spoke
estate agent, "Give her a proper tour. Tell her some of the family history befor
is stepbrother, then at me, then back
said to me. "Don't go past the gates. Elena, c
reason. This was the chance I had been looking forward to, a private period with Damon for all my que
ious he didn't want this. He always wore that polite express
Just moved through the long hallways like he had grown up mapp
y only opened for holidays and the kind of traditional gatherings Margaret insisted on controlling down to the last napk
ission. How could a man this handsome and innocent be accused
ght words to start our conversati
begin a conver
f you in the dark, put your cock in my mouth, and
u
t. And my palms sta
Softer light. More privacy. The kind of hallway where a
red my
ice as light as I could manage. "It must be your first night h
, almost amused look crossed his face
o run like a military operation. The family house is actual in Dallas." He kept walking, already steering the subject away, pointing at a row of old portraits on
a little more d
in the room o
ing and turned
he said
st tig
ething wrong
red a
it almost hurt. Confusio
r the arrangement of furniture. No tension or even a flick
d. I could hear my o
ut, with my voice even smal
heard something in the middle of th
pression s
in that wing. Maintenance swapped a few
er that gave
y heart was climbing
he room? Or... did you
ing me now with a quiet kind of at
xed on me now. Those eyes. The way he w
asking about th
stomach twist. It was... Complet
was supposed to look uncomfortable. Or guilty. Or at least throw me one secret glance that said *we
kin again, colder and heavier tha
t wasn't
lept with someone else -A cleaner who happened to be using the bed
I had sl
I was so desperate for someone to actually touch me
mn
e perf
im right now if I leaned close enough. The same dark, sharp co
y moving toward the next set of door
s when
en his tattoos. There was a faint bruise. Finger-shaped. Clear against his s
ped so fast I f
ut in an obviously
ped imm
ck. I needed to know for certain so I tiptoed, closing the small space betwe
pt my face carefully neutral, like I was only adjusting something or brushing lint from hi
ness, my e
lso bruises from two more fingers so I c
fec
k I must have left when I was clutchin
caught in
at the end of the c
, twisting my ankle under m
I could stop it. The room t
arm sh
his hands steadying me, my body fully in
hirt. That same cologne filled my n
lly wa
I looked up at the perso
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