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“Don’t you dare fucking do that again, understood?”
“What happened to what you said? The part about how I don’t deserve for you to sacrifice yourself for me or anyone else?”
Then, when I give her back her life, I’ll pay whatever price Asher wants of me.
“Because I own you, my ugly monster.”
Me Are you there? His reply is immediate. Cloud003 For you, always.
Sure, I could’ve called Jace, but this anonymity gives me a lot of courage.
Arianna’s death. Oh my God—Arianna died the same way, and I just repeated the scene in front of him. In my mind, I thought he wouldn’t care, but that look he gave me was the complete opposite of not caring.
He was on the verge of himself.
Why are you asking me? I don’t appreciate you talking about other men, my slut.
Asher is still one of the villains in my story—if not the most dangerous.
“What were you doing?” His question drifts like smoke without fire, impenetrable and asphyxiating. “Nothing.” My voice is defensive and too loud, even to my own ears.
His brows scrunch as he studies the screen, but there’s no other indication of his mood.
It’s too late, though. He must’ve seen the name, or worse, the last few lines of my conversation with Jason.
“Are you cheating on me, Reina?” His question is like a slap across my face. My cheek is hot and tingling where his imaginary hand struck me.
“Didn’t you cheat on me?” “No.” “Do you expect me to believe that?”
“I don’t care what you believe. I don’t have the time or energy to focus on anyone else.”
“Not even in England?” I murmur. “Not even in England.”
“So, are you?” he repeats. “Cheating on me, I mean.”
“Good, because I don’t react well to others touching what I own.”
“Oh, but you do.” Asher’s hand travels down until it wraps around my throat. “You fucking do.”
“You had your dinner. It’s time I have mine.”
“You were hardly wet before, if ever. You never moaned, either, or shook with desire like you do now.”
Losing my memories allowed me to let myself loose, to not think about confiscating Reina’s life, and for that reason, it seems as if I’ve changed when the truth is, I was just releasing my bottled-up feelings.
“This. Pussy. Belongs. To. Me.”
“I…I belong to you. Only you.”
“Repeat that.” He slaps me again, the hardest he ever has, the sound echoing in the thick air.
My villain and my savior. My damnation and my salvation. The only person I ever told my secret.
“I just started my dinner.” I can feel his smirk without seeing it. “I’m going to tongue-fuck you until you can no longer move, prom queen.” And then he makes good on his promise.
he drives with ease, one hand on the wheel and the other on his thigh. No words. No nothing.
“After he tells you what you want to know, you’ll tell him you’re moving back to your apartment.”
“I don’t care to share you.”
He really needs to stop saying things like that if all he ever plans to do is hurt me. He needs to stop touching me, calling me his, and looking at me with those intense eyes that seem ready to strip me bare and devour me all over again. My brain is starting to disregard the danger and focus on those small gestures, on what his body is saying instead of what his mind is planning.
I’m starting to connect to Reina in more ways than one, and I have no idea how that makes me feel.
“Keep the fuck away from Jason.” “Uh…no. He’s my friend.”
“You’re mine, and I don’t appreciate people threatening what belongs to me. If you let anyone take liberties with you, I won’t stay still. Am I making myself clear, prom queen?”
It’s chaos. Beautiful, maddening chaos. Just like Asher.
My supposed fiancé touches my leg with his. Great, so I’ll be the only one doing the talking. Asher’s nudge is basically telling me I need to start soon because Alex is getting restless.
“Ignorance never did you any good before.”
That’s why I searched for Reina and found her on my own. I meant to escape with her.
“Your mother was the bratva’s Pakhan’s daughter. Mia Sokolov, daughter of Nikolai Sokolov and cousin of Ivan Sokolov.”
Your parents agreed that each would get a twin before they parted ways.
They only agreed to let Gareth keep one of the twins if he allowed the bratva a share in his business, and he agreed.”
“Mia took her and ran, but Nikolai wanted the girl as his heir. Considering that Mia was the only offspring he had, her daughter needed to be brought up as the bratva’s princess.”
She planned to take you both out of the country and away from her father’s organization.”
“After the Russians took your sister and you returned to live with Gareth, he didn’t stop looking into ways to save her. He even had a few spies on the inside.
All Mom ever wanted was to save us from the monstrous life she lived, and she had to pay the price with her life.
“I see, so you remember that, too.”
“Of course I do.” Alex goes back to clicking his pen. “Gareth was my partner. We shared everything.”
I figured he’d realize Reina and I switched places, but deep down, I hoped I’d be able to fly under the radar.
“Of course. He lived in guilt for letting you and your mother go all those years ago. He searched for you as diligently as Nikolai, but your mom was a professional at running.”
