Wicked Vow (Wicked Trilogy Book 3) by M. James

Author:M. James [James, M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PNK Publishing
Published: 2023-04-22T16:00:00+00:00

The second date with Erik isn’t much different than the first. He’d sent a bouquet of roses to the house the day after the first date, three dozen bright red blooms stuffed into a glass vase. Caterina had exclaimed over them, insisting I take them up to my room. I had, but more concernedly, I’d found one more rose there.

Another red rose, like the one I’d seen on the table at the strip club–but this time left on the windowsill outside my room.

It has to be Mikhail. I’d opened the window and grabbed it, looking around outside, but there had been no sign of anyone. Perversely, despite the knot of fear in my stomach at the ‘gift,’ I’d put it in the bouquet from Erik.

Caterina and Sasha had both wanted to hear every detail of the first date, and Ruby too, when I’d seen her a day later. They all seem united under the same idea–that I need to give Erik a chance. Caterina had finally admitted when I’d gotten her alone after taking the roses upstairs that Viktor had introduced him to me on purpose.

“Do you really think I need to be going on dates right now?” I’d asked her, barely able to keep the frustration out of my voice. “Is that really the best use of my time? Isn’t it just a distraction?”

“Maybe you need a little distraction right now,” Caterina had said firmly. “He’s worked with Viktor long enough that Viktor feels as if he knows him fairly well. He’s nice, handsome, wealthy–”

“Is that enough?”

Caterina shrugged. “You don’t have to marry him, Natalia. It’s just to see what’s out there.”

To get your mind off of Mikhail. I’d heard the words she hadn’t said as clearly as I’d heard them when Ruby said them out loud. It’s clear what everyone thinks, even Caterina, who arguably is married to a man who was once every bit as vicious.

I’d been tempted to cancel the second date, but the idea of dealing with the opinions about that seemed worse than actually going on it. So I’d sat through another dinner, and this time the orchestra, and just like before, it had been pleasant. Nothing to complain about–but nothing to make me want to see him again, either.

I’d dodged another kiss, and I knew that would be the last time I’d probably get away with it. Something about that idea did excite me, the thought of what he might do if I agreed to a third and still tried not to kiss him. It made me wonder if he might take the kiss, if he might demand it, and that thought convinced me to agree to a third date, out of curiosity, if nothing else.

That thought is what makes my pulse leap a little as we walk out of the theatre at the end of our third date, his hand on the small of my back once again, staying there as he takes his keys from the valet. I know what he’s

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