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“To Syed,” Everyone repeated. Oye settled her cup back down and once again found herself looking at Castian, who’s eyes reflected the light from the candles.
A hand brushed hers. She flinched, jerking her eyes to Arwin who smiled. He leaned in. Oye held herself back from grabbing his roaming hand and twisting it.
He leaned close, so his lips brushed the shell of her ear. “Don’t be nervous, your lover already told me I could have you. How does it feel to know; he plans to break it off after this all ends. Why not leave his bed for mine?”’
He drew back, his heated gaze running over her.
Castian had told this handsy ass he could have her?
She wasn’t his to give. Her anger rushed up so fast that she was distracted from Arwin’s, touching as she turned her gaze on Castian who had the audacity to stare at her as if she’d done something wrong.
Well, if he wanted Arwin to have her, then he couldn’t get angry if she allowed herself to enjoy it. She lifted her hand, and settled it on Arwins, keeping her eyes on Castian she turned so her lips brushed the other man’s cheeks. “Prove to me, it’s a worthy switch,” she whispered.
Arwin drew back and she met Castians rage filled gaze, she knew what she looked like in his eyes.
The candlelight made her dark skin shine, the lighting emphasized her delicate collar bone and well-endowed chest with shadows.
She wasn’t afraid, as she leaned in and enjoyed the sound of two people sucking on their teeth. She placed her finger on Arwin’s neck and drew it up to the tip of his chin, smiling. “I like a man who’s hard to get, rough and handsy. I want a man who would let the world burn to have me.”
Drawing back from Arwin, she faced forward and reached for her now filled wine and lifted it in a mocking salute to Castian. Castians jaw ticked, and as his eyes darkened in anger.
“That’s the kind of man I want to claim me.”
She didn’t know why she was saying such words, but her rage clouded her common sense. No man had any right to offer her to someone else on a silver platter. Especially not one, who’d told her once already with his actions that she wasn’t worth the risk.
Then again wasn’t she the one being an idiot, being attracted to someone who’d already lied to her once?
She stared into the dark liquid, tired of thinking she lifted it and took a deep drink. For now, she would enjoy this dinner after all the man sitting right next to Jake was Asher. His presence let her know that all of this would be coming to an end. Whether she spoke to Castian—Lancelot, ever again after this was up to the fates to decide.
CASTIAN
He’d been fighting his baser instincts since he’d seen her walk into the room in a slinky gown that hugged her curves in just the right way. It was driving him mad. He’d spent this entire time just watching her.
He felt like a carnivore searching for his prey. Her skin, hair, and body were beautiful. And even as she tried to avoid his eye, he never lost sight of her. Which is why when she took Nathan’s hand with a grim expression he’d debated on whether to interrupt them or not but the call to enter the dining room had ended those thoughts.
He’d watched as her smile turned strained destroying the happiness that had made her eyes shine in just the way he’d come to love.
Love?
BURN IT DOWN
CASTIAN
Was that what Oye stirred in him?
Wasn’t it lust?
No, it was love.
As he watched her display of seduction from across the table he knew it to be true. As she played with Arwin, Castian struggled from having his golem attack.
He watched as Oye’s eyes grew cold as she looked at him in a way that made his mouth dry. He let his beringed fingers click against his own cup of wine.
The speech Renson offered didn’t move him, so he didn’t feign interest. His only focus was Oye, who continued her game with Arwin. Hadn’t the woman said herself that she was done with games?
Apparently, it didn’t matter regarding stirring the darker side of his nature. Castian acknowledged that the removal of Ashiya hadn’t really changed him. He had to be a monster deep down, because he could only think of killing every single person at the table to demonstrate why she shouldn’t play these sorts of games with him.
“A man willing to let the world burn just to have me.”
