Page 1 of Kings of Desire
Cole’s deal
‘I agree,’ I breathed so hastily that I wasn’t even sure he heard what I said. It was like taking off a band-aid. Quick and painful.
‘You agree to what? I want to hear you say it!’ He was enjoying this so much that I began to feel the bulge in his pants pressing against my navel as I was breathing.
I looked around me to check if everyone else was still staring, but observed just a few rushed students walking away from the free show ‘You know what, Cole… Come on, don’t prolong this, classes are about to start.’ I wanted to leave, but the clenched hands were still there, pinning my arms against the wall.
He didn’t flinch, not even for a split second,to stop from his path and check what was going on around him. He couldn’t care less about the classes, of what anybody else was thinking. He was thekinghere and that applied to everyone who set foot in this academy- teacher or student.
His signature coldness was surfacing like an iceberg hitting against an already sinking ship.‘I asked you to say it. Now,’ he groaned, gathering the pieces of me that he was about to own.
‘I…I agree to let you do whatever you want with me for a month!’
Brax’s deal
‘Let’s hear it,’ Brax cut straight to the point, erasing every sentence that I was preparing to say, and leaving me only with an undeniable truth.
‘I need my family.’ I sounded weak, and that was going to cost me, but all other words seemed to fade when it came to the real reason I was here for.
His eyebrows formed a frown, though only for a moment so brief that I was starting to think it was just in my imagination.
‘Take a seat,’ he hoarsely spoke, laying his head back on the armchair, unwilling to lose eye contact with me even for a second.
I turned to take a step behind me, heading towards the only other chair in the room, though before I could reach it, he decided toelucidatethings for me ‘Not there.’
To be honest, I knew from the first time he asked me where thatseatshould be but willingly chose to ignore him, hoping that maybe if I played dumb, he was going to leave things that way.
Taking a deep breath, I whirled to look in his direction where very clear instructions were waiting for me as the tip of his fingers was tapping on the upper part of his leg.
Ferris’s deal
‘So, I should take this as ayesto my offer.’
‘Yes, it’s ayes.’
With Ferris, it didn’t feel so difficult to let him know that I accepted, as it did with Cole or Brax, yet it felt much more difficult in every other way. ‘But we’re keeping the condition.’
‘Ok. I’ll have Alfred take you to the new apartment tomorrow….I don’t keep track of expenses, especially not with the people close to me,’ he struck a match and lit a few candles on the table next to him, letting the flames dance in the darkness of his eyes.
A wolf in sheep’s clothes, and I knew it from the instant I entered his world a day ago,
and still, an invisible power was subduing me to be hislittle lamb.
Chapter 1
Amonth ago
Bea
‘Natalia, I swear on everything I hold holy,I will return for you and Sebastian’ With the tip of my thumbs I brushed off the hot tears that endlessly sprung from her eyes. ‘I’ll get you out of this hell and start a new life for the three of us. Do you believe me?’ I needed to hear her say the words. She mustn’t lose hope. Hope was the only thing we had left, beside each other, and right now, I was the one tearing our union apart. I was the one tearing their fragile world apart!
Her voice cracked, filled with a pain that threatened to engrave itself on my very soul.
‘Yes, I believe you. I know you are strong... I believe you will return for us,’ she caught me in the tightest embrace, saying an anguishing goodbye ‘I love you...’
‘Until the end of time,’ I continued her sentence. That’s what our mother used to tell us when I was a child.
I love you until the end of time.
