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She stares up at me without saying a word.
She’s truly not afraid of me.
I wrap my hand around her throat. Not hard enough to cut off her air, just… testing. Waiting to see if the fear will finally come. If this will be the time she finally sees me as a monster. If she’ll use her safe word to save herself.
She doesn’t, and something flares between us as her breath quickens, her pulse thrumming so insistently that it makes my soul ache.
“Logan,” she whispers, my name forming on her lips without any sound.
My cock starts to harden, and I tighten my grip on her throat, needing more. Needing to feel the rapid flutter of her pulse beneath my palm. Needing to know she doesn’t just trust me; that she craves this too.
She licks her lips, subtly lifting her throat to press against my hand, and a low groan rips out of me as heat surges between us.
She gasps softly, squirming beneath my body as I tighten my grip even more, and I know she’s wet for me. I’m feeding the side of her that no one else will. She wants this, and this little wildcat is everythingIwant.
Every fucking time I give her a chance to hate me, she doesn’t, and for the first time, I actually start to believe what I said to myself in the mirror this morning.
Maybe I’m not what I’ve always thought I was.
Maybe, for her, I truly can be something better.
“Logan.”
Maddoc’s voice is low and tense, and I blink, noticing for the first time that both my brothers have awakened.
They don’t like the chokehold I have on our girl.
“It’s okay,” she tells them, keeping her eyes on me. “Logan and I are figuring it out.”
She reaches up as she says it and wraps her hand around my wrist, holding it in place.
“You like it.”
I don’t make it a question. I know she does. But I still need her to say it. I need her to say it in front ofthem.
And once again, she doesn’t let me down.
“I like it,” she breathes. “I need it. I need you, Logan.”
Something crashes through me, a feeling that’s hot and shaky and bright, and I’m more grateful than I’ll ever fucking admit that Dante jumps in, giving me a moment to deal with the swirl of unfamiliar emotions making my chest ache.
“Logan’s pretty intense, princess. You’re in for it now. You just gave him a free pass to—”
“To hurt me?” Riley cuts in breathlessly, her pupils dilating. “That’s what I want. I like it intense. I like hurting a little bit.”
Dante claps a hand on my shoulder. “Well, I’m pretty sure our brother here can help you with that one.”
I roll my eyes, but he’s not wrong. They know I’m broken. The strange thing is, I don’t feel it as much with Riley.
She gives me a little smile, something private between just the two of us, and maybe that’s it.
She knows I’m broken too. But all my broken pieces fit perfectly with her.
It’s a good feeling, and those emotions swell in my chest when I finally release my hold on her throat and she turns her head to press a soft kiss to my palm.
Out of the corner of my eye, I can see Maddoc and Dante share a nod as they get out of bed, leaving the two of us in our own little bubble. We linger like that for a moment, our gazes still locked, and for the first time in as long as I can remember, I feel something almost like… contentment.
It’s almost impossible to drag myself away from Riley, even though I know we need to get up. We have to buckle down and figure out what our next move will be. The thought of the danger she could still be in is what finally urges me into action, and I pull my hand away from her face and lean back.
