Page 59 of Kings of Desire
‘You’re talking about eradication.’
‘I don’t know what it will come to, but I am talking about survival of the fittest. And right now, I have my mansion up in the Hills where no one can touch me.’
‘Maybe I should leave city.’
‘And go where? Everywhere is the same. Maybe much worse. The resources are getting limited because of the pollution. Things are simple. The Elite wants lands for lavish gardens, tennis courts, and who knows what other caprices while they expect the Annelids to grow wheat into the one square meter of their homes.’
‘You think that’s the cause?’
‘I think that’s the solution. If they can find the resources to grow miles of grass with artificial light, then they can fucking also grow a carrot with them.
I don’t know, no matter how big I am on the streets, I’m too small in this game, and I never enter battles I know I can’t win.
And speaking of battles, our meeting has come to an end. I do have something to take care of before the shit hits the fan.’
‘Anything that I can help you with?’
‘I’ll let you know if I need anything, but I don’t think it will be the case... It’s more like a kidnapping.’
‘Ohhh, ransom. I hope it’s profitable.’
‘No...not for ransom... Let’s just say retrieving lost goods.’
‘Then good luck with that. I’ll better get on my way.’
The second I heard him leaving, I backed down from the lobby, pretending I was just arriving. Under no circumstances could he suspect that I heard anything. And the reality was that I didn’t want to have heard anything of what I just had. I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, managing to take the burden of the whole city upon myself.
Maybe the truth was I was saving Sebastian and Natalie only to doom them, but I couldn’t think like that. I shouldn’t think like that!
I would find a way through this.
At least Brax was committed to his promise, even though initially I had some doubts about his truthfulness. I guess this was the main cause of my reticence when it came to him, maybe even when it came to all of them, though his wicked nature was making me suspect him most.
‘You’re late again,’ he roared as soon as the door opened and he noticed me approaching from the other end of the hallway.
What could I say? That I was here ten minutes ago?
I just nodded, slipping inside the office through the space created between him and the door.
‘Was that one of those womanly noddings to get me to shut up?’
‘I thought it was was a man thing, notwomanly nodding,’I shrugged, trying to appear much more relaxed than I really was.
‘Don’t throw some feminist crap at me right now, I’m not in the mood.’ he barked, finding his way towards a mahogany office desk then slipping into his presidential seat. Come to think about it, it was more like a throne than any seat I’ve ever seen.
‘You seem stressed. Is everything ok?’ I felt the need to ask since his attitude matched the nervous twitch of his perfect jawline.
Ninety-nine percent chance that it had something to do with the visitor before me, but I couldn’t ask him that.
‘With recovering your family...yes, everything is ok,’ he paused, staring for a second into an empty corner of the room in an attempt to clear his mind. ‘Sit down.’
I looked at the two chairs on the opposite side of his desk, though once again, I knew where he wanted me to be, and my hesitation was quickly observed ‘Don’t play dumb. You said yourself that I already seem stressed. You know where to sit,’ Brax snarled, pushing on his chair to move it away from his desk, making room for me to join him.
There was no way around this, so before I knew it, I was standing next to his muscular body, glancing into the absinthe in his eyes.
‘Here, Bea,’ he sneaked a hand beneath my knee and pulled me to get on top of him, bringing my legs to straddle his waist. ‘Not close enough,’ he growled, lifting the hems of my skirt high enough to push my thighs open, joining my core with his growing erection.
Thank God for the layers of clothes we both were wearing, or else he would have claimed hisprizeby now.
