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“As I said… I’ve had worse.”
“I’m sure you have,” I state, watching her closely. “And where’s the fiancé now?”
“Around.”
The woman that met me earlier isn’t here right now, and I know I did the right thing tracking her down. Something about her captured me, and I’m not about her to let her get lost in the city when there’s something about her.
She grins. “He’s here.”
A salacious smirk tugs on my lips, and I like round two a lot better than round one. She’s too late to play a dutiful fiancée to me, and she’s far too late to get away without caving to what’s between us.
“There’s nothing here for us.” I lean closer as those words leave my lips.
She tries to move, but I match her movement. As she tries to pass, I give her a moment of thinking I’ll allow her an easy exit.
“That’s where you’re wrong.”
I grab her, pulling her close to my body. Our body heat mixes immediately, and I let the way her wrist feels wrapped in my hand sink in, the softness of her skin beneath my touch—delicateness wrapped in hard force.
“Natalia.”
I breathe her name, a litany I longed to be able to say in her presence but wanted to say moments before I end her.
Now I have her in my clutches, the game’s shifted again.
“I knew you were near earlier. I could practically feel the blood pulsing in your veins.” I tug her closer. “So, when you fell into me in that bar, I had to get you where I wanted you. Right beneath the palms of my hands.”
“How?”
I’ll drink every drop of her shock if I can, just for the taste of sweet venom.
“How what?” I ask, laughing at her innocent question. “How could I ever forgetyou,my darling girl?”
The woman who killed me long before I even died.
