Four

Kane pretty much avoided her after the sex session. Ruby didn’t know if she could call it avoid or just keeping her mute, he would see her and not even give the barest hint of a smile. Just give her his smoldering look and turn away.

Ruby also knew why he was like that, she had seen through his tough exterior and he didn’t want that. He didn’t trust her with it, he didn’t trust what she would do with that knowledge.

He didn’t know she didn’t see him the way others saw him. All Ruby hoped for was a good marriage, one that would work and shock members of the crescent lune pack. Ruby stared at herself in the mirror and held her stomach imagining how it would feel to have Kane children. They would be as powerful as he is. She wanted them to be dark haired like he was and have his smoky green eyes.

The door opened and a maid walked in, holding a vacuum cleaner. She nodded her greetings to Ruby.

“Do you know where Kane is. I can’t seem to find him” Ruby asked.

“At the gardens, inspecting somethings.” She said and Ruby nodded. Ruby slipped on my slippers and hurried to the garden. She was eager to see him, to talk to him. She felt like she could breach those walls he built around himself.

Kane was pacing the length of the garden when she got there. He raised his head immediately Ruby stepped foot onto the garden.

“Hey” Ruby greeted, smiling uncertainly and he gave her a blank stare.

“What are you doing here” he growled and she flinched, taken aback by the sound.

“I wanted to see you” She said and he scowled.

“I don’t want you around me when I didn’t tell you to. Go back to your bed, I’ll fuck you when I am ready” he said and Ruby shook her head.

“You are angry” She said and he ignored me. “You are angry that I got to see your soft side” she added and he whirled around sharply.

“Soft side? No Ruby. I showed your mercy, be grateful because it would be your last” he seethed and she shot him a stubborn glare of her own.

“I am not scared of you” Ruby said. Probably the most foolish thing to say to an alpha she just met. Kane eyes darkened, his mouth curved downwards in a sneer and he stepped closer. He was so menacing looking that Ruby stepped back.

“Kane? Don’t……” he grabbed her throat and squeezed. Ruby’s eyes bulged and she tapped at his hands frantically.

“You are not scared huh? Do you know how much I enjoy watching the light go out of the eyes of people I killed” he whispered dangerously and she nodded

“Ple…a…..seee” she gasped and he flung her away like a toy sending her crashing on the ground meters away from him.

“Last warning Ruby” he said without turning back to see if she was okay. “Don’t ever think you can control me”

Ruby nodded to herself. How foolish she was to think she could easily break through him. The soft side was there, yes but Kane had already grown dark in his mind and it would take more than mere sex to get to him. Ruby could tell he was angry that she had seen him loose guard.

Ruby picked her sorry self from the ground and headed back inside. Her clothes were soaked from the dew on the grasses in the gardens and her pride was hurt.

Who even in their right mind, pick their wife by the neck, squeeze it, choking her then tosing her away like a rag doll. Kane, of course. Which was why he was the most fearsome alpha in North America.

When Ruby got to her room, she changed my wet clothes into a simple T-shirt and jeans. She turned to the door and screamed in surprise when she saw Kane standing there looking emotionless.

“Kane?” She said softly and he shut the door behind him and folded his arms.

“Take off your fucking clothes” he growled and Ruby stared at him. Did he wanted to do it now, she wasn’t ready to be honest and she wasn’t also in the mood after throwing her like a rag.

“Kane I……”

“I said take off your clothes Ruby. Don’t make this hard” he said. His tone was so flat that her heart pounded.

“Please Kane I am sorry for calling you weak. I shouldn’t have……..”

In three long strides, Kane had her bent over and he grabbed the clothes in this hands and ripped it off. He pressed her head hard on the dresser and I heard his belt unbuckling.

“Kane, please stop. My head hurts” Ruby pleaded but he pressed it harder and she felt him slip inside her. He wasn’t gentle or slow. He moved erratically, making it hard for her with her head pressed against the dresser. Ruby sobbed as he violated her, he kept moving furiously and groaning. Kane continued moving faster and she could feel him even hitting her womb and he didn’t even stop, he kept going until she felt him shudder and the feeling of his juices flooding her insides. Ruby sobbed quietly feeling like she had been raped. Was this what he did to the other women? He spun Ruby around and grabbed her head and shoving her up against a wall.

His green eyes shone maliciously, and his hand tightened around her jaw.

“This is the real me. Uncaring, selfish, doing what I want for my own gain. I don’t know how to love or keep feelings. Like I said you are my sex toy, nothing more. If you try to seduce me without me starting it first. This would just be the top of an iceberg. I torture people for fun. Got it?” He rasped and she nodded. Tears blurred Ruby’s vision and she blinked them back. He sneered again and flung her onto the bed and took of his shirt. Ruby’s eyes widened.

“I thought…you…..you were done….” She managed to say and he scowled.

“No woman…..I am just starting with you. If you can walk by tomorrow then I renounce my alpha title”