The sound of their moans mingled in the cavern, twisting together with the rumble of his pleasure. It felt sogood.The grasp in her hair softened just enough, but he didn’t let go of her as he set the pace. She was too lulled away to focus. He wanted control—and she was more than eager enough to let him have it.
“That’s it, that’s—ah—” He chuckled. “Oh, Nadi, my vicious killer. Turned into a mewling, tame little—nnh—” The pace and the depth he was setting was brutal. Unforgiving. It was making a point. And she didn’t care.
She wanted more.
She wanted tofeel it.
He yanked her up roughly by the chain, and the purring stopped. “Fight me.”
Like a splash of cold water in her face, reason returned to her. Snarling, she did exactly as he asked. She wanted him. Wanted this. But damn it if she wasn’t going to go down making himbleed.She scratched at him. Kicked at him. Punched at him.
Cussed and swore over his laughter as he grabbed her wrist, and spun her around, yanking her arm up behind her back. Once more he pushed her over what must be the dead limb of the vines.
He was bigger than her. Stronger than her.Fasterthan her. Her struggles were useless and they both knew it as he wrapped the slack of the chain around her wrist behind her back, before catching her other wrist and sending it to join it. Before long, she was trapped. Doubled over, her hands shackled in silver.
Leashed.
Naked.
On display.
In the Wild.
A fae.
To a vampire.
Nadi.
To the Serpent.
His free hand stroked over her bare ass, taking his time now that he had clearly and easily won. “I can see what Braen was on about. I never quite understood the appeal to having one of you, until now.”
“Shut thefuckup,” she ground out through her teeth.
“Mm, I don’t think I will.” He brought his hand down on her ass in a hardcrack.“You’re mine. And I don’t think you get to tell me what to do.” He squeezed the same ass cheek hard enough that she gasped, before rubbing it soothingly. “Oh, I don’t think you know how glorious this really is for me, do you? A true reawakening. I owe you more than you will ever know for this moment.”
“Fuck. You.” She was shaking. Her body felt like an inferno. It was begging for him. Desperate for every touch. She wanted him. Needed him. She loved every second of this. But still some part of herhatedthat she did. And needed to run her mouth over it.
His free hand shifted to the chain at the back of her neck and pulled her upright. The shift of weight made her gag. “Plentifully. I assure you. But I am attempting to be gracious here, so give me a moment.” He let go abruptly.
She fell back down, coughing.
“What I was saying before I was interrupted.” He brought his hand down on her ass again with asmack.She bit back a cry, but barely. “Was that these four days wandering in this moons-forsaken pit of darkness has given me time to think. Time to realize that this has been a blessing from the Father and Mother. That coming here, to the Wild, has set me free. You killed Raziel Nostrom, Nadi. But you set loose the Serpent in a way I do not think you could possibly imagine.”
Yeah.
She was starting to come to that realization.
When she opened her mouth to swear at him, something other than obscenities left her mouth. What left her was a wail as he rammed himself into her body to the hilt without warning.
The sudden presence of him had her seeing flashes of white in her vision, the only thing she could see. Pleasure crashed overher in an explosion of cascading waves, her body clenching tight around him as he set an unrelenting and unforgiving pace. The hand that held the silver chain pressed down to the middle of her back, pinning her arms there, and the other lifted her leg at the knee to give him better access.
He had warned her he was going to rut her like a beast.
And he was not a man who made idle threats.
Dropping her head forward, she could barely breathe as he pistoned inside her like a machine. Whatever anger, whatever frustration he had built up inside him over the past few months, he was unleashing on her now. And it felt likebliss.It ached. It was violent. It was animalistic and feral. And it was glorious.
