Perfect End: A Dark Romance Thriller (Beautiful Ashes Book 2) by Dori Lavelle

Author:Dori Lavelle [Lavelle, Dori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

BREE

My stomach twists as I watch the room service attendant walking away, leaving me alone with Hunter on the balcony of our suite.

My so-called husband had asked the woman to serve us a romantic dinner, complete with expensive caviar and a bottle of champagne that’s chilling in the bucket.

Once upon a time, the smells of champagne, flowers, and burning candles brought me joy. I can still remember the many romantic dinners Hunter had prepared for both of us and how we’d spent them gazing into each other’s eyes while the candlelight danced on our faces. Now the same smells turn my stomach, and I can barely look into his eyes.

I tried hard to silently communicate to the room service attendant that I’m in trouble, but she was focused on doing her job. She barely met my eyes. My hopes of ever escaping Hunter’s clutches are crumbling away by the second and I’m losing the strength to fight. I don’t think I can take any more pain than he has already inflicted on me. What hurts the most is knowing that Hunter murdered my best friends.

I’m desperate to get away from him, to bring him to justice, but I don’t know how. Since we arrived at the hotel, he has hardly left my side and he threatened me several times with his gun, saying if I try to escape again, he’ll shoot me in the head.

The same gun is now hidden underneath the romantic dinner table. If I doubted him before, I don’t anymore, not after he confessed to being a serial killer. My mind wants to know how many people he murdered in total, but I’m not sure I want to know.

What matters is that he took the people I love from this world and the pain of loss is almost physical. Even worse, I have to keep my pain bottled up inside me. I can’t openly grieve for Vivian and Karen because it drives him insane.

“Won’t you eat?” Hunter asks fifteen minutes after we’re left alone. He glances at my food, then back at my face. “You’ve barely touched your meal. In fact, you haven’t been eating much lately.”

“I’m not that hungry,” I lie. The food looks delicious, but since he spiked my coffee at the cottage, I now live with the constant fear that he might put something in my food or drink again. So far, I’ve only been drinking water from the bathroom faucet when he wasn’t watching. It’s safer that way.

“I hope you realize that there won’t be any more food for you today. If I were you, I would eat.”

I lower my gaze to the seafood in my plate. Maybe it’s safe to eat. The room service attendant was the one who served the food, and it was never left alone with Hunter. He couldn’t have put anything in it without me noticing.

I pick up my knife and fork and start to eat, never looking up at his evil face.

“Are you cold?” he asks and I nod.

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