Page 81 of She will Always be Mine

Our need for each other is like a compulsion, full of violent desires and dark urges.

A fatal obsession that only a forbidden love like ours can elicit.

“Stop staring and come eat your breakfast before it gets cold, baby.” His playful voice cuts through my musings. Facing me, he nods at the plate set aside for me on the dining table. “I made you tea since I know you don’t drink coffee.”

Such a tiny detail but the fact that he remembered has my heart bursting with happiness.

Damn you, Riaan.

His burning gaze doesn’t stray from mine and roams every inch of my body as I walk toward him. My core clenches when he licks his lips, the hungry beast finally making his presence known. It’s only a matter of time before he devours me.

I look away before I combust into flames from his eyes alone. Suddenly, I realize something I missed before and ask, confused, “Wait… Where did you get a new suit?”

“I brought one in my car and had the doorman bring it up,” he explains as he pours my fresh tea into a cup, then informs casually, “I’ll have someone move in my stuff tonight. On the weekends, we’ll stay at my other apartment.”

“I’m not going anywhere,” I reply in the firmest tone I can manage.

“You say that like I gave you a choice.” His gaze darkens and my teeth clench at his arrogance, especially when he orders, “Now sit.”

“Still bossy as ever,” I mumble to myself, but the little smirk and narrowing of his eyes says he heard me.

I sit, not to obey him, but because I’m getting late. Besides, I’m hungry and the food looks tempting. Still, I can’t help but taunt him, “I might have blindly followed your orders in the past, but not anymore, Riaan.”

Before the words are even out of my mouth, his face is inches from mine with his fingers wrapped around my ponytail, and he pulls sharply. His eyes are dark and feral as a wild forest.

Leaning forward, he takes a bite out of my bottom lip until I whimper, then he growls, “Do you want to get punished, little girl. Is that it?”

“No.”Yes.

“Then why are you crossing your thighs? Is your pussy aching for the sting of my hand?” he taunts viciously. “You owe me a lot of lessons, Nyra. I promise to make each one of them painful and filthy. Only then, will I fuck you raw until you’re screaming in pleasure and begging me to stop.”

“I hate you.”For making my body betray me every time. For not kissing me yet.

His lips pull into a chilling smile that has another shiver dancing down my spine. His thumb rubs the earlier sting away and soothes it with a teasing lick that I feel in my bones, my blood heating.

Pulling back, his eyes crinkle but they are no less intense as he whispers, “No, you don’t. You never could, my little liar.”

Chapter Twenty-Eight

RIAAN

Loving someone like they’re your reason to breathe was a foreign feeling to me.

One I never desired to chase. But once I fell for Nyra, it was a lost cause.

Because I not only chased it, Iachedto hold it and never let go.

For the longest time, I thought of her as a complication I didn’t need, a forbidden temptation I couldn’t resist. Only, I couldn’t have been more wrong.

It’s the world that is complicated while she is the only clarity in all of the chaos. An innocent soul meant to be only mine.

However, after witnessing her writhing and crying in her sleep, pulling away from my touch like I burned her, I know that that’s no longer true.

Someone has stolen her innocence.

Taken a piece of her soul and made it theirs.

It’s the most unsettling truth I never saw it coming.

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