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LILIANA

I feel a lot of things as Selena sits with me and sympathizes for the loss of my baby. If I were to be speaking in all honesty, I doubt I’d be able to give that child what they need.

Hell, I barely have control of my life, which makes raising a child the least of things I want.

“If I didn’t get a lot of love growing up, what makes you think I’ll be capable of showering them with motherly attention?”

Selena lets my words stew before she gives a helpless shrug. “Am I going to be called an asshole for supporting your decisons?”

I smile and give her fingers a little squeeze. “You’ll be one if you’re not in support. Kyle betrayed me and I don’t think it’s something I’ll forget in a long time.”

Selena turns her head and I look in the direction she turned to see Damian strolling in with a neutral expression. Instantly, my heart rate speeds up and my fingers tremble slightly.

He stops by the foot of the bed, his eyes gentle as he watches me. I don’t know what to make o
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  • DARKNESS IGNITES DESIRES   152

    DAMIANAndros is awake now as they cuff him to the electric chair but smirking at me. I pace the cell, grateful for Zoran’s help in wrapping a bandage around my side despite my stubborn insistence to do it myself.“You don’t even know half of what’s happening. While you’ve been chasing ghosts, your house is already burning.”I walk over and grab his face, feeling my anger channel into the grip. “You better start talking.”“What the hell do you think I’m talking about?” He says calmly, knowing well how his put togetherness drives me nuts and when I go nuts, I get irrational. “Cool it, Damian.” Zoran stands next to me. “Allow me handle this one.”I catch the slight shift in Andros’s face as my brother takes over. Let’s see how he gets out of this one. My fingers itch to light another cigarette but Liliana keeps giving me that disapproving look somewhere in my mind.Maybe one is okay for a day.“You can’t seem to stand letting baby brother handle his mess alone, can you?” He smirks, sha

  • DARKNESS IGNITES DESIRES   151

    DAMIAN Zoran? I hesitate for one second, but that’s all the time he needs for him to slam his elbow into my wound with a sharp and unforgiving jab. My knees buckle and then– his fist splits my lip. I stumble back at the impact, yet, he charges forward and slams me into the hood of a nearby car. My lungs, instead of expanding, constricts. His hands wrap around my throat. “I should have killed you when I had the chance.” “You did have the chance,” I rasp. “And for whatever bullshit reason, you blew it. Seems like you weren’t paying attention in class.” My fingers are reaching for the hidden dagger behind my back. With one abrupt turn, I kick out his knees from under him and he drops to the ground like a sack of potatoes. And I pounce. His skull hits the pavement with a sickening thud as I slam him into the ground. Knee pinning his arms, my elbow drives into his throat and I press the small dagger to his neck. The tip bites in enough to draw blood. His eyes go round with respe

  • DARKNESS IGNITES DESIRES   150

    DAMIANThe rain pelts the windshield like bullets which the wipers slash side to side, barely keeping up. The drive back is filled with the images of the look of masked hurt and the lines of disappointment etched onto her face. The way she looked at me. Silent accusation in those godamned eyes. I’m haunted by how I’m unable to do anything to save her from the abyss I plunged her into.Where do I even start when I can’t save myself?I grip the steering wheel in a way that’s hard enough to splinter if I tried. “I’m trying to save you,” I mutter to no one. “Even if it kills me.”My foot pushes the accelerator harder and the world around me rushes by in a blur. My mind is a fucking mess with spinning images of her trembling hands as she held onto that glass like an anchor, the distance between us just to keep her safe. I should’ve held her and told her the truth. All of it.A sharp pop explodes from under the car. I register that to be the front-left tire before I lose control. “Shit–”

  • DARKNESS IGNITES DESIRES   149

    LILIANAIt’s really him. Damian.He is drenched from the light rain with his eyes locked on mine, going still like he can’t breathe until I do. His presence fills the room before his body does and I feel the raw magnetism between us.It’s still there. Strained, but present.He doesn’t say anything but keeps staring like he’s been starving and I’m the only one who could possibly satisfy that hunger. I turn to Theodore slowly and my voice comes out like ice. “You planned this?”“No.” He even has the nerve to act unbothered. “But I gave him the address. Not like he doesn’t already have it.”I laugh bitterly. “Of course you did.”“He needed to find you. You needed to see him. What you do with this moment is up to you, but if he hurts you again, I swear to God, Lily, I’ll put him on his knees.”Damian scoffs, takes a step in. “You’d dare?”The guts this man has in another person’s territory. Thankfully, Theodore isn’t one to cower. He closes the door with a soft click, then turns around w

  • DARKNESS IGNITES DESIRES   148

    LILIANAIt’s been a couple of weeks since the grand discovery of Andros as one of the key antagonists and news going around is that he has fled the scene. It’s hard to even imagine him playing a role as a villain. Power sure corrupts.In the meantime, Theodore is showing me the ropes of taking over the company which by the way was going bankrupt before he saved it. Now, the hard part is over, thanks to him. All I have to do is oversee the operations and make sure all is going well.How hard can that be?So everyday until four in the evening, it’s like a simulation using the study as the field. He makes me go through mock reports, financial breakdowns, marketing strategies and internal disputes.I’m learning more than I ever thought I could about a company I used to think was just some bland building with numbers.“Don’t look at me like I’ve just spoken Greek,” Theodore says one afternoon, tossing another thick file onto the table. “Figure it out, Liliana. You have instincts, so use th

  • DARKNESS IGNITES DESIRES   147

    LILIANAThe atmosphere in the car as we head home is so tense that not even the sharpest edge of a sword can cut through. Damian’s words keep replaying in my mind and I manage a look at Theodore who also hasn’t said a word since. “Why didn’t you say so?”His jaw flexes once, before he turns to me. “I didn’t think it was necessary to.”“You didn’t think?” My voice rises a pitch. He raises the window between the driver and us with a button. “Andros, all this time while playing dedicated bodyguard to Damian, killed my niece, and you think your inability to think is an excuse?”“Lil—”“I tried to trust you. I tried not to keep things away from you since we were both victims of the same man and just one simple truth, you held that away from me so you could do what? Protect your brother?”“I’m not protecting my brother.” The passing lights illuminate the angry lines on his face. “He’s dead to me.”I pause. The words take me by surprise.“Because I was sold off to Kyle, he was determined to

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