At that point, an epiphany smacked me between the eyes. Maybe this intruder didn’t know I was the Queen of Alyria. I should put him in place.
“I’ll let you know that this pool belongs to Her Majesty Clarissa Rose, Queen of Alyria, and that is me,” I said proudly of my new identity. “And I don’t give you permission to enter this pool. Now get out,” I finished off with an authoritative tone.
The man only chuckled like an insane person, and when he didn’t listen, I threatened him again. “If you don’t let me go, I’ll scream for help.”
He only chuckled louder, as if he was purposely taunting me. His deep chuckle echoed around the room, my heart resonating the sound to so that it wouldn’t stop pounding. I told myself I was frightened, that was why my heart was behaving this abnormally.
“Stop laughing. I’ll really call for help. My two maids and half a dozen guards are standing outside that door right now. With just one shout, they’ll come in and rescue me.”
He cocked his head to one side and snarled out, “Do you really think they would come in to rescue you?”
He didn’t believe me. I proved him wrong. I screamed for help. “Lucy. Belle. Help me. There’s an intruder in—”
He pulled my legs, making my hands slip and I went down like a sinking ship.
I wasn’t a good swimmer, but still I fought, trying to swim back up when he enveloped me, holding me captive under water. I opened my eyes, his blurry face coming closer, until those lips sealed with mine. I felt his tongue thrusting into my mouth. I drummed his chest, trying so hard to tear my lips away from his, but he kept going, molding his lips to mine, trapping my face between his palms. I was starting to lose consciousness, my lungs starving for air. My world slowly turning black when sunlight lit up my world again and we came up for air.
I sputtered and coughed, with water stinging my eyes. Before I could get my bearings, he had his hand fisted behind my head again. He greeted me with a glint fury in his eyes, and growled beside my ear. “How was that? Did I succeed in making your wish come true?”
My wish? What wish? If it was supposed to be my first kiss, then this was all wrong.
I hit him hard on the chest, as soon as I was able to breathe again.
“Why did you do that?” I shouted out, gasping for more air in my starved lungs.
He dragged my head until we were mere inches from each other. Eye to eye, he hissed in my face, “Isn’t that what you wanted, since your first attempt at killing yourself only succeeded in you losing your memory. Or did you only plan to kill yourself just so you could receive pity from my people? Did you want to receive pity from me, too?”
He breathed harshly into my ear, drowning out the sound of my heartbeat. I blinked, not understanding a single word he was saying. When I looked away, trying to calm my raging heartbeat, he jerked my chin, until I was face to face with him again. Golden eyes beat down on me like the heat of a thousand suns.
“Your Majesty, Queen of Alyria,” he continued, without so much as a fault to his posture. “I’ll give you my honest opinion. If you want to commit suicide, you should have chosen a better location to die than in the bathtub. Why don’t you jump off a cliff instead? Save us all from healing you back to health, don’t you think?”
I was breathing so hard now, I could no longer think straight. My mouth formed into the shape of an O, but no words came out. The meaning of his words finally sank into my brain.
Dear Lord. This brute wants to kill me. I was already dead once. I don’t want to die again.
And with this, my energy surged back into me and I yelled at him with renewed strength. “Let me go, you brute.”
Somehow, I managed to push him off, but he caught my arms and pinned me against the side of the pool. I was trapped. Again. “Who are you? And what do you want with me?”
“Brute, huh?” he snarled, enjoying the position I was in. “I thought you would have invented another name for me by now. But I quite like it. If I’m a brute, then you’re the queen bitch,” he spat and laughed in my face, like a raving lunatic out of the mental hospital. “I can’t believe you don’t remember me. Shall I remind you again just what we are to each other?”
And before he finished saying those words, he jerked my legs apart and wrapped them around his hips, locking my legs in place so that I couldn’t move.
My eyes opened wider than a deer caught in headlights. I could feel all of him, his body heat, his rippled muscle beneath that shirt, and most of all, that hard budge between his pants, nestled within my...
I screamed in horror. “What are you doing? Let me go. Right this instant.”
“What? You don’t like this position?” He mocked me. “Last I remember, you screamed for more when we fucked like this.”
What...? What is he talking about?
Before I could even respond, he plunged his lips into mine again and forced his tongue to invade in my cavity.
“Mmmmm.” I struggled, hitting him more. I managed to tear our lips apart, when he gripped onto my head and captured my lips again.
He was a strong man. Not only was he holding my lips captive, he was also holding my body against my will, too. With one hand, he molded my naked breast, fingers sharply kneading, pushing and pulling at my nipple that I ended up gasping and shuddering for more air. My breath hitched. My body trembled. And my mind sizzled. I heard him chuckle when he pulled his lips away from mine.
“No matter how many times we fight, our bodies always seemed to understand each other.”
I was caught in a daze. Who was this man? What was his relationship with the previous Clarissa Rose? And was he the one responsible for inflicting all of those welts and bruises on Clarissa Rose’s body?
Suddenly I was whipped out of my daze when I felt a finger probe my insides. He... the... brute... he’s fingering inside me.
I summoned all of my energy to push him back but he only applied more force as he rubbed and traced the inside of my wall.
I panted. My body was betraying me. I was letting a stranger touch me. I was a virgin. No man had ever touched me there before.
Hatching a plan through my dazed mind, I held him close and let him kiss me. When he least expected it, I bit him hard, on his shoulder.
“Ahhhh!” He roared and released me. Under three heartbeats, he caught my chin and tilted my head back, to the point where I almost felt my neck was about to break.
“You brazen woman. You bit me,” he growled.
“You brutal man. I did bite you,” I retorted back, smiling at my victory.
But my triumphant achievement was short lived as he overpowered me in the next instant, taking charge of our situation and roughly yanking my legs apart to reveal my forbidden flower to him.
I wanted to curse him again for putting me in this vulnerable position, but I could feel my strength weakening already, and before I knew it, my vision had darkened and my body had slipped away into the empty black void.
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Ivy
I’m good at hiding. I left all those bad memories behind and now am starting a new life in this new town.
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Zac, the lead singer of Apollo, with his inky black hair and deep emerald eyes, tempts me in ways no guy has ever done before. He makes me want him, but my past keeps pushing him away.
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Ivy. She intrigues me. She’s like a cute little rabbit, always wanting to scr
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But no matter what excuse she has, I’ll make her mine.
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