Alpha’s Rue: His Shunned Luna (Athena Enchanted) novel Chapter 96

Chapter 96

KINGSTON

Every time I think things are starting to look up for my marriage, I get slapped in the face with the force of ten thousand buildings crashing at once.

I waited for Aeliana tonight, I paced the halls for hours in anticipation of her return. She had this huge smile on her face when she came in, so wide it unnerved me. I didn’t put it there, and when I smelled him on her, I almost lost it. I so badly wanted to trust every word she said, I was going to hug her until she was bathed in my scent again, but then she mentioned that job, and I truly lost it.

I don’t understand why she’s so desperate to get away from me, to hide away from our bond. I will go to war with Clinshore if they steal her from me again. I’ve only recently accepted I can’t run from the strings that tether us, and I thought she was warming up to the idea of us, but she wants to leave me, again. She wants to leave me with a broken bond, a broken heart, and let someone else pick up the pieces, someone who can’t replace her.

She doesn’t make it two feet before I go after her, I grab her wrist and yank her back. She gasps, staring at me with tears in her eyes. She doesn’t speak, she stares up at me, chest heaving and holding onto those tears for dear life, like it would kill her if she let herself cry in front of me.

“No,” I whisper, cupping her face in my hands. I don’t let her cry, I crash my lips onto hers and she pushes at my chest, her jabs weak. I kiss her hard, hungry, angry, she fights back, kissing me hard, our teeth clashing, and biting on my lip. She doesn’t stop until she tastes blood, and I make her swallow every drop she’s earned. “You do not walk away from me, Aeliana.” I breathe against her lips. “You can scream, throw things but never walk away from me again, not like that.”

“I hate you,” she gulps, her hands fisting on my shirt and kissing me again. Her words and actions leave immense room for doubt, and she quickly makes a habit out of biting my already busted lip. She claws at my shirt, her claws dragging down to punish me, I know what to do when a small moan slips into my mouth, so raw and furious that I can almost taste it.

I don’t care that we’re in the hallway, I reach for her dress and rip it, tearing the seams and shoving it around her waist. She bites on my lip again, and I groan into her mouth. In the next few seconds, I free my cock and hook her leg above my hip. She falls into me instinctively.

“Say it,” I say, my voice trembling with fear, desire, and desperation. “Say you’re mine, say you’re not leaving.”

She blinks, eyes wide with desire. “Fuck you.”

I thrust up, burying myself inside her with a single thrust. She lets a broken cry, her hands trembling against my shoulders. She’s soaking wet, like the back and forth was nothing but foreplay for her. Fuck, it turns me on. Her pussy squeezes me, trying to adjust to the brutal intrusion. “I won’t,” she says, gripping me tighter as I begin to thrust my hips into her. She bites down on her lip to keep from moaning.

“Say it,” I demand, thrusting faster, harder. She doesn’t answer me yet, she keeps her mouth closed, tears streaming down her face with her hands digging into my shoulders in an attempt to steady herself. “You’re mine. You’re not leaving.” I say it for her, driving my hips into her at a maddening pace, she finally breaks, not with the words I want to hear, but with a moan. “Say it, Ellie. Please, for goodness sake, just-say it.” I repeat, this time I stop moving, I slowly begin to pull my cock out while watching her. “I don’t fuck what’s not mine.”

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