Desperate Measures (Wicked Villains Book 1) by Katee Robert EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Authors: Katee Robert
- Language: English
- Genre: Romantic Suspense
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J A S M I N E
Even if I’d been sleeping, the creak of my bedroom door would
have startled me into awareness. No one comes into my room at
night. Not my father. Certainly none of the men he insists on
keeping in our house. Not even the ghost of my poor dead mother dares
wander theses halls after hours.
It simply isn’t done.
And yet.
My feet ache from hours’ worth of pacing, my chest aches worse from
the heart pain my father delivered earlier. Another betrayal after a lifetime
of them shouldn’t be enough to keep sleep from me, but this most recent
hurt weighs heavier than most.
He sold me.
Oh, he didn’t call it as such. He called it a merger secured by marriage.
A meeting of two wealthy families with ties to the criminal underbelly
everyone in this mausoleum of a house pretends doesn’t exist. I touch my
face, the most persistent of my pains, the only one anchored in the physical
instead of emotional. When I’d asked him what price his daughter brought,
he’d struck me.
My mouth always had gotten me into trouble.
I slip into the deep shadows near my vanity as a man steps through the
doorway and into my room. I can’t make out his features in the low light,
but it doesn’t matter. He shouldn’t be here. Perhaps my father thinks to send
my betrothed to ensure I won’t protest the marriage.
He’ll get what he deserves.
I barely dare to breathe and reach for the letter opener I’d left on my
vanity. It is sharp and pretty, and it will serve my purpose as well as
anything else.
The man moves on soundless feet toward my bed. If I need further
evidence of his intention, I have it. He is no innocent, wandering into the
wrong room—though nothing like that had ever happened before. He is
here for me.
I will not go quietly.
I wait until he is several steps past me before I lunge. He’s too tall for
me to reliably reach his neck from behind, so I go with the next best option.
His sharp inhale and perfect stillness are his only response to the sharp
blade pressing against the groin of his slacks. “Good evening, Jasmine.”
I freeze. I know that cultured voice, have heard it in both dream and
nightmares for the last five years. This man isn’t my betrothed, the sword
that’s hung over my neck since my father’s proclamation. No, he is far
worse.
Jafar, my father’s second-in-command.
I catch myself before I relent. If Jafar hadn’t signed the contract himself,
he was at least party to it, the trading of my body and soul as they trade in
so many other unmentionable commodities.
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