[1] Apocalypse: Third Rebirth

Chapter 147: White Flame

"So, the humans are so important to you that you will just answer when they call, no matter what?" the woman that looked like Li Dai Lu asked him almost choking on the words. "Even if it means leaving me?" The look of helplessness and vulnerability on her face was one that Liu Yu Zeng never wanted to see on his woman. I would destroy the whole world to make her smile.

He could feel his body fighting him, his mouth wanting to apologize, to insist that he needed to answer when he was called. 'Fuck that shit,' thought Liu Yu Zeng as his anger began to rise. What was the point in having all that blood on his hands. following all the rules of his family, even when he wanted to do nothing more than break down and refuse? But he fought, he killed, and he made a place for himself despite everything. He would not be a spectator in this matter. Li Dai Lu was his reward from Heaven and he would not let her slip through his fingers.

Liu Yu Zeng continued to fight inside his body, forcing his protesting muscles to stand up. Sweat broke out on his forehead as his legs began to shake, not wanting to follow his orders. 'Fuck this shit,' he thought again, and in a single heave, he was standing in front of the woman that held his world in her hands.

"No one will ever be more important to me than you," he promised her as he stalked the remaining distance between them. Pulling her roughly into his arms, he stared down into her eyes. "If they want to separate us again, then let them all die," he growled before taking her lips in his and forcing a demanding kiss that spoke of all his desires, his fears, his dreams. He kissed her as he had never kissed her before, wanted to take part of her into him so they could never be separated.

Liu Yu Zeng didn't know if it was his imagination or not, but he felt himself pulling a piece of her into him and in return, giving her a piece of himself as well. However, he was unable to take his lips off this succulent offering in front of him to even begin to figure out what was going on.

His lips continued their journey across her silken skin, giving her lips a brief reprieve as he moved on to her jaw, her neck. "You are mine," he growled, pulling himself back just enough to look at her. "Do you understand that? You. Are. Mine!"

"I am yours," she agreed, the smile on her face lighting up his very being. "And you are mine," she continued looking up at him as if she wanted reassurance on that matter.

"I am yours, forever and always," he vowed, bringing his lips back down onto hers. "Forever and always," he repeated before everything went black.

*****

"Li Dai Lu" screamed Liu Yu Zeng, sitting up in bed in an absolute panic. Looking around the bedroom that they had claimed in the penthouse, the only one to be able to allow all of them to sleep together, he couldn't find the woman that he was just dreaming about. "Li Dai Lu!" he yelled again as he desperately tried to untangle himself from the blankets.

Cursing about the waste of time, he furiously ripped them off, not caring if he damaged them or not. He needed to find her, he needed to hold her, to make sure that she was alright. Finally free of the blankets, he was so distracted that he didn't notice the door open and then quietly close. He rushed forward, determined to hunt down the woman, when a solid hand landed on his chest, preventing him from going forward.

"At ease, brother," came the growled voice of Chen Zi Han as the taller man leaned down to whisper in his ear. A feeling of rage rose in Liu Yu Zeng at the very idea that the man in front of him was attempting to keep him from his mate. Letting out a growl of his own, he gripped Chen Zi Han's hand that was on his chest with his right hand and as hard as he could, drove his left forearm into his opponent's elbow causing him to break his hold.

Darkness clouded his vision and he let out a low growl as he felt something surging inside of him. Throwing Chen Zi Han over his knee, he watched impassively as the man he considered to be closer to him than his brother laid stomach down on the floor with his knee digging in on his lower back, applying more and more pressure.