No Such King (Bloody Royals Book 1) by CoraLee June

Author:CoraLee June [June, CoraLee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-21T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

CHRISTINE

In an instant, Leo slammed me onto the mat, his muscular arms throwing me down with ease. I was not in the right headspace to engage in a fight today, so I was unable to predict his attacks as well as I would have liked. I knew I was more than capable of taking him on. If I flipped the switch in my mind and truly unleashed all my rage, he’d be a broken mess on the training room floor. I knew his weaknesses and strengths. I knew he had an old injury on his right knee that made him favor that leg. I also knew that Leo was cocky. He relied on his brute strength to take down his opponent, but his strategy needed work. He was good at analyzing a situation, but executing that knowledge was where he had a disconnect.

I knew all of this, but I just couldn’t motivate myself to do much about it.

He pinned my arms over my head and pressed his hard body against mine. “Push me off of you.”

“I’m trying,” I said lazily. If I truly wanted to push him off of me, I would have already done so. I would have used the ballpoint pen on the ground at my side and driven it through his eye socket. If I truly wanted to win this training session, he would have already been dead.

But I didn’t want to win today. I didn’t want to snap into that training mode of kill or be killed with Leo.

“Come on,” he urged before pinning me harder.

“This is boring,” I mumbled, even though my cheeks were flushed. My mind was preoccupied and it felt impossible to focus.

Yesterday’s press tour had drained me, and I was raw from my interaction with both Atticus and August.

He knew.

They both knew.

All of them knew what had happened to me that fateful night three years ago, and it was a relief to have my truth out in the open, but also a burden.

For years I had been wondering what it would be like to tell August about the horrible things that had happened to me. I wondered how he would respond, how he would treat me afterward. Nothing could have prepared me for the pity in his gaze or the tenacious way he declared kind promises that felt hollow to me. I wanted to believe that this wouldn’t change how he viewed me, but we didn’t even have a baseline for normalcy anymore. I was once the girl that loved him, then I became the girl that ran away.

Now I was the murderer determined to flee again.

“You aren’t even trying,” Leo said. He hovered over me, his hands pressing into the mat beside my head as he looked me in the eye. “I know you’re more than capable of taking me down, so why are you just letting me kick your ass?”

I rolled my eyes and shoved him off of me before standing up. “I’m not in the mood to train today,” I said before walking over to a water bottle and taking a sip.

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