The devil's widow.Updated at Oct 2, 2025, 01:01
Damian didn’t flinch when Isabella shoved him. Her palm pressed against the hard wall of his chest, but he didn’t stumble back. He only looked down at her, that infuriating smirk curving at the edge of his mouth, as though her fury amused him.
“Get out of my father’s house,” she hissed, her voice low and trembling with rage.
He leaned closer, his breath warm against her ear. “Your father’s house?” His words were a blade wrapped in velvet. “Little dove, your father is gone. And all that’s left is what I decide to take.”
She slapped him before she even realized she’d moved. The sharp crack echoed off the wood-paneled walls of the study. Her hand stung, but she didn’t care. For the first time since the blood on the marble floor, she felt alive.
Damian didn’t strike back. He only caught her wrist in a bruising grip, forcing her palm flat against the wall behind her. His body caged hers, heat and danger radiating from him in waves. His dark eyes searched hers, unblinking, as though he could see every secret she was trying to bury beneath her grief.
“Careful,” he murmured, his voice sinking lower, darker. “Keep playing with fire, Isabella, and you’ll find out how easily it burns.”
Her breath caught, but she didn’t look away. “Then burn me.”
Something broke between them in that instant—the fragile line between hatred and desire snapping clean through. Damian’s mouth crashed against hers, bruising and merciless, swallowing the gasp that tore from her throat. His hand slid to her throat, not choking, but holding her in a grip that told her she wasn’t in control anymore.
The kiss was war. Violent, consuming, neither of them willing to surrender.