To Cherish and To Hold (Love of a Rockstar #1.5) (17 page)

“You don’t drink?” I asked.

“No,” she said shortly.

A story lived behind that curt tone but I wasn’t here to find out what broke her; I was here to fuck her. Setting the bottle back behind the bar, my gaze zeroed in on the strip of creamy white skin between where her boots ended and her skirt began. Aware of my attention, she blatantly shifted in her seat. A flash of lacy black underwear caused my dick to twitch. Tiffany’s gaze hooded with lust while her tongue provocatively traced her top lip.

“Do you want to get out of here?” I questioned.

The answer blatantly obvious, I stood and held out my hand. Once her palm fitted against mine, the deal was sealed. I’d won, which like always wasn’t very hard. The day it did become hard would be the day I knew I’d met my match. Throwing a couple of twenties onto the counter, Tiffany and I strolled out of the bar into the warm late afternoon air.

My gaze flittered to her boots. “Do you mind walking? My apartment is two blocks away.”

“That’s fine.”

I lived in the penthouse at the Four Seasons Hotel in Downtown Seattle. Most of the other apartments were vacant due to the high price tag and seediness of the area. I didn’t mind a little grit though. It added color. We rode the elevator to the fourteenth floor. The doors slid open, revealing the unobscured wall-to-wall windows and the 360-degree view of the sound.

Tiffany gasped. “This is amazing.” She spun around in a circle. “I can’t believe you call this place home.”

“Believe it.”

My drunken state hovered a notch below wasted. If it dropped any further, the rose colored glasses would get thrown off and I wouldn’t be able to get what I needed. A refuge from my sins. Advancing toward her, I came up from behind and slid Tiffany’s hair to one side. It felt brittle underneath my fingertips. Pressing my lips to her bare neck, she moaned. The rest was like paint by numbers. A caress there, a gentle nip there until we both reached orgasm on the hardwood floors. While the act had become mundane, it was the price I had to pay for not saving the beauty in the red dress four years ago. Whose innocence was stolen in front of my very eyes. Her inner glow dimming to a flicker before it faded to black, and based upon our chance meeting again, it hadn’t returned. Her soul was as empty as mine.

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