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The sudden pinch to my thigh makes me lower my gaze to see the EpiPen sticking out of my thigh. It makes me smile, just a bit, and I even giggle.
“Oops,” I whimper. “Forgot to eat with all this alcohol.”
I think I’m giggling again, but I can’t comprehend it as a wave of stillness runs through me. I know my knees buckle, and my body feels so heavy, but I acknowledge how it feels as though I’m being lifted into the air.
I’m floating.
My head is dangling back, and for a moment, I can focus on the booming music that surrounds us until it fades away. Spinning darkness, numb uncertainty. Various thoughts and faces taunting my imagination.
Everything begins to fade until the space surrounding me is somewhat quiet, a comforting stillness, while I’m embraced in leather and musk.
Something clicks, and I feel a tightness around my chest, but I can’t feel afraid in this state of tranquility. It’s insanity to feel so… calm.
At peace.
Safe.
“Domino is a fool.” The deep baritone voice is a sound I’ve never heard in my lifetime. The touch on my cheek is so gentle.So warm and delicate. “He needs to realize you’re a diamond in a sea of coal. A precious Queen who’s ready to stand by the side of a real Ruthless King.”
When he chuckles, it’s deep and raw. So consumed with depth and dark by nature. Haunting and goosebumps-inducing.
I could fall in love with it.
No. I have fallen in love with it.
With the attention, delicacy, and sense of safety this masked man gives without an identity to lay upon him.
“Let’s remind the little bully that there are bigger fish in the sea,” he whispers, and for a moment, my lips are pressing another’s.
Warm, rough lips that ignite tingles of desire through me.
“Sweet precious, Gem,” he whispers against my lips. “Play this game with me, and I promise, when you run away, I’ll be there to save you from all the men who hurt you.”
Another kiss and my cheek is stroked again and again.
“You’ll stand by my side. Not as a shiny toy, but an asset so powerful, they’ll all quake at your feet.” When he laughs, it’s everything you can envision in a sound that screams power. “Then, we can play the real game. Show what a Ruthless King is in this university filled with tiny, useless ants. They’ll bow when you walk down the halls, and you’ll wear my uniform to remind them of my claim.”
He sounds almost cynical now, but something roars in the background, followed by a consistent thrum. I can’t figure it out because I’m drifting away, but I feel his arm slip around my shoulder, pulling me closer until my head rests on his shoulder.
The touch comforts me, and I can just think of that rainy night in that fancy two-seater car, my head bobbing up and down until I can no longer fight the urge to sleep.
“I made a promise to that man. The one who doesn’t realize the enemy who sold you set him up for failure with a mix of tests and documents.” Fingers play with my hair, taunting my scalp and making me sleepy. “The truth is coming to light, and finally… you’ll get to be the grand prize the world has no choice but to admire and adore.”
I’m slipping away into the arms of darkness when I grasp his last words.
“The real Ruthless King is ready to make his debut. With his Ruthless Queen by his side,” his chuckle couldn’t be more agonizingly villainous. “Then… the real havoc will begin.”
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TICK-TOCK RUTHLESS KINGS
~DOMINO~
“You sure like to play with your food.”
This Moonshine piece of shit is nagging at my nerves.
I know why he’s doing this. All because he’s a sore fucking loser who should have been a Ruthless King.
