The Black Fox (The Dirty Heroes Collection Book 1) by Brianna Hale

Author:Brianna Hale [Hale, Brianna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-12T18:30:00+00:00

7

Zacarias

I lean over her, breathing hard, my hands braced against the table either side of her head. How beautifully disheveled she looks, her hair laid out in messy curls across the dark wood.

I’ve taken what doesn’t belong to me, and even in this guise I can’t summon a scrap of regret. The choking was a little rougher than I would like to treat my beautiful girl, but I can’t refuse her when she begs me so sweetly. I withdraw carefully and thread my belt back through my pants as she sits up. Her dress pools around her thighs, and I take her once again in my arms and kiss her.

“Is it true?” she whispers, reaching up to wrap her arms around my neck, so innocent, so trusting.

“Is what true, mi ángel?”

“Am I in danger from someone?”

I take her face between my hands, squeezing my eyes closed. Lolita mistakes my shame for worry. She reaches up and draws my chin up so my eyes meet hers. “It’s all right. I already know who it is. My stepfather, Zacarias.”

I seize her arms. “He means you harm and he’ll stop at nothing to get what he wants. You must stay away from him.”

“I will try, but when we live in the same—”

“Promise me you will stay out of his sight. It’s more important than you can know. Promise me.”

Lolita licks her lips, and whispers, “Yes, daddy.”

Immediately, her cheeks color up, like she isn’t sure whether she should call me that. It sends angel song thrumming though my blood. My sweet little girl trusts me. Needs me. Only me.

“Yes. Good. Do as you’re told and stay out of his way. Let me handle the rest, mi niñita.”

“I like it when you call me that,” she says, wrapping her arms around my neck.

The emphasis is on you. When you call me that. Not him. I kiss her one last time, a hard, bruising kiss. I mean her to feel me after I’m gone from her side. “Be safe, mi niñita,” I whisper, and then I’m slipping away into the shadows.

She calls after me, “When will I see you again?”

But I’m already out of sight.

I change in mine and Valeria’s room after making sure the coast is clear, and then slips back downstairs to the ball. I don’t pass Lolita in the corridors. I wonder if she’s come back down to watch the dancing or gone to her own room. I have to grip the bannister hard for a second to prevent myself from going to look for her. She’ll be covered with my scent. Filled with my seed. My mouth curls in a triumphant smile. He might have Lolita’s heart, but I have tasted her body.

And I’ll taste it again.

Valeria hasn’t even noticed that I’ve been gone when I return to her side. She’s flirting like crazy with the French ambassador, the man she was supposedly hoping would become her son-in-law. I wait silently a few feet away, pretending to watch the dancers but reliving the last half hour with my Little Lo.

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