The Demon King (Otherworld Series #4)

Chapter 26

I could not explain how I felt. Nikolai's eyes pulled me in, they hypnotised me, I felt warm and fuzzy, I felt loved and cared for, I felt powerful, I felt like I belonged. Nobody had made me feel like that. Nobody had ever...

Suddenly, I felt rough calloused hands hold me down as my body was invaded. I felt painful hunger twist my stomach. I felt a knife digging into my thigh, carving in the words Vel Miorisi.

I closed my eyes and rest my head on Nikolai's chest, breaking the eye contact.

"You felt it ,didn't you?" He asked, after a few moments of silence.

"You felt that bond between us. It's there, Lunia. We're meant to be. You must have felt it yesterday ,too. When you were gone. You must have missed me, you must have yearned for me. Like I did. "

I gave a short burst of laughter for that sentence. "You had to ruin things between us by saying mushy, shit like that right? I thought we came to a truce last night." I said, pushing him away from me and getting out of the shower.

Nikolai followed, closing the valve of the shower. "You can try to deny how much ever you want, Lulu. I know you felt that between us. That warm feeling of belonging. I saw it in your eyes."

"What you saw were drops of water, in your eyes and in mine. There's nothing between us except for good sex. Which I want to keep having and with the direction in which your thoughts are going I don't think we'll be having it anymore. "

"You can't deny me, I'm your husband now."

I laughed again. "By some stupid demon ceremony? Come on, Nikolai, we didn't even care for the ribbon we were told not to cut off. As for the denying stuff. I am denying you, you can rape me if you want then finally you'd have something to compare with your guards in the Twin Hills dungeon. They all took turns, they never had enough of me."

Nikolai growled and surged forward. "You won't talk about other men! Now all you have to satisfy your needs is me. You will forget about your past life."

"Not so easily, Lele. You talk about a bond between us? Where was this magical bond when I was being violated in your dungeons? When I was hungry and sore? When I was being bitten by bugs and ants and all sorts of shit? Where were you and your fuzzy warmth?"

"I did not say fuzzy."

"What?"

"I did not say fuzzy. I only said that it was a warm feeling. That means you feel it. You feel it between us."

I snarled at him. "So I feel it. I feel your stupid bond. And it's unwanted. A hated ,forced feeling. I will never except it. Because it's a bond to my tormenter. I suffered thirty years."

"You weren't the only one suffering! My people suffered too! And I said sorry! I apologised to you, putting my pride behind my back!"

"You wanted to get laid! And if your people suffered then what we're those children doing in the village? You said there had not been children for how-many-ever-the-fuck-years. I saw children with my own eyes! You lied!"

"I didn't lie! Those children are not demons! They're born from demon mothers but they're not! Not a single pureblood demon for twenty years! Their fathers either kill them or send them into the forest to be eaten up by monsters! My people suffered with you."

"But you didn't! I want you to suffer, Nikolai! I want you to feel like how I felt! Alone, cold and lonely. "

We were both breathing hard after vocalising our issues. Suddenly, Nikolai pushed me to the wall and his lips were on mine. My hands immediately went into his wet blonde hair.

We kissed like we were two thirsty people desperate for water. Teeth clashed, lips were bitten, tongues fought. Nikolai's hands squeezed my breasts, I moaned, his tongue pushed mine aside and explored my mouth like last night.

My legs wrapped around Nikolai's narrow waist. "Fuck me." I growled, pulling his head away from mine by his hair.

He gladly did, his hands held my thighs and he penetrated me in one swift thrust. Instantly ,we were kissing again. I closed my eyes when Nikolai looked into them, resisting the bond.

It was there. Every time, we locked gazes. Neither of us knew what it was, and I did not want to accept it, Nikolai's story was different.

Why was he doing this?

Why did he want me to acknowledge the stupid bond?

Ever since I was poisoned Nikolai had been acting different. I almost thought that he had a different motive. But all thoughts vanished when his teeth penetrated skin.

Nikolai drank at my neck. He was a demon. He didn't need the blood but he did it anyway. I knew he wanted me to have my share too but I abstained. I did not want to drink from him....The bond maybe it was because I had drank from Nikolai. I would not risk strengthening it by drinking again.

Nikolai growled when I did not take from him. His thrusts grew more frenzied, rougher. He put his hands on my wrists and pinned them to the wall on either side of my head as he...fucked me.

"Look at me." I heard him whisper.

I kept my eyes closed and moaned as I felt him hit the right spot.

"Look at me." He repeated, his voice bolder.

I tightened my shut lids. He growled in my face. "You will accept this bond between us, my lulu. I will make you accept it. You will drink from me. And you will look into my eyes. Freely and willingly." He promised.

Never. I promised myself.