“I wasn’t going to.” She enters slowly, crossing her arms in front of her body.
She’s wearing tight jeans, black boot heels with spikes on them, and a relaxed blouse. Kinda wanna tear it off her, but I’m not keen on going through the same cycles. Sex has never been our downfall; it’s always been the chemistry. We’ve had too much of it. Even before I turned into Ghost, there was one thing absolute.
I would kill and be killed for her.
“What changed your mind?” I pull my cigarette packet out from the back of my jeans, banging the end against my palm. I’d entertain her for now, mainly because I’m curious about how she’s going to try this. I know she doesn’t want to save Luca. Meraki may be a good person, but she’s no saint. Evil lurks in her soul, and I know this because I put it there. Which also means I control it…
I bite down on the trunk of my smoke and light the end.
She leans over and snatches it from my mouth, placing it in her own. Her green eyes peer up at Luca, squinting around the thick gray smoke. “I need to make sure he’s dead.”
Leaning forward, I hook my hand around the backs of her thighs and pull her into me. “It’s gonna be bloody.”
Her finger touches the edge of my jaw. “I know.”
I take the cigarette out of her hand and bring it back to my lips, smirking. Pushing up from the stairs, I make my way farther up until I find Luca’s eyes wide and on both Meraki and me. Luca doesn’t love Meraki. He has always used her as a pawn.
“What’s with him? Is there anything else that I need to know?” she asks softly, and it fucking annoys me that she’s anywhere near something so dark, but at the same time, I want to fucking ruin her with it all.
“Nothing you didn’t already know. The Island filled with fucking pedophiles and the women who were given to Luca and Joseph to serve as Anchorites until Luca knocked them up and resold the babies too. The drugs they’d pump into them, they’d sell and cook. You already knew all of it.”
“I didn’t know about the murders though, Nik.” It was so low I almost missed it. “They killed kids and babies?”
“Yeah.” I clear my throat, unsure whether or not to believe her.
She had become increasingly hard to read over the years, probably from trauma response.
“They’d fucking sacrifice them on that island.”
“Aren’t you going to ask me why I never stopped him?”
She’s closer now, and the closer she comes to Luca, the more prominent the hairs on the back of my neck rise. Every fucking feral demon that resides inside of me suddenly comes roaring to the surface.
“No,” I snap through gritted teeth. “I already know why you did it.”
When she doesn’t stop moving closer, I spin around and grab her by the throat, halting her movements. He’s wounded, bound, and tied to the fucking beam, but fuck, if the irrational side of me doesn’t even so much as want her breathing the same air as him.
She stares up at me with defiant eyes. “What’s the matter, Niko? Suddenly it’s not fun anymore?”
“Fuck you.” I kiss her gently before nibbling on the swell of her bottom lip.
“Please do.” She bats her eyelashes up at me and the grip I have on her throat loosens slightly. I lower my mouth back to hers.
This time my tongue dances across the edge of her lip before diving into her mouth. She brings her hands to the front of my jeans as I swallow all the sensual moans she’s force-feeding me. She flicks off the button of my jeans and yanks them down until my cock rests heavily in her palm.
She breaks the kiss, slowly massaging the tip with her thumb. “He used to fuck me when I was asleep.”
My eyes roll to the back of my head as she sucks a trail over the sharp curve of my collarbone. “Yeah? I’ll be sure to do that for you.”
I drive my fingers into the band of her jeans, massaging her soft mound in my palm as my thumb circles over her clit. She loses her train of thought and her knees buckle as her body dips to the floor.
“Get naked.” I step back, removing my shirt and tossing it off the stage while grabbing my pack of smokes.
My eyes trail up to Luca’s whose are going between Meraki and me.
“I’m not doing this for you, motherfucker. This is for me.”
I didn’t realize how close I had drifted toward him until we were nose to nose. I lower my voice, smirking. “Because she is, and always will be mine.”
I know Meraki won’t hear, but my message is loud and clear with Luca.