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“That’s none of your fucking business, and stop taking his side in front of me before I drive my fist into his windpipe and end his motherfucking life.”
“Ouch,” Daniel says from behind me. “And I’m still over here, bleeding, thanks so much for asking, everyone.”
“You shut the fuck up. I’ll be with you in a second,” Knox enunciates from between gritted teeth before narrowing his eyes on me. “And, you. Go.”
“No. You have no right to do this. I already broke up with you.”
He grinds his back teeth together, then drags in a long inhale. “I never fucking agreed to that.”
“That doesn’t mean it isn’t true.”
“That’s exactly what it fucking means.” He shakes me by my arm, his voice becoming guttural and asphyxiating. “You’re mine, and no one touches what’s mine. You don’t let anyone put their hands on you or it’ll be the last time they touch anything.”
My breath hitches and it’s not only due to the raw possessiveness in his tone, or that his heat nearly melts me. It’s that I feel his words instead of merely hearing them.
They sneak beneath my skin and flow into my bloodstream faster and thicker than blood. I’m speechless in the wake of their intensity.
Completely and utterly helpless.
His fingers dig further into my skin as if driving the point home. “I mean it, so don’t make me act on it.”
“I also mean it. We’re over.” I sound calm and composed, even though a war is bursting through my limbs, destroying me from the inside out.
“Anastasia…” The thickness in his voice nearly makes me crumble.
I’m so weak for him, I realize. So damn helpless in front of these golden eyes that hold the world in their depths. A world I recognize myself in. A world I never wanted to leave.
Every part of me is urging me to explain, to throw myself in his arms and cry.
But that will only hurt him.
And me.
“Let me go,” I murmur.
“Not in this fucking lifetime.”
“Let me go, Knox. Just let me go!” I’m two seconds away from crying, from ruining the fragile façade I’ve been wearing since he came in.
“Not going to happen.”
Daniel steps to my side, still wiping the blood from his nose. “She said to let her go.”
“You keep your mouth shut and send any goodbye messages before I fucking murder you.”
“Knox…” Daniel grabs his arm and shakes his head, speaking slowly though with a firm edge that I’ve never heard from him before, “Let her go. You’re hurting her.”
I don’t know how he noticed it when I’ve been hiding my reaction, but his words prompt Knox out of his haze. He focuses on where his fingers are digging into my arm and releases me with a jerk.
I wince, not because of the pain, but because he’s no longer touching me. I prefer the pain over completely losing his touch.
The pain means he’s there, but its absence is no different than being abandoned.
Daniel sniffs, the blood still coating his nose. “You need to calm the heck down, mate.”
Knox raises his fist and punches him in the face and he jerks back, cursing.
“Fucking fuck, Knox. What the bloody hell is wrong with you? This face is real estate!”
