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This wasn’t me. I didn’t want him. He was manipulating me just like he’d manipulated me that horrible night.
I heaved in his grip. He was a psychopath. I couldn’t be attracted to a psychopath. I couldn’t be bound to one.
And I wasn’t.
I wasnot.
Because this was some sick nightmare, all my worst fears coming true, and I couldn’t make myself wake up or break free.
“Stop,” I begged, tears blurring my vision. I clawed at his face and hands, anything to get away from him, but my nails just skidded over his skin, not even drawing lines on his flesh. “I’m bonded with Knox. Not you.”
“But you’re a greedy cunt,” he sneered. “You want his brothers, too. You want anyone. You want me.”
“I don’t want you!” I screamed, slamming my fist as hard as I could against his temple.
With a roar, he shoved me and my knees slammed onto the hard ground. I scrambled away from him, my body screaming in pain, my transformation dress ripped down the front and my chest bleeding from Royce’s claws just like that horrible night.
“I’ll never want you. You’re a monster!”
“But I have you.” His lips curled back in a vicious smile and tendrils of black smoke lashed around my body, seizing my arms and legs and pinning me to the ground.
The inky tendrils raced around my waist digging into my skin and pinching my nipples, but — thank God — my body didn’t heat with desire and betray me this time. Only pain and fear roared through me, making me tremble and tightening my chest until I could barely breathe.
“I’ll never be yours,” I gasped, heaving and snarling, determined to be free, despite the panic roaring through me. “If I ever see you again, I’ll kill you.”
Royce threw his head back and howled with laughter. “You won’t even be able to touch me.”
The tendrils oozed up my neck and started to tighten.
“I will,” I gasped, heaving and thrashing. “I’ll kill you.” I wrenched one hand free and clawed at the smoke, tearing into it as if I had claws, the wildness from my dreams with Knox rising up within me, giving me a crazy, manic strength.
“I’ll never be yours,” I screamed. “I’ll kill you!”
