You Wouldn't Dare (Khaos Trilogy Book 1), стр. 71

We lay like that for some time, both of us content to just be with each other. I could hear Khaos’ steady heartbeat beneath my head as he slowly rocked me in his arms in a gentle sway that soon had me drifting off to sleep.

“Can I ask a big favour?” He murmured against my hair. He stood up with me still in his arms and carried me over to the bed. “Come away with me. I have a cabin in the mountains we can go to. Just for two weeks, a month tops. The pack are more than capable of fending for themselves for a while. Let’s escape, just you and I, and really get to know each other.”

“I’d like that,” I agreed. I was ecstatic with how well this had gone. I had been expecting the worst and yet here he was, forever surprising me.

I should have known it was too good to be true.

Khaos stepped away from me, guilt flashing behind his eyes for a brief moment.

“What? What is it?” I demanded. “Don’t lie to me either. I know that look in your eyes,” I snapped when he opened his mouth. “I’ve had enough apologies off you for that look to be branded into my mind forever. What is it this time, what else can you possibly be sorry for?”

“I kissed someone else.”

“Excuse me?” I got up on my knees and grabbed his jaw. “Repeat that,” I growled, the anger coursing through my veins. I don’t know what I had been expecting, but it definitely wasn’t fucking that!

The one thing I had been sure of was that Khaos would never, ever cheat. Not after Ryssa and Drake. After Louisa. He would respect the boundaries of our relationship.

How much of a fucking fool was I?

“It was in the other pack. We were dancing, and she invited me back to her room and we kissed. Nothing else hap--” I silenced him with a stinging slap around his face, the sound ringing out and echoing around the room.

“Don’t you dare stand there and say nothing else happened! As if a kiss isn’t bad enough on its own!”

“Violet--” I slapped him again, pushing him far away from me. My wolf growled out in her fierce temper but remained under control. She knew we could not shift during pregnancy.

“Don’t fucking “Violet” me! Goddess! You have the fucking nerve to lecture me about finding another partner, guilt tripping me about how you wouldn’t be able to handle it! You had the gall to tell me that so long as we remained true to each other we could make it work! And all the while you were fucking throwing yourself at the first available whore you could find! To think, you made me feel guilty over Logan when nothing even happened! You said this time apart was for us to think, Khaos! To see what we wanted! As far as I was concerned, we were still together!"

“I’m sorry--”

“Don’t! I’m sick of your apologies. It’s the same old routine, isn’t it? You fuck up, apologise, and stupid little me always forgives! How much of a doormat do you think I am? How many more mistakes do you really think you can get away with before I reach my limit?”

I saw the shutters come down once more as he took offence at my words. “It was a mistake. Don’t blow it out of proportion, nothing happened. I stopped it before it got that far. Besides, I didn’t need to tell you, I chose to be honest. I could have kept you in the dark.”

“Kill him, Violet. Bad wolf. Mate needs to be punished!”

“Are you fucking kidding me right now?” I screamed, feeling anger like I had never felt before. “Don’t act like you’ve done me a favour, and don’t you dare twist this on me like I’m being unreasonable! I’ve put up with a lot from you. I’ve been humiliated in front of the pack for something I didn’t do! In fact, the only cheat in this room is you!”

“I was thinking of--”

“Of what? Of me? Well, isn’t that just the perfect cliché! Let me guess, you stopped when you realised it wasn’t me. Just in the nick of time! Well, thank you for your consideration, Khaos! You cheated, but at least you had me in your thoughts!”

“It’s not like that! I was just using her; I was hurt, and I thought--”

“And I wasn’t hurt, was I not? I wasn’t sat in this room feeling like my fucking heart was breaking. I wasn’t crying every single day you were gone?”

“I thought I had lost you, Violet!”

“You just might yet.”

“Vi--”

“Fuck off, Khaos. You knew we weren’t over. The break was to get our thoughts in order, to take sex off the table and enable us to think clearer about what we both wanted! Is that what you decided then? Is that what you want? To be with other people? Don’t let me or the baby stop you!”

“You’re being ridiculous, of course that’s not what I want. I turned down so many wolves whilst I was there…”

“Oh well, thank you for that. It means so much to me that you had women throwing themselves at you left, right, and centre, but you turned them all down. That’s fantastic news. So, what was it about this one then? What made her so fucking irresistible?”

“No, that came out completely wrong. What I meant was--”

“I don’t care what you meant. I can picture it well enough.”

He reached out for me, pain visible in his strained face. I hardened my gaze, refusing to be swayed by him. He had brought this on himself. I marched over to the door and flung it open, letting it bounce off the