Cruel King (Royal Elite 0)

“I heard you’re not dropping the accident with the police.” His tone turns dispassionate.

“You know about that?”

Aside from Dan and the odd student here and there, I didn’t think my non-fatal accident meant much to RES, especially not to the point that Levi would know about it.

My invisibility game must be getting too weak.

“Drop it,” he says in that infuriating authoritative tone.

“Huh?”

“Stop going to the police station, stop digging your nose around. Drop. It.”

“Are you out of your mind? You want me to let a criminal who left me to die off the hook?”

“You look fine to me.”

“You’ve got to be kidding me.” A potent fire shoots through my veins. “While you were having fun in your stupid summer camps, I spent my days in physical and mental therapy. Bet none of you thought I’ll come back, but I’m here now and I’ll make anyone who made me suffer pay. So don’t you dare stand there and have the audacity to tell me to drop it. That will never happen, King.”

I pant after my outburst. My ears and face are on fire and my entire body is stiff, but I don’t back down from his demonic stare.

It actually feels super good to give him a piece of my mind. Screw him if he thinks he can make me give up on my justice.

Something undecipherable flashes on his face as he steps back with his head tilted in that assessing, unnerving way.

“I’ll play the game. Think carefully because this is the only time I give up the first move. What will make you give up?”

“Nothing.”

“Nothing, huh?”

“Absolutely nothing.”

“Tell me, princess, is your sense of justice more important than everything else?”

I lift my chin. “Of course.”

The unnerving silence returns as he measures me from the top of my head to my shoes. It’s not in a sexual way, though. He’s like some hitman assessing which way will kill me faster and with less hassle.

When he meets my eyes again, they’re darker than a few seconds ago.

Black.

Lethal.

“We’ll see about that.”

Dread tightens my stomach. “What the hell is that supposed to mean?”

“It means…” He taps my nose twice with an easy smile that would’ve made him appear welcoming if I didn’t already know that a devil lurks inside him.

“Break or I’ll do it for you, princess.”

9

Levi

You were caught in a crossfire where I could only win.