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XXV
KATIA
I’d lostcontrol of my mind and goals.
Ruled by greed.
Wanting too much. Wanting what I thought I deserved. As if I knew the things I desperately craved. Respect, appreciation, want.
Who was I kidding? Lucca was immune to them all. Immune to my games and deceit. They had earned me nothing but a fickle heart.
While I stood over my knife casing, waiting for him, dressed as theprincipessaI was, waiting for a man, I knew nothing had changed. The never-ending circle that continuously repeated in my life was only different by yet another timeframe.
Only this time, I was a bride-to-be. A broken but spiteful-hearted woman whose demands have fallen into the hands of a beatless heart.
I knew this because today I’d awoken to an empty bed. Like another fuck. Sore and bruised like a soldier who’d complied with every order.
Even as I knew this, felt this, I still leaned forward and listened closely to the sound of his car tires nearing. I was eager for a night away from this house and with him by my side. But once the car was parked, the sound of his exit or the door closing was non-existent.
Minutes passed with no Lucca in sight, just a running engine.
I gazed out the window, but the tint was too dark to see through.
Something wasn’t right.
The feeling had loomed over the house for hours. Viktor would usually wander throughout the house spontaneously, but today his demeanor had changed—alert and glued to his phone. And his easy smile had concealed information. He’d checked on me more than usual, and I misunderstood it as worry from yesterday’s turn of events. But at this moment, it made sense, and I should have listened to my instincts.
Once again, I had been left in the dark, and I was sick of it.
The engine turned off, and Lucca stepped out. I couldn’t see him clearly, and I hated not confirming my thoughts.
I waited and waited, but he never stepped into his study. Well, I was tired of waiting, so I walked toward the door and paused.
My eyes caught the two moves made since I’d last seen the unfinished chess game. And a crawling chill rolled over my body. I shook my head and left it behind.
I was really growing mad inside this house.
The closer I got to the door, the clearer the steps grew from the other side. I held the doorknob when the footfalls stopped.
One. Two. Three.
Nothing. They just stood quietly on the other side.
I pulled the door open, revealing dark eyes and an even darker aura. It pulled and swirled over me, bathing me in sin’s addictive promise.
“Why did you hesitate?” I questioned.
“I don’t hesitate.” He stared deeply into my eyes.
While I didn’t back down from our standoff, his immoral eyes fell over my cherry-stained lips.
“What’s wrong?” I asked.
Lucca shook his head, dropping his gaze down on my body. As if his attention on me was needed. His eyes traveled along my neck and over the skin my dark-green dress forgot to cover.
His mood quickly changed to need while his eyes followed my silhouette, tracing each curve and mold on my body and lingering over the long slit of my dress skirt.
A possessive demon lured behind his eyes when they returned to mine.
