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I’d take anything she gave me with appreciation.
I looked at her, pride and shock on my face. Kaya’s response was to shrug. Her anger was still visible, yet it was evident she’d felt good punching me. I’d be her personal punching bag if that’s what she needed.
Anything for my little lion.
I cleared my throat. “Now let me fucking speak.”
“No. There is no good reason I’d marry you.”
I tilted my head to the side. “Aside from being insanely attracted to me?”
Her cheeks turned rosy, although only faintly. “Absolutely not.”
My hands touched her cheek—this was the last time I held back. Never again.
“Your heart races when I’m close to you,” I whispered, moving towards her mouth. “I give you orgasms no one will ever top. And you know that you’re addicted to my touch already.”
Our lips brushed. And then I smashed mine down on hers.
Ekaterina tasted like divinity and fury. Her soft lips were made for me to kiss, for me to fuck. Her sweet tongue made me go insane. A kiss so rough, so poisonous, and I welcomed it with open arms. It was deadly, and death by her kiss was the best way to go.
All of a sudden, I felt something pressed against my chest. A metal object. She distanced herself from me, holding a gun right where my heart was.
“I’m not marrying you, Davorin,” she said loudly.
The way my name rolled off her tongue with ease made my chest burn.
“Why not?”
She swallowed. I maintained eye contact. It was deep, prying into her soul. Ekaterina was cornered, and she wasn’t thrilled about sharing her thoughts with me.
“You make me feel. You make mefeel.And I hate to feel, Davorin.”
I’d never expected her to be so honest, so vulnerable. I grabbed her hand, which was safely wrapped around the trigger and brought the gun even closer, so it was digging into my chest.
“Then kill me right now, my sweet Kaya. I’m never letting you go, no matter how far you run. I’ll catch you and bring you right back to my side. So kill me right now and ensure your freedom. This is the only chance I’m giving you to escape. There won’t be another time.”
The look in her eyes told me everything. The woman who never thought twice about pulling the trigger, the woman who tossed people aside the second she didn’t need them anymore, the woman who held so much power over me hesitated.
Ekaterina hesitated.
S E V E N T E E N
Iflipped the switch on and closed the door behind me. Aleksei’s office was empty, and he was supposed to be home in thirty minutes or less. I hadn’t told him I’d drop by, which had given me the perfect opportunity to search through his papers.
After reading and listening through the conversations Rhea had given me, I was less and less convinced that all of this had anything to do with Aleksei. They wanted me dead. Uncertainty flashed in my mind. It made no sense to get rid of me though, because I was irrelevant.
Yet someone had hired a hitman to kill me. I was close to finding out who the motherfucker was, and Aleksei had the name. That was the only thing I was confident of—that my brothers were doing everything in their power to throw me off.
And it had fucking worked, for a while.
Martin Emmerson was irrelevant, and so was his daughter. Unless both of them had been part of a bigger scheme connected to ending my life, I failed to see why everyone had been overly attentive to an issue that could’ve been resolved in an hour.
I sighed and flipped through the papers. From time to time, I glanced at the clock above my head as I waited for my brother to return. Patience was a virtue, yet it wasn’t one of my strengths.
Something caught my eye. It was underneath a stack of papers on the far corner of Aleksei’s work desk. I knew which file it was—it was my medical record. I pulled it out, and all of the pieces glued together almost immediately. Pure rage consumed me.
“Snooping around, Ekaterina?” Aleksei’s voice was nothing but tired. He loosened his tie before scratching the scar that ran from just below his eye all the way down to his chest.
