Page 51 of Vile Emotion
“Oh,” he smirks. “How much more did you want, my love? I’ll always give you all of me, you know that right, baby?”
“We don’t have to do this right now.” I say, almost getting completely out of the tight hold, not because it was uncomfortable but there was a moment there where I felt comfort. I don’t like it.
Alaric takes this opportunity to spin me to him and he pulls me to his body. His hand cups my cheek and his thumb traces my lips. He stares at my lips with such hunger, I take a step back but he wraps his other arm around my waist pulling me flush to him again.
“See, even when you’re right in front of me, I miss you, my wife.” There is disdain in his words but his eyes say something else; something so fiery.
“Okay, my husb–.”
My words die on my lips because Alaric has taken them, as he stills my breath, with a kiss. My brain screams for him to let me go but at the same time, we have to pretend, just in case there arecameras out here. My mind tells my body to relax into his kiss but I find that I’m already there when I register it.
I’m kissing my enemy back with as much hate as he’s giving me but… what is this? What’s happening? How can someone I hate kiss me so fervently?
It must be for the cameras and my family.It has to be.
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I’ve heard that there is a thin line between love and hate but I don’t love Juliana. All I can have for her is hate. So what is my problem right now? My eyes haven’t left her lips or body even after I kissed her. It was for show…wasn’t it?
Fuck.
“You’re watching her like a fucking hawk, tone it down.” Cassius whispers in my ear as we stand at a high table mingling with other people.
“I’m not watching her.”
“Don’t insult my intelligence, you are watching her. You’ve been doing it since crazy Mia showed up.”
This makes me chuckle even though I know Cassius is being serious. Breaking my eyes away from Juliana is hard but I do it to prove a damn point to myself and to look at Cassius.
“Crazy Mia? I thought you moved on from her little incident?”
“That crazy little white girl ruined my favorite car with her drunk bullshit because you moved on and found Carmen. She blamed me as if I forced Carmen and you to love each other. Now, she’s prancing around thinking we can speak to each other.”
“Hmm, maybe she was trying to get your attention?” I lift my brows to him suggestively.
“I don’t do crazy. That’s all you.”
“No I don’t. Carmen wasn’t crazy at all.”
“Oh, she was crazy, you just never gave her a reason to be crazy. Which I respect but you have a special attraction to women who are fucking bonkers.”
“Juliana isn’t crazy.”
I regretted the words the moment I said them.
Cassius arches a brow and a smirk forms on his face. “I wasn’t talking about her but again, proving my earlier point, you’re like a fucking stalker hunting its prey when it comes to Juliana. You can’t even keep your eyes honest because every two seconds, it scans the room for her.”
Glaring at Cassius doesn’t help the situation and he certainly doesn’t give a damn.
“Just make sure you don’t end up falling in love with her.”
“I could never. She killed my wife.”
“And you replaced your wife with her. It’s sick and twisted but that’s who you are, Ric. I accept that but,” he takes a step closer and looks me dead in the eyes. “don’t you dare fucking fall in love with her.”
Everyone who knows me, especially Cassius, knows I don’t respond well to threats so I know he’s pushing me.
“Are you fucking threatening me, Cassius?”
