Ashes of Chaos (Legacy of the Nine Realms #2) - Amelia Hutchins Page 0,47

and his eyes turned black, swimming with glowing sparks of heat. “If you are a good girl and do as you’re told, I’ll only hurt you a little. Make me fucking wait out your magic, and you won’t like me.”

“Too late, I already don’t like you,” I grunted with a smile playing on my lips. Slowly turning my back toward the barrier, I rested against it. The blood continued to pour from the witch’s body, and my smile faltered as a pang of regret filled me. “I do like your cock, though. Such a waste that it’s attached to you, and not someone more… alpha,” I taunted, knowing it would piss him off.

“Oh, Sweet Girl,” he laughed darkly, as I turned to face him. Power sizzled against my flesh, and his scent hit me without warning as he rattled loudly. “I am the biggest fucking alpha in all the realms, and you’re mine.”

I swallowed against the multitude of sensations his rattling created. Sweat pooled between my breasts, and my hand lifted, rubbing my fingers over my throat as his eyes locked onto the motion. Naked desire burned in his knowing gaze. I moaned, hating that my body heated for him from the noises he made.

“I’m not yours.”

“Tell me this,” he urged softly. “How much does it hurt you when I rattle? Right now, your pupils have enlarged, and your spine has arched for me. Your nipples have hardened, and those pretty rosebuds need sucking to ease their throbbing, don’t they? I’ve smelled your arousal beckoning me to soothe your body’s needs. Everything inside you, including your creature, has told you to come to me. Hasn’t it? Hell, even you want me, and that hasn’t changed because you hate it. You’re mine. The way you respond to me, and me alone? That’s called ownership. All I have to do is wait you out, Aria.”

“You suck! You know that, right?” I groaned, peering up at him, noting how his eyes sparkled and danced with silent victory. “You claimed ownership. Why? To use me, to fuck me whenever you want? I’m not a plaything, Knox. I’m unlike anything this world has ever seen, and now I know that too. You’re not the only dick in the Nine Realms. My body may want you, hell, my creature wants you. I don’t. I control who I fuck, and that won’t be you.”

“Keep telling yourself that. Hell, you may eventually believe it too, Little Witch. Now, bring down the barrier because the longer I am forced to wait, the longer I intend to hear you scream while I wreck that pretty pink flower of yours.”

“That’s an incentive not to bring down the barrier,” I snorted, crossing my arms over my chest as the witch started crying and whimpering behind me. “Are you ready to watch me rock and rattle the Nine Realms? I’m about to show you what a real witch can do. I’m about to rattle you, Knox. Pay attention. You may learn something.”

“You aren’t strong enough yet, Little Girl.”

Power erupted into the courtyard as I smiled at Knox. I lifted my hand, catching my bag in the air. Slowly, the dress I wore began unraveling, the scraps of fabric decomposing as they dropped outside the circle and onto the ground.

Once I was naked, I turned, allowing Knox’s fierce gaze to slide down my bare hip, hearing an angry growl as I stood with my back toward him.

I turned a little more, letting him get a good look at my very erect nipples. I brought my finger to my lips as the witch began screaming, the power of the Nine Realms coursing through her, taking back what no longer belonged to her.

I laughed at the sound of her pleas and screams that mirrored the women I’d saved from her. I should have felt like a monster, but in the months since coming here, I had learned to embrace that I was the monster righting the wrongs of the race, who was supposed to uphold the laws, not abuse them.

Knox rattled, and my spine arched for him. I let my scent linger in the air between us, worrying my lip as I peered over my shoulder at him.

We both knew he was right, and sooner or later I’d have to either go to him or club him over the head and take what I needed. I was leaning on option number two, with him tied to a bed and me riding him whenever the itch arose.