Crown Of Hearts
Chapter 85: From the moment I saw you

Chapter 85: From the moment I saw you

Gareth’s eyes took a smoldering hue and his lips softly bit into the chocolate in Eros’ hand as their eyes slowly met.

Eros swallowed, wondering whether he was being seduced as his eyes involuntarily dropped to look at Gareth’s lips.

His slender pink lips looked so soft and kissable.

Eros drew himself from the road his thoughts were taking as he tried to focus on his task which was feeding the dragon before him.

The whole reason he had brought the sweets was to flirt with the dragon and let him know that he could let his guard down just for a while around him but the tables had quickly turned and Eros found himself unable to tear his eyes from Gareth’s lips.

This was all turning out to have been a very bad idea.

"Do you want to kiss me, Eros?" Gareth smirked knowingly and Eros subtly licked his lips an action that made the red dragon shiver with desire.

"Yes..." Eros trailed off, totally dazed and a small part of his conscious mind knew that it was his dragon that was now making the decisions.

Their mate had just offered them a kiss so, why not?

"First tell me that you are not going back to your lover...." Gareth demanded softly as he leaned in.

Eros’ mind returned at his demand as he smirked.

"Classic move." Eros admitted as he pulled away from his mate who had resorted to using seduction to manipulate him into telling him what he wanted to know.

"Come on, you have tortured me enough." Gareth groaned and Eros held his ground, his mind made up.

"You know what I want and once you give it to me, I will tell you what you want to know." Eros replied and Gareth was deeply irritated but he held his tongue, impressed with how smart his mate was.

His dragon wanted nothing more than to admit that he wanted his mate but the part of him that was still hurting was very reluctant to let himself be vulnerable again.

He didn’t really trust Eros enough to open up.

The man was still a member of the same family that had betrayed him seven hundred years ago.

"I will see you tomorrow, Gareth." Eros turned and left once he was certain his mate wasn’t going to reply.

Gareth watched him leave, his heart clenching in his chest as he yearned for his mate to stay a while longer.

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The next day, Eros planned to continue torturing his mate and with a convincing smile, he managed to bribe one of his close friends to give him a hickey on his neck, right at the spot where he knew Gareth yearned to place his mark.

He could feel the sharp glare that was directed towards him once he entered Gareth’s cell that morning.

"Unbelievable, did you get a new lover?" Gareth’s voice was hoarse from anger and jealousy as he failed to tear his eyes from the new hickey that was on the spot that was meant to be reserved for him. For his mark.

This new lover had a minty scent and Gareth found one more thing he disliked.

His mate was slowly driving him insane and wiping that mark off his neck was the only thing he wanted to do as his eyes glared at Eros.

"You don’t want me so, I have to find someone that does." Eros stated matter of factly and Gareth lost it as he tugged at his chains, wanting nothing more than to get his hands on his mate that excluded a casual aura. Like he had no idea how his actions were rendering him unable to think straight. _{fre.eweb novel\.c om}

"You will stop what you are doing..." Gareth threatened as his jealousy burned and his dragon struggled harder to break his chains.

"Or what, you are going to kill my new lover?" Eros quirked up a brow in question and the hatred in Gareth’s eyes burned.

"Yes, I will kill him because... because I want you. I want you so badly that it hurts so, STOP." Gareth’s voice was angry and defeated as he tore his eyes from his mate.

His dragon could no longer take the torture Eros was putting him through.

Gareth had underestimated his mate.

Eros was much more calculative than he had thought.

His mate knew how to get what he wanted and even though it nearly drove him insane, Gareth inwardly admitted that it was impressive.

His emerald green eyes were defensive and intense as they held Eros’ eyes in an unwavering stare.

"You have got what you want. Happy?" He growled and Eros smiled painfully.

"A little." He admitted, not feeling particularly good that he had literally forced the words out of his mate’s lips.

"I used to think I was really good at manipulation but I will admit defeat." His mate’s voice held both anger and something else that Eros couldn’t really identify.

"I would do anything when it comes to you because unlike you, I wanted you from the moment I saw you." Eros confessed and that seemed to have startled his mate whose eyes widened slightly as his lips parted softly.

Good, he was speechless but Eros was far from celebrating any victory.

The dragon had admitted he wanted him but it was still clear that he hated him as well.

He had only put a tiny crack through the ice but the challenge to win over his mate was officially on.

He now had somewhere to begin.

"So, you are not going to return to your lovers?" Gareth eventually found his voice and Eros’ eyes softened a little as he held his mate’s gaze.

"No, I won’t be going back to any of them. There were really no lovers after I met you." Eros admitted and a rare vulnerability flashed through Gareth’s eyes before he hid it. Gareth hated the tiny ray of happiness and relief that pierced his heart at Eros’ words.

He wanted to believe his mate but the evidence before him was overwhelming.

"And the hickey on your neck?" Gareth was skeptical and Eros couldn’t blame him.

"I bribed a friend to give me one. I wanted to make you jealous." Eros admitted and Gareth glared at him in disbelief at all the trouble he had gone through to get him to tell him what he wanted to hear.

His mate was ambitious.