Page 70 of I Was Always Yours (RCA: Royal Crown Academy)

I make eye contact with Spencer and gesture wildly at him with my free hand, still hanging off of Phoenix’s back. “What are you waiting for?” I ask, slightly annoyed that he’s not reacting to my efforts, “Go.Run.”

Phoenix roars and rips my hand off his face, using his hold on my arm to swing me to his front as Spencer stumbles to his feet.

He holds me in his arms, clasped between his large hands. His nostrils flare as a rampaging fire blazes in his eyes. “Do you think protecting him is a good idea?”

His head snaps to the side when he sees Spencer start to brokenly limp and jog away.

“You better fucking run.” Phoenix snarls, starting to go after him, but I wrap my arms around his waist and use my weight to keep him where he is.

His chest heaves furiously as he watches Spencer disappear into the night.When he finally looks back at me, his jaw twitches with frenetic energy.

He looks completely demented.

I loosen my hold and try to step back, but he grips my jaw and slams me back against the wall, making my bones rattle.

“What the fuck were you doing with him?”

I rip his hand off my jaw and try to shove him back, but he only presses closer, trapping my arms between us. “The real question is why areyouacting like a deranged lunatic?” I yell, the sound bouncing off the walls of the dark alley we’re standing in, “Why did you attack him? Why did you interfere in my lifeagain? You were very clear the last time we spoke that you don’t give a shit about me, so just go away. What I do with my life has nothing to do with you.”

“It haseverythingto do with me.” He sneers, crowding me even further.

“How?” I question, mystified. “How does it concern you in any way?”

“It just does.” He answers, squaring his jaw and staring down at me through heavy lidded eyes.

“No.” I say, frantically shaking my head. “No. That’s not good enough. Tell me why. Tell me why this matters to you.”

“I don’t owe you any answers.”

“Yes, you fucking do. You got involved, you hurt him, you—,”

“Did what I would do to any man who put his hands on you!” He roars, words spewing viciously from his lips as he grabs my face again and angles it up towards him. “What I’d do to any man who put his fuckingmouthon you.” He spits, his eyes wild with anger, “I saw him rubbing his thieving hands all over your legs, your hips, your face. Touching your body like any part of it belongs to him when he has no fucking right to you.”

I’m stunned by his admission. He fists my hair with his other hand, a groan rumbling in his throat as his fingers weave through the thick strands.

“The only reason he’s alive is because you intervened,” He says, before bringing his mouth to the crook of my exposed neck and biting hard. I squeal when I feel his teeth dig in and break skin, “And you’ll pay for that mistake.”

He suctions the skin into his mouth, sucking it greedily like some kind of unhinged vampire. I’m delirious with sudden, unexpected lust, fighting for my life as I try to resist the haze of desire.

He’s never touched me like this and I’m overwhelmed by the turn of events. Liquid heat pools in my pussy and yearning pulls at my stomach as everything in my body begs me to fold for him.

“I…,” I try, but lose all coherent thought as his fingers dance up my thighs, under the hem of my skirt and over my lacy thong, a dangerous growl falling from his lips as he feels the fabric. “I–I don’t belong to you, Phoenix.”

He pulls back and looks down at me through the slits of his eyes. “Is that why you’re wearing fuck me panties? Were you going to let him fuck you tonight?”

His voice is barely recognizable, distorted by the irrational possessiveness lacing his words. I know I shouldn’t goad him. I can hear in his tone that he’s close to snapping.

But maybe that’s what I want.

Maybe it’s been six years of waiting, of getting my hopes up only for them to crash and burn in disappointment as he continues to ignore me.

It’s time that I jump off the cliff and shove him off with me. Plus, he’s made it very clear he intends to fuck whoever he wants, whenever he wants so why not throw it back in his face and see if he likes the taste of his own medicine?

Wherever she’s been lurking all these years, embrace your inner bad bitch Six and give him a show.

“You’re the one who said this was an engagement and a marriage in name only. That you’d fuck other people. So why do you care?” I walk a couple fingers up his chest as I speak, before flicking my eyes up to meet his. “I would have let you watch if that’s what you wanted, you didn’t have to ruin my fun.”

His fist comes down against the wall next to my head as he roars furiously. He releases my hair and grabs my throat before ripping my thong off of me.

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