Page 50 of The General's Captive
“Where are you hiding from me now, I wonder?” I shook my head at this quick to deny him,
“Not somewhere you can reach me.” I lied making him scoff,
“There is no where I cannot reach you, not now I know who you truly are.” I flinched at that,
“And who is it you think I am, exactly?”
“All in good time little survivor.” He replied smoothly.
“You won’t beat me.” I challenged making him really grin this time and say,
“I didn’t know you and I were at war.” I laughed this time, a short and disbelieving sound.
“We have always been at war unless you forgotten that this is my world you invaded.” I snapped making him scoff and roll his eyes,
“Perhaps I held too much weight in your intelligence.” I scowled at the insult, before telling him,
“Great, then maybe that means you will leave me the hell alone!” at this his eyes narrowed, and he warned,
“Take heed Alexandra, for my patience has limits,even with you.”His look alone told me this was true and not something I was in a position to push right now, although I still questionedwhy he would have any patience around me…just who did he think I was?
“Wise decision.” He said as if he could see my thoughts playing out on my face or most likely how I had opened my mouth to speak only to close it just as quickly.
“Now enough of this, tell me where you are before their darkness finds you.” Shock was my first response at hearing his slip up.
“Who’s darkness?” I asked making him seethe down at me.
“You do not want to find out, now tell me where you are!” he snapped this time but this was when I finally hit my own limit. This was a dream after all and he couldn’t hurt me in it! So, no matter how much he frightened me it was time to take back some control. Which meant the second I saw my chance I quickly ducked under his arm twisting away and putting distance between us. Then I shouted,
“Enough of this!” Which was when the cage he had fabricated suddenly evaporated and I was back in that house, wearing what I had been that day. Layers of soaked clothing replacing the delicate silk and giving me protection against his penetrating gaze, one that made me feel naked and dangerously exposed.
The shock on his face was a victory as he hadn’t expected me to push back and win this fight. To take back control of my own mind.
“I can take care of myself.” I told him something that seemed to piss him off further.
“Is that so?” he mocked.
“Yes.”
“Then why did I find you lying in the road freezing and all alone little survivor?” I winced hating that he knew this. But he wasn’t done, as he stood taking long steps towards me and asking in a barely controlled rage,
“Tell me, where was your white knight then Alexandra, the one who shouted your name and failed to reach you?” he suddenly disappeared just before he reached me only to reappear directly at my back. His hands coming to my shoulders and yanking me back hard against him. The gasp that left me was one he felt against the hard wall of his muscular chest, though I barely reached halfway, as he towered above me.
“Where was your hero then?”He growled down at me, the bitterness in his voice one I didn’t miss. I gritted my teeth and shrugged to pull myself free when he suddenly banded an arm across my chest. He was so big that all that solid muscle I could feel was impossible to fight against as I couldn’t move even an inch.
“Tell me, who’s voice was it you heard rousing you from sleep?” he asked in a far softer tone this time, one far more dangerous as I closed my eyes against what it did to me. I swallowed hard refusing to speak only the second his other hand collared my throat I gasped at the threat because it might have been a dream but like this it was hard to see it as anything but real.
The feel of him was all consuming.
“I asked you a question girl.”He snarled.
“It was you.” I admitted giving him what he wanted and hating myself for my weakness.
“Indeed it was. So if you think for one minute you are safe with him then you are foolishly mistaken.” He said strangely sounding jealous. But then the second I heard my name being called in the distance he growled at my back once more, making me whisper his name,
“Riley.”The second I did his hand suddenly covered my mouth, as if he couldn’t stand the sound of another’s man’s name coming from my lips. I struggled against his hand as my name grew louder in the distance.
“Looks like our time is at an end. But make no mistake Alexandra, I will find you again and next time Little Warrior…” he paused so as to lower his lips directly behind my ear…
