Ruby

Author:Jeffe Kennedy [Kennedy, Jeffe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-06-02T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

To her relief, he took her home. To his home. They rode in a sweet little Alfa Romeo with supple leather upholstery.

“Are you rich?” she wondered aloud, settling herself into the seat, which cupped her like a warm hand.

He threw her an opaque glance, snapping off the radio, which had been tuned to late night jazz. “Does that matter?”

“Just curious. I’m guessing family money, young as you are. Buying a restaurant isn’t cheap.”

“So now I’m spoiled?”

“You do like things exactly your way.”

“True.” His face was shadowed between the streetlights, but she thought his jaw clenched. Something there. “And you, chère—do you come from money?”

That snapped her off cold. “I’d rather not discuss my family.”

“No? I thought we were being chummy. Trading secrets.”

“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to pry.”

He grinned at her, a piratical baring of teeth behind the black beard. “Yes, you did. You just thought you could do it on your terms. You don’t get it both ways, Mysterious Ruby. Either we keep this a casual fuckfest between strangers or we get to know each other. Which will it be?”

She flinched a little, less at the crude language than the lashing tone. “Maybe you should take me home,” she replied, feeling a little unsteady.

He shook his head slowly, eyes on the pedestrians drunkenly weaving in front of the car. “Oh no. You won’t escape what’s coming so easily. Not unless you use your safe word.”

Biting down on her reply, lest she say it in a fit of temper, she stayed quiet until he pulled the car into an old carriage house. A length of chain hung from the heavy rafters. Prejean followed her gaze.

“I once suspended a girl in here for three days. Gagged, so she wouldn’t bother the neighbors when I came out to whip her.”

“She wanted that?”

He shrugged, his mouth twisting a little. “Nagged me for weeks to do it. Not that fun for me, really, but one tries to accommodate other kinks.”

“Do you still see her?” Maybe she was one of the bedroom denizens.

“No. She was a pain slut—went looking for someone who would treat her worse.”

He took her hand and led her through a locked door into a back courtyard where a potted night-blooming jasmine poured over one wall, filling the air with its heavy scent. A fountain graced the middle—standard equipment, it seemed. This one shone under careful lighting. A pair of lovers stood in the topmost basin, her legs wrapped around him, him pinning her wrists to the small of her back while she rode him, her head thrown back in ecstasy. The water trickled over them, her streaming stone hair, the devil’s horns sprouting from his forehead.

A pair of glossy white Adirondack chairs flanked a copper fire pit, all screened by an arbor of what looked like grapevines. A large magnolia spread over the other side of the courtyard, creating a private alcove within the high walls.

They entered another locked door in the back wall of the townhouse, and walked down a narrow passage to enter his vestibule from the other side.

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