Ruthless Empire (Royal Elite 6)

“I’ll let you guys catch up and join later.” I grin. “He’ll need to catch up when he sees you like that.”

“You think?”

“I’m sure. Bye!”

I’m flying down the hallway and into the lift before she can reply.

Mum isn’t the only one who’s excited. I feel like I’m going to fly out of my skin. Cole might be possessive to a fault, but he gives an infuriating silent treatment. If he’s angry at me, it takes a lot for him to break his silence.

Not that I make it any easier… I’ve got Mum’s stubbornness. And while it’s good to not let anyone step on me, it’s not so good when I recall how I kept denying what Cole and I both craved.

I arrive at his house in record time. Since I know the code, I put it in and step inside.

The house is empty. I think he mentioned something about moving back in after he’s out of RES.

Is that why he called me here? Will this be our place after we leave school?

I bite my lower lip to suppress a smile.

Don’t get ahead of yourself, Silver.

Pushing the door open, I step inside the mansion. “Cole, I’m here —”

My words die when something pricks my neck from behind. My tongue feels heavy in my mouth.

Black spots form behind my eyelids as my body hits the ground with a thud.

“Cole…” I murmur

“Shh. Your master is here, Doll.”

The world goes out.

42

Cole

It’s strange how you spend your entire life with someone and it turns out you don’t know them at all.

You don’t know yourself.

You wake up every day and take yourself for granted when that self has dissociated into something else.

Something potent.

Something criminally insane.

I spend the entire night reading the book. Dolls.

The alter ego never allowed me to read the book before, or come near it until completion.

Until I went in to search for that alter ego and didn’t find it.

I found the book, though. The full manuscript was left in an envelope on the table for the agent.

I found the clever words that hinted something real but still remained in fiction land.

What Gav did to his dolls, though? Yeah, that was described in meticulous detail.