Chosen By The Cursed Alpha King (Emilia) novel Chapter 16

For a moment he didn’t answer, just watched me like he was trying to peel off the layers of my skin.

I didn’t move, didn’t speak, just stood there with my hands clenched at my sides and my heart racing.

Why was he looking at me like that? So intensely, like there was some he knew about me that I didn’t.

“Why are you looking at me like that?” I asked, finally breaking the silence but still he didn’t respond, just continued watching me.

I swallowed, fighting the need to shrink in fear.

I wouldn’t give him the satisfaction of seeing me in fear. After last night, I came to the conclusion that fear is not an option.

That fear would only make me look weak—a prey. What else are they going to do to me except kill me.

So if I’m going to die, I’d rather not die a coward.

“Are you just going to stand there and look at me all day?” I snapped,

“You said you have an offer for me…what is it?” I asked impatiently, feeling too exposed with his stares.

Finally, he blinked like he had come back to reality then he spoke;

“I have an offer you won’t be able to refuse,” he said and I folded my hands, my head tilting in curiosity.

“Let’s hear it,” I said,

“So the deal is that…” he paused, and his eyes did that thing again—burned right through me, like he wasn’t just looking at me but into me.

I fought the urge to squirm.

He took a slow step forward, closing the space between us. Not enough to touch me, but enough to remind me who held the power in this room.

“You’ll give me anything I want,” he said finally and I couldn’t help but raise my brow.

“And what exactly do you want?”

Instead of giving me a response, he covered the space between us and I immediately moved back instinctively.

He didn’t stop, he took another step towards me and I took one back and he kept walking towards me until my back hit the wall and there was no escape for me.

I looked to my left and right but before I could make up my mind to run, his arms were already caging me and goddess, his scent hit me like a train and it took so much self control not to breathe in and take as much of his scent as possible.

My eyes met his and he was already staring at me.

Remember Emilia, fear will only make you look weak.

“What exactly do you want?” I asked, voice coming out firm, hiding the fear inside me.

“You,” I blinked like I didn’t hear what he just said,

“What?” I asked in disbelief.

He brought his hand to my lips and rubbed his thumb on my lower lips.

Then he leaned down until his lips were touching my ear.

“I want you to be my property, you’ll eat when I say so, you’ll sleep when I say so…” he took my earlobe between his teeth.

…”you’ll serve me, do anything I want…” a shiver went down my spine as his breath fanned my ear and then his voice dropped lower.

There was a bit of silence before his voice came again, so thick, my stomach flipped.

“And when I want to fuck you, Emilia, you won’t get to say no. I’ll take you-wherever, however, and whenever I want.”

I shouldn’t have, but I clenched as I thought of that happening but then I remembered what the outcome would be if it ever happened.

Death.

I couldn’t help it, I threw my head back and laughed. There was nothing funny about the situation but I just had to laugh. “You tried to kill me last night and today you want to claim me as your property…no, pet, because that’s the exact word I know you want to use.”

“I’m not done.” He growled, voice cold and menacing and that shut me up immediately.

“You’ll share my bed with me, you’ll obey me, if you disobey me you’ll be punished.” His voice was dangerous, making the hair on my arms rise.

“By now you should know who I am and what I’m capable of.” I opened my mouth to speak but the hard glare he gave me made my life flash before my eyes.

“You’ll belong to me until you’re able to give me a son and then…”

Give him a son? Is he crazy? Was he expecting some kind of miracle to happen? I’d be dead the moment he’s inside me, except he expects a pregnant ghost.

… “I’ll set you free.” My breath caught at his words and I took a step back despite the fact that there was nowhere else to go. Did I hear him right? He’ll set me free. He’ll set me free?!

But then the conditions came ringing in my head.

Be my property.

You’ll belong to me.

You’ll give me a son.

I shook my head and I didn’t know how I did it, but I managed to maneuver my way out of his hold.

“That’s impossible. I don’t belong to anyone and besides if we do it, I’ll die. How do you expect that to work? And what if… what if I find my mate?”

Something dangerous flashed in his eyes and for a second his eyes flashed black before turning back to blue.

“How can I give you a child when I’ll be dead the moment you decide to touch me?”

“You’re different Emilia,” my heart skipped a beat at hearing my name fall from his lips. This was the first time he was saying my name.

“Different? How?” I asked.

“There’s something special about you, I don’t fully understand it yet, but for the first time in years, you’re the only woman my beast didn’t feel the need to kill but claim.”

“You’re insane,” the words were out before I could stop them.

“I almost died last night and you think you were being merciful to me?”

No response.

“I’ve made my offer, Emilia, be mine, give me a son and I’ll let you go, it’s as simple as that.”

Simple? He still doesn’t get it or is he suddenly forgetting who he is.

I looked him straight in the eyes, my answer already lying on the tip of my tongue. “No.”