Page 3 of Heartless Enemy

“No,youlisten to me!” She gave my chest a shove before throwing her arms out in a desperate gesture. “I need to kill him. Right now.” She jabbed her hand hard against her own chest, right above her heart. “Because if I don’t do something to release this rage inside me, I’m going to fucking explode.”

“Then take it out on me.”

It looked like she had been about to snap back at me, but instead she started slightly as my words registered.

“Take it out on me,” I repeated while holding her gaze with serious eyes.

“I…” She trailed off.

Brushing my hands together, I summoned a metal wall from the ground and raised it slightly before me. Then I nodded to her. “Go ahead. Call up your magic and throw it at me until you’re satisfied. I can take it.”

She just looked back at me. I could see her fighting an internal battle to stay calm, but the wildfire in her eyes still roared furiously.

I let a sly smile lift my lips. “Besides, you’re so much weaker than me so it won’t even be difficult for me.”

Based on the spark in her eyes, she knew exactly what I was doing. That I was baiting her on purpose. But it still worked.

Magic flashed between the metal buildings and lit up the dark night as Eve did exactly what I told her to do. I raised wall after wall to block the wind and fire and lightning and water blasts that she hurled at me one after the other while the rain crashed down around us. Booms reverberated through the air as her attacks hit. But just like I promised her, I could handle whatever she threw at me.

The fury had at last drained from her eyes when she shot one final lightning bolt into my shield. Then she stopped. Standing there with her chest heaving, she just stared at me from across the wet street.

Then her knees buckled and she collapsed to the ground. Kneeling there in the middle of a puddle, she screamed up at the sky. The pain in that scream shredded my heart. I started towards her while she pressed her palms against the stones before her and then curled in on herself.

Her soaked hair fell down around her face like a curtain.

Crouching down in front of her, I drew my hands through her hair and hooked it back behind her ears. She slowly raised her head again to meet my gaze. I once more had to suppress the urge to slaughter every single person on the north side for putting such pain in Eve’s eyes.

“I want him dead, Levi,” she said, tears now streaking down her face and mixing with the rain.

Cupping her cheek, I brushed my thumb along her cheekbone, wiping the tears away. “I know.”

“I want to kill him right now.”

“No, you don’t.”

“Yes, I do!”

“No.” I caressed her cheek again. “Listen to me, spitfire. Revenge is a complicated thing.”

“I don’t care! I’m going to kill him.”

She started to stand up as if she was going to march back to the north side and execute some half-assed plan to kill a former captain of the constables right at this very moment. Since I understood the all-consuming need for revenge better than anyone, I slid my hand down to her shoulder and stopped her from doing just that.

Anger flickered to life in her eyes again as she locked them on me. I just looked back at her with a steady gaze.

“I want him dead,” she pressed out. “Now.”

I heaved a deep sigh. “No, you don’t.”

She was about to argue again, so I gave her shoulder a firm squeeze while holding her gaze with serious eyes.

“Trust me.”

Chapter2

Morning sunlight fell in through the windows and warmed my face, but I didn’t open my eyes. Instead, I remained lying there underneath the soft covers. Levi’s warm muscular body was wrapped around mine, holding me tightly as if to make sure that I didn’t fall apart. And I had needed that. By all hell, I had needed it.

Drawing in a deep breath, I at last opened my eyes and looked up at Levi’s lethally handsome face. His features were smoothened by sleep, and his chest rose and fell with deep breaths.

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