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They were truly beautiful … and so are you. You are a queen and should be draped in the finest fabrics, not the cheap faux material he chose.”
“Dianna is different. I have seen evil. I’ve seen it born, what it craves, and how it acts. She may be stubborn and erratic. At times, she is rude or crass, even violent or dangerous, but not evil—not even a little bit.”
Liam had given me a flower. A simple fucking flower, and my world tilted. It was the first time any man had given me flowers. It was the stupidest thing for me to obsess over, but this tiny yellow plant suddenly meant the world to me.
When I’d seen her distress and his hand on her, I’d known I would make his death slow and painful.
Touch her you die moment? Yes please
“I have killed men for less. So, make no mistake, if she did not care for you, I would have turned your body into embers for how you speak to me.”
I needed air. I needed Dianna. Before I realized where I was headed, I found myself outside her room. I stopped, my hand clutching the doorknob. My vision cleared, and the pounding in my head subsided. My breathing calmed, and the tightness in my chest eased as I was able to sense her just beyond the door.
The dead whispered to me, over and over, always ending with her corpse and its burning eyes. If it wasn’t that, I was dreaming of her beneath me, with my cock buried so deep inside her that I could almost feel again.
God pick one T-T
My chest ached, and I found I did not enjoy sharing her attention.
I felt those were reserved for only me, yet she did the same to him.
Good girl.
“I am sorry for how I acted and have been acting. There is too much happening at the moment with me, and I am letting things bother me. I allowed people who mean nothing to get to me. You have helped me tremendously since we first started. I truly do appreciate it, and you. I am sorry.”
It wounded me just as much as it did for me to see her in pain.
I was more than impressed with this beautiful, dangerous, magnificent woman.
I did not mean for that last part to slip out, but it was increasingly difficult to ignore how much this rift hurt. It was worse than any physical pain I had endured.
I just missed her.
The point is that Dianna does not deserve to be spoken to like that or treated as just a conquest. She is not an object for you and Kaden to haggle over. So, no, I do not like you, nor will I pretend to be your friend. The only reason I have not killed you yet is that I promised Dianna I would be on my best behavior. Even if she hates me at the moment, I will not go back on my word.”
Because I have every part of you memorized.
My head reeled back, and my body suddenly ran hot. “What? No!” I snapped, avoiding Liam’s gaze completely. “Well, I mean, once, but it was a weird dream thing.” I closed my eyes, waving my hands in the air slightly. “Wait—why are we talking about his penis?”
LMFAO
Her words stung, and my heart hammered in my chest. Leave me? I did not like the way that sounded, or that she’d clearly considered it.
“Upset? Why am I upset? You chose her over me—you know, your actual partner. I know your strength. You could have busted out of her control. But no, I had to get shot several times. Then the second I try to kill her, you toss me off like I’m…” She stopped, seeming to choke on the words. She was only a few feet from me now. “Like I mean nothing, when I’m the one risking my life, my friends, and my only blood to help you. I should have left Logan on that fucking burning street and killed Kaden myself.”
I knew nothing of love, but I knew I wanted her, needed her, and dreamed of her.
I wanted her hands on every part of me, and I wanted it more than I had ever wanted anything. It was the most selfish desire in the world, but I wanted her more than a crown, more than a throne, more than air. I had confirmation that the Book of Azrael existed and the threat of war loomed, but all my thoughts centered on Dianna. Camilla was correct. She had seduced me. More than that, she owned me—and she didn’t even know it.
I would go to war for her.
That was my girl.
I knew I was holding her too tight, but I wasn’t sure I could let her go.
I knew I was rambling like a madman, but I would say and do anything to stay with her, no matter how idiotic I sounded.
Well, too bad. There was no way I was going to let her put distance between us.
I needed to be close to her. I’d almost lost her. Couldn’t she see that?
I had slain creatures the size of stars, yet this fiery, headstrong woman made me nervous. She was tying me up in knots. I needed to tell her how I felt, but I first had to figure out what I was feeling.
“I’d never abandon you.”
I lowered my forehead to hers, and my eyes closed as I savored the feeling. Dianna’s cinnamon scent engulfed me, seeping into my every pore. Her breath mingled with my own as my nose grazed hers. I was suddenly aware of how perfectly her body fit against mine, and how it would be the death of me.
“You were perfect.”
“Yes, you are. Along with being brave, stubborn, crass, and volatile, you are one of the strongest people I know. You fight me on everything. Which is saying a lot, considering everyone trembles when I enter the room.” She chuckled and closed her eyes. “Hey, look at me. You would have to be an ignorant fool not to think you are anything but extraordinary, Dianna.”
Something shifted in her hazel eyes when they met mine. It was small, but world-shattering. Her lips slanted over mine, and for the first time in my entire existence, I froze. Her kiss was light, tantalizing—and everything I never knew I had been missing.
It’s her. It’s her. It’s her.
“Bad girl.”
So, that’s what my Dianna liked.
“Ride my fingers like you’ll ride my cock when I take you beneath the stars.”
my Dianna?”
my Dianna.” My Dianna.
baby.
baby,
“If we weren’t so preoccupied with finding this book, I would show you in seven different ways how much it does not affect how I feel about you.”
There are things I have done that make me wish I could claw the memories from my mind. But we grow, we learn, and we do better.
“The prophecy remains. One falls, one rises, and the end begins. It was foretold and will remain. One carved from darkness, one carved from light. The world will shudder.”
You make me trek through Onuna, taking me to places with loud music and overly sugary treats. You make me stay at castles with pretentious vampires. You make me laugh, make me smile, make me feel. You make me feel normal and allow me to forget that I am the sole ruler, because you see me when you look at me. I hate it, Dianna! I hate that I have known you for what others would consider mere minutes. In the grand scheme of things, our time together means nothing. I have known and bedded others longer than you have been in my life, yet I felt nothing but fondness for them. I hate that you affect
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Liam had literally held my heart in his hands, and I would let him touch me in any way he wanted.
“If that is true…”
“… then I wish for you to infect me.”
