Page 107 of The Depraved Prince
“No. I’m good. I’m going to call it a fucking night.” I say casually, forcing the resentment I have for my Bambi to stay inside.
Landon tries to stop me again. He places his hand on my shoulder, and I quirk a brow at him.
“Come on, we just got news today that King Davenport’s other son will take over. We just want to let loose before?—”
Another son? Who the hell is Davenport’s other son?!
“What?” I’m seething.
“King Davenport’s youngest son?” Landon replies dubiously.
“I thought Eleanor was going to take reign?” I quirk a brow.
“No…her mother and everyone else in that region voted against a woman taking power.” Landon rolls his eyes. “Lame. I would have loved to see Eleanor be queen. Despite who her father is, she’s a good person, and?—”
Thoughts are screaming at me. Bad ideas are at the forefront of my mind, and missing pieces are coming together. I have this strange feeling that Millie is in danger. To be honest, I’m always paranoid that she’s in danger.
“We have to go. Why wasn’t I notified of this before? Holland always filled my father in with important updates like this. Why am I the last to know?!” I snarl, grabbing him by the collar withboth of my hands and teeth, ready to bite his head off. I’m about to break him into pieces if he says the wrong thing.
“Hayden!” He tries to untangle my hands off of him, but he’s unsuccessful. “We’ve been trying to tell you, man, but you haven’t been listening!”
Landon looks at me with sincerity. His words strike me hard like a knife, and I want to rip him apart just because I can. It’s what I’m known for anyway. So why not?
“You haven’t been listening, man.And it’s okay,” he reassures me. He knows the damage my little Bambi left in me. A few beats of tense silence pass between us as my sanity continues to crack. “Let’s go,” Landon tells me, keeping calm even when I’m shaking with murderous intentions. Nostrils flaring, muscles constricting, I let my head and hands fall. I let him go and walk away with all the guys following me.
“I’m going alone!” I shout as I race to my private plane with the Kingsguard by my side.
“The hell you are!” Kolton, my other close friend, blares behind me.
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HAYDEN
The sitebefore me makes me sick. His waist is pressed into Millie’s like he’s about to enter her. Her underwear is torn, and his fangs are inside her neck. He’s feeding on her; I can almost taste her blood from where I’m standing.
I’m going to add his eyes to my crown and throne by the time this is all over.
“Get your fucking hands off my future wife!” I growl loudly; my entire body shakes, and I want to rip him apart piece by piece slowly, but what is the fun in that?
No, no, no. I want him to rot in his mistake of trying to take what’s mine. He needs to get a taste of why I earned the name of depravity amongst our world of immortals.
He stiffens, and Millie goes limp on the couch. Her black waves of hair fall off the cushion, and her sleeping, pained face breaks my spirit. She’s whimpering in her sleep.
I’m flexing my jaw so hard it burns.
Finally, he gets off her with a victorious smirk to taunt me. And it’s working.
“When you are known as The Depraved Prince and when Millie found out her father was dead, it was so fucking easy planting it in everyone’s heads that you were the oneresponsible. No one blinked an eye. No one suspected it could be a lie when all you’re known for is being a selfish, evil vampire.” Cole confesses as he licks Millie’s blood off his lips with a sinister smile. I can feel myself wanting to implode from the madness. No one gets to taste what heaven is like, and he has. I’m going to fucking turn his power of immortality into a joke. He has his hand on her chest like he’s ready to rip her heart out. He stares at me, antagonizing me like I’ve fallen into a trap.
“There are rumors about your blackouts in the community, King Drago.”
How the fuck does he know?
I stalk forward, about to flash to him and kill him, but his threat shatters me.
“You come closer, and I’ll rip it out of her chest.” He points to her heart, and it makes me stop.
Motherfucker. He knows I’m nothing without her. Everyone in our world knows the Depraved Prince has fallen in love.
