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“I’m going to fuck you so hard, you won’t be able to move, Lia, and when you do, you’ll only feel me inside you.”
“And you never will at the hands of anyone else. From now on, you’ll forget about any bastard who touched you in the past.”
“You called me a disaster, but this is the true disaster, Lia. You and me.”
“You asked when I’d be done. The answer is never. I’ll never be done with you, Lenochka.”
He’s a killer, Lia. A fucking killer. I wait for the disgust to invade me at that reminder. I wait to feel nausea at allowing a murderer to touch me so intimately. Yet nothing comes. Am I that broken?
“Too late.” He stares at me with those unnerving eyes. “I already claimed you as mine and there’s no going back.”
“You seem to have some misconceptions, so understand this, Lia. Whether I leave or stay is only up to me. You don’t get a say in it, never have and never will.”
“Is she your fiancée?” “Whether she is or isn’t doesn’t concern you.” “Of course it concerns me! I will not be the other woman!”
“You are whatever the fuck I say you are.”
“No…no, Adrian. Don’t…” “Don’t what?” “Don’t put me there.” “Put you where?” “In this damn position.”
“I’m not your whore.” “I own your cunt, Lia. I own you. Titles don’t matter.” “It matters to me!” “Why? You think if you’re my whore, you’ll want me any less? You’ll open your l...
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My vision reddens, but it’s not with the need to hurt her for hitting me. It’s for the reminder of what being hit means. My fucking mother.
Lia isn’t the other woman. She’s the woman. And I’m not my fucking father.
“Do you need anything, miss?” “Yes, leave me alone.” His expression doesn’t change. “I can’t.” “Why the hell not?” “Boss’s orders.” “Tell your boss to go fuck himself.” “I’m afraid I can’t, but you tell him yourself if you like.”
“If you use violence against him, you’ll be met with violence. I don’t have to tell you who will win in that case.”
“I never said that. Just…be smart about it, miss. That’s the only way you can get anything from him. Boss is a practical man, and while he might seem robotic at times, he weighs everything and will always choose logic above anything else.”
“Scars mean you are alive and strong enough to survive.”
“I’ll worship each of your scars until you’re able to face them, Lenochka.”
I slowly close my eyes, my grip tightening on her hand before I release it and let it rest on the bed. The thought of losing her brings an ache I thought I’d never feel again after Aunt Annika’s death.
I meant it when I said that I don’t believe in justice, but I do believe in an eye for an eye. Blood for fucking blood.
“What…what do you want from me?”
“I didn’t do anything.”
“Yes, you did, Ryan. I should’ve killed you that night at the club. A mistake I will not repeat again.”
“Then you decided not to catch her at the last second.”
“Did you think I wouldn’t know? I saw the sadism in your eyes when you decided you wouldn’t catch her.”
The bridge I thought was ruined has been slowly building since that day. It might have something to do with his attentiveness or silent support, but he’s become a pillar in my life. He distracts me from my head and every vile emotion that comes with it.
He’s cold to the world, but not to me.
“You are my wife, Mrs. Volkov, and I will whip and fuck that fact into your body until you act like it.”
When I asked him how the hell he gets along with Adrian and Kolya, he said he doesn’t most of the time and that they’re too ‘stoic’ for their own good. Then he asked me not to repeat that in front of his boss if his life means anything to me.
A sob tears from my throat, because I know, I just know that I lost a part of Adrian tonight. The part I fell in love with.
“Understand this, Lia. I might not hurt you, might not fucking kill you, even though you deserve it, but I’ll find that bastard, and when I do, I’ll fuck you in front of him before I slice his fucking throat. Then I’ll fuck you again in the pool of his blood.” I release her neck and she sucks in deep breaths, tears sliding down her cheeks. “Protect him while you can.”
