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“No. No. Please don’t do this.”
I jerk myself free from Roger’s disgusting grasp. But he’s a little stronger than I am and he pulls me back.
“Quiet, or I will kill your bodyguard right now with a bullet between his eyes. I’m in the mood for some killing.”
“You sick—”
I don’t get very far. He fiddles with the watch on his wrist and Kayne’s whole body goes into shock again.
My misery is profound; it takes me out of myself and now I’m watching helplessly from above.
I allow Roger to lead me away. The table has been moved to the side of the room and two chairs have been lined up. He sits in one and expects me to sit in the other.
The gleeful smile on his face turns my stomach.
“That’s the last time you’re going to see your bodyguard, Your Highness. And those two are your new bodyguards now.”
I bite my lip until it splits and I taste my own blood.
Why is this happening to me? How did my whole world suddenly go right only for it to end up this way, with a madman dictating the rules?
I don’t want Kayne to fight. His body is weak, which puts him at a grave disadvantage. I know without a doubt if he hadn’t been involved in an explosion, electrically shocked and beaten up, there isn’t any man or men he couldn’t face.
But that was something that Roger knows. This is why he makes sure that Kayne is at such an unfair disadvantage. Roger is afraid of Kayne, even in his weakest state.
I can’t watch. My heart is thundering and I want to make this stop. I want to beg and plead and make deals with the devil himself if it means saving Kayne. I can’t do this. I want it to stop. I want to wake up from this nightmare.
But I know, if I say one word, the bastard Roger will just use his watch and send Kayne more electric shocks thereby weakening him even further. I’ll be helping Roger instead of trying to save Kayne.
I look up and I catch Kayne’s gaze on me. Even broken and bruised he is still so stunningly gorgeous, rugged, and powerful. His eyes darken as he looks at me.
My heart whispers how much I love him. How much I want him to hold me again. There’s so much we need to learn about each other. Everything about us has been intense, secret meetings that should have been forbidden. The way he makes love to me, the way he fucks me.
Everything is coiled in violence and thrown our way. But now we were so close to being together. Happiness a few steps away from me. If only I had reached his arms faster, maybe my love for him would have changed our fate. Maybe the universe would have spoiled Roger’s clearly long-laid plans for us. Maybe…
I shudder and don’t breathe as the first punch is thrown. They’re attacking him simultaneously. Both big, bulky men, like concrete walls closing in on him.
I don’t want to look, but I can’t not. I love him. I need to see him. I need…
I look up, my body trembling, my lip bleeding. He’s weak. I can see that. I don’t know if he’s eaten and yet the food I’ve eaten lays in my belly and has turned sour.
He ducks out of their way. He sees me.
Kayne.
I can’t live without him. If something happens to him, I don’t want to be alive anymore.
I watch with my despair whirling around me. There is nothing left for me. Not even my country will make me want to live.
Kayne doesn’t make a sound as he leaps into the air. He grips one of the men, Gary, around his thick neck then swings and slams the flat of his foot into the throat of the other man, sending him down to the ground in a lifeless heap.
I stand up, unable to be still, oblivious to Roger still seated next to me.
He brings Gary down on his knees, then breaks his neck. The sounds startle me but before long Gary’s eyes roll up in his head. Kayne throws his lifeless body aside. It’s only then I realize the man he had kicked in the throat is also dead.
And Kayne is alive. The relief that washes over me ignites my soul. I want to run to him so badly, but I don’t.
Kayne. The only man I could ever love. The only man I ever want to love.
