He pressed his lips together.
Except this was not an average crime scene. He had her naked, helpless, and alone.
The room was dominated by this massive elephant of a table that you’d need a lorry or four men to shift. The floor beneath was stained where the stone tiles met. Sherlock knelt and scraped a dark red substance from the grout into a bottle and stoppered it. If human blood, the Uhlenhuth Test would detect it.
On the table between her spread legs was a large wooden dildo and for a second he was angry—at the men and what they must have contemplated doing to her, and at himself for how tempted he was. He moved on.
The small, round table held a tray with a hypodermic syringe and a vial. He paused to read the label, check the level of fluid, and to collect himself. The languid rise and fall of her breasts said she was under the influence of the drug, as did the bleb of blood at her inner elbow. With the blindfold on, she couldn’t know how intently he stared, nevertheless this was a beginning, and he refused to begin in any way except perfection.
With a gentle touch, he rolled down the blindfold, enough to let him lift an eyelid and see her pupil. It was constricted more than normal considering her eyes had been covered. He loosened the cloth, slid it aside, and still she barely stirred.
A chair waited in a shadowed corner. He carried it closer, beneath the dangling electric light then untied both her feet but left her hands bound. It should not take long for her to rouse. Already she moved, showing signs the sedation was lessening. In that respect, her laudanum habit was to her advantage.
The edge of the table was cool under his palms as he leaned over her body.
Such lush beauty. The swell of her breasts and sweep of her hips and waist stirred him carnally.
He would not touch her.
He would not.
CLOCKWORK STALKER on AMAZON
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Recent releases
CLOCKWORK STALKER – a dark, twisted, Sherlock Holmes and Miss Moriarty romance
THE PRINCESS TIED – a fantasy romance. Inspired by The Princess Bride
RULED – Dark Sci-fi romance
BEAST HORDE TRILOGY BOXSET
Pierced Hearts Series – contemporary BDSM and dubcon/ noncon series
TAKE ME, BREAK ME
KLAUS – A NOVELLA
BIND AND KEEP ME
MAKE ME YOURS EVERMORE
SEIZE ME FROM DARKNESS
YIELD
THE COMPLETE PIERCED HEARTS BOXSET – all six books in one volume
Dark Hearts Trilogy – dark romances. Contemporary BDSM and dubcon/ noncon series
WICKED WAYS
WICKED WEAPON
WICKED HUNT
DARK HEARTS BOXSET – contains Wicked Ways, Wicked Weapon, Wicked Hunt
WOLFE – a spin-off novel from the Dark Hearts trilogy
USED – an erotic horror spinoff from Dark Hearts (not a romance!)
MESMER – a dark romance cowritten with Jennifer Bene and based on my Dark Hearts series
Dark Monster Fantasy Series
PREY
STEEL
BLADE
DARK MONSTER FANTASY BOXSET – pansy-dark scifi romances
Preyfinders Series (alien invasion scifi)
PRECIOUS SACRIFICE
INTIMIDATOR
DEFILER
PREYFINDERS: THE TRILOGY BOXSET
The Machinery of Desire Series – dystopian slaveworld series with kink and dubcon/ noncon
ACQUIRED POSSESSION
CLAIMED POSSESSION
FATED POSSESSION – a novella first published in the alien alphas boxset
BRANDED POSSESSION
EXQUISITE POSSESSION
MACHINERY OF DESIRE – THE COMPLETE BOXSET
The Steamwork Chronicles Series
Iron Dominance
Lust Plague
Steel Dominance
THE STEAMWORK CHRONICLES BOXSET – all three books in one volume
The Beast Horde Trilogy – dystopian sci-fi warrior romance
VARGR
RUTGER
CYN
BEAST HORDE TRILOGY BOXSET
Squirm Files Series – tentacle sex spoofs of erotic romance and monster stories
SQUIRM
STRUM
THE WELL-HUNG GUN
SQUIRM FILES SERIES BOXSET
CATACLYSM BLUES
(A free kinky scifi novella)
Others
ROUGH SURRENDER – a BDSM-themed, historical romance set in Cairo in 1910
MY ROMANCE CURSE (erotic romcom)
SANTA WITH A K – A Naughty Xmas Fairy Tale
31 FLAVORS OF KINK (based on a true story)
THREE DAYS OF DOMINANCE
NIGHTMARE RISING – a dark contemporary paranormal story cowritten with Nicolette Hugo
Magience series – epic fantasy
MAGIENCE
NEEDLE RAIN
The Badass Brats Series (contemporary BDSM romances with Mff)
THE DOM WITH A SAFEWORD
THE DOM ON THE NAUGHTY LIST
THE DOM WITH THE PERFECT BRATS
THE DOM WITH THE CLEVER TONGUE
Acknowledgements & Copyright
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2020 Cari Silverwood
Editor: Nerine Dorman
Cover Artist: Cari Silverwood
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
An eternal thank you to my beta readers Emma Rose, Janine Peta, and Louise Hallet.