Resent, Reject, Regret by Aqua Summers

Chapter 77 Not You! I Don’t Want You!

The man’s eyes blazed at the suggestion, but in the blink of an eye, his hesitation stopped him. “Madame Rouge told me to never take it off, sweetheart…”

“I-It’s… okay… Take it off… K-K-Kiss me…” Deirdre was slurring through a bloody foam. Her voice was quivering, and to the ears of a red-blooded man in flames, it was as if she was mewing in welcome.

She had such a mellifluous voice. A lithe body so fine that her appearance must surely reflect this even if she did not look like a literal goddess.

Besides, the mask was starting to get in his way. How could anyone enjoy this without seeing the face a woman made?

He yanked the mask away from Deirdre’s face without any reservations. “Here comes the sun, princess!”

His gleeful eyes fell upon her visage. The light in the hotel room, dim as it was, hid nothing.

He realized he had been lusting after the face of a freak. Her features, in turn, were seared into his eyes.

control of his balance and crashing down

he had felt was gone. Instead, his blood was boiling with indignance.” What the f*ck?! Is this some kind of twisted f*cking joke?!

I sure as hell would have never slept a wink again for

phone and stormed over to the balcony. Then, his battle with Madam Rouge

it in her hand, balling her fist. Its sharp edges dug into her skin, and she used the pain to inch her way out of bed and crawl toward the door. She opened

The drug was overpowering her until even her self- inflicted pain ebbed and gave away. She lurched with difficulty until, suddenly,

of her was threatening to burst out of her skin and eat

a voice thick

“M-Miss McKinnon?!”

in Sam’s body froze. He dared not move. Hell, he did not even know where

another man with him-a presence so domineering that Deirdre felt him before he spoke. That presence loomed close, its eyes boring straight through her. Brendan was there to see it when it happened. He saw Deirdre bolting out of a hotel room.

after what he had

his extensive web of contacts. He had not slept at all. He had been worried sick about what could have happened to her. What if the world

inside the hotel because it was pouring out there and he needed to get changed. That was when he had seen the same woman whose missing whereabouts had gnawed at his