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Once they reached the tent, she could feel her heart in her throat, her whole body feeling a little breathless at what she was about to enter. The whole thing was starting to feel so real, as if this man next to her truly was the husband who was taking her out on their first date, or the second one if she was to think about all the time they had spent together in the past.He held the flap open for her. “After you, my darling,” he said as his lips stretched wider.Elena stared at him, almost too tempted to roll her eyes, but the warmth and the playfulness in his eyes did things to her insides that were far more…wrong.She swallowed before she took a deep breath and walked in.But then, she stopped again.A million words tried to form in her head but somehow they all disappeared in a matter of seconds and her eyes stung with the most unfamiliar of feelings, her whole body frozen in place.Inside the tent, the floor was covered by a thick mat of rose petals and there was a circular table
That did it.Whatever patience she had been trying to keep with this man, whatever anger she had been trying so hard to suppress deep inside her, burst out like a raging volcano.Elena stood with a jolt, and before he knew what was happening, she grabbed her glass of wine and splashed it all over him, feeling her chest heaving and her whole body trembling with so much rage that she was unable to form words to respond to him.The red wine dripped off his face before seeping into his clothes, soaking the entire front of his suit. Simon’s eyes were filled with disbelief before they were replaced with anger as his lips pursed together.Elena leaned forward, grabbing hold of his tux and bringing him close. She could hear the wine dripping to the ground, but she couldn’t bring herself to care.“If you think I’m ever going to let you touch me again, you must be out of your mind.”With a shove, she released his collar and started to walk away from the tent, knowing that she wasn’t going to be
Simon was still.But Elena was breathing hard and the sound of her heart beating was loud against her own ears. She felt him move but she couldn’t take her eyes away from his face as she watched his fingers rub the reddened area on his cheek, where her palm had just met with his skin.It felt good to have some satisfaction but then she was filled with another feeling.Dread.He was looking at her as if he had murder in mind.Something inside her told her to run, to get away from him before something worse happened.But She couldn’t. Her feet were as if nailed to the sand, sunk so deep she couldn’t get them out, not in time, at least.She opened her mouth to say something, not really sure what she could possibly say to him to calm the storm in his eyes. But before she could even blink, he grabbed her by the nape and yanked her towards him, his lips slamming down on hers in a kiss so harsh and filled with anger that she couldn’t find a way out of it, no matter how hard she tried.His arm
Betty Adams sat next to her boss’s older brother—the brother who hadn’t batted an eye since the night of the accident—and wondered what the hell she was supposed to do.Two days had passed, and she had heard nothing from Elena Matthews. Which, if one thought about it, was kind of strange. At least, according to Betty, it was. Since the day Madam Matthews took over the business, she rarely ever disappeared like that.In fact, now that she thought about it, she never—and she meant NEVER—disappeared in the first place. Which, again, was so odd for her boss to do now that everything had started to go back to normal.“Are you sure she left a note?” she asked, for the tenth time maybe?Anyway, not that it mattered. Her boss had never been the careless type. Elena Matthews might not have known what she was doing when she took over the business two years ago—I mean, who did? Her father had done his best to keep her out of the family business, and she had no reason to even think of the word “bu
Elena woke up the next morning to the soft brush of fingers across her forehead. She opened her eyes, which strangely felt heavier than ever, and was met with the familiar pair of shaded eyes belonging to the man who was the reason for her deep bone exhaustion.Her heart ached at the sight of Simon. She didn’t know why, but this fist-sized ball of emotions inside her always got bigger and heavier whenever he was close.“How are you feeling, little bird?” The words that left his mouth were gentle, but she knew they were fake. There was nothing gentle in the way he looked at her, not with those dark eyes that seemed to want to devour her whole. Or maybe that’s what she forced herself to see because knowing anything else would only complicate matters for her.And there was simply no need for any more complications than there already were between them. She just wanted this to be over—for them to be over.“You gave me quite a scare there,” Simon said, but his words were slow, and it was the
Elena thought a lot about what Simon had said. She thought about it while getting out of bed. She thought about it while deciding she needed a cold shower. She thought about it even when she told herself not to waste her time thinking about it.But no matter how much she told herself there was nothing to be done unless Simon and she reached some kind of understanding (which seemed almost impossible considering how they both wanted two different things and neither of them was ready to relent even a bit), her mind continued to obsess over what he said that morning.“I’m crazy for you,” she could still hear his words ringing in her head. “Crazy enough to do stupid things, crazy enough to bring my world to your feet.”Elena shook her head and tried to dispel the impact of his words. She tried really hard not to let them sink into her mind and plant seeds of hope and expectation. But no matter how hard she tried to think otherwise, to make her heart not beat the way it was, she simply could
There were days when Elena knew where her life was heading, and then there were days like these when she hadn’t got a single fucking clue.One minute, the man does everything in his might to cut her off from the real world and then he brings the one person who has become her entire world as if it’s no big deal. For the life of her, she failed to understand this man—this Simon Walsh.Why was he the way he was? What was he hoping to get from confusing the hell out of her? Sure, seeing Caleb had been the best thing that happened to her in the last few days, but…but what was she supposed to do now that he had given up on that one thing he could have used against her and made her do anything he wished her to do?Of course, her next line of thought was to find a way and get the hell out of this place, but even that was absolutely impossible right now, considering since the day she woke up she hadn’t seen many people around. There was staff that helped to take care of the mansion, and then th
Confused, she turned around and watched him walk over to the small mini bar he had in the corner of the room and poured a hefty glass of water.“Here,” he pushed the glass across the counter, as if inviting her to join him.Should she? Was it safe?She shook her head. Of course, it was safe. It was merely a glass of water, and he had poured it right in front of her eyes. Not to forget her throat did feel dry like a fucking desert.She took the water and gulped it down, wary of his presence still.To know that he was close did something to her skin. It prickled.“I should go now,” she started to leave when he reached for her wrist and held tight.“You were looking for me, weren’t you?”Strange, but he wasn’t wrong. She was looking for him. She had something to discuss.For the life of her, however, she couldn’t remember shit. Perhaps she was still a little shocked by the possibility of a fatal fall. She needed to moment, clearly, to be back herself again.“No?” she lied, but who cared?