“No, I’ve been busy surviving. I haven’t had a lot of time for romance.”
“Ahh.” His brow lifts and he smiles. “So, you’re looking to be romanced. We can do that, Baby, the three of us will treat you like a queen, bow down at your feet and feed from the nectar between your thighs.”
I feel my nose wrinkle and a cringe curl my lips.
“No?” He laughs. “Would you rather be at our feet, mouth open while we decorate all that perfect skin with our cum? You’d still be a queen, but we’d be your kings.”
Heat fills my cheeks and I look down at my hands, not capable of maintaining eye contact with him when he’s talking like this.
“Look at you, so coy and innocent. Are you a virgin, Baby?”
When I don’t move, he grabs my chin, forcing me to look up at him. “I asked you a question, Ali. Has anyone ever put their cock into your tight cunt?”
Steeling my gaze, I refuse to cower and nod.
“Good. I like blood, love watching it pour from a body, knowing it’s slowly going to kill them as the life fades from their eyes. But I don’t want to see your blood. You’re too alive, too vivid and bright. But the others won’t be as pleased as I am. Dimi will pretend not to care, but deep down, he’ll hate that he wasn’t the one to push through that barrier and claim you as his. Lev will be hurt that you trusted someone else with the honor of breaking you in. Who was it? Who shoved their cock through your hymen and declared their own death sentence?”
“No one important,” I whisper, vowing to myself to never utter Jack’s name. I don’t know if he’s even still alive, but I won’t ever send these men in his direction, not over this.
“Dimi won’t like that. He’ll punish you for not telling him. Are you prepared for that? To be punished for not telling us who fucked you first.”
“Punish me how?”
This time, his smirk is all devious mirth. “Who knows? He can be quite the sadist when the mood strikes him. He could hurt you or force so much pleasure on you that you beg him to stop. He could use you, or have one of us do it for him. Whatever he does, you’ll hate him and still beg for more. He’ll fuck your mind as much as your body, and in the end, you won’t know if you hate him or love him, but I promise, when he’s done, you’ll never keep something from us again.”
“If any of you touch me, it’ll be rape,” I tell him, forcing myself to hold his gaze as I speak.
“We won’t force you. We won’t have to. You want us, I can see from the look in your eyes.”
“No.” I shake my head.
“It’s okay to want us. We want you too, why else would we bring you here? We could have held you at any of our properties, we have houses all over the world, but this is our home. It’s completely unknown, not linked to us in any way. It’s so remote, it’s barely more than a dot on a map.”
“You kidnapped me, why would I want you? I hate you, all of you.”
“Hate us all you want; it doesn’t change anything. You’re ours now and it’s only a matter of time until you accept that.”
Moving so quickly I’m taken completely by surprise, he slams his lips to mine, kissing me ruthlessly. He doesn’t want this to be mutual, he wants to take from me and I let him. I don’t kiss him back, I don’t move, but I don’t fight him either. It’s a defeat and a victory for both of us.
One of his hands tangles in my hair, positioning me where he wants me so he can deepen the kiss. His other hand collars my neck and squeezes until I can’t breathe. Gripping at his hand on my throat, I claw and pull, desperate for air. When my vision starts to go black at the edges, he loosens his hold and I gasp for breath, only his lips are still on mine and I rasp until he pulls back and allows me to drag in a shaky breath.
His fingers are still around my throat, but instead of restricting my air, he gently caresses my skin. “You might be our queen, but remember that here, everything is at our liberty. You eat because we feed you, wear clothes that we provide you, and breath because we allow it. Make no mistake, we would prefer you to want us, but we don’t care if you hate us, because a part of us hates you too.”
Releasing me, he stands up and stalks away, his jaw tense and his shoulders rigid. The moment he’s out of sight, I let out a shuddering breath, lifting my hand to touch my tender neck.
“You would do better not to anger them,” Tanya says, stepping out from behind the side of the building where she’d clearly been listening to our conversation.
“He’s insane, they all are.”
She nods, but her smile is soft and warm. She’s not scared of them; she’s looking in the direction Vik went with longing in her eyes.
“Does he know you want him?” I ask her carefully.
“It wouldn’t matter if he did. They brought you here,” she says, swinging her gaze back to me.
“That wasn’t my choice,” I tell her, not wanting to openly say they kidnapped me in case she doesn’t already know.
“I know. But you’re still here.”