Page 38 of Venomous Kiss

REON

My attention is directed at her as she rushes out of the bathroom. Her blue dress swaying as she goes.

Perfection.

Pity she doesn’t realize how faultless she is.

She will, in time.

She glances back once, and her gaze falls to my neck, where I’ve lifted a thin chain from inside my shirt. I know she sees what I put there, what I refuse to take off—her necklace. In truth, I took it from her that first night and slipped it into my pocket, and I’ve worn it ever since.

She shakes her head before she turns and continues her escape. She was put on this earth to torture me. To sway her sweet ass in dresses and kill me slowly as she does.

No knife to my chest is needed.

I simply need to watch her walk away.

That does it for me.

The door shuts behind her, and my view of her is cut off. My breathing returns to normal, and I hadn’t even realized it had increased while in her presence.

The door swings open once again, and my eyes are hungry, waiting for her to be on the other side.

“Reon.” She comes into view, but it isn’t the correct she. No, it’s Maya, and she looks pale in the face, slightly off balance. “Who is she?” she asks.

“Why would you assume I know her?”

“Because you hate people. And yet you willingly offered to walk her out. And you’re standing in the women’s bathroom she just left.”

“Maya.”

“Think of your next words carefully, Reon. Think very carefully. You can’t take back what you are about to say. Do you want me to go to my brother and tell him about how we ended things?” There she is, the secret part of Maya that she keeps hidden to present a perfectly manicured woman, not the selfish, spoiled brat everyone says she is. I had heard the rumors, and now she is showing me.

She knows he would hunt Lilith down and remove her from the situation if it meant making his sister happy. They are close, very close. I find it odd, but that’s because I don’t have that type of relationship with my sister.

“This is new for you, Maya. Threatening me. Who knew you had it in you?”

“Who knew you had eyes for someone else?” she throws back.

“I don’t have eyes for someone else. I will have someone else.”

“I will have her removed.”

My jaw tics at her threat. And it takes everything in me not to step forward and wrap my hands around her throat and choke the air from her lungs.

I don’t play with anyone else but Caterpillar.

Maya is playing a dangerous game, and it’s not one I like. To threaten her is even worse than threatening me.

“You should try to make an effort with me, Reon. You haven’t been trying. And I have given you space, but it’s time you see what you have and start appreciating it.”

“And what do I have, Maya?”

She dares to smirk at me. “You have me.” She turns and glides out.

Stepping out after her, I find Soren waiting for me. When did he fucking arrive? He watches his sister walk off and then turns to pin me with a stern glare.

“You visit the ladies’ room often?”