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Besides, I wasn’t going to struggle. It would only make him happier if I did. I needed to save my energy for later. Dipping his head down, he popped my nipple in his mouth, sucking and tantalizing the bud until I was curling my toes. Biting my bottom lip to keep from moaning, I swallowed hard. He laughed his musical laugh.
“Oh, sweet Little Shadow. Don’t worry,” he crooned, a dark promise in his gaze. “I’m going to make you scream.”
Swallowing again and him biting so hard on my nub, I saw blood as it began to well onto my skin. His eyes transfixed onto those droplets.
“My family, as you probably know by now,” he said conversationally, grabbing my wrists in one grip and twirling my dagger in his fingers with the other. “We are from the Russian gang known as Moya Kotva.”
Leaning down, he licked my lip, the metallic taste of my very life on his tongue.
Going to my ear, the red liquid still on his lips, he whispered, “My. Blood.”
I had a feeling that Lucius was part of something big, but I didn’t realize how big it was until this very moment.
“Alyosha Puriya,” I stated, my only knowledge of its leader.
Lucius looked into my eyes. Studying me and trying to figure out something just by looking into my eyes.
“My father always has been an exhibitionist. Loves everyone knowing his name.” Lucius’s face darkened. “He’s who you’ve been looking for, Snow White. Not my sister. You kill her, and you’ve killed an innocent woman who just happens to have the wrong lineage.”
I pondered that. Alyosha was big news. He controlled all of Russia and half the states.
“You were sent here to find me.” I put together why a don’s son would be shipped off to America. Certainly not just to be a playboy. “Black Mirrorsis a front for most, if not all, of the dirty money.”
I continued watching Lucius. He didn’t deny it. He just let me put each puzzle piece together.
“Eilizaveta is your twin sister, and she was brought here too because you wouldn’t kill me?”
Lucius scoffed. “No, Little Shadow, that’s where you’re wrong. My sister was kidnapped in Russia in her own home. She was supposed to supersede our father, but my cousin had other plans.”
Hatred radiated off him. His grip on my wrists became bruising.
“Markus,” I said aloud.
“I shouldn’t be surprised you’ve been my shadow.” Lucius was grinning now.
“Only returning the favor.” I smiled back, sickly sweet.
“Where did you get this dagger?” he said, twisting the intricate handle and looking at the beauty of it.
“My father made it.” I tried not to show my pain, but it was too evident.
“I am sorry,” he said, making me blink in surprise. “What? I do have a soul. It’s just painted black.”
I snorted.“Yeah, and mine’s red.”
He eyed my chest, the exposed feeling making me shiver. “I love you in red.”
With that he ran my blade over my chest, a slight red line painting me. I gasped at the feeling of pain and pleasure. That secret euphoric sting made me feel so alive. Lucius noticed my reaction. My body practically levitated under him.
“Interesting,” he chuckled, taking that sharp tip across my belly, the cut a bit deeper, and the blood dripping down my side.
“My Little Shadow likes to bleed for me.”
I whimpered, not caring that he was teasing me. I just wanted this. No, I needed it when so much pain was carried inside me all the time. It felt so freeing to let some of it out. My pelvis ground into his hardening crotch, and his moans made my body shake.
“Careful.” He groaned, meeting my thrusts, gripping my wrists even tighter.
He liked this, too. “I can take your life so easily. Watch you drain drip by drip.”
