MY EX'S BROTHER: FORBIDDEN DESIRE.

LYRA'S POV

Kymon doesn't look a bit surprised. He just hums, shakes his head, rests his elbows on the armrest, and stares up at the ceiling so I can only see his Adam's apple staring back at me.

" No matter how much I try to avoid you." He says, sighs, and looks at me perfunctory. " You never seem to go away."

I swallow the words about to spill out from my mouth like venom and reply softly to him instead, " It's not like I'm left with a choice."

He sits straight, rubs his palms on the side of his robe — it seems like a habit— bends over, and fills a golden cup with wine. Red wine.

" You do have a choice."

" I wouldn't be here if not for you."

" Still your fault." He is sipping his wine, staring at me with oblivion. Acting like he didn't send Lyriq to capture Cas. Like he didn't blame another wolf for his misdoings.

I want to jump on him and claw that oblivion right out of his eyes.

I inhale and stare at the ground whilst twisting my fingers around each other " You sent Omega Lyriq to capture Cas— Caspian."

" Caspian?" He asks, in the dullest tone possible and I don't move my eyes to look at him because I may not be able to hold my anger anymore. " You mean your lover?"

He is laughing. Crazed, stupid laughing and I think he's a lunatic. It's the first time I've heard him laugh and it feels like tiny holes are being punctured into my heart.

He lets it slide with a sigh. " You aren't even objecting. I'm not by far surprised Lyra—"

" You have no right to put the blame on him," I say, cut in brusquely, my eyes sparing into his, and he frowns, looks away, and drops his cup of wine.

" I'm putting blame on no one."

" Don't lie to me. I already know you ordered Lyriq to seize him. I know you want to execute him for Bryn's death when it's entirely your fault!" I am surprised that I didn't shout but I am struggling to breathe.

Kymon's eyes are drenched in anger now. " I ordered his arrest because I know he's a rogue and a fugitive!" His voice is a sharp knife that carves the corners of my heart into the different letters of fear.

I still as he stands, dark almond eyes not leaving mine. Luckily he doesn't move forward.

He squints his eyes at me and says, " Let me guess, you knew about it? Huh, Lyra? You knew he has been after my life for two goddamn years."

" Yes." I retort, with steel defiance that makes me scared of myself. " Yes, I did."

His eyes widen slightly like he's surprised I admitted it so quickly or that it's actually true. He goes mute for a long time and he's not looking at me anymore.

I don't know if I should prepare to die or try to fight him if he tries to hurt me, but of course, my one week of training won't be able to take down Kymon talk more of the hundreds of guards creeping in this place.

" You say this directly to my face?" His voice is low and filled with fire from hell. " Have you no fear that I might send a blade through your throat?" He's looking at me. " Has it been your plan all along? You only got with my brother so you can have a good chance to murder me, isn't it?"

He shakes his head and doesn't wait for me to say anything before he speaks. " Maybe I should have spared your friend's life."

" You should have!" I bark. " She doesn't deserve what you did to her."

" Oh, now I know." He sits back on the couch, reaches into one of his loafers, and takes out a small knife. He drops the knife on the table, widens his leg, and rests his arms around the armrest.

" The Alpha commands you to do what your heart tells you to do to him." He says, " Take it and kill me, I know you've been wanting to do it."

I blink at him, not understanding the level of madness he has transformed into. I look at the knife and I stare at it. My hands suddenly begin to shake. I have wanted to murder him for the past week, but now that the opportunity lies before me, it suddenly scares me.

" Prove how much you despise me and take the knife and put it through my heart."

My mind wants to kill him but my heart and conscience can't. I hate it so much that I am this weak and fragile.

" You are doing this on purpose." I accuse.

He somehow looks happy that I don't do it. " I know you have had numerous opportunities to murder me but you are too much of a weakling to do it. If though you want to—

" Don't call me weak."

" But it's what you are." He croaks, taking the knife and running a finger around the tip. Suddenly, he presses his finger into it, and I nearly wet my pants. " Look at you."

I am shaking, staring at the blood seeping out of his finger. He easily takes out the now bloody knife and flips it across the room with sudden anger.

" People like you make me sick. You give your enemies easy access to get to you first. You are too miserable to hurt them and watch them get hurt." He pauses. " I'd like to see how you flinch watching your lover being beheaded…. Tell me, will you flinch to death—

" Stop it—"

" Will you break out in tears—

" I won't let you harm him!"

" Oh, you definitely will. He is a murderer and he deserves every inch of his skin to be cut off his body."

" You are also a murderer." I snap and I am crying now. Regretting, why why I didn't kill him when I had the chance to.

He laughs something vile. Something disgusting. " No, I am not; I am far worse than you can imagine. Don't make me sound like a flimsy animated prince."

I feel hope slipping from my shoulders. There's no reasoning to him. All I can think of is going on my knees to beg and that's exactly what I do.

I hold hands together, kneeling before him, staring at the ground, hoping that this monster will develop a conscience.

" Please, I'm pleading to you. Let Caspian go."

I listen to my own heartbeat for a minute. He doesn't say anything but I know what he says next isn't directed to me.

" Make sure you see her leaving the gate." He says and I raise my head to see two guards walking towards me.

I swing my gaze back to Kymon and plead, " Please, please have mercy."

But I realize I'm begging a spineless monster.