THE PAIN quickly disappeared that it almost became a memory as ecstasy followed right after. Zackary lifted me and wrapped my thighs around his waist. In a blink of an eye, we were already inside his quarters. He pinned me against the wall, his tongue was stroking mine, gently at first, as if he was trying to calm me down.
I could push Zackary away. I could try to fight until he recovered his senses, until he was back to being sane again. Because there was no way that someone like him would hold someone like me.
But the instant he took me in his arms, I was suddenly reminded of the reason why I stayed in this domain even when I shouldn’t.
Seconds later and Zackary must have realized that being slow was not his thing. He tore my clothes and underwear while his mouth was still on mine. He was assaulting my tongue and was touching me in places no one had ever seen or touched before. I shivered when I realized that I was now completely naked before him.
But the coldness didn’t last long. Zackary made sure of that. My body burned with his every caresses. He left my mouth only to continue his exploration somewhere else. He licked and bit my neck, not enough for it to bleed, but enough to make me crave for more of his touch and kisses.
“Zachary…” I whispered as I held onto his shoulders as if they were my lifeline.
He growled like a starving devil while he held my breasts in his palms. I could feel the tips hardening the more he touched them.
“Say my name again.”
I smiled. No one had ever called his name before. If only he was not in his rut, his soldiers would have already sent me to the dungeon for the disrespect I just showed to their king. And if this was the first and last night that I’d get to call him by his name, then I’d do it again and again.
I cupped his cheeks. “Zachary…”
He squeezed and tugged my nipples in response. My breathing hitched. It stung, but it felt unbelievably good. Every time he would touch me, there was a tingling sensation in the pit of my stomach.
“More, Zachary,” I begged.
Our eyes met. His eyes were still red, but it didn’t look as terrifying as before. He took my eyeglasses and threw it away before removing my hair tie. In an instant, my hair fell over my shoulders.
He looked at me with fire in his eyes that made me blush. Did he like what he was seeing?
“Lovely, just lovely,” he said in a hoarse voice as if he had read my mind.
My heart pounded. I was yet to recover when he suddenly put me down and bent his knee in front of me. I gasped. Am I seeing it right? The King… just kneeled before me. If his subordinates were to see him like this, they would surely faint.
Did he do this to the women who came in his chambers, too? Was he always this gentle? But somehow, it was hard to imagine a man as dignified as him doing this again and again to different women. They said the King was a beast in bed, yet, somehow, with the way he was gently caressing me, I find that hard to believe.
I didn’t even know that a tyrant like him was capable of such gentleness.
But then, it couldn’t be just me. I couldn’t be the first woman he acted this way with. Who was I anyway? I couldn’t even tell if he could recognize me as his secretary or if he was just seeing me as someone he desperately needed to feed on.
My face burned from shame when I caught him staring at my dripping flesh. “Please stop staring.”
I was about to close my thighs when he stopped me. “Don’t.”
“But-“
“It’s beautiful. I’d never seen a meal as beautiful as this. Thank you for the meal. I’ll enjoy it to the fullest.”
Zachary didn’t give me the chance to back away when he grabbed my buttocks. And then I felt his soft and warm tongue messing with the sensitive bud above my opening. He grazed his teeth over it before licking it and rubbing it in hard, little circles. I arched my back and shut my eyes by the sensation it had brought all over my body.
I didn’t know that foreplays could be like this. Now I know why all the women the King had fed on ended up begging for more each time. I couldn’t understand why they would want to be devoured all over again. I was wrong. There wasn’t pain. Just raw pleasure, the kind that only this King could bestow.
I couldn’t even feel that Zachary was feeding on my energy since I felt it was only natural for my knees to go weak because of what he was doing to me.
“You taste so sweet, Kate,” he whispered.
So, he knew it was me, after all.
When my knees trembled and I couldn’t stand anymore, he put my thighs over his shoulders. My soft flesh was now very much exposed before his eyes. And he didn’t seem to mind as his fingers parted my folds. And then he pushed his tongue inside me which made me tremble and had me screaming for his name.
Even when I came, his tongue didn’t stop. He continued assaulting me down there that I felt like I’d lost my mind.
I was panting and sweating when he finally released me. And just when I thought it was over, he carried me to the bed and took his clothes off. My throat went dry after seeing his body. The women he bedded called him their evil god, they worshipped his body and looking at it now, I could understand why.
Even with those eyes and fangs, the king was perfection. I gulped when I saw his thick, hard length. I could see its veins and ridges. It looked terrifyingly beautiful.
And tonight, it was mine. The King… was mine.
He climbed on the bed and claimed my lips. I could taste myself in his kisses, but I couldn’t let go as his tongue probed deep in my mouth. This time, he seemed to be in a hurry and without warning, he slid his shaft inside me.
He took me fast, hard, and deep.
There was a slight pain, but Zachary had made me forget that as he engulfed me in his heat. And together, we were lost in the ecstasy of the moment.
I WOKE up when I felt something hard inside me. That was when I realized that Zackary’s shaft was still buried deep inside me. I could feel his warmth flowing into me. He was embracing me from behind and by the sound of his breathing, he seemed to have fallen asleep as well.He didn’t pull out as if even in his sleep, he didn’t want to let me go. Surprisingly, my body didn’t feel sore at all.When I glanced at my wristwatch, it was already ten in the morning. And yet, the entire Castle seemed to be quiet. Was it still because of the lingering effect of what Zachary did to them last night?After a while, I shook my head. My life was already so messy. I had no time to think about other things. All I know was that I have to escape now.Alucard had found me which just meant that I couldn’t stay in this Castle anymore.When I tried to move, Zachary stirred and squeezed my nipple. I bit my lower lip to suppress my moan especially when I felt his thing getting harder inside me. But I could s
“MOMMY!”My heart pounded when I heard that voice. When I turned around, I saw a little girl running towards me. I’m guessing she was around five years old. She had chubby cheeks, curly blonde hair, and bright blue eyes. She was beaming as she tried to reach out her tiny hands to me. The sight tugged at my heartstrings. She looked so beautiful and yet, so familiar which was odd because this was my first time seeing her.I should know because I would have remembered that face. That was a face that was not easy to forget.She stopped when she was in front of me. And when she smiled at me, my chest swelled with so much warmth, joy, and pride.Wait. Pride? But why?I didn’t even know her. But somehow, it felt like my heart knew her, like I was gazing at a face that I had known my whole life which was really weird.And when she held my hand, all of her dainty fingers were clasped on mine, it felt cathartic that I found myself suddenly tearing up. What was this feeling? Who was she? How cou
“IT WAS truly a pleasure working with your brother. He will be deeply missed,” Elliot said.Out of the hundreds of children that were brought in the Dela Torre residence, only Terrence and I were the ones allowed to inherit the surname. The first lesson that Leonel Dela Torre, the former King of the Hunters, taught us was to get rid of our human emotions. We were raised not as humans, but as robots, who could only move based on his commands.We were the seniors’ possessions. They were our owners. The only way you could get to own yourself was to rise to the top. That was the reason why Terrence and I strived to be better than anyone else. And we achieved that. In the end, we were acknowledged as Leonel’s children and became members of the family we hated.We were sick of the rules. And yet, we follow them because once you get inside the Hunters’ territory, there will be no way out for you.Others who tried to seek freedom were branded as traitors. And traitors, for the seniors’ vocabu
I TOOK a step closer to Maximo, patted his shoulder, and whispered in his ear. “I may have forgotten how to use a gun, but I haven’t forgotten how to kill, Maximo. So, consider this your lucky day. Since I’m still mourning, I don’t feel like killing anyone today. Through this, I hope you could stop worrying uselessly about your Queen. Worry about your tongue instead. Better yet, just give all your concern to your friends who could lose their eyesight any moment.”I glanced at my wristwatch and yawned. “This is exactly what I am talking about. I had already wasted three minutes of my time. If only you are wealthier than me, I would have asked you to compensate me for those minutes wasted. But since you cannot afford my time, I would be considerate just this once. If you test my temper again, you will lose not only your tongue, Maximo. It’ll be your heart the next time around. So, if you can’t beat me, at least, don’t annoy me. Do you understand?”Maximo’s eyes looked at me with absolut
WHEN Zachary’s authoritative green eyes glanced at the audience, they began screaming his name. Nevertheless, he subdued everyone to obedience with just one look. And he knew it. He knew the impact he had on people. The host and the crowd, had become his fans in an instant. They were silenced just like what Zachary wanted. And I was sure that the humans watching at home had been like that, too.My hands instinctively went to my stomach as a bitter smile formed on my lips. ‘Baby, that’s your Daddy.’“Many people had been curious about you for such a long time, Mr. Collins. What made you decide to finally reveal yourself to the public?” the host asked when she recovered from fangirling.Zachary looked straight at the camera and said, “I’m looking for someone.”The host gasped. I did, too. Fear started to crawl back into my system as I watched how Zachary’s eyes glowed mysteriously. But that person couldn’t be me, right?I was only a secretary. I was a nobody in the city. The King would
I SNIFFED. “That can’t be true. You hate me, don’t you?”“I wanted to hate you for leaving your King behind, but I couldn’t,” Zachary replied tenderly.“Weren’t you looking for me to punish me? To kill me?”A smile played at the corner of his lips. “You are still so naïve, Kate. Didn’t you know? There are many ways to punish someone without killing them. One of them is this,” he added as he pushed me down the bed.When he snapped, in a blink of an eye, I was no longer wearing anything. And when I felt my cheeks turning red out of embarrassment, he smirked before he ran his tongue over my neck. “Damn,” he whispered, his breath was hitting my ear. “Had I known that this was the best way to stop you from crying, I would have stripped you naked as soon as I saw tears falling down your cheeks.”I had a system error that night. What happened between me and the King was nothing but a system error on my part. That was what I had been telling myself again and again after discovering that I was
I HAD no idea how to stop this dream. But first, I need to get away from Zachary. I ripped his coat to free my hands and was about to push him away when he held me.Fury was visible in his eyes when he said, “Where do you think you are going? Will you escape again? It’s too late for that, Kate.”And then he pushed himself inside me. Against my better judgement, I found myself closing my eyes while embracing him as he took me again.“Open your eyes, Kate, and tell me the truth. Why did you leave? Where is this place? Where can I see you again?” he asked while thrusting. “If you don’t answer, I swear I will keep going.”I shook my head and just moaned when he bit me on the shoulder. It was harder this time, but just as gratifying. He kept asking, but I bit my lower lip and refused to answer. I saw the mixture of frustration, pleasure, and wrath in his eyes, but he could not seem to stop himself from moving on top of me.And then suddenly, I felt my ring finger burning. When I glanced at
OH, RIGHT. I almost forgot. There were a couple of things which Kate left in my room. Her broken glasses, her ripped clothing, the blood on the bedsheet, her lingering scent, and the memories that haunted me until today. It kept playing in an endless loop in my head.I could still remember every single thing that happened including Kate’s smile which was a rare occurrence since that was the first time ever I saw her smile at me while calling for my name again and again. I liked the sound of my name from her lips. And I didn’t know this before but Kate was the loveliest person in the world when she smiles.No one would be able to forget that smile once they had seen it.Each time I would close my eyes, I could still see the countless lovely things she kept hidden… including the dot under her left eye which I found really sexy and those perfect curves. I could still remember the softness and the warmth of her skin, the pleasant sound she makes when she moans, the way her body shivered a