Eric tugged his clothes back on and tapped lightly on the bathroom door. Scarlet had been in there for a while and he didn’t feel like waiting for her to come back out. He’d already gotten everything he wanted from her anyway. Giving her the opportunity to start her babbling again wasn’t an option.
Tomorrow could be a big day; he’d need his rest.
“I’m going to head out, Scarlet.” He paused, a mirthless smile spreading over his lips. “I had fun tonight.” When she didn’t say anything he realized it was time to lay out his cards for her. “I want you to know that I’ll be discrete about this. I would hate for people to think that you sleep with all of your clients to close a deal. Your boss wouldn’t be pleased about that.”
“I’ll uh…I’ll have your copies of the paperwork messengered over to you tomorrow, Mr. Vanderbilt.”
She didn’t want to see him again, Eric realized as he walked down the street towards his hotel. Not that he blamed her. Originally, he had only intended to stay long enough to get off, but the moment her clothes had come off things had changed. Her body was just like Skylar’s.
In retrospect, he understood he’d taken his anger at Skylar out on Scarlet, being rougher with her than he’d ever intended. Instead of a quick lay, he’d practically made her his sexual prisoner in her own bed for hours on end, satisfying himself in ways he was certain were still illegal in half the country. But he had to hand it to her…she’d held her own.
At first.
Scarlet had struggled against him for a while, making him take her even harder. Then she started crying. That didn’t bother him. Women always cried over stupid shit. Eric hadn’t gotten pissed off until she started screaming. The application of pressure at her throat had shut her up quick. After that, she’d been still beneath him, staring off into nothingness. Even when he’d run out of condoms and fucked her in the ass, she hadn’t tried to put up a fight.
It was a beautiful thing, that moment when a whore’s spirit was broken. He barely remembered when it had happened with Cherry…
Eric went straight to bed when he got to his hotel. His dick ached from all the friction. It would do him some good to lay off the women for a while after tonight.
Except for Skylar. Tonight had given him some clarity. Oh, he’d still kill her to make Ramsey suffer, but he was hard again just thinking about what he could do to her.
This new plan was perfect – flawless. First, he’d convince Skylar he’d forgiven her betrayal. Then he’d fuck her in the most depraved ways he could think of. And then he’d kill her with his bare hands.
All while his brother watched, powerless to help her.
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AHhhhhhhhh!!!
Eric is crazy…and I’m getting scared…I don’t want him getting near Skylar, or…anybody!!!
Although I will hand it to you, I am completely fascinated by his evilry!
Quite shocked that Scarlet was left with her life, but I guess he needed her to finish up his real estate transaction….(Always interesting to me that he let Cherry live too…I wonder how he decides who to kill and who lives…or maybe he just goes with the moment…but we know camp girlfriend ended up dead back in the day). Although Scarlet may just be running straight to the hospital/police after what he just put her through…and OH NO he is doing all this using Price’s name…very very bad!!!!
He is not going to get away with his plan!!! Price…or Jackson…or maybe Skylar herself….someone is going to get the better of him…they’ve got to!!!
Maybe she got to live *because* he was using Price’s name. Or maybe he’s just abstaining from killing anyone until he gets to deal with Skyce. If he has a reason for who gets to live and who must die, it could come down to who’s a threat to him. Cherry and Scarlet, not so much. He took what he wanted and moved on.
He’s not? You sure? People don’t always get happy endings in life. No one gets to be safe in this book…except for Trista. (But that’s only because I don’t care about her enough to kill her today.)