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A derisive laugh bubbles out of me. “My place? What is that? You want me to sit obediently by while you pretend I don’t exist? While you make me feel like shit?”
“You’re choosing to feel like shit!” he snarls. “It’s in your imagination. I came by to see how you’re doing, and you’ve decided to throw a fucking bitch fit like a child! If you want to be treated like one, then you will be. Shut the fuck up, sit the fuck down, and obey whatever it is I fucking tell you to do. Understand?”
Gio turns his back, striding for the door. His own temper’s being contained by a thin leash, furious energy emanating from him. He’s removing himself from the room before he really explodes.
The thing is, I want him to. If he refuses to open up, then I want his rage. I want his punishment. As toxic as it is, I’ll keep him around any way I can, even if it means provoking him.
I jump off the bed and cut him off halfway toward the door. “If you don’t want me anymore, then just say it! TELL ME!”
“Get out of my way, Falynn.”
“I didn’t choose for your brother to do what he did! But you weren’t there!Youleft me alone, andhetook advantage! How can you blame me? Do you think I wanted him to force me?”
“You think I don’t see what you’re doing? Trying to provoke me? You want me to touch you?” He looms over me, a dark and foreboding presence that should make me terrified. He takes a step forward, forcing me one back, his glare now unblinkingly on my face. “You’ve gotten a little too comfortable testing me, Falynn. You’re not above my wrath.”
“I don’t care! I’m not going to wait around every night while you pretend I don’t exist. It’s not my fault you and your brother are in some dick-measuring contest, and now you feel like your toy’s been tainted. You feel like you’ve failed to be the dominant Alpha God you are, so now you’re taking it out on me!”
Gio’s growl is a primitive rumble deep from the cavern of his chest. His fingers clench around my arm to the point of sharp pain, his brute strength easily tossing me out of his way and toward the bed like I weigh nothing. I flounce halfway onto the mattress, the lower half of my body hanging off.
I almost expect him to mount me.
The deluded part of me hopes I’ve challenged him enough to pry my legs apart and shove his cock inside me so deep, he bottoms out. For him to fuck me hard and fast and without care.
Something.Anythingthat shows he’ll still touch me.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a hate fuck. It’s better than nothing at all, where the emptiness inside me reveals he’s too disgusted to lay a finger on me.
But he doesn’t give into my challenge. He remains where he is, his breathing harsh and ragged sounds.
“I’m not playing games with you, Falynn. You can cry and scream and throw all the fucking bitch fits you want to throw. I control what goes on. You are in my world. Adapt, or life will be miserable for you.”
I slide off the bed and crumple to the floor, watching him storm toward the door. A crushing, soul-depleting sadness presses down on my chest, making it impossible to breathe again. He’s falling out of love with me.
It’s over.
There’s nothing left I can do. I gasp for air, my lungs burning, my cheeks wet as tears fall.
“How could you?” I ask his retreating form. I can feel myself losing my last bit of sanity as he walks away. “After everything? No woman’s ever going to love you like I do. For the man you are and not the power you have.”
He stops long enough to hear my words but doesn’t turn around. He won’t even spare me another look. He’s truly done.
“I know,” he answers finally, and then he’s out the front door.
