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Brutal.
Lips, tongue, and teeth too.
He ripped away from me with a snarl after a moment, his hands gripping my face. “What the hell, Fireball? Who brought you here?”
“I did.” I held his gaze, defiance filling mine.
I wasn’t walking away, no matter what he said.
“You can’t be alone in here without losing your mind. You won’t leave to save your life. This is the answer.” I gestured toward myself. “Me.”
“You’re not staying in this fucking cell with me. I fought heat for weeks to keep you out of here. I watched you suffer, I forced myself not to do anything, I?—”
“How do you think I’ll feel when you die in here?” I demanded.
He blinked.
His forehead wrinkled, just slightly.
“Did you even think about me? You said we were mates, August. I woke up in our bed alone the morning after we finally had sex. You didn’t say goodbye. You abandoned me. Eli kept saying that you were coming back, that you wanted me, but you never said it yourself. I thought there was a good chance you were going to reject me up until you called me your mate this morning. I thought I was coming here for nothing, because you didn’t want me. I?—”
His lips crashed into mine again, harder than before.
More desperate.
I tasted his blood in my mouth as the kiss opened up one of his wounds, but he didn’t stop.
So I didn’t either.
He pulled me closer.
Kissed me harder.
Lifted me onto his lap and recaptured my face while I sat on his erection. How he was hard with all those wounds, I didn’t know.
His eyes met mine, fierce and emotional and still furious.
“I wanted you. I always wanted you, and I always will.” He kissed me again roughly, but pulled away a breath later. “I’m fucking pissed that you followed me here. It kills me that you put yourself in danger. That you snuck into the prison. That you flew with my brother. But I’m enough of a bastard that despite my anger, I’m relieved.” He brushed his thumb over my cheekbone. “Relieved that you’re here with me, so I’m not alone. That we’re still a team.”
I bit my lip.
“I’m sorry. I should’ve said goodbye. I should’ve thought about how much that would hurt you. I should’ve made sure you knew damn well that I belong to you as much as you belong to me—and that I would come back to you no matter what it took. Even if it meant abandoning the thunder.”
“You just told me you weren’t willing to leave them.”
The intensity in his gaze relaxed a bit. “I told you they wouldn’t let me die, and they won’t. When it comes down to it, they’ll get me out. They’re pissed at me, but they don’t want me dead. If they did, my brothers would get involved.”
My forehead wrinkled. “So they’re not going to leave you to lose your mind or suffer?”
“Oh, they want me to suffer. To lose my mind a bit, too. They just won’t let it kill me.”
Ah.
Great friends and family. Really, really great.
I couldn’t even pretend to understand the way dragons worked, but he didn’t seem bothered about it, so I didn’t say anything.
“Well, I’m not leaving,” I finally said. “Not until we’ve had a better conversation than this, at least.” I gestured between us. “Say you survive this for six months, what do we do next? What’s your plan? To become Jasper’s right-hand man or something?”
