Page 25 of Ruthless Kings of Havoc

“You think I don’t have a secret or two that can change everything?” When I open my eyes, I see his intrigue at the possibility. “Evangeline. Eva. You wouldn’t be able to find that name anywhere unless you did your research.”

Silence thickens in the pulsating atmosphere.

It’s all or nothing now…

“You get it now?” My voice trembles, as if I fear this man’s rejection.A man I still have so much to learn about.“The obsession from the Leightons. The debt that hovers over my head from the very individual who could have never placed it there to begin with. The son who didn’t want to acknowledge who I could have been, which is why bullying me was all but a convenience to his delusional obsession to be the apple of his Daddy’s eye. My suffering was all but perpetual. Seen a mile away. Yet, I walked down that path, knowing damn well this secret would be forced to come with me to the grave.”

“You allowed me to find out the truth before Domino,” he insinuates, which makes a tiny smirk form on the sides of my lips.

“I made the conclusion that out of my Ruthless Kings, you had earned the right to discover it before it unraveled itself through the chaos,” I admit. “So, do you now believe me when I say I’d choose you?”

I see how his Adam’s apple moves up and down. How he grips the silky sheets, so I won’t notice the slight tremble in his hands, which I’m confident crave my warmth. I can sense that my unmasked lover is uncomfortable with my revelation.

“So… you do love me,” he whispers.

“I do.” I never would have expected to answer as confidently as I did in this vital moment. “Blindly in love with a serial killer,” I say with a wink.

He rolls his eyes, which makes me smile.

“I’m scared to love you.”

“True,” I agree. “Yet it’s not stopping you, is it?”

“No…” He’s nervous. I can feel it. “But… you understand where this new predicament will lead us. What path we’ll be forced to descend upon.”

I bob my head. I’m not a stranger to the truth that’s hidden in the darkness.

We’re destined to be enemies at some point in this life. It’s laughable.

“Doesn’t mean we can’t outsmart the villain.”

Defeat the one individual who is desperate to ruin us all in his newfound execution to get rid of those who stole his Ruthless position of power.

“Alliance?”

I understand what he said, yet it doesn’t seem to process in my brain fast enough.

“What?” I have to peer into his eyes to confirm I didn’t completely zone out.Being able to tap out of the conversation with pierced cock deep in your pussy is a new record if you ask me.

“Alliance,” he whispers again. “You and me.”

He didn’t stutter…

“Why?”Why would you want to protect me to that level?

“You know why, Evangeline.” He’s not going to further dive into it. I can see it in his eyes. “To let the real games begin.”

“Would agreeing shut the demons out so we can fuck?” I’d be lying if I acted as though I haven’t been extra horny and how torturous it is having his cock taunting me with how hard it’s getting inside my impatient pussy walls.

I purposely move a bit to adjust myself, watching the way his eyes cloud over with lust in a heartbeat. He needs to take a calming breath to appease the yearning urge to forget this conversation and get lost in one another.

“Yes.” He takes a shaky breath. “It would shut up every fucking scream in my pounding head that tells me to wrap my hands around your pretty neck and shut you up for good.”

“Romantic.” The warning bells are ringing in my head, yet my hands are trailing up his flesh, getting closer and closer until they wrap around his neck—forcing him to go completely still while I’m hovering above him.

As if the roles have suddenly reversed.

“What if I feel the urge to do the same?” I can’t even recognize my own voice now as I dare to play the very game he’s playing.The ultimate test is to push each other away.“That betrayal has made me want to push every single one of you out of my life, so I can prove that I’m more than just a pretty orphan with no empire to turn to.”

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