Ashes Of The Throne | Part I

Chapter 26 | "It's A No From Me"

Eko's heart raced as she felt Matthew's intense gaze on her. She knew she was playing a dangerous game, but she couldn't resist the temptation to see how he would react. With one swift motion, she lifted the sword from the ground and strode towards him, swaying her hips seductively. 

 As she reached him, she stepped into his body and wrapped her arm around his shoulder. Standing on her tippy toes to get closer to his face, she slowly slid the shorter sword he had given her back into its holster. 

Eko's eyes never left Matthew's gaze as she bit the bottom of her lip, the heat between them palpable. She knew that he could feel her intentions, and she relished in the way he tightened his grip on his sword. She could feel his arousal growing, and it only fueled her desire to push him even further.

Eko's voice was a soft purr. "Didn't I say I was capable?" Matthew felt a magnetic attraction to her, and he noticed how close she was to kissing him. 

He could feel it in his core, the desire to consume her whole, her seductive move made him want to capture her like a wild animal. 

So why did she suddenly want to be caught? It felt so good to show him what she was capable of, yet she couldn't shake the feeling that there was more to this than just proving herself.

"And we can discuss that over dinner. Just you and me," Matthew's tone was equally seductive, matching Eko's predatory intent.

But their intense, sexual tension was abruptly interrupted by awkward coughs that shattered the chemistry they had built. They both turned their heads towards the soldiers, who were now smirking at them. Eko realized that she couldn't respond the way she wanted to in front of them.

"Shall we head back? They might need our help," Jesse offered a dry smile, trying to diffuse the irony that was weighing down the moment.

"Ya know, instead of indulging in flirting?" Richie waved his sword to emphasize his point.

Eko chuckled, dismissing Richie's comment, as she took a step back from Matthew. She knew precisely what reaction to elicit from him.

"That wasn't flirting," she protested playfully.

Matthew, however, wasn't convinced. "That was flirting," he deadpanned, watching Eko's retreating figure. Her gait and the sway of her hips spoke volumes about the game she was playing. "I know what flirting looks like."

Turning on her heel, Eko grinned mischievously, "you're also a master of manipulation."

"I like to think of myself as a strategic thinker, darling," Matthew countered with a cocky smirk.

"Arrogant," she teased, shaking her head playfully as she walked over to Jesse, her hips swaying with each step.

"I can give you a list of women who would beg to differ," he quipped, his eyes twinkling with amusement.

Eko howled in laughter; it was one of those over-the-top, means to put you in your place, hysterical bouts because she was about to burn him with her following comment.

For the life of Richie, Toni, and Jesse, they found entirely amusing the way someone, a girl, namely, was just as cocky as he was, watching as a different person was coming out from their best friend.

Eko's sarcastic smile turned into a mischievous grin as she delivered her rejection. "Baby, don't make me spell it our for you. It's a no from me. A big, fat, arousing no," she said with a twinkle in her eye. .

"HAHAHA!" Toni's laughter roared in the space between them as Matthew's face fell a fraction with how straight Eko had kept hers, as though holding onto it too long forced her to crack up.