to fuck me. Not even when I know we both want and need it more than the air that fills our lungs.”
I swallowed, and tears swam in my vision as I glared at him. “Pretty much all of that goes into the aforementioned shit that you need to stop saying. I am your enemy. One you intend to use as a weapon against my people. You don’t get to tell me I am anything but that anymore. You kiss me like I’m worth kissing, and then you turn around and make me feel as if I should be ashamed for the blood that runs in my veins. You confuse me on purpose to disorientate me, and it works because I could fall in love with you, and that would be a fucking disaster because you couldn’t ever return that love. I would be your whore. One you fucked when you wanted and then wielded as a weapon in the next moment before the sweat has even cooled from our flesh.” I swallowed past the thickness the words created as my throat constricted. He didn’t argue it, and I had known he wouldn’t. Our relationship wasn’t complicated; it was doomed.
“Let’s just keep it easy, King Karnavious. You’re the king of the army that plans to murder everyone I love, and I’m the one bitch who intends to stand in your way of accomplishing that feat at any cost. That’s much simpler than adding messy emotions into, isn’t it? It should be simple for you to remember who and what I am, since you never fail to remind me as a punishment for when you’re kind to me.”
“You think because I’m your enemy that I don’t think you’re one of the most beautiful creatures I have ever met? Enemies can be lovers, and they can want one another, Aria. Chemistry doesn’t care which side of a war you are on. You and me, we have chemistry in spades. I want you, and I’m not afraid to admit it, not to you or me, and I know you want me. It doesn’t need to be complicated.”
“No, but when you let your guard down, and you’re gentle with me, I get treated like shit because you punish yourself for letting it happen. That isn’t my fault, and I don’t deserve to be your target when it happens. If we stay enemies, it’s so much easier than getting whiplash! Besides, eventually, I will meet someone else. I will fall in love, and this thing between us, it will just fall away and be meaningless.”
“It’s cute that you think you’re ever going to be with anyone else, Aria,” Knox growled with a low rattle, causing me to step back while he prowled forward in the water. His jaw clenched, twitching with unstated anger while he hunted me in the pool.
“I’m going to escape you, eventually. You can never love me, and I deserve to know what it feels like to be loved. I deserve to have someone look at me as if I am the moon and sun in their sky. I deserve to have someone willing to look past my flaws and see my strengths and weaknesses, accepting me for who I am.” My ass touched against the pool’s side, and he leaned over, boxing me in as his hands gripped the edge.
“You won’t ever escape, Aria. Ever. I will cherish you and protect you, even from your own foolishness, when needed. Do you think any other male will willingly touch you now that I have claimed you? They’d have to first issue a challenge to me, and no one anywhere in this world would dare challenge me openly to battle. I am the fucking alpha they fear. I am absolute power, and I kill without hesitation. Those who have tried to oppose me are dead and have fed my crows with their rotting corpses.”
Power sizzled over me, causing my flesh to tingle. It was a warning, and no matter how much I tried to ignore it, Knox wasn’t allowing me to. His cerulean-colored eyes studied my reaction to the power he released, smirking as my spine arched, and my eyes grew hooded.
I was so screwed.
It was an outright battle of willpower, and mine was slowly slipping away.
Luckily, every time Knox opened his mouth, he inserted his foot.
It would be the one thing saving me from ending up impaled on his really nice, thick cock.
My creature, she was on his side.
His creature wanted what mine