CHAPTER EIGHT
Lexi stammered, unable to answer his heated question.
Her captor reminded her of a caged animal as he paced back and forth in front of her, the look of pure rage gracing the masculine features of his face.
She was completely unprepared for the deadly fight unfolding before her eyes.
If she wanted to survive the day, she needed to diffuse the situation as quickly as possible.
Deny. Deny. Deny, her mind encouraged. Deny everything!
“I...I... I didn’t do anything!” she cried out impulsively, listening to her brain instead of her gut. “I didn’t even know my phone was in there! I swear!”
No sooner than the words had left her mouth, she knew she had given the wrong answer by the way he stopped dead in his tracks. There was no reigning the beast in, now. It was over, she had just signed her own death warrant.
Kade growled, his face turning scarlet as his anger took hold of him. Alexandria had betrayed him and now she dared to lie to him? It took all his strength not to reach for her and toss her around like a rag doll.
“DON’T YOU LIE TO ME! ANSWER ME, LEXI!” he screamed, balling his hands into fists at his sides. “WHAT...DID...YOU...DO?”
Swallowing hard, she tried in vain to calm her racing heart. With a pained whimper, she released the hold on her legs and submissively turned her gaze towards the mattress. There had to be a way to turn the situation around in her favor. She had to try, at least. What did she have to lose?
“I found my necklace, you know,” she countered, completely changing the direction of the argument.
“You took mine just like you took theirs. You lied to me! You don’t love me.
I’m just a toy to you! Something to play with and then destroy once you’ve had your fill!
You want to kill me, just like you killed them. ..don’t you?”
Spurred on by her sudden accusation, Kade gave her a critical once over and allowed his dark fantasy to play in his mind’s eye.
He could imagine his rough hands wrapping around her thin neck, squeezing into her flesh as she twitched and fought to be freed.
He could see her sweet face turn crimson and then indigo as the light behind her emerald eyes slowly dimmed.
He could feel the euphoria that coursed through his body every single time he stole a soul from Death, claiming it as his for all of eternity.
It made his cock ache and his blood run molten just imagining it.
“And what if I do, Alexandria?” he asked, his voice suddenly eerily calm. “What if I do want to kill you and let you join the others?”
Blinking in bewilderment, she absorbed his heavy words.
Her worst fear was slowly coming into fruition.
She wasn’t expecting him to tell her the ugly truth.
There was nothing special about her, she was just one of the many pathetic creatures ensnared in his deadly trap.
There was one huge difference between her and the others, though.
She wasn’t about to go down without a fight.
“Good,” she spat, rising to her knees on the mattress to meet his eye level. “Because I want to kill you, too!”
Smiling wickedly at the defiant hellcat, Kade slowly nodded his head. He knew she would finally understand that she was his true match. Once she reclaimed her true self, they would be unstoppable together.
“Ahh, and that’s exactly why I can’t kill you, Sweetheart.
Don’t you see? That darkness that’s inside you is like a Siren’s call to me.
The first time I saw you, I knew that we shared the same twisted impulses.
That we are both driven by the same savage instinct.
We need each other, my love. And now that I have you, I’m never letting you go. You are mine.”
Narrowing her eyes, she attempted to mask her shock with a deep scowl.
Did he really know about her past? She had worked very hard at wiping that chapter of her life from the world, there was no way he could know.
Even if he did somehow, that Alexandria no longer existed.
She was a changed woman, her impulse to kill no longer controlled her. He was wrong, they were nothing alike.
Liar, liar, pants on fire, her mind taunted.
Sensing that his love was struggling with the weight of his words, he took in a large breath and stepped to the side of the bed. Reaching out, he cupped both sides of her flushed face and bent down to press his forehead against hers.
“Do anything to jeopardize our life together again,” he warned, his voice hovering just above a whisper. “And I will hurt you, my love. I will hurt you so badly that you will wish that you were dead. Is that understood?”
Trembling as her adrenaline flowed, her eyes met his dark storm head on. She believed every word that had spilled from his full lips. There would be no escaping him. The only way she would ever be free is if she broke her own vow and took his life.
“Yes, I...I understand,” she acknowledged, her voice cracking with the realization of what she needed to do.
“Good girl,” he praised, reluctantly releasing her face. “Well. Now that we have that out of the way, it’s time to go, my love.”
Lifting a brow, Lexi watched in dismay as he stepped over to the wooden nightstand and opened its drawer. No, they couldn’t leave now. Not while there was a sliver of a chance that Leo could alert the authorities. They needed to stay right where they were.
“Go? Go where?” she asked, trying her best not to panic.
Reaching into the tiny drawer, he sighed in annoyance and removed a pair of silver handcuffs.
Walking back to her, he roughly grabbed her thin wrists with his free hand.
He knew exactly what she was thinking, and it irked him to no end.
Her precious little airline pilot wouldn’t be able to swoop in and save her, now. No one would.
“You’ll know when we get there,” he answered curtly, cuffing her wrists together.