Page 45 of Reign of a Billionaire

“And your cock… It’s p-perfect.” Her hips rocked against mine in unpracticed movement, her voice quivering. “I’ll belong to you for as long as I live, but you also belong to me, Kingston.”

“Always,” I vowed, my hips thrusting forward until I filled her completely. Pleasure unlike anything else shot up my spine, and I groaned into her throat. “I’m yours until I draw my last breath.”

She made a vow; I did the same. She kept her vow until the day she was killed; I’d just broken mine.

Self-loathing. Self-condemnation. Self-destruction.

Guilt. Rage. Bitterness.

Never again.

I wouldn’t repeat the same mistake again, regardless of how beautiful Liana looked.

This time around, it’d finish me off.

With one shake of my head, I stood up. Her body slid off me and she fell on her ass with betrayal in her eyes as I strode away from her. But the taste of her, the scent of her, stained my skin.

I almost fucked her—not that what I’d done was innocent. It all went so fucking wrong. It took all my self-control not to grab her by that slim waist and slam her down, thrust inside her, and piston her until I emptied myself.

The moment I was back in my bedroom, I realized I was still butt naked. Fuck! Pulling on a pair of pajama pants, I lay in bed awake, staring at the ceiling and wondering how I could have stooped so low. I pondered what the fuck could have happened for Liana to have changed so drastically.

The girl I knew didn’t know how to slice someone’s throat or shoot to kill. She didn’t have her hands drenched in blood. Maybe my mind no longer remembered her. Them. Maybe somewhere along the way, my mind had broken.

Fuck, maybe I missed Lou so much that my mind conjured a small part of her in Liana desperate for just a moment when she was still with me.

“Kiss me, sunshine.” My hands were in her soft strands, tilting her face up, her mouth a heartbeat away. “Kiss me like there’s no tomorrow for us.”

Her lips brushed against mine, soft at first and then harder. She whimpered, pressing her soft body against mine. My thumb swept over her pulse point in her neck, feeling her erratic heartbeat.

She wanted me despite the fact that I wasn’t worth loving. She loved me despite how tainted I was. She needed me despite the fact that I was a killer.

And she… well, she was the easiest person to love.

She pushed onto her tiptoes, her soft hips pressing against my groin, and I grunted into her mouth. Her arms wrapped around my neck, fingers tangling at my nape.

“I love you, Kingston,” she breathed into my mouth.

Click.

My eyes snapped open to find the barrel of a gun pointed at me. The woman I dreamt about had her finger on the trigger and a pissed-off expression on her face. No—not the woman in my dream.

Thiswoman, I should keep my distance from. Although, judging by the way her nostrils flared and her chest heaved, it might be too late.

Chapter 23

Liana

Kingston Ashford was an asshole.

I should have sliced his throat while he slept, cut off his dick and put it in the blender, then forgot all about him. Instead, here I was, giving him a chance to fucking explain. His unaffected reaction to my gun in his face was enough to set me off all over again. Maybe I needed to try harder.

My lips curled into a smile.

“Name’s Liana, dickwad,” I said, compartmentalizing this pain in my chest. I gazed down at him, at his long limbs hanging out from his mussed sheets, and had to clear my brain of his intoxicating scent. “How did you know Louisa?”

I waited for an answer while debating how I’d end this man’s life. Slow and painful, or quick and clean.

After he left, I cleaned up and got dressed in a pair of jeans and a shirt. There was no fucking way I’d remain under this roof after that performance. The dull roar between my ears made it hard to think, and it took several deep breaths before my pulse settled. He knew my twin, and then… did things to my body that made me feel alive for the first time in as long as I could remember.