Underworld Bride Trials 1 Playboy King - Meg Xuemei X. Page 0,14
illusion. Even though death would soon approach, they still wanted him.
Standing amid over a thousand horny women, I repelled his charm and seductive power and watched things unfold with cold clarity. I held a very different purpose than the other candidates. They wanted his riches and to ride his sexy body more than anything, but I wanted his head on a golden platter, offered to his father.
For a breath, I felt a stab of regret and nausea at what I had to do in the end. But for my people and my kingdom, what wouldn’t I do?
The cameras trained on the playboy king to present him to the citizens of Earth.
Loki stiffened, pulling his hand out of his pants’ pocket, and his enthralling grin slid from his gorgeous face.
He must have felt the empty space where his sexual influence fell short, and his gaze trekked over the crowd to me. I shouldn’t draw his attention, but I wouldn’t allow myself to wet my panties like every other woman in the hall. I didn’t have it in me to suck up to him like the others. I couldn’t tolerate the humiliation.
However, I almost dropped my gaze to appear submissive and avoid his attention to divert any possible threat, but in the end I couldn’t cower.
As our gazes met, my heart sank. If he made any further moves, he’d pin a target on me right from the beginning.
For damage control, I shifted my position and slid stealthily behind a buxom demoness. She was actually easy on the eye, so no one would doubt that the Demon King was paying her attention.
The demoness intercepted the king’s line of sight and swayed her hips in invitation, yet Loki’s intense gaze still managed to pin me.
Shock reflected in his midnight eyes as he recognized me, then relief followed, then joy sparked, turning them to molten emeralds. But too soon, shadow and fire swirled back, as if the King of the Underworld—the ultimate power in this realm—was actually worried.
“Bunny,” he murmured.
That was all the confirmation I needed.
He’d indeed realized I was the woman who had watched him fuck.
My heart rammed into my ribcage in cold panic as his power knocked into me a second time. I growled and shoved it back while imagining my sharp fingernails scratching across his perfect jawline in retaliation at his attempt of making me surrender like the other women in the hall.
I had just enough power of my own to stop any assholes from walking all over me again.
I was a descendant of a Titan, a war goddess, and an ancient royal Fae bloodline. I bowed to no one. If I caved to fear and threats, I didn’t deserve to be a Morrigan.
I stood tall, though my back was stiff with tension and dread, as I had no clue what the unpredictable Demon King would do next, but I sure didn’t expect him to leash his power and show restraint.
Predatory delight lit his face.
“This is an interesting turn of events, ladies,” he announced, his molten gaze skimming over me one last time. “I couldn’t hope for better—”
Loki vanished in a flash of shadow and hellfire as every woman shouted his name in thrill and lust.
CHAPTER 6
Loki
She had eyes the color of daybreak in winter, flecked with golden fire. The girl stared back at me in defiance, and the speech I’d prepared to address the thousands of women who came to compete to be my queen vanished from my mind like an untraceable wind. Instead, I uttered one stupid word. “Bunny.”
I would forever remember her full, pink lips that were made to be kissed, now that they weren’t concealed by her mask. When she hadn’t backed down from the lashing power of my hellfire but shoved it back with strength, I was one hundred percent sure it was the same female who had watched me fuck.
When she’d let go of the rope and plunged into the red mist, panic had stuck in my throat. I’d pushed away Veronica, who tried desperately to cling to me after being shot by the mysterious girl, and went after her, fearing for the woman’s death.
I’d teleported to the ground of my red castle, but she had disappeared, which meant she lived. Ever since then, I’d been dreaming about her and woke to find my cock rock hard. I searched for her in my realm, but somehow, she’d managed to conceal herself even from me, which had never happened before.