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Anger sliced through her, and behind it, fear. “I am not willing toloseyou to this, Caligher.”
His face hovered dangerously close, forehead meeting hers. “Then this is how you have me. You get to see what I’ve done—who I am.”
“What, and I can’t tell you when you’re doing something massively fucked up? You’re out of your goddamn mind,” she said, watching him grab one of her wrists… and then the other. Holding her breath as he pressed them into the wall and aligned his hips over her stomach. He was so warm and alive against her that she couldn’t stop a gasp from slipping out.
“I’ve thought to myself how wrong it is to keep you,” he continued, “and I’ve thought to myself that I’m too messed up to be a good mate for you. But it feels like the harder I try to deny it, the darker my urges toward you grow. Why is that, Lucca?”
“I don’t fucking know,” she answered.
He studied her at length with those disbelieving eyes. “Do you want me to stop?”
“S-stop?”
His thumbs grazed her wrists. “This. These things I have the urge to do to you.”
Her body was so keened up for him, she thought she might explode. The adrenaline in her blood was an overwhelming mix of fear and need. He was freaking her the hell out—but she didn’t want him to stop touching her. If he stopped touching her, she might fall out through that hole in the floor.
Her eyes fanned shut briefly. “You have to stop hurting people,” she whispered, drawing a sharp, bitter laugh from him. “But don’t stop this.”
His eyes were piercing when their stares collided. “You keep surprising me. When I think you’re about to say you’ve had it, you want more. Which means it’s you. I’m getting these urges from you.”
“You can’t blame me for your fucked up sex kinks,” she said, making him bark with dark laughter. His mouth split into a sharp smile, that dark and confounding tongue propping against his teeth.
“I’ve wanted to do fucked up things before,” he said, “but never like what I want to do to you.” He gathered her wrists together and pinned them above her. His knuckle grazed her throat, catching her zipper and pulling it down.
Down her chest.
Down her belly.
Exposing the sliver of flesh underneath.
Her breasts spiked at the tips with sensitive need, brushing the fabric. She could feel the pulse between her legs hammering steadily hotter.
Without warning, his mouth ghosted over her own, making her suck in a startled breath. It was practically a kiss. The millimeter of distance was charged with energy.
She held so, so still, not daring to move her lips and close that space. She wanted himonher, to smother the thoughts out of her mind and follow through with his strange threats. Instead, he held her wrists hostage, sliding a hand beneath her ear, cupping her neck.
“You’ve shared this with others?” he asked, forcing her to feel his lips moving, their breaths colliding, her lungs filling with his intoxicating scent.
“Ye—yes,” she breathed. His mouth already tasted like heaven. She felt herself being absorbed into his essence in ways she suspected went beyond her own senses and understanding.
“Then you’ll need to guide me. How is mating carried out on your planet?”
He waited for her answer. There was something almost cruel about making her explain it.
“You don’t have to follow a specific protocol,” she whispered. “You do whatever feels right… as long as they’re okay with it. As long as you’re safe about it.”
“So if I wanted to undress you, and have you on this floor?” Her eyes fluttered shut, picturing the crass image. “In this very room? Could I do that?”
She swallowed hard. Their mouths kept brushing. It was the purest torture. “You could do that,” she answered, opening her eyes to stare at him.
Finally, he moved, slow and intent, seizing her body and crushing his lips into hers.
Shocking, languid heat painted her from head to toe. She felt her head being tipped back, his mouth staging an aggressive pursuit. His ardent kiss bordered on forceful.
When his tongue invaded her mouth, her hips pressed forward. He drank down her moans, somehow reaching the air inside her lungs and stealing that, too.
He kissed her until she was light-headed but heavy everywhere else. Her wrists strained against his powerful grip, her arms burning from the prolonged stretch.
