Today we have author Skye Warren visiting. Welcome!
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* Skye Warren is the New York Times bestselling author of contemporary romance such as the Chicago Underground series. Her books have been featured in Jezebel, Buzzfeed, USA Today Happily Ever After, Glamour, and Elle Magazine. She makes her home in Texas with her loving family, two sweet dogs, and one evil cat.
A look into…
~ Blurb ~
* Safe in the ivory towerβ¦
* Gabriel Miller swears heβll keep me safe. Enemies lurk outside, waiting to strike. An army held back by these walls.
* Except some animal instinct warns me the danger is much closer. Itβs already here. Is Gabriel my protector or my enemy? Is this house a castle or a cage?
* Thereβs nowhere for me to go, no one left for me to trust.
* No escape from a past determined to capture its prize.
~ Excerpt ~
* βStill giving orders, little virgin? Is that something youβre born with in the St. James family, or did they teach you that along with your ABCs?β
* Rage tightens a knot in my stomach. βIβm not a virgin.β
* βNo?β he asks, lifting a hand to my face.
* I stand very still as he captures my chin between his thumb and forefinger, torn between wanting to wrench away and wanting him to kiss me. How can he make me feel alive when Iβve been sleepwalking for months, years? What sick twist of fate let the hands of this man bring me pleasure?
* βYou made sure of that.β I mean the words to come out cold, unhurt. Instead I sound breathless and somehow inviting. The white carpet may as well be streaked with red. Weβre both back in his bedroom, both flushed and sated and ripped to shreds from what heβs just done.
* He lifts my face, almost tender. βI put my cock into your warm little hole. Pushed right through that thin hymen to do it. It felt like fucking heaven to break you open.β
* Iβm a tuning fork in his hands, and the sound I make is pure arousal. βI despise you.β
* βYou were so wet,β he says, almost thoughtful. βBut some of it was blood, wasnβt it?β
* βIβm going to find a way to get my house back.β
* He bends his head slightly, enough that our lips are an inch away, the words a tickle of breath against my lips. βI got off on the slide of your blood on my cock. I came that way, spilling salt into the fresh open wound.β
* Thereβs nothing I wouldnβt do to him, no line I wouldnβt cross in this moment. My anger takes an unholy shape, rearing back with all the fury and fear of a wild horse ready to trample his enemy. βAnd God help me, Iβm going to ruin you. The way you did my father. Iβm going to break you.β
* He nudges my chin higher, exposing the vulnerable line of my throat. His mouth drops to the tender skin, a whisper of a kiss. βDo you want to make me bleed, little virgin?β
* The violence takes me by surprise. My swing is wild, aimed straight for his face with all my strength. He catches my wrist midmotion, the abrupt stop shooting pain down my arm. Weβre frozen that way, him holding me, breathing each otherβs air.
* βDonβt call me that,β I say between clenched teeth.
* βLittle virgin.β
* βIβm not. You saw the proof of it. You paid a million dollars for it.β
* βActually,β he says, voice deceptively mild. βI paid a million dollars to use you for a month. And as that month isnβt over yet, I think Iβd like to collect.β
* Shock courses through me, singeing every angry intention. βNo.β
* βAnd as for your virginity, there are a hundred ways you havenβt been taken. A thousand ways you havenβt been fucked. A million dollars left to earn.β
* βThat moneyβs mine. You sent me away.β
* βAnd yet,β he says, echoing his earlier words, βhere you fucking are. This is what you wanted. This is what you came for. Did you really think youβd see me and walk away without my come inside you?β
* My gasp sounds virginal even to myself. βOf course I did.β
* He uses the hold on my wrist to drag me closer, off balance, almost falling into him. His warmth surrounds me, along with a musk my body remembers. Alarm bells ring more than they did this morning. A strange man could hurt me, but Gabrielβheβs worse. My own kryptonite.
* βHereβs the thing about fucking a virgin,β he whispers, breath a caress on my temple. βYou gave me your pretty little hymen, the small spill of blood. The first feel of those walls squeezing my cock. And thereβs no way to get it back, not ever. No matter who else you fuck. Even if you settle down with some prep-school fucker and let him climb on top of you every single night, Iβll always be your first. You will always be my little virgin.β
* The show of possession does something strange to me. It should be offensive. Itβs meant to be offensive, but the humiliation turns liquid and hot inside my body. And the worst part is, I canβt even deny the truth. He left an imprint inside me. I can still remember the stretch of him, the burn. The very shape of that heavy thickness I can feel against my stomach now. And anyone who comes after him, theyβll never quite fill the space he carved inside of me.
* βThatβs right,β he murmurs, soothing now that Iβve acquiesced. βIβve got you.β
* βNo, we canβtββ
* He releases my wrist only to run a finger along my cheek. βSo young. You look so young like this.β
* βItβs the makeup,β I say with difficulty. And the hair. And the clothes. In a thousand ways I was different before, the society princess. What am I now? Almost homeless. Definitely scared.
* His eyes gentle, more brown than theyβve been before. βYou didnβt think you were getting fucked today. You got dressed and took the bus and came up the elevator having no idea.β
* βDonβt feel sorry for me.β
* A slight smile. βNot enough to stop. Take off those clothes. Letβs see what you look like when youβre just a sweet, innocent college girl and not the toy I bought at auction.β
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