one. You don’t care about any of them. You just want to take what you need from them. If one turns your down, you simply move onto the next.” She raised a hand and poked her finger hard into his chest. “You are little more than a parasite, a greedy little blood sucker, preying on women, aren’t you Damien?”
Her tone, the look in her eyes and her words only served to piss him off. Ok, she was right but no one liked being hit over the head by the truth, and she’d just done that. He was pretty confident that she had seen him with Chloe, but why she was fucking about, playing with her words rather than just coming out with it and telling it like it was, he had no idea. Was she going to toy with him? Use this against him in some way? He couldn’t risk exposure; Fabian would kill him and he wasn’t going to be an instrument of torment for the hot little pole dancer either.
He raised his hands and cupped her cheeks in his palms, staring deep into those green eyes that were so similar to his. “I don’t know what your problem is but I think you should just forget about this conversation and everything about this evening since I arrived.” He said, fixing his gaze on hers, willing her mind to his.
She stared at him for what felt like ages although it was only moments, but finally she turned from him and the intensity of the moment was lost. “Just fuck off and go home Damien. Your presence is not required here and I think you’ve done more than enough for one night.” She said.
Damien fought to keep his expression neutral. Fuck there was something about her. She wasn’t entirely human because he couldn’t mind control her. This was a potential disaster. Fabian would kill him if she mentioned to anyone what she’d seen tonight.
“What do you want from me?” He whispered but all she did was snort at him, her expression filled with disgust as she stared at him.
“I just want you to fuck off out of here and leave Cassie, Chloe and myself the hell alone.” She said softly and he had enough sense at this point to realise it was late, she looked drained so this was not going to be the time to question her, to find out what her intentions were. He needed to do what she was telling him to do before he pissed her off even more. He needed to get the fuck out of this house now.
“This isn’t over.” He warned, his eyes moving over her beautiful face and hair one more time. He turned away and walked to the front door. Quietly he let himself out of the house, never turning back, climbed into his car and headed for home, his mind in turmoil over what was going to happen now.
Chapter Four
Flame
When I heard Damien drive off, I sagged back against the wall still in shock, my mind going a million miles an hour as I tried to process what I’d seen earlier. I’d finally calmed down and decided hanging out in my room was a bit childish. I’d pulled my big girl panties up so to speak; come downstairs again, only to notice Cassie sitting alone.
As soon as I looked at her, I could see something was wrong. She looked like she’d done every drug known to mankind and had taken ‘just chillin’ to a whole new level. That girl had been completely out of it. No matter how many times I’d waved my hands in her face, shaken her and fuck it, I’d even slapped her once, nothing, zilch, nada, she was gone, mentally she’d done an Elvis Presley on me, she’d left the building.
Just when I was beginning to wonder what was wrong with her, what had happened and what the hell was going on, I’d heard a noise which sounded suspiciously like a moan. It seemed like it was coming from down the hallway so I headed that way thinking it might have been Chloe in the powder room. Maybe she’d dissolved into a complete emotional meltdown over the movie and was crying her eyes out in the toilet, or she’d over indulged on the spicy food again and was paying the price with an upset stomach.
I’d headed that way and
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