tonight. For the first time since he’d walked through the doors earlier, he was grateful that she’d dismissed the staff.
“Why don’t you go upstairs, Sasha? I’ll join you after I make a few phone calls.” He stood up and started to walk away, wanting to give her a bit of time to slip into something enticing.
“No.”
Damon turned around, his cell phone slipping back into his pocket at the look in her eyes. “No?”
She emphatically shook her head. “No. I won’t go upstairs and wait for you Damon. I’ve been doing that for six years. I’m done waiting for you. I retracted my statement about the divorce only because we can more easily get an annulment and I figured you would want that instead. But either way, I will have my freedom. I have an education, I have my own money now and I will have a life. A life without you, without any more waiting.”
With that, she walked towards the doors of the kitchen, determined to get away from him. She was so hurt and insulted by his comments, by his assumption that she would simply walk upstairs and get naked for him. How dare he ignore her for six years and then show up unexpectedly and think she would just…
She slammed the door to the guest bedroom, furious with him and with herself. Six years! She’d waited and hoped, worried herself sick trying to be the woman he wanted! For six years!
No more!
The door to the bedroom slammed open once again and she spun around, her hand moving to her throat in terror as the man himself walked into the bedroom. His eyes were on fire and she could honestly say that she’d never been more scared in her life.
“First of all, don’t you ever walk out on me again, Sasha. We were discussing something and I don’t like it when you walk away.” He waited for those words to sink in. “Secondly, there will be no annulment. No divorce. You are my wife and you will remain my wife. If you have a problem with me, then we will discuss it.”
His hand moved softly up her arm, noticing the goose bumps his touch left in their wake. “And thirdly, you have pointed out that I have been remiss in consummating this marriage. Rudely remiss and I will fix that error tonight. I suggest you get ready because you will not be spending your nights alone any longer.”
Chapter 3
Sasha could not believe what she was hearing. But as he started to approach, his predatory manner sunk into her furious mind and she backed away. “Stop right there, Damon! We’re not doing this!”
Damon’s eyes raked down her feminine figure, hidden behind the dress that he’d grown to hate. “Oh yes, my beautiful wife, we’re doing this. You want a family, so do I. It is the reason I am here tonight instead of waiting a few more months for Christmas.”
Her eyes widened with that declaration. “Ah! You decide that you want to acknowledge your wife so you just arrive on the doorstep and announce that we’re going to…” She couldn’t finish that sentence, her face flaming with color.
“Have sex?” he offered, still moving closer. “Make love? Are there any other gentle euphemisms that you’d like me to use for the act so that I don’t offend your delicate sensibilities?”
“Stop it!” she snapped at him, her back knocking into the bed. Her eyes darted to the left and right, trying to find an escape. “I don’t want this!”
“I’ll bet I can get you to the point where you want this,” he came right back.
His confidence was more than slightly intimidating, especially since she used to want him. Oh, goodness, how she’d lain in the bed in the master bedroom thinking about all the ways he might make love to her. She’d curled up with pillows, pretending they were him, that she was snuggled up to this man every night instead of sleeping alone in an enormous bed.
“I don’t want you,” she lied.
His eyes had already seen the way her breasts
Skeleton Key, Konstanz Silverbow