And then what?
When it’s over and you’re spent, after you’ve spilled yourself into her, what then? In the end, you know that she is little more than a whore, like Lauren and the others. A seductress sent here to test your faith.
Fists clenching, he tried to force the image of Julia’s naked body, one he had not yet seen, out of his mind. But the demons inside him, the insatiable sexual appetite that consumed him, could not be quieted.
Julia Farentino was not the only one who filled his mind and caused the sheets on his bed to be sweat-soaked and wrinkled.
And what about the Stillman girl? Shaylee? His mind was ruthless with its cruel reminders of his weakness. Wasn’t she the “one” you chose to join the others? Isn’t her thick, dark hair a turn-on? Don’t you see it splayed beneath you? And those eyes, greenish gray, don’t you imagine them rounding in surprise, her pupils dilating as you hold her down and drive into her? Don’t you imagine her tongue licking your body everywhere? Isn’t she, too, seductively tempting?
He frowned slightly, the two women melding in his mind, becoming one, arms and legs surrounding him. He fantasized about having them both at the same time, almost heard their combined wails of pleasure and pain in the song of the icy wind.
Don’t tread there.
Remember what they are, those two who look so much alike.
Distractions.
Tests of your will.
Nothing more.
Do not waver.
For they are dangerous, just as Lauren was.
He squeezed his eyes shut as he remembered her.
Lauren Conway.
A demon disguised as an angel.
God, he’d been a fool. A damned fool.
For a woman.
A classic mistake.
And stupid.
Hadn’t he too, been played for a fool by another man’s wife? And yet, he had let down his guard again.
Not that she had been any woman, Lauren Conway. Oh, no.
She’d been a beautiful girl just on the threshold of womanhood, or so he’d thought. But, of course, he’d been wrong. Her treachery had been so disguised in innocence he’d come to trust her.
Completely.
Madly.
Stupidly.
He’d allowed her into his inner circle.
For all the wrong reasons.
Mainly because of his ego.
And because he’d wanted to sleep with her.