Infinite Love

Chapter 40

Amelia

My eyes are heavy as I try to force them open, throat dry and hoarse from dehydration. Blinking rapidly as I try to adjust to the bright light above me after the darkness.

Moving to sit up I become aware my wrists are bound . . . What the hell . . . I try to clear the fog in my brain, I remember being at the breakfast bar eating with Erik and Nico and then it went dark. Whipping my head to each side I look for them and my eyes finally adjust to the light.

I recognise my surroundings it’s my bedroom at the mansion, how the hell did I get here? Why am I tied up? I try to move my legs but they too are held firmly in a binding.

A cruel laugh echos through the room and then he comes into view. Damian walks over and sits in a seat placed beside my bed. His eyes are triumphant, his smile pure evil. He reaches out and strokes my face, I have to resist my instinct to pull back from him.

“Ah wife” there is scorn as he says the word wife. “You are back with me, how I have missed your presence”

Resisting the urge to snort at his hollow words I do have the sense to realise something is brewing. I just don’t know how much he knows and I need to be careful.

“What game do you think you’re playing Damian? Why am I tied up?” Pulling on my wrist restraints for emphasis.

He chuckles “I’ll release you soon enough but for this conversation I think it’s best” a feeling of real dread washes through me, this is beyond just him being dramatic. Immediately my heart thunders with worry for Erik.

He stands up and then sits on the edge of the bed beside me, his tone when he speaks light and jovial “Don’t worry your precious Erik is alive and well” I can’t help the sigh of relief that I release as my heart calms. He grips the bottom of my chin roughly with one hand as the other travels down and splays over my stomach “I might need him again in the future”

I feel sick. He knows, he f*****g knows everything. His smile is pure evil as it spreads over his face, I am unable to look away his grip on my chin vice like.

In an instant his mood changes, the amusement gone, his cold venomous demeanour replacing it “I’m always five steps ahead of you my love. You thought you had kept your most important research from me?” He laughs but continues proudly “When your research proved how children were made I saw an opportunity. One to get my very own heir that I have so wanted and to prove once and for all a theory I’ve had from very very long f*****g time”

I don’t even dare to speak his energy has turned so dark I know it will not serve me. He gives me a particularly smug look “I set up Erik with the hunters. I want to see if you would run to him and save him and lo and behold you did. Then all I needed to do was bring you back together and give you the space. It was too easy my love much too easy”

My eyes sting with hot tears that I try with everything in me to hold back. His fingers trail over my stomach almost soft and gentle as his face moves closer to mine “And now I have my little heir, my son to mould and shape and make my own”

I have to push the bile down at the thought of him with my child “It might not be a son” stupidly I blurt out then mentally kick myself as soon as the words are out. He sneers “That’s why I’ve kept him alive! Now I know how easy it is I’ll use him until I get the son I want”

Screwing my face up I can’t help challenging him “Why would you want his child? Why not make one of your own now you know how to?”

Rage seethes form his every pore and he grips my chin so tightly I know that it will bruise “Because you are my f*****g wife and the court will see you pregnant and giving birth to my child. You are strong and powerful I want your genes not just any random whores and my darling cousin is the prefect substitute, he looks like me, shares my dna and shares my power. The f*****g child might as well be mine”

My eyes narrow “Where is Erik?” I somehow find the strength to demand. Again that cruel smile “Oh he’s home with his wife” my brain can’t understand, how could he be he wouldn’t just leave like nothing had happened between us.

“Lord Ercan was very obliging in wiping Erik’s memory for me, you remember that’s his power and then we sent him home with his loving wife to live happily ever after, well at least until I get my son and then I’ll turn him back over to the hunters”

My heart and mind races, at least he is safe and alive but he will not be coming for me, Ercan’s power is strong he is one of the original thirteen. I have only one hope left, Nico, where is Nico.

I see Damian’s eyes examining my face, trying to read my thoughts “Your little b***h won’t be helping you either. You think I haven’t know about him all along” he laughs “It served me to have him close to you. He’s in my dungeon right now having the traitor tortured right out of him. When you see him again he will be, shall we say, readjusted, loyal to only his King once more”

He leans in and crushes his lips to mine, I have no way to protect myself from him as he forces his tongue into my mouth. I hate him more than I had ever thought it was possible to hate. Eventually he releases my lips and I can breathe again.

“You have tonight to come to terms with your new reality and then tomorrow you will be by my side, dutiful and obedient. You will be moved back into my bedroom. I want my wife and child close. You will be my wife once more in every way. I am done indulging your freedoms.”