Page 50 of Blind Sin

I wait a few seconds for her footsteps to recede. I finally stand up and make my way to the pool. As I approach, I can hear laughter and splashing. Lucy is playing with the guys and for a moment, I feel a pang of jealousy. Everything feels so heavy and complicated. This is what I’ve wanted since we got here, for Lucy to like these men, but I never anticipated all the emotions that would bring. Lucy is the sexiest woman in the world. I’ve heard it enough on the TV. There was a time, earlier on in the year that she was on all the channels. She was promoting her upcoming movie and everyone was speculating how long it would be before Matt Deniver popped the question. It always gave me a thrill that I looked exactly the same as the sexiest woman alive, but the thrill was short lived. Lauren has so many qualities that I don’t. It’s not just her face and body that make her sexy, but her poise and elegance and confidence, none of which I possess. I’m just the beautiful timid girl that’s spent her life locked away from everyone.

I stand at the edge of the pool, listening to them for a few minutes before Lucy notices me. “Hey, there you are!” she says, swimming over to me. “You okay?”

“Yeah, I’m fine,” I lie. I’m not fine. I don’t want to be that timid little girl anymore.

I barely get the words out before there’s a huge splash and I’m drenched.

“Nolan,” Lucy warns. “At least let her get her sandals off before drowning her.”

I step out of my sandals and untie my sarong. Taking a deep breath and with my heart pounding in my ears, I dive bomb into the pool near to where I heard Nolan.

I push my feet to the pool floor and swim to the surface. I did it! I jumped in the pool and swam to the surface without help. A wave of excited pride fills me as Nolan grabs me.

“That wasn’t called for,” he admonishes, his hand around my waist.

I lean into him when I’m sure Lucy isn’t in earshot.”You fucked me with a vegetable and tried to serve it to my sister. I assure you, it was totally called for. You’re lucky I didn’t drown you!”

“You wouldn’t dare!”

I press my hands to the top of his head and push down. “Hey Lucinda, your sister is trying to drown me,” he manages before I successfully submerge him.

“Good,” Lucy calls out. “I could do with some peace and quiet round here.”

“Bagsy your room if you die,” Alexander shouts.

33

MERCIER

Ican’t keep still. Lucinda and Josh decided bang on the boat under the pretense of going to the mainland. They aren’t due back for hours, but without them keeping a watchful eye over the three of us, I’m ready for some mischief. I’ve spent the day cooking, trekked round the island twice and I’m bored... and horny. I look up to where Dacre is tapping away on his laptop on the loveseat. He’s been typing furiously since this morning and barely looked up. “Where’s Sinful?”

“I dunno,” he mumbles. “She said she was going for a walk on the beach.”

I peer through the window. I don’t see her, but the beach wraps right around the front of the house. “I can’t do this!” I stand up and clap my hands to my knees.

Dacre throws me a dark look. “Whatever it is you are thinking about doing, sit down and don’t do it. You heard what Lucinda said this morning.”

“She asked us to take care of Lauren. That’s exactly what I plan on doing.”

“That’s not what she meant. Just because she’s lightened up since she’s started fucking Nix doesn’t mean she’ll take kindly to us doing the same with her sister.”

I don’t know that the two of them are actually fucking, but it’s a good assumption to make seeing as Nix has had a sudden personality change. Not that he stayed at the pool with us last night and as far as I’m aware, he’s still staying in the servant’s quarters, but I can’t imagine why else he’d agree to go to the mainland with Lucinda if he didn’t plan on fucking her in every position on the boat. Dacre will fucking murder him if he ends up having to deep-clean his cum out of the upholstery and that’s probably what’s currently putting a stick up his ass.

“Aren’t you sick of playing hide and seek with her? You fucked her. Don’t you want that again?” Of course he does.

He glances up from his computer. “We’re beginning to get complacent. Last night at dinner was so easy and then in the pool afterwards…” he trails off. I know what he’s trying to say. It seemed as if Sinful genuinely belonged with us.

“Maybe Lucinda changed her mind. Last night, she couldn’t stop smiling. If she is fucking Nix, then why shouldn’t Lauren have some fun, too?”

Dacre rolls his eyes and huffs out a breath. “I know you are itching to get your dick wet, Mercier, but fucking Lauren was a mistake.”

“Is that all I am to you? A mistake?”

Both of us sweep our eyes to the doorway where Lauren stands silhouetted against the sunset. The white dress she’s wearing shows her perfect figure. She looks like a Greek goddess.

I salivate at the sight of her as she leans against the door frame. Lucinda might be right in some respects. Sinful has very little experience, but she was born to seduce.

I give Dacre a pointed look. He’s always been the one to maintain his composure in situations, but he’d have to be the blind one to not want our girl, especially looking the way she does now.

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