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Chapter 18: Stop fighting what you want, Lyra
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Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 298: Something strange with the Solare silks
But the dye, the thread, the too-perfect twist. They all pointed the same way.Pezzo 14 was not eighteenth-century Venetian silk.It was a copy. A very good one. Someone had spent a great deal of money and a great deal of skill making it."Lyra?"She realized she had been standing perfectly still for several seconds.She switched off the lamp. The overheads came back up, bright and white. She set the UV lamp down on the table with great care. Her hands were steady. She was proud of that.Victoria was standing at the other side of the table with her gloved hands folded in front of her and a small, polite, questioning look on her face."Is something wrong?" she asked.Lyra's mind moved very fast, and very coldly.She had no proof. A glow under UV light was a flag, not a verdict. Modern conservation work sometimes introduced synthetic dyes in restoration, and the thread could be a replacement. A lab would have to confirm it. Spectroscopy, fiber analysis, a carbon-dating sample.And she h
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 297: Do you have family here in Rome?
The second was a damask in a pale gold that had faded to the color of dry grass. Again she worked slowly, checking the weave, the selvedge, the hand of the thread, the way old silk crackled faintly when she touched it. It was beautiful. It was exactly what the label said.She was halfway through the notes when the door opened."I hope I'm not interrupting."Victoria stood in the doorway in a camel coat with a white paper bag in one hand. She wore her dark hair in a low knot and her makeup was light and perfect. She looked, as she always did, as if she had arrived early and been waiting for the room to catch up."Not at all," Lyra said. "Please, come in. You'll need gloves.""Of course." Victoria crossed to the table and took the pair Lyra held out. "I brought cornetti. I didn't know whether you'd eaten. The place on Via dei Coronari still does them with the apricot jam.""That's kind.""It's selfish, really." Victoria set the bag on the side counter, well away from the textiles. "I've
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 296: THE SILKS
They went to work together on Monday morning, and for the first time, Lyra didn't ask Marcus to let her out a block early.She noticed the omission halfway through the drive, when the car turned onto the street where Stella Design House stood and she realized she hadn't been planning her exit. She had been sitting with her hand resting on the seat between them, and Damien's hand had covered it somewhere around the second traffic light, and neither of them had mentioned it."You're quiet," he said."I'm thinking about the Voltish files.""You're thinking about the lobby."She turned her head. He was looking out the window, his expression perfectly bland, and the corner of his mouth had lifted a fraction."I might be thinking about the lobby," she admitted."Hannah will be at the desk. She's always at the desk at eight forty.""Hannah is in finance.""Hannah," Damien said, "is in everything."Lyra laughed. It surprised her how easily it came. After the weekend they'd had, the fight in t
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 295: I want to go home
A reluctant, wet laugh escaped her. She pressed her fingers to her eyes."I forgive you," she said. "I do. But I need you to hear this, and I need you not to say anything clever.""I'm listening.""Don't ever decide what I can handle." She met his eyes. "Not to protect me. Not even if you're right. If something is happening to me, I want to know it, and I want to know it from you. I would rather be frightened and informed than safe and lied to. I have been the last to know for my entire life, and I won't be that with you."She watched it land.Something moved behind his eyes, brief and complicated, a flicker she couldn't read. It might have been guilt. It might have been the tail end of exhaustion. It was gone almost before she saw it."I understand," he said."Say it.""I won't decide for you."There was the faintest pause before decide, a half-second hitch, barely there. She noticed it and, because she was tired and wrung out and had just cried over a photograph, she put it down to
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 294: You were in New York
She reached for the photograph again and held it up to the light, smiling through the tears. The thin line of the horizon in her own handwriting was still visible at the edge of the sketchbook, a half-finished skirt, a pair of shoulders. She studied the edge of the envelope, the careful tuck of the flap, the blue ink.And then she stopped.The envelope had no stamp.It had no postmark, no courier slip, no customs mark, nothing. It was a clean cream rectangle with her name on it and nothing else. Nothing had carried it across an ocean. Nobody had put it in a mailbox.Someone had put it into a hand.The kitchen was very quiet.She became aware of several small things at once. The faint sound of the refrigerator. The way Damien's arm had gone still around her shoulders. The fact that the paper in her hand, when she lifted it to her face to wipe her cheek, smelled faintly of something dry and floral and clean.Lavender.Her stomach dropped."This wasn't mailed," she said."No.""She gave
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 293: A Letter From Mom
She turned over. The other side of the bed was empty, but the sheet was still warm. Sunlight came through a gap in the curtains and lay across the pillows in a long gold bar. By the angle of it, the morning was almost gone.She found one of his shirts on the chair, pulled it on, and followed the smell down the hall.He was in the kitchen in gray sweatpants and a white T-shirt, barefoot, with his back to her. He was cracking eggs into a bowl one-handed, the way she'd seen him do it once before, in what felt like another life. His hair was damp from a shower. A plate of toast sat on the island next to two mugs."You're up," he said without turning."How did you know?""You walk like you're apologizing to the floor." He glanced over his shoulder, and the corner of his mouth moved. "Sit. Eat."She sat. The stool was cold under her bare thighs, and she shifted and felt the soreness and blushed."Did you sleep?" she asked."Some.""Some like an hour?""Some like enough." He slid a plate in
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 6: Oh God Damien!
Lyra set her phone down with shaking hands and stood up.Her legs felt weak, her body hypersensitive. Every movement of fabric against her skin made her gasp.She walked to the full-length mirror in her room and looked at herself.Her hair was disheveled from the flight and the stress. Her face was
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 5: What If He Doesn't Want Me?
Lyra stared at her phone screen, her heart still racing from the encounter in the hallway.DarkVeil: Welcome home, little one. Did you miss me?Her fingers trembled as she typed back.LyraNight: How did you know I got to New York? I didn't tell you I was flying home.The three dots appeared immedia
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 4: Did you miss me?
"The Mercers. They were good people. Are good people." Karla's eyes filled with fresh tears. "They passed away six months ago. Car accident. That's when I did the DNA test. I had no one left and I just... I needed to know if there was anyone out there who shared my blood."Isabelle made a soft soun
Pleasured By My Elder Brother Chapter 1: The Anonymous Friend
Lyra's fingers trembled as she typed, the blue glow of her phone the only light in her darkened bedroom.LyraNight: I thought about him again today. God, I'm so fucked up.She held her breath, waiting. The three dots appeared almost immediately....her anonymous stranger always responded, no matter
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