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“Our daughters.” His anger whistles in my ears, bringing fire to my chest.
“How did you find out?”
“Do you think you being pregnant and giving birth wouldn’t be known to my people on the North Shore? Sam told me right away.”
“But you didn’t say anything to me.”
“I was in prison. I had no way of being sure. And then I took you, and revenge was leading me, obsession. Every time I secretly nudged you and you still kept the truth to yourself, it was a reminder of why I should hate you. Sometimes I even thought, maybe they really aren’t mine. Maybe they have a dad. A dad who’s not me. But then I saw them today. Those eyes, baby? They’re mine. They’re my family’s eyes.”
And don’t I know it. That blue exists nowhere else, not even nature can produce it. No, only the Whites have it.
“And with your black hair.” He snorts. “They look exactly like Rose as a kid.”
My eyes drop. We’re at an impasse.
Again.
Except this time, he’s the one with the gun.
“Kayla. Those little girls could have your eyes and your hair. Your features, your personality, your everything, I would still know they’re mine. I walked into your house today, and I knew. There’s no taking that away from me.”
“I’m scared,” I admit, unable to slow my pounding heart. “I’m scared you’re going to hurt them. Hurt me. I’m scared even if you don’t, it’s going to change them forever.”
His gun is still at my temple, and I wrap my hand around the barrel. “I’m scared about your revenge, for trying to kill you.”
He shakes his head. “I knew what I was getting myself into when I decided to take you. I knew I was facing the ruthless King. Your reputation precedes you, and that was my choice to make. You shot me to go back to our kids? Good. Would I have preferred for you to just tell me about it so we could discuss it? Yes. Do I regret you shooting me? I don’t think so. It was kind of hot, and I know you’re the type of woman who would never let anything get in her way. Not even the man she loves.”
His utter insanity brings a small smile to my lips. How did I fall in love with this guy?
“You’re suicidal.” He really is.
After he let me kill him, I understood one thing clearly. Nate isn’t a megalomaniac like I always thought. He is suicidal. I should have known from the night I met him. The first thing he did was ask me to try to kill him. He thinks himself immortal, and that makes him a danger to his own life.
I’m hoping a bullet to the chest for the second time in his life has taught him a good lesson.
His arm falls, the gun finally away from my head. “You said you loved me, little sunflower. You can’t take it back now.”
“I said that because I knew you were about to die.” Stomach flipping, I swallow past the lump in my throat.
“That’s not true.”
My lips pinch, a sense of relief engulfing me. “No. It’s not true.”
“So be a good girl and tell me you love me.”
I have never done anything Nate has asked me out of my own free will. Fighting him became second nature the second he took my freedom away. Everything he’s ever wanted out of me, he had to pull it out by force. Especially when it came to my feelings.
Name it.
Expressing what I feel so strongly within myself that I could never have the shadow of a doubt as to what it is? I can do that.
I dig my eyes into his, hoping with all my might that he can see the truth in them.
“I love you, Nathan.”
There’s a growl low in his chest, and it reverberates through my entire body. Something animalistic that links us, that makes my toes curl. “I love you too, little sunflower.”
And then his lips are on mine in a flash. He kisses me, long and hard. This is not a kiss from a psychopath. This is a kiss from a dying man who has found his ultimate reason to live. And he’s bringing life back to me too. His tongue strokes mine with feelings he can’t express and, for a minute, I forget about everything around us.
