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“Is this what you want from me?” I taunted him as I slid his fly down and pushed my fingers into his boxers, stroking his dick. “I want everything from you,” he replied fiercely and in that moment, I was willing to let him have it.
“I don’t want you on your knees. I want you fighting me and hating me and fucking me like you mean it. You’re Roxanya Vega and you weren’t built to bow to anyone,” he growled passionately. “You want me to hate you?” I asked in surprise. “I want you to feel for me. And I’ll take hate if that’s all you’re offering.”
My voice echoed off of the stone walls of the throne room and I wondered what would happen if anyone found us here like this. A Vega and an Heir screwing on the throne we fought over so desperately.
His arms wrapped around me, and he drew me into a kiss unlike the others we’d shared. His tongue pushed into my mouth almost slowly and his hands slid up my spine as I gave in and it didn’t just feel like lust anymore. It felt like the sky was falling in and the earth was splitting
“You’re going to be the ruin of me,”
“Not if you destroy me first,”
“Yeah, so I lip read that whole thing,” he stated. “I’m glad you’re making him happy.” He smirked. “Dude!” Tory balked. “Not cool.” “You just made it so easy when your tongue lolled out as you said Dariuuus,” Orion taunted, and she shoved him in the arm.
“What so you and Darius just gossiped about me like a pair of girls? Then you told my sister before I had a chance to?”
And anyway, Tory, it wasn’t like Darius told me about the size of your dick or anything,” Orion mocked, and her eyes flared with a challenge.
“And you can tell Darius if he describes a single freckle on my body, I’ll cut his balls off.” “What is it with you and cutting people’s balls off?” Orion’s brows pulled together. “Just go for the jugular, you savage.”
“Yeah, plus we passed this bookshelf and Orion saw some Numerology book on it and basically had to stop and have an orgasm over it,” I said with a shrug. “Ha, that’s so you,” Darius laughed. “Bet it was a real smooth hardback.” “Yeah, and the spine was so curvy,” Orion played along, and I bit my lip on a grin. “I could have fingered those pages all day.”
“Fair point.” He let the ice return to snow. “You sure you still wanna play?” “Oh, I’m not just gonna play. I’m gonna destroy,” Xavier said with a fire in his eyes.
“Caleb,” she said lightly, and Darius’s carefree expression evaporated. His eyes narrowed on Caleb as he joined Tory’s side and flung an arm over her shoulders. She promptly shrugged it off, but that did nothing to soothe the rage in Darius’s eyes.
“Didn’t realise you were so competitive, Blue,” Orion murmured as an icy wind gusted around us, his tone telling me exactly how much he liked finding that out about me.
“When it comes to snowball fights, I’m merciless.” “Can you bring that team spirit to the next Pitball session?” he taunted. “If you help me win, I’ll bring it to every Pitball session.” I held out my hand and he took it, his lips hooking up as a clap of magic rang between us.
“I love you, bro, but I’m not gonna hold your hand through this, I’ll be too busy pummelling Caleb’s face with snow,” Darius said with a dark grin. “He’s a Vampire, you won’t land a shot on him,” Orion said. “I’ll take Caleb.” “Fine, Roxy’s mine,” Darius said with a smirk, seeming to warm to that idea suspiciously quickly.
“What’s he gonna find? That you’re expanding your bird sanctuary to take in misguided toads?” Darius grinned at me in a way that was totally without bullshit. He was sharing an in joke with me. A freaking in joke.
“As you wish, Captain.” He pushed a hand into his hair as his eyes dragged over me. He was definitely getting off on this.
A yelp somewhere to my left made me whip around and I spotted Darius on top of Tory, having jumped from his tree perch. My laughter rang higher as they wrestled on the ground, rubbing snow into each other’s hair and laughing like they didn’t hate each other’s guts.
Darius appeared behind Tory with a huge snowball held above her head, but as he saw what my sister was doing, he lowered it and looked at Caleb frozen at the centre of the space. “A snowman,” he said brightly, walking forward, lifting his huge snowball up again. “Darius,” Caleb warned. “Don’t you d-” Darius planted the huge ball of snow over his head, and I fell apart with laughter, dropping down to the ground as I clutched my side.
A horrible scream ripped through the air and panic seized my heart as I recognised Geraldine’s voice. I turned, hunting for her in desperation and spotting her on her back beneath a Nymph. Her father lay beside her unmoving and pure terror filled me as Tory and I raced to help. A battle cry filled my ears and Max dove on the Nymph’s back, locking an arm around its throat and yanking backwards with all his might.
“I’m taking the Vegas somewhere safe,” Orion announced, his voice filling the room. “You are duty bound to my son,” Lionel said in a deadly voice. Darius folded his arms, giving Orion a small nod. In an instant, stardust fell over us and we were yanked away on a whirlwind of lights.
I drew in a shuddering breath as I found myself lying in my bed with Darius straddling me, his grip tight around my wrists and his flesh hot with the power of his fire Element. Healing energy danced along my arm, closing my wounds. “Are you back?” he asked desperately, his gaze locking with mine as his eyes burned with a wild kind of panic.
There was just one, solid thing tethering me to this place, and he was staring at me like he didn’t know whether to kill me or kiss me. I made the decision for him as I reared up and pressed my mouth to his, groaning with need as he met my kiss with a passion so dark, I felt like I was drowning all over again.
“Fuck you.” “Again?” he taunted, and my Phoenix bristled with anger as I squirmed beneath him, trying to free myself from his iron hold. “Not likely,” I snapped. “I’d sooner burn all the skin from my body than let you touch it again.” “That would be why you just kissed me like that then,” he said with a smirk which said he thought he owned me.
He looked at me for a long moment, his bright, golden eyes watching me through the reptilian slits of his pupils. His nose bumped my chest, and I reached out on instinct, running my fingers over the glimmering scales between his eyes. “I like you so much better when you can’t talk,” I mused.
“But then you wouldn’t be able to bite back at me with such force, Roxy. And as much as you might claim to hate that, I think we both know it gets you going. You might hate me. But you like hating me way too much to want it to just stop.”
“You have a Dragon and a Phoenix fighting on your skin,”
“Well don’t go thinking I got a tattoo for you, Princess,” he taunted. “You might be a fucking tom cat in the sack, but I had that tattoo long before I ever set eyes on your pretty face or got my hands on your body.”
“You should get over yourself, Darius.” “Maybe you should get over me,” he countered. “Because you’re the one who had their tongue halfway down my throat ten minutes ago.”
“You can deny it as much as you like, Roxy, but you and me are going to happen over and over,” he promised, the scent of him wrapping around me and the heat of his flesh blazing so fiercely I could feel it despite the inch of space dividing us. “So no matter how much you hate me or despise me or wish you didn’t want me in any way at all, there’s no stopping it. You don’t feel fire like that and just let it burn out.”
Two constellations weren’t sitting where they were supposed to be. It was as if the heavens had rearranged themselves for this one moment and the stars which made them up glowed even brighter than usual as they came together, so close they were almost touching. Leo and Gemini. I’d recognise those constellations anywhere. And if the sky was rearranging itself to bring them together, then it could only mean one thing. This was a Divine Moment. The stars had guided me here and they’d be bringing someone else to join me. Someone who was perfect for me in every way. Who pushed me and challenged me.
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Hell, if I was being honest with myself, a part of me had known this was coming from the very first moment I’d laid my eyes on her. Roxanya Vega was the daughter of The Savage King. The girl I should have hated without even having to try. She was a thorn in my side and a challenge to everything that had ever mattered to me. She made me angry like no one I’d ever met before, made me hate her with a passion which was unequalled by anything I’d ever felt. But despite everything that had passed between us, I’d never
Roxy Vega was the piece of me that was missing. She was everything I should have realised I needed sooner. If we hadn’t gotten so caught up in hating each other, we could have already had something to build the foundation of this on. But none of that mattered. Because from this day on, I’d be hers and she’d be mine. And I’d do everything and anything it took to prove to her that I could be worthy of her love.
“I mean, like the way I lie awake at night, remembering what it felt like to hold you in my arms. How still the world felt, how pure that moment was between us. How I imagine I can still smell your perfume as my eyes fall closed and how I reach across my bed in the night wishing you were really there. Or like the way my heart beats harder when you walk into a room and my throat thickens when I try to think of the right things to say to you. How I fight to get your attention in any way I can because I can’t bear it when you ignore me.”
