Page 25 of Dust to Dust

"Yet again, you're putting someone before me. First was your father and now your brotherhood. You haven't learned from your past mistakes."

"The brotherhood is an armor that will protect us!" He snapped. "We all want the same thing. We want to be free, but we want our future and our families to be protected. Our wives and children won't be pawns, Nova." Titan sounded so severe it's laughable.

"Sounds sexist." I quipped.

"Enough!"

I grinned with the secret knowledge that I would not back down.

"Don't," Titan demand. He knew exactly what I was planning. Instead of snapping at me, his walls lowered slightly. He bent down and kissed my neck, sucking hard. I could feel it right between my legs as a new throbbing started. He was pleading with me but also marking me. "What if I asked you to join?" He whispered over my lips, "What if you didn't have a choice? Becoming my wife made us one; what I am a part of, you are now a part of."

Was that supposed to make me feel better? "A little band of thieves?" I joked. I couldn't resist his taste as I swiped my lips over his. I'd consider replacing my obsession with flavored lip glosses for the taste of Titan King. Ghost repeated his words in my mind. As I listened to her, I realized that what turned me on even more, was that Titan continued to view me as his equal. He offered me a partnership in the brotherhood. He claimed to own me but that I also possessed him. Titan didn't give me full reign now, but I would be unrestrained at some point.

Free, not to run away, but to run beside him.

That was the definition of a power couple. To cage each other up, giving only each other the key. Relationships were a twisted game of love and hate, after all.

"The brotherhood isn't about a one-world power," Titan confessed. Contrary to what many believe, most of the world wasn't free. There was always someone else who was bigger and better. The free man didn't vote. He was manipulated into thinking he had a choice. Every decision had been plotted out and made far ahead of time. I knew that first hand. Men like Lucas King were the gods that played with the world. I didn't see every aspect of what King Corporations controlled, but I knew from experience that it far exceeded what my wildest dreams could have imagined.

So maybe it's better to have Titan and the brotherhood on our side, Nova.Ghost suggested.

She had a point, A vigilante fights alone but dies alone. They were a mere blip on the radar of good. Then again, I wasn't a vigilante fighting for the common good. I was fighting for selfish reasons.

Titan tipped my head up so he could look in my eyes. He knew I had just slipped off in my head again. As he dragged my chains back, Titan acted as my anchor so I didn't drift astray. "We're stronger together. As a united front, we will face fewer enemies. Blood will still be split on our path but hopefully less. Yes, we are greedy, but we want a better world. I want my son to live in a world where he doesn't need to be born to kill to continue the family name. He'll kill to protect it, not prove he is worth it."

His son.

There it was again. A hint of the boy I once knew. A boy who spoke of a promised future. "I'm not mother material."Seriously! What the hell was he thinking?I was beyond messed up. Heck, I had a dead girl who was the moral sound inside of my head.

Titan laughed.Did he think I was joking?"If you are as protective over our children as you were when it came to surviving, then I have no doubt you will be a fierce mother. The kind of mother, my children will need to survive our brutal world and bear our last name."

I pushed out of his grasp. This was all too much; Titan had successfully scared the shit out of me. "Let's backtrack here. I went from wanting to kill you to being captured by you, forced to marry you, then forced to having children one day?"

Maybe Titan was more insane than me?

"Forced?" Titan raised a brow, "If that's what you have to tell yourself to sleep soundly next to me after I've made you scream my name till your voice is raw, then go ahead and call it forced babygirl. My wife," he bent lower, "you know deep down you crave me as much as the darkness inside of me craves your fucked up plots." He hissed. Then his hands grabbed my thighs as he hoisted me up and poured his fury into my mouth with his tongue. My fingers raked through his golden hair, clawing down his neck and leaving red marks.

This wasn't forced.

It was pure, raw passion that could not be contained.

When we got to his room, I was so ready for him that my body hummed and purred with excitement. My hands yanked at his pants, but he held my wrist in a firm grasp that felt like handcuffs. His eyes roamed over my red lace bra, "This is mine, babygirl," He pushed his hard body against mine, his stiff muscles rubbing my nipples even harder, "next time you leave my room, I don't want my cousins to see you in only a bra." He spun us around, sat on his bed, leaned forward, and started to suck on my breast through the lace. It created a roughness that made my knees tremble. Titan's effect on me was like gravity. He forced me to be grounded and remain on the earth where he played God and ruled the world. Maybe that's how it was meant to be all along.

Titan never forced me. I accepted everything he offered willingly. I needed it. Because in the end, it was always Titan King who made me stronger. I killed Elsa because of him. My need for vengeance was because of him. All the years I suffered, I used Titan as my strength. Titan made Nova stronger; now, he continued to make her and Ghost grow. As our lips danced in a heated passion, I claimed my war prize, and I'd protect Titan as he did me.

But you know me, Ghost, I'm not going to give my King complete control. A great Queen knows how to twist the neck, tilt the ears and swing a sword.I wasn't going to play by all the rules because where is the fun in that? Part of my allure was my rebellious behavior, "You should know better than to tell me what to do or what to wear." I placed both palms on his shoulders and pushed him back. He fell back onto his bed with a beaming grin, a smile I think Satan would have dawned when he was free to roam the earth. I climbed onto him and straddled his hips. To tempt him, I started to grind my hips down on his hardness. I could feel the friction of his jeans against my flesh. No matter the material, I could feel just how hard and aroused he was for me. I tipped my head back as I claimed the first orgasm. A fire ignited without our skin even having touched. He flipped us, and with a few kicks, he freed himself of any material. In one swift movement, he ripped my pants clean off me. And then he was inside of me. A taste of heaven on earth. A sweet Ambrosia that would forever make me immortal.

"I'm not going to let you go." He pushed back in with a force that made my toes curl. "If you drown or hit rock bottom, I'll swim down and breathe life back into you." Thrust.

"I don't want to feel right now." I hissed as I claimed his lips, trying to shut him up so I could enjoy the ride. He ripped his lips from mine and stilled on top of me. Titan's hooded eyes darkened then the bastard upped his control and started moving in and out slowly. I went from heavenly pleasure to torture. Right on the cusp of my next taste of heaven but too far to reach it.

Titan looked upon me as my eyes stayed glued to his blue ones. I realized then Titan had won yet again because as he moved his hips, he began to make love to me, and I felt everything with each thrust. I felt compassion and need, but most of all, I felt protected. His body covered me, shielding me from any outside threats. I came without breaking eye contact with him. His golden blonde hair, ravaged by my fingers, hung like a broken angelic halo. He was the angel who never gave up his mission. He'd drag my soul back from the depths of hell.

A tear slid down my eye. Titan leaned down and licked it away, "I'll take your pain away, babygirl. I love you," He pushed in harder, and I felt myself building again, "Do you hear me, Nova? Does Elsa hear me?" I came again and clawed his back, or maybe it was Ghost who clawed back to answer him. "I love you," Titan said as he came with me.

The air in the room was scented with the aftermath of our desire. I stopped fighting and curled into his body as Titan held me, and we cuddled like kittens orphaned on the cold streets huddling in a box. We rested in silence until our breathing relaxed to our regular rhythm.

Titan had side-tracked me from answering the question I demanded of him in the best way possible.

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