“That was thelasttime you ever touch me like that, Draegan.”
My hackles rise and I get to my feet, towering over her. “Don’t you dare speak to me as if you weren’teverybit as eager for it as I was.”
“I’m not denying I wanted you.Goddess, I wanted you. Ialwayswant you. I’m simply reminding myself—remindingbothof us—what a terrible idea it is to—”
“Towhat?” I whisper darkly, crowding her back against the wall, my wings closing in around her like a cage. “To kiss? To touch?” Then, wrapping my hand around her throat and bringing my mouth to her ear, “To writhe and moan andfuckuntil we’re both filthy and trembling and breathless? Because that’s what you’re thinking about now, is it not? What it felt like when I had you bent over my desk, filling you up with so much cum you didn’t think you’d ever take another step without feeling the hot slide of it running down your thighs?”
Her pulse responds to the press of my thumb, a frantic drumbeat that unleashes another growl deep in my chest. “Fuck. Do you have any idea what youdoto me, little mortal?”
“I… I don’t… I’m…” Her eyelids flutter closed, her breath hot on my skin.
I spin her around and pin her face-first against the wall, grinding against her lithe body, burying my face in her hair, inhaling the scents of the apple orchard and her raw, pulsating desire.
“Lie to me with your words if that’s what you need to do,” I continue softly, dragging my hand down her chest, her belly, dipping between her thighs and stroking until her arousal coats my fingers. “But your body speaks only the truth.”
“Draegan,” she moans.
“Tell me to stop,” I command. “Use your words.”
Another shuddering breath. A shake of her head.
Still fucking her with one hand, I skim the other one up her throat and shove three fingers into her mouth. She closes her lips around them, her tongue gliding over my skin like hot velvet as she sucks me, harder and faster, deeper, and… oh,fuck…she’s unraveling me again, as shealwaysmanages to unravel me…
“Tell me you don’t want this,” I grind out, pushing my cock between her thighs, teasing her entrance. “Tell me you don’t want this and I’ll release you.”
I slide my fingers out of her mouth and hold my breath, waiting for a fucking eternity for the answer that will either set me free or send me to my fucking grave.
And then, finally…
“Fuck off,” she whispers, arching her backside to give me full access.
One deep, hard thrust, and I’m buried to the fucking hilt.
She curses again, whispers my name like she’s casting a spell to send me straight to hell, and I capture her wrists in one hand and pin them above her head, my other hand still working her clit as I fuck her against the wall.
I’m not soft and slow. I’m not appreciating the softness of the fine hairs on the back of her neck or marveling at the cruel beauty of her scars or tracing delicate patterns over the curves of her shoulder. I’m absolutelysavage, claiming her with every hot, punishing thrust, slamming her against the wall as I take her faster, stroking her clit with a fevered touch, chasing her like a predator to the very top of that cliff…
Her body clenches around me as the orgasm rocks her to the core, and I bite down on her shoulder and I fuckingexplode, cursing the night I ever laid eyes on this beautiful, impossible, infuriating woman.
* * *
A moment passes in silence.
Then another.
Slowly, I drag myself out and take a step back, trying to chase down my thoughts. Trying to find something to say that won’t send her bolting out of here again.
But when she turns around to face me, I know from the fire in her eyes that those words just don’t exist.
“You can’t go around saying and doing whatever the hell you want,” she snaps, “hurting everyone in your path, then just sweeping in with your dirty words and dirty mouth and tidying it all up with sex.”
Her cheeks are stained a dark plum, her hair a wild tangle, and I can’t help but smile, even though I know it’s only going to get me into more hot water.
“Amazingsex,” I point out. “Utterly mind-blowing, if you must know.”
“Oh!” She laughs, bitter and harsh. “Someone thinks rather highly of himself.”
“Are you denying it?”
