A Body Double For His Obsession

e laced with a sarcasm I didn't feel

erimposed over mine in his sick fantasi

ng of her lips that didn't reach her e

p. "You really think a man like Kane Miller would

ils digging into my palms. The pain

"If you want him, you can hav

s a test, a final, desperate plea

sulting than any slur. "You really don't get it, do you? You, who we

ed around my little finger," she purred, her words designed to inflict maximum

face went pale. The memories she dredged up w

family's problems after Coral staged a scene, crying about how I' d bullied her. I remembered the servants whispering, their loyalty shifting to the

at pain. But it was right

wanted," I said, my v

inally dropping. "It will never be enough until I have t

d it anymore. I

from me!" her voice r

could close, she lunged forward, grabbing my

ed. She slapped her own face, hard. A

triumphant, wicked

own the hall. Fast

e had used this same trick to get me kicked out of my own home. My fa

ldn't explain. I

ervice tray. My mind went blank with

shrieked, her eyes wide with

the floor next to her, shatte

va

not to me, but to Coral. He pulled her behind him,

asked her, his voic

my heart a lump of ice in my chest. It

Kane commanded, his

straight in t

rned to ice

suits appeared instantl

out as I fell, my knees landing directly on the

aste of blood filling my mouth. The dark fabric of

of all emotion. "She hi

maybe she didn't mean it..." she began,

re I could react, he forced her to slap me acro

back, hiding in his arms

r. It was a look of profound tenderness and

He knew. He had to know Coral

repeated, his

jaw clenched, my eyes b

urt nod to

her, and another. My ears were ringing, my vision blurring. The world was a vorte

e back of my head. Someone had smashed wha

s took me was Coral's face, her lips cu