Pink Fluffy Hearts: Diary of a Coffee Addict: Beautiful Dark Seduction

Beautiful dark seduction By Roxas Winters
Published by: Evernight Publishers
Publication date: September 27, 2024
Purchase link: Amazon
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Dark Romance, LGBTQ+, Romance
Summary:

Tomás

I’ve lost everything.

Forced into a prison disguised as a school, I find myself in the crosshairs of more than one killer. My savior? The arrogant prick who wants to control me. Kieran is a nightmare wrapped in a seductive package and when he sets his sights on me, I don’t know whether to fight him or kiss him.

Kieran

I am the eldest villain of one of the four founders of Arcadia University, and I will do anything to see my family fall.

The secrets I have kept hidden behind my heart now threaten to bury me alive with the arrival of Tomás. He consumes my space, my thoughts, my nightmares. I hate him because of the way he makes me feel. This toxic attraction between us forces me to wonder what matters most: revenge, power, love. But Tomas doesn’t fit into my world of lies and violence and I’m not ready to lose everything for a beautiful dark seduction.

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EXTRACT:

Tomás

I shifted in my seat. This was a prison. “Can we leave campus?”

His smile remained. “There may be field trips, teacher-sponsored events, and special accommodations for a release, but that must be approved by your sponsor. Everything you need: convenience stores, clothing stores, restaurants, can all be found on campus.” He looked at Mad Dog.

It took me a moment to understand what he was saying. Mad Dog had the keys to my prison. I shot up. “No way.”

It seemed like Dr. Casera had expected this, which gave me time to process it, but a prison guard was a prison guard. “If you need freedom outside the campus walls, we can make agreements about that. This is not a prison.”

“Nonsense. This is a prison.” I looked at Mad Dog, who didn’t even move.

What are your options? said that bastard’s body language. No skin off his back. I would die here or out there. Choose one.

I walked to the back of the room, walking through the mess in my head. I could try Nick. He’d probably let me hang out with him. I could try Aunt Tita. She was my mother’s eldest sister. She would take me in. I also had uncles. I could go back to family. Any one of them would take me in.

But what then? What if mothers wanted me back? She always knew which buttons to push to get me back. The thought made me tremble.

A chair scraped the floor behind me and I turned to see Maddox standing up. Not Mad Dog as I knew him, but the killer, Maddox Brennan. He stood there, leaning against the arm of his chair and watching me play this stuff out in my head.

I paced back and forth for a few seconds and then stood by the window, looking out over the green grass and trees. I felt trapped. An animal in a cage. A beautiful cage, but a cage. I had been in this position before. A feeling of hopelessness washed over me and I planted my forehead on the cool window. The glass in front of me fogged up as I exhaled, and I made a happy face. I used to draw them on Daniel’s car windows so he could see them all when he was making out with a girl and the car windows were fogged up. He always got angry and chased me around the caravan for it. Shit, it hurt not to have him anymore. It was as if part of me had died too.

Maddox Brennan killed him and then bought me. Even though he didn’t want any sexual favors, he still had control over me. He wanted me to be here, and here I was. Everything was paid for by him – housing, food, books, tutoring. I had nothing that he didn’t give me. I had sold my soul to the man who murdered my family.

And it stung.

Dr. Casera and Mad Dog stood quietly behind me so I could process my things.

‘What would you have done if I killed your brothers?” I asked through the window. I didn’t care that Casera was in the office. Dealing with the mafia, the cartel, whatever, he probably knew everything about everyone.

“I would have killed you,” he said. “Slowly.”

My eyes burned and I closed them. I didn’t want to see my own reflection anymore.