Ghost of Eva Past.

Hex nodded.

"You get a much better idea about people when they don't know you're watching them," he said. "I decided to eavesdrop on your private messages."

That explained a lot. He must be a chat room moderator then. Somehow he'd broken into the code that provided a fragile shell of privacy for the most intimate chats imaginable.

"Only a real jerk of a moderator would invade someone's privacy like that," I snapped.

"Half right," he agreed. "Only a real jerk would do that, but I was never a mod. That night I was sitting in a six-thousand-dollar-a-night hotel in Dubai after doing a very large favor on very short notice. "

"Then how did you have access to a private chat?" I asked.

"Talent?" he suggested with a grin. "I watched as every would-be Romeo in the room approached you. I sensed you were bored and about to leave. So I messaged you, and you joined me. Why?"

His question caught me off guard. In all of our chats he'd never asked me that. I remembered vividly, but I didn't want to tell him.

"I guess I just felt like playing that night," I said, trying to sound flippant.

"Like I said, you're a terrible liar," he grinned. "So you joined me in private chat, and suddenly that spark was there. We never even got to the sex. You were such a smart-ass, but so smart and sweet and wistful all at once."

"That wasn't what got my attention. It was because somewhere behind all that brightness, there was a streak of pain so deep and bitter that I could almost taste it. It…intrigued me."

"After you left, I looked into that blank screen for a long time. I'd missed my flight, and I didn't even care."

"Fifteen minutes later I knew your name, your address, your Social Security number. Just so you couldn't slip away from me."

For a moment he was quiet.

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