My cock aches painfully as it swells beneath my pants. Christ, of all the women in town, why did it have to beher?
“Everyone,” my father says, leading Valeria to the front of the room, “we have an announcement to make.”
“That we do.” Valeria smiles. I glance at Kane, but he clearly has no idea what’s going on.
Lifting a bottle of champagne into the air, my father looks at Valeria in a way I haven’t seen from him since my mother died five years ago. My chest gets even tighter, and my pulse pounds hard like a drum in my ears.
“Valeria Noir and I have been married!” He pops the cork and sprays suds everywhere. “It’s time to dissolve the tension between our two families and unite in an alliance that will strengthen us both.”
Every muscle in my body goes stiff, but I barely hear anything Dad says as he continues on. My eyes are just focused on Sable, watching her reaction.
Which is really nothing. She’s not shocked or surprised. In fact, she looks prepared, like she was expecting this all along.
Am I the only one who’s been left out of this monumental family decision?
“We will now beone family,” my father says, cutting through the fog of my mind. “Living in one household.”
“Wait, what?”I snap, finally finding the ability to speak. “One household?What does that mean?”
No…
Sable smirks at me like I’m somehow amusing, causing a surge of rage to hit me like a toxin running through my veins.
“Valeria and Sable will be moving in with us,” my father says slowly, his eyes narrowing as though he’s subtly sending me a message.
My brain stalls.
This ismy house. My space.And now I’m going to be sharing it withher?The girl who just faced off with me like she was going to kill me?
But that’s not even the worst part… The worst part is this girl that has my cockrock hardis now going to be my step-sister.
Well, I guess the universe has a sick sense of humor.
“We’re going to have some rules for the house,” my father says.
“Like no fighting.” Valeria nods.
“And no personal entanglements.”
Entanglements…Is he seriously suggesting that I would try and hook up with Sable?
Well…I would, but that doesn’t stop me from being a little offended by the way he’s still looking at me. Like I’m just his son and not the future leader of this family.
I’ve lived under the rules of this country for a long time and ignored them all. Why would he think I’d listen to this ultimatum now when a goddess like Sable is involved?
“Why don’t I show you around the house?” I suggest, quickly walking up to her and taking her by the hand. She’s put makeup on her cheek, but I can still make out the outline of my fingers from where I slapped her. “Your cheeks look nice red. Like cherries.”
She smirks sarcastically back at me as I lead her from the room. “How’s your stomach feel?”
Spunk. So much spunk.
“You’ll need to do a lot more than that to take me down,” I tell her as she steps in front of me and examines the house.
My eyes drink in her curves as she walks over to one of our Ming vases. I’ve never seen such feminine hips in my life. And to think they also carry enough strength to kick the wind out of me.
Dangerously sexy.
She circles the table, then slowly extends a middle finger and traces the lines of the vase like it belongs to her.
