Chapter 17
Chapter Seventeen
Katya
“You chose to return to me?” Alek asks as we drive away from my old house. From my family. It’s a mixture of complicated emotions. I want to be with Alek, I know that, but I want my brother to be happy too.
“I did. I’m tired of hiding myself forever. But Alek, is there anyway you can make peace with my brother?”
He keeps his eyes on the road but I can see the tenseness in his jaw, telling me he’s not happy about my suggestion. “I kidnapped you, Katya. There’s no chance at making peace with your brother.”
“Not even for me? I’m choosing to stay with you, even though it means hurting my brother. I love Dimitri. He’s helped me my entire life. But I can’t be the little girl he still thinks of me as. I know that now. But I also can’t go without seeing him forever.”
“Your brother will never make peace now. Not until I’m dead.”
I know that Alek is right and I have no way of changing things. Dimitri will not just step aside because I made this decision. My brother is stubborn. He’s going to come back for me again and Alek is going to get caught in the crosshairs.
We arrive back to Alek’s house. He storms inside to where Nina and Susanna are chilling in the living room, scrolling on their phones like they don’t have a care in the world.
They both jump to their feet however when they see how angry Alek looks.
I remain standing a little ways behind him. I don’t need Susanna’s wrath right now.
“Katya came by and you didn’t let her in?”
Nina hesitates while Susanna charges on forward. “Of course. She left you. She hurt you. She didn’t deserve to come back inside your home.”
“She is my wife!” he shouts at them, making them both startle back. “I have had enough of you two. You have been nothing but rude to Katya since you first met. You even tried to kill her. And when she returned to me, you didn’t let her in? I want you two out of my sight. I am so fucking angry.”
Susanna looks even more hurt than her sister does. Nina’s expression seems resigned, like she knew this was going to happen. But for Susanna, it’s like all the hope is slowly leaving her eyes.
“How can you choose her over us?” she hisses. “I have been with you for years.”
“As a daughter to me. You are still only sixteen. You know this, Susanna. We’ve talked about this. Katya is my wife now. Accept it. It will make you happier if you do. If you don’t, well… you’re going to let the hate inside of you consume you.”
“I hate you,” she says to him.
Alek nods like he expected her to say it. “You will learn one day. Now go.”
She plops down onto the couch with her arms crossed. “I don’t have to go. I have a right to be here. Since you’re practically a dad to me, I can live in your house.”
“Fine. Be stubborn. But stay out of my way. I need time alone with Katya.” He takes my arm and leads me upstairs. Fortunately, Nina and Susanna do not follow.
“What was that about?” I ask. “It almost seemed like Susanna…”
“Has a crush on me? Yes. She does. I didn’t realize it until after we married. But she’ll get over it. When she gets older and realizes how the world works.”
We enter the bedroom. The sight of the bed reminds me of how I gave Alek my body.
And I want to do it again.
“I was kept like a little girl for too long,” I say. “But I’m tired of being that way. I want to feel like a woman again.”
He settles his hands on my hips. “You are a woman. My woman.”
“Alek, I know you took me just because of my brother. And I know a part of you wanted to claim me to hurt him. Is that still the case?”
A darkness overtakes his features before he sighs.
“It was the case. But it’s started to change.
The moment I first saw you, I knew I had to make you mine.
And then I saw how afraid you were of so many things.
And I found myself wanting to help you. And then I kept losing you so many times and I knew I didn’t want to lose you at all. ”
His words hit me right in the chest. They feel perfect. “I want you again. I need it.”
Without a word, he slams his lips against mine. The powerful kiss makes me lightheaded. I want nothing else.
Alek doesn’t even bother taking off my dress. Instead, he shoves it up and rips my panties down. I cry out when his hand cups me between my legs.
He throws me onto the bed with a roughness that excites me. Alek keeps his dark eyes onto me, claiming me, locking me onto the bed, as he unzips his pants and pulls his erection out.
In a quick motion, he pulls my hips to the end of the bed before placing his length right before my entrance. I’m already throbbing for him. Achy for him. Ready for him. I need this more than I’ve ever needed anything.
Alek thrust his hips forward and enters me, not slowing down until he’s seated completely inside of my body. I let out a loud moan I can’t control. The need to let my emotions out of me is overtaking every part of my mind, body, and soul.
I grab onto his arms for dear life as he thrusts into me with wild abandon. This is Alek taking me like he wants. Making me his. Telling me that I’ll never leave him again and I don’t want to. He may have kidnapped me but he was the man to save me and I’m not letting go of that easily.
He grabs my hips and rolls over to sit on the bed so I’m straddling him. In this new position, he sinks even deeper into me.
“Alek,” I whimper.
“I got you,” he says into my ear, holding onto my waist with his strong hands. “Move, baby. Ride me. I want you to be the one to fuck me this time. Make this decision.”
A flare of arousal runs over my body at his words. I want to be in control of my life too.
Slowly, I begin to rock my hips back and forth, getting used to him so deep inside of me, but soon a pleasure courses through me. I still cling to him tightly like I might die if I let him go. Alek holds onto me just as tightly in return.
He holds my dress around my waist so he can grab my ass. Before I can react, he gives my backside a gentle spank. I gasp. “I know you love it. I know you loved it when I did it to you before.” He spanks me again with more force. It makes me move faster on top of him.
“Alek,” I gasp out.
“I know. We belong together. I knew it from the first second I saw you. You are mine.” He grabs my hips and brings me down harder onto his length. I almost choke from the pleasure of it all.
“Yes!” I need this more than life itself. The urge to be a woman. To be desired. To be free of my past trauma.
I haven’t felt trapped in days. I never want to feel trapped again.
Our lips collide in a passionate kiss that makes it hard to even think. It’s a miracle – to not have to think of all the things that make me anxious. Alek has helped me achieve that.
Our bodies move frantically together. Back and forth. Up and down. I need this. I need this. I need…
I gasp as my orgasm rips right through me and I shudder and tremble in Alek’s arms. He is merciless as he thrusts up into me a few more times before his own orgasm hits him.
We tremble together as he slumps onto the bed, me on top of him. He wraps his arms around me, protecting me. I never want to leave this moment.
“You are mine,” he whispers into my air.
“I want to be.”
“You already are.”
I sit up and slip off him, feeling suddenly cold. “I really want to be.”
“But you aren’t? You’ve given yourself to me, Katya. You’ve given all of yourself to me. How are you not mine?”
“Because I need you to make peace with Dimitri. Seeing him again today brought it all back. I need him in my life. But I need you in my life too. Make peace with him.”
“You know he’ll never do that,” he says, putting his penis away, marking the end of our lovemaking. Cold reality is hitting us.
“If we went to him together – you and me – we could talk to him. Make him see how good you are for me. But you would have to make a deal with him.”
He scoffs. “Make a deal with the man who’s tried to kill me on multiple occasions? No.”
“Alek.”
He finally looks me in the eye and his own expression softens. “I want you in my life, Katya. I want it more than I’ve wanted anything in a long time. But your brother and I have something in common: we’re both stubborn. It’s not going to happen.”
“Then I’ll never be able to be truly happy here. But I’ll never be truly happy at Dimitri’s either. Is that how my life is supposed to go? Never fully happy?”
He sits up with a groan, running his hands over his face. “Katya…”
“It’s how I feel. You took me to hurt my brother but we have found something special and you know it.
It’s not because I’m na?ve. It’s because it’s the truth.
If you want me to truly choose you, fully choose you, then you have to make peace with my brother.
I will help Dimitri see that. But you have to try as well. ”
“I –,” he cuts off as a loud boom echoes through the house.
Alek and I share a look before he grabs his gun from the nightstand and hurries out of the room. More slowly, I follow.
What I find is the front door has been blown in and Dimitri is there… holding onto Nina and Susanna. He – with two other men – are dragging them from the house. They’re both screaming and begging to be let go.
“You fucking bastard,” Alek snarls, lifting his gun but I grab his arm and shove it upwards so the bullet he fires lands in the ceiling instead of my brother. “Katya.”
“I’m sorry. But I can’t let you kill my brother.”
One of Dimitri’s men aims his gun at Alek when Dimitri tells him to stop. “Don’t shoot my sister. Just grab her.”
The guard keeps his gun trained on Alek so Alek can’t react and grabs my arm, hauling me away.
“Don’t do this,” I beg but the man isn’t listening. I’m dragged outside and given to Dimitri. I can see Nina and Susanna in the backseat of his car. “Dimitri, don’t do this.”
Alek comes running out but with all the guns pointed at him from Dimitri and his men, Alek doesn’t dare do anything.
“I am going to make you hurt,” Dimitri announces. “For how you made me feel when you kidnapped Katya.”
Without asking me what I want, Dimitri forces me into the car with Nina and Susanna before getting in himself.
I watch in horror as Alek runs back inside to avoid getting shot from Dimitri’s men. When I look at my brother, all I see is pure malice on his face.