SWNOVELS Alluring Darkness: Chapter 20
Jace snaps his fingers in front of my eyes. “Bro? You with us?”
Yanking my hand up, I grab his annoying fingers and move them out of my face.
“He’s probably thinking about Raina again,” Rico teases from across the table.
“Oh come on, that was two days ago.” Jace snorts. “There really—”
His words are cut off as I twist his fingers back, making him cry out in pain. Across the table, Kaden snickers while Jace tries to unsuccessfully pull his fingers back. I twist again, making him squirm in his seat and grimace.
“Okay, okay, I’m sorry,” he blurts out, admitting defeat. When I just raise my eyebrows pointedly at him, he mutters curses under his breath and rolls his eyes, but then adds, “Please?”
I release his fingers.
He snatches his hand back and shakes it out while shooting me a glare. I huff out a laugh.
“Just because you have an incredibly short attention span, it doesn’t mean that everyone else does too,” I say.
“Exactly,” Rico adds, and flashes him a grin. “We don’t call you Golden for nothing, remember?”
“Shut up,” Jace mutters at me before twisting to stab his finger at Rico instead. “And stop calling me that.”
“You were thinking about Raina, though,” Kaden interrupts before Rico can retort. There is a knowing look in his sharp brown eyes as he holds my gaze. “Weren’t you?”
Leaning back in my seat, I rake my fingers through my hair and heave a deep sigh.
We’re sitting around our massive kitchen table made of dark wood. It’s Saturday night, and great portions of the student body are busy getting drunk right now, but we decided to stay in and plan our strategy for the upcoming tournament instead.
Though to be fair, that was mostly because I didn’t feel like going out. Ever since I broke into Raina’s dorm Thursday night, I’ve felt even more restless than normal.
I’m sitting in our spacious and beautiful kitchen, full of dark wooden furniture and stainless-steel appliances and marble countertops, drinking whiskey and plotting mayhem with my brothers under the golden light of the expensive chandelier above. But all I want to do is to go back to that crappy little dorm room on the other end of the compound.
Tilting my head back down again, I meet Kaden’s calculating eyes and admit, “Yes.”
“Why are you so obsessed with her?” There is no judgement in his tone. Just genuine curiosity.
“I don’t know.”
“Yes, you do.”
I force out another long breath. “Look, I swear to God, there is something wrong with that girl. She’s fucking insane! And I should know. Because I’m insane too.”
Rico tips his head to the side in an acknowledging nod. “Well, can’t argue with that.”
Jace and Kaden chuckle. Shaking my head at the three of them, I give them a half disgruntled, half amused look and then blow out another sigh.
“What exactly happened when you broke into her dorm room?” Rico asks, frowning at me. “You said you were going to get revenge, but you came back looking more stunned than ever. What did you do to her?”
“I handcuffed her, tied her up with a rope around her neck, and then fucked her with a gun.”
Silence falls across the elegant kitchen as all three of them just stare back at me for a few seconds.
Then Kaden lets out a low approving whistle while Rico huffs out a laugh and shakes his head.
“Okay, that’s fucking hot,” Jace announces, a grin on his face.
“Yeah, it was.”
“Was the safety on?” Rico asks. Always the careful one.
“Of course the safety was on. But I didn’t tell her that until afterwards, so she didn’t know that while I fucked her.” Blood rushes to my cock at just the memory of that night, so I adjust my position slightly in my chair. Leaning back, I drag a hand through my hair again as I sweep my gaze over my brothers and then shake my head. “That’s what I’m trying to tell you. I put her in such a humiliating and vulnerable position that any normal person would’ve been bawling their eyes out with fear. But what did she do instead? She came so fucking hard that her eyes rolled back in her head.”
Grabbing the whiskey glass before me, I bring it to my lips and down the rest of the liquid in an effort to stop the sudden impulse that flashes through me. It takes all of my willpower not to lurch up from my chair and drive straight over to Raina’s place.
I thrive on taking people’s control away from them. Just like my control was taken away from me all those years ago. Ever since then, my soul craves the power that rushes through me when I have someone else completely at my mercy. I get off on forcing people to do what I want. Either by threats, power, or sheer physical dominance. But nothing has ever felt the way it did with Raina the other day.
My soul was feeding off her helplessness, her lack of control in the face of my power, but it was as if her soul was feeding off it too.
And now, it’s all I can think about. I just want to corner her and torment her and do wicked, depraved things to her so that I can see just how far I can push her before she finally breaks.
Kaden lets out another low whistle and then shoots me a look full of dark anticipation. “Oh, that sounds like one hell of a plaything. You sure you don’t want to share her with us?”
“No,” I snap immediately.
Jealous, possessive rage burns through me at the mere thought of someone else seeing what Raina’s gorgeous face looks like when stars burst behind her eyes and breathy screams rip from her throat. Even my brothers.
That sight is only for me to see.
Only ever for me.
“No,” I repeat, a bit calmer this time.
Rico and Jace just shrug as if it’s no big deal.
Kaden looks a bit disappointed, but then he just sucks his teeth and shrugs too, accepting my decision.
But I still add one more time, just to really drive the point home.
“No one touches her but me.”