Ashes of Chaos (Legacy of the Nine Realms #2) - Amelia Hutchins Page 0,121

against the rocks, only to be left adrift without realizing what had happened.

Knox studied me as I rolled onto my side. Pulling my legs up against my stomach, I listened to the men outside as they continued to speak about whore witches and virile kings. Tears rolled from my eyes as anger erupted within me, causing a sob to build in my chest.

“What the fuck is your problem, woman?” Knox asked as if he couldn’t hear the men outside the tent.

“I’m tired,” I whispered thickly, hating that I’d been weak enough to get lost in the pleasure his body offered. “If it’s all the same to you, Your Majesty, your whore would like to sleep,” I hissed.

Knox sighed heavily, before pulling me against him, adding another cuff to my wrist, attaching it to his.

“Then sleep, witch,” he snapped harshly, and yet he hadn’t scooted away from me.

“Stop touching me, and I could sleep, asshole,” I grumbled.

Ignoring him, I struggled to get comfortable with my hands bound, and my body close to his. I hated that my body automatically sought his out for the comfort it offered. “Are these cuffs really necessary?” I asked after a moment of trying to adjust beside him.

“They’re staying. Go to sleep,” he growled. The men grew louder outside the tent, and Knox rattled a warning, shutting them up immediately.

Knox flipped me over without warning to face him. He stared into my angry eyes, before he placed my head into the crook of his arm, pulling the covers up and wrapping his other arm around me to hold me.

“You could just put me back into the cage, now that you’ve tamed your dirty slut of a witch.” I stared coldly into his eyes as he searched my face before grunting.

Knox left the bed abruptly, dragging me with him, pausing to hoist me over his shoulder. He took long, angry strides toward the front of the tent, smacking his hand hard against my ass to remind me that I was stark-ass naked.

“Knox, stop!”

“Changed your mind already? You sure you don’t prefer the fucking cage? You’re wearing my mark and my scent, so if sleeping beside me bothers you so much, you can sleep outside like the rabid little bitch you’re acting like,” he snapped, and the men outside the tent chuckled.

“I hate you,” I seethed, purring low and even.

I was certain the volume of my purr was a warning to him that I was about to attack. His hand landed against my flesh again with a smack, and I yelped. Sinking my nails into his ass cheek, I drew blood, dragging them up his back, causing him to cry out angrily.

He slammed me onto the bed, holding me in place as he wrapped his hand around my throat. He leaned in, closing the distance until our lips brushed together as his angry eyes peered into mine.

“Touch me like that again, and I’ll bend you over and let my men hear how you really purr for me, Aria. Now go to fucking sleep before I remind you why I’m the alpha by bowing your fucking spine in submission to me while I rattle.”

“I don’t bow to you!” I shouted, but Knox rattled low and even until I did just that on the bed.

My spine arched, lifting my ass. I rolled onto my stomach, taking him with me because of our bound hands. Knox landed on my back with my legs spread and my ass pushed against him, a growl of need bubbling up my throat, escaping past my lips.

His rattle didn’t stop until I came undone without him fucking or touching me or forcing me to. Everything within me bowed, right down to my will as his rattle vibrated throughout me, establishing his absolute dominance.

“I seriously hate you,” I whispered as tears silently flowed.

“Oh, my sweet Aria, you do bow so pretty for me,” he taunted, pushing his fingers against my flesh, purring loudly with approval at my submission and response to him. “This lovely flesh knows who owns it, even if you don’t.”

“I’m going to cut your cock off with a spoon and feed it to you one day, Knox.”

“You’ll be doing many things to my cock, but that isn’t one of them, Little Lamb. Now, I’m going to sleep because some little bitch had me chasing her sexy ass all up and down the countryside, and then exhausted me by draining my balls. Go to sleep, or I’ll fuck you until you’re too exhausted to do