Captivity Defined

Chapter Fourteen

Christine looked up from the music sheets, her eyes wide and her full lips parted slightly in shock. "I... I can't sing this."

Of course, his only response was to simply stare at her, his golden eyes flickering as his intense gaze challenged her.

Biting her lip nervously, she tried to hand him back the sheets. "I am very honored... that you would write this song for me, but I cannot sing it.. It wouldn't be right." She waited for him to take the sheets back from her but quickly took a couple steps backwards as he stood abruptly.

He took one step forward, which was all he needed in order to tower over her. His golden eyes darkened with slight anger, his mouth drawn in a thin line in irritation.

"I wrote this for you. I labored over this piece as a mother would to give birth to her child. I have spent sleepless nights composing until my fingers would start to bleed because of how much I had been playing, and you dare to tell me that you cannot sing it?"

Christine gulped, taking a single stray strand of chocolate curls that had fallen over her face and twirled it between her fingers nervously. "I... I'm sorry..." She murmured, her eyes wide as she stared up at the man that seemed to have so many different personalities. It was insane for her to think that for every personality Erik seemed to possess, he was a completely different person. And yet... even when he was furious... he could still control her...

"You don't get it, do you, my dearest Christine?"

He turned away from her, chuckling darkly as he slowly walked towards the piano, his cape fluttering behind him majestically.

"When I gave you that sheet music, it was not a question of whether you would sing it or not. I am your teacher, as well as your betrothed now. I have no doubt in my mind that you shall sing this song. Because it was not a request, mon Ange. It was a command."

She watched as he sat down on the piano bench with an elegance he and he alone possessed. His fingers slid across the keys in a caressing motion, and the movement caused Christine to breathe in sharply and chills to go down her spine, though she didn't know why.

Even the smallest movements from him set off a fire in her that couldn't be controlled... and every time she tried to water it down, it would roar that much greater... refusing to be tamed...

He watched her every reaction, his golden eyes glinting in approval when he saw her lips part as she took in a breath quickly, and then darkened with desire as her upper body trembled slightly, her eyes closing for a split second as she did so.

Her eyes opened, and yet he still stared, his gaze intense with unspoken desires. She blinked slowly, her eyelashes brushing the soft skin of her high cheekbones and then lifting up to reveal her sparkling emerald gaze to him once more, causing him to narrow his eyes slightly as his heartbeats increased in speed.

Knowing if he stared any longer he would lose complete control, he turned his gaze to the ivory keys of the piano and began to play a song that he knew was familiar to Christine. It was simple, and yet he had wrote it when she had first begun to have suitors. He had written it for the simple purpose of reminding Christine to whom exactly she belonged to. It had worked every time before then, and he knew that this time it would be no different.

After all, no one could resist the power of his music. His music had literally trapped minds before, and he had no doubt of what could happen if he dared to unleash his complete abilities on Christine.

But he didn't want her love like that, and so, he would remain patient.

Christine recognized the song that Erik had started playing, and her lips uncontrollably curved upwards in a smile as she began to sing along, knowing that that was what her Angel wished of her.