Page 11 of Dark Obsession
She shakes her head frantically, which gives me my answer. I nod my head slowly, and then take out a slice of cake and eat it slowly, while she watches my every move.
And when I’m done, I kidnap my mate.
“Are you insane?” she yells, pulling on the chains around her ankle. They can’t be removed by any magic, which is essential because I don’t know what she can do yet. I’ve cuffed her to my bed, but the chain is long enough that she can go to the bathroom when she needs to. There’s plenty of space. She’s basically not a prisoner but a guest. I’m sitting on the edge of the bed, while she stands in front of me. Her hands and face are expressive in her anger, and I’m trying not to grin.
I don’t care how angry she is. She’s angry in our home, where she belongs.
I zipped her here before she even realized what I had done and snapped on the chains that I know she will never be able to get out of.
“The academy thinks so,” I reply calmly.
I always thought she was beautiful, but Peach angry? Fucking stunning.
She’s been screaming at me and stomping her little feet for the last twenty minutes.
Maybe if she learns how hard it gets me, she might stop.
She is now sitting on the bed with her head in her hands. I don’t like seeing that. She should always have her head held high. “What about tomorrow when I have to go to work?”
Stretching my neck from side to side, I think about what I want to do. “Can you close it for a few days?”
“No,” she snaps.
“Okay, then I guess I’ll be coming with you. I can be your security guard.” I shrug.
I don’t have anything better to do than be with her, unless one of my siblings needs me, which could happen. We’re a close pack and kind of in each other’s business.
“No, you can’t just hang around and scare off all my customers!” She groans, covering her face with her hands, then she stills and peeks through her fingers. “Wait a minute, are you the reason that Irving had a black eye? He was suddenly too scared to even look at me after he’d been flirting…” She trails off, and my eyes narrow to slits.
“Please continue. Tell me how that fucking merman was flirting with you.” I’ll track him down and kill him when he least suspects it.
“So it was you! How else would you know he was a merman! You are crazy! The rumors about you are true.” She crosses her arms over her chest, but all it does is draw attention to her perky tits.
“That fucker needs to go back into the ocean where he belongs,” I growl in a low voice, cracking my knuckles one by one. “You’re mine, no one gets to look at you, flirt with you, and definitely not touch you.”
She shows me her bare wrists where the gold mating band will be when we bond. “I’m a single female, Salem. I don’t see any bands around my wrists.”
I slowly start to see red. “They’ll be there soon enough, little one, don’t you worry,” I reply, my jaw tight.
The thought of her with another male makes me want to kill someone. I want to say I can try to rein in my violence for her, but when it comes to other men and her, I don’t think I could let them go unpunished for touching or wanting what is mine.
“How many males have you slept with?” I ask her through clenched teeth.
She throws her hands in the air. “I’m not answering that. How many females have you been with? The ones who chose you must have been real adrenaline seekers, wanting to live life on the edge. I want a peaceful life, and I’m not trading that for your brand of chaos.”
“No chaos if you don’t let anyone with a dick near you,” I growl.
She’s hiding something, I don’t know what. I know that I intimidate people, so even when she starts to pace, with the chain clinking behind her, I remain seated so I’m not towering over her. I’ve never tried to make myself smaller for anyone before and haven’t even thought of it. But I want her to feel safe. And she is. Safer than anyone else out there. I might be a monster, but I’m her monster.
“And what if I like pussy?” she surprised me by blurting out.
I can’t help but laugh. “There will be none of that for you either, sweetheart. Plus, I don’t think the fates would be so cruel to give you to me if you didn’t like giant cock.”
“Giant,” she mouths, pursing her lips. “And just how many have seen this giant cock?”
I tilt my head to the side and study her. “I could kill them all, if you like.”
“Oh my fates!” she screams, shaking her head. “You are impossible, you know that? My brother is going to be looking for me. And if I’m not at work tomorrow, so will the whole Shifter Kingdom.”
