Chapter-70. Questions(18+)

[Asher]

"Mad at you?" she chuckled; her voice dripped with bitter sarcasm. "I am sorry, alpha, but I don't remember ever having the luxury of being mad at you. And for what? For bringing me into this delightful, traumatizing dark room where illusion blurs into reality with sheer madness?"

Xanthea licked her lips, letting out a mirthless laugh that seized at once as her eyes locked with mine for a few seconds before they wandered around me. A glance into her eyes was enough to twist something inside me.

"No. In fact, this is the most romantic date ever! Every married man should bring their wives here. She's going to lose her mind after ten years of marriage, anyway! So, why not do it in ten minutes? And maybe that's why you brought me here - because I have less than a year to live, anyway! Right?"

She snapped at me in one breath, her breath quickening from the intensity of her outburst. I had witnessed her wrath before, so her audacity didn't shock me. Yet, I found myself more captivated than ever.

I observed her heaving chest and the way she placed her palms on her waist, trying to calm herself down.

I tried to focus on reading her emotions, but my eyes kept losing focus and so did my thoughts that traced her skin and realized that her skin should be in touch with mine all the time.

"This is insane," she mumbled, panting as she tried to control her words. Biting her lips, she ran her fingers through her hair.

The room had a peculiar vibe unsuitable for free thinking. So the way she controlled herself was highly commendable.

She shut her eyes and I could discern her thoughts in the disappointed and frustrated creases on her face. She was trying to understand why or how I knew a place like this. Why I brought her here?

I hoped she wouldn't vocalize those questions because if she did, I wouldn't have any answers for her.

Unnoticed, I stepped closer to her.

With a curt nod, she let out a deep breath.

"Asher," she said in a frustrated but calm tone. "The game's over now. I found you. I won. So, can we please leave now?"

"No," I said simply.

She clenched her jaws, holding back her anger.

"I want to go back," her voice turned more commanding. "Now."

"To Ezra?" I asked.

Confused, she frowned, squinting her eyes.

"What?"

"Do you want to go back to Ezra?" I asked.

She shrugged and then nodded with a quick gulp.

"Yes. I want to go back to him. Away from this place."

"Away from me?" I cocked a brow, closing the distance between us even more.

She parted her lips to speak, but all that escaped her lips was a shuddering breath carrying the sweet scent of her heat.

"N-no," her frown deepened. "I just don't want to stay here anymore. This place is suffocating and unbearable."

"What if I want to stay here with you?" I reached out and gently glided my hand down her arm. She stiffened her body, allowing the wash of tantalizing charges to run between us. I brushed my fingers with hers, holding her hand in mine. "Will you stay with me a little longer? If I hold your hand in this darkness, will you hold back mine a little tighter?"

She took back her hand from me, breathing heavily.

I curled my fingers into a loose fist, dropping it to my side.

'Asher, let's just leave. There's no point. She doesn't have to go through all this-' Xanthea cut Icifer's voice off.

"I didn't want to ask these questions, but..." she blinked fast and asked. "What happened here? Why are we here? And the most important question - what does this place mean to you?"

Nothing even close to what you mean to me - I thought, but for some uncanny reason, I couldn't provide a voice to my words.

reply, but all I did was gaze at her tears that beautifully lined across her

and interfered by the illusions of the room.

questions, then just get me out of here!" she

anywhere until you answer the question I

"What question?" she grunted.

looking at me like

asked, her

in love with someone else,"

expression. Her heart raced a little faster. Xanthea's breaths came in shallow gasps, her fingers trembling as she struggled to maintain her composure. She tried to act as though my words hadn't just shaken

"Love?" she winced.

soft whisper. "How

tight gulp, she stepped

with me, Asher. I am not a toy..." her voice

I am honestly curious,"

a while and then gave a determined nod to herself. I was about to hold her

texture of the wall for the door

back to me

close, you'll take me out of here! I am not going to entertain your mind games anymore, and I am done begging! I don't need you. If you won't take me out of here,

directly ask her

you sure you can handle this?' I asked

'Of course.' Icifer replied.

smoothly took over me and covered the distance between Xanthea and him in a few

she was about to slam her hands against the wall when he seized her hands and pinned them over

go of me!" she

her, trapping her between

"Don't touch m-"

are in love with

her chest, as though I had just caught her

the question and I promise I'll take you out

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motionless. The uneasiness webbed denser in Icifer's soul,

he distanced himself from her just enough for her

and she kept facing the wall, taking deep breaths

look on her face. His grip tightened around her arm and she tensed up her body with no

her

gasp, whimpering as he leaned closer to

wife. Yes or

she let

no!"

Please... you

Icifer asked with increasing

yelled, pushing me away from

YOU LOVE HIM OR NOT!" Icifer screamed at

of the worst traumas of my life and then you ask me this! What does love feel like? If anything, it doesn't feel like what you

slumped on her knees

took back my control from him. Their breathless

themselves and calm down and

don't love Ezra." My voice came

shook her

dare..." she gasped, her

to help Icifer calm down a little

tears. Holding her chin,

your lips, with every inch of your body, you loved him tonight. You accepted

not love," she said. "I am in my

about to withdraw my hand from her when she clasped

and continued. "I-I shouldn't have enjoyed... the sex. I am sorry. I promise it will never happen again. Please don't

words ignited every nerve

"I'll do whatever you-ungh!"

throat, I pulled her into a desperate, rough

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