Revealing the Monster (Playing with Monsters #4) - Amelia Hutchins Page 0,160

a while, given how many escaped. We’ll help the surviving enforcers at the guild hunt them down and end their time on earth.”

“You did this for me. Everything you’ve done since I returned. Why? I mean, I get the whole saving my life, but Vlad could have easily brought me back as he is.”

“Because I wanted that girl who got in my face and refused to back down,” he stated. “I wanted you as you were born to be. I wanted the hurricane that walked into my world and knocked me on my ass. You’re the first woman ever to look beyond my face and see inside of my mind. You, Lena, were an unknown, and by the time I’d started figuring out the puzzle that is you, I needed all the pieces. I wished to hold them together, but I broke them. I did that even though I never intended to hurt you. So answering your question, I wanted the girl I’d met, and I didn’t want her to lose any part of who she was because of me. You taught me what was possible, and I am never giving you up now. You looked me in the eye, and you didn’t blink. No other creature alive has ever managed that, not even Spyder. You’re the part of me I didn’t know was missing until I lost you. I never want to feel that emptiness again.”

“Thank you for loving me as you do, Lucian. I don’t need you to say it, not when everything you do to show me how much you care for me.”

Theory of a Deadman’s Wicked Games rendition came on, and he smiled. “I do believe that this is our song, Lena. No.” He interrupted when I opened my mouth to argue the meaning of the song. “It’s about what happens when you have an attraction that isn’t good for you. I knew I was bad for you, yet nothing could have stopped us from being together. Eventually, we’ll find another song that fits us as our family grows. Music is important to you, and you need us to have that connection. I personally prefer FMLYHM’s Seether, but if I played it right now, you’d end up bent over that bar while I made that song have an entirely new significance for you.”

“Is that so?” I asked, smiling as I clung to his suit jacket. “Maybe I’m into that.”

He laughed, shaking his head as he grabbed my hand, leading me to his office. “Kinky, woman. You’re no longer on display for others, because I’m a selfish prick that intends to keep you for myself.” I smiled at the jealousy of his tone, allowing him to pull me into the room before he closed the door behind us. “Do not strip. Place your hands on that desk, and do not fucking move.”

I bit my lip, turning to smile at him as the memories of the last time I’d been in this room in this position came back. “I don’t think so, Blackstone. You may own everything inside this world, but you don’t own me.”

His eyes narrowed as I crossed my arms over my breasts and gave him a pointed look. My hair was done up in the same style I’d worn that night. My heels were also the exact shoes as well. He wanted his fantasy, and he’d dressed me to play the part. I’d play it alright, but he’d get that Lena, and he would fucking love it.

“Witch, unless you want that pretty ass of yours to be too sore to sit, I’d follow my instructions.” He slowly began to unbutton his shirt, freeing the wealth of muscles there. Next, he undid his belt, watching me through the slits of his eyes. “I’m going to enjoy this, Fitzgerald.”

“You can try, but you’re the most conceited asshole inside this town.”

“I own your town, woman.”

“Everything but me,” I whispered.

“Oh, but you’re the reason I fucking bought this city. I only wanted one thing in it, and that was your gorgeous ass, on your knees, begging me for mercy.”

“But you don’t have any mercy.”

“Didn’t say you’d get it, Witch,” he chuckled, letting his belt fall from his hand. “I only said you’d beg me for it.”

“You wish, but here’s the thing, asshole, I don’t beg. Not unless it is to get something I want, and I don’t want you…”

His hand curled around the back of my neck, and he yanked me to his mouth. I moaned against it, whimpering