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I should have ended the kiss. Or maybe set the world on fire right then and there, then saved myself years of headaches.
“Don’t play with fire, kotyonok,”
“I want you all to myself. I’m yours. You’re mine. No one else can have you.”
I made a promise to my big brother that I'd keep my distance. But that didn’t mean I’d do it indefinitely. Once her old man was dead, I’d go into full-blown conquer mode. Because Branka was mine. There was nowhere she could go where I wouldn’t eventually find her.
“You’re all mine now. From now until the end of time.”
This obsession had festered into something and there was no coming back from it. Not that I wanted to be cured of it. Maybe that was the difference between others and me. They needed a recovery, I didn’t. I just needed her.
“Last chance, kotyonok, to keep your promise,” I purred. “Or all hell will break loose before you can say ‘I do’ to the wrong man.” It was the only warning she’d get.
She thought she could have married Killian, walk away from me. Forget about me. It left me feeling hollow. Unworthy. Unlovable.
Her smell made my head fuzzy. Her pain made my throat tight. Her smile made my heart fucking glow.
Losing control would lead to a full blown obsession. Love was an obsession. Passion. Disaster. And I was well on my way to it.
I wanted her to see herself as I saw her. I wanted her to own all of it. The good. The bad. The ugly. Because it made her who she was.
Don’t hide from me, and I won’t hide from you. His words played on repeat in my mind, resonating in my soul. But
The look in his eyes promised pleasure and the kind of sin that would burn me alive. I wanted it.
“You chase my ghosts away, kotyonok. I’m going to kill yours.”
The Nikolaev men’s protection went up a few notches, into a sick and psychotic level, and I didn’t mind it. Not. One. Bit.
My heart thundered and blood buzzed in my ears. “Don’t ask me to live without you because that is the one thing I can’t give you. Your freedom.”
