“Kill the fucking bitch and be done with it,”Demon snarled with a snap of his teeth.
“All I’m asking is that you be a part of our baby’s life. He deserves to know who you are,” Mia said with a tremble in her voice.
My gaze snapped to her face. “He?”
She shrugged a shoulder and gave me a shaky smile. “It’s a gut feeling.” She stuffed the pregnancy test back into her pocket. “I know this is a surprise, but I can’t do this alone, sir. We made our bed, and it’s time to lie in it.”
“You’reno oneto me.Ifwe had sex, I used you like some faceless sack of flesh to get my rocks off. You were nothing to me, and you’restillnothing to me. Do you understand?”
Tears brimmed in Mia’s blue eyes, her chin quivering as she held back from crying. Her hands went to her stomach, as if covering the small bump would protect the fetus from hearing my insults. “Mr. Volkov, please. I know you’re upset, but—”
“After you give birth, I’m doing a paternity test on it.” That was if she was still alive. If I didn’t kill her, the fetus would.
“Stop calling him anit,” she begged.
“We’re done here.”
“Are you going to tell Emma?”
I glared at her. “You won’t tell her.”
Emma couldn’t know. She’d break down and most likely leave me. I couldn’t allow my mate to walk away from me under the impression that I had cheated on her.
“She has to know, sir. She needs to know why I’ll be around.” Mia stepped toward me.
I scoffed. “If you tell Emma, I’ll throw you to the curb and ensure you can’t get another job.Filthy creature, I hope you rot.” I said this last bit in Russian.
Mia stared at me, unsure of what I said. Tears slipped down her cheeks and hung on her jaw. I shoved past her and left the room.
Dimitri entered the office and shut the door behind him. His narrowed eyes turned to me, and I stopped breathing. Wrath radiated off him, which had me curling my shoulders and sinking further into my seat.
Is he going to hurt me?
I did something to upset him.
“Sir?” I whispered, unsure if I should say anything to him.
I’d been worrying about what he and Mia had talked about. Did she tell him she was pregnant with his child? Was she really pregnant? If she was, how was she sure the baby was his? I thought Dimitri loved me. He’d said it multiple times and shown it through his actions. Where in the world did he even get time to sneak behind my back and sleep with another woman?
He stared at me, dark eyebrows lowered and menace rolling off of him in choking waves.
He’s mad at me.
He hates me.
He’s moving on to someone else.
My heart dropped to my stomach, and I averted my gaze. I shifted in my seat and fidgeted with my fingers, searching for an outlet to release the nervous energy roiling through me. “Just tell me you’re done, sir. Give me a clean break, and let’s not drag it out,” I mumbled, tears welling in my eyes. I tried to blink them away and stay positive about this, but my world was closing in on me. It became hard to breathe through the panic. I usually leaned on Dimitri for help, and now I couldn’t because hedespisedme. I didn’t want him to leave me, but I had a feeling he’d withdraw and string me along.
Warm hands cupped my cheeks and raised my chin. Honey-colored eyes stared back at me, a gentleness in them that wasn’t there when he walked into the office. Dimitri swooped down and crashed his lips against mine. I sucked in a sharp breath, and he took that opportunity to shove his tongue into my mouth. He tasted bitter, like coffee and sweetness, probably from the beignets I got for him earlier this morning.
I realized I hadn’t returned the kiss, and with a blinding need, I flung my arms around his shoulders and kissed him back with everything I had. Dimitri slipped his hand behind my head, holding me where he wanted me while he claimed my mouth as his own. He greedily swallowed my every breath and breathed back into me, intending to fill all of me with him. He was claiming me all over again, ensuring every inch of me was marked by him, even down to my burning lungs that expanded with his hot breath.
“You’re mine, Emma.” He growled into the kiss and nipped my bottom lip, drawing a gasp from me. A bead of blood welled to the surface, and he licked it away and forced me to taste it on his tongue as it tangled with mine.
I tried pulling away from the kiss to ask him what had happened with him and Mia, but he refused my escape. He continued kissing me, allowing me no room to speak as he shoved his tongue further into my mouth, nearly touching the back of my throat. I gagged as the appendage lengthened and grew fatter.
Dimitri’s shoulders shivered beneath my palms. His muscles bulked, and no matter how hard I tried to lean away, he chased me, his lips never leaving mine. Despite that, I didn’t see him change, though I knew it wasn’t Dimitri anymore.
