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“It doesn’t look like nothing to me. What the fuck bit you like that?”
I hurried for my clothes and snatching the shirt up from beside the bed, only to stare at the shredded fabric.
“Oh, God…oh, Jesus…” he cried, coming closer. “I did this. I fucking did this.”
“No.” I spun around, glaring. “You didn’t. Not the you I know, anyway.”
But he shook his head and clenched his fist. “I did this…I—”
Smack!
His fist thudded onto his cheek, throwing his head backwards.
I lunged and grabbed his fist as he swung again. “Stop! Colt, STOP! You didn’t know what you were doing. You—” I stopped. “You were someone else last night. Someone—”
Beast.
The name reverberated inside my head. “You were someone you needed. Someone who protected you. Someone—” I stepped closer, touching his cheek softly. “Someone who kept you alive.”
“I need to be tied up.” His voice was bleak as he turned from my touch and scanned his bed.
I knew instantly what he was looking for, the thick leather shackles he’d used to chain himself to the bed when it stormed. Only now I knew why.
“No.” I shook my head. “No fucking way am I letting that happen. Not after what you’ve just been through. You didn’t hurt me. Hey! Look at me.”
He jerked back to me.
“You didn’t hurt me. You just needed to learn to be gentler.”
“It shouldn’t have ever happened.” His eyes were darkening, growing distant. “I didn’t want you to ever know.”
I lifted my chin. “Well, I’m glad I do. I want to know all of you, the good and the bad. I don’t regret a second and you shouldn’t either.”
“Did I…did I rape you?”
I think that would’ve been the last straw. If he thought that’s what had happened, Colt would put a gun to his mouth and he’d be dead before we knew it.
“No. You didn’t,” I answered. “And that’s the truth. You were…” I grazed my lip with my teeth as that heady rush came back. Pain and pleasure. The sting was so fucking good. I swallowed hard. “You were perfect.”
He scowled, staring at me. “No. That’s not—”
“He was perfect for me. Rough at first, but then he seemed to understand.” Christ, I was talking like it was someone else in the room with us last night and not Colt. “He won’t hurt me. You won’t hurt me. I know that.”
“But if he—”
I captured his face, holding his stare. “He won’t hurt me because you won’t allow it. I will heal, Colt. I will heal and the next time that other part of you rises to the surface, I’ll be ready. If he ever comes back.”
Fear moved into his stare.
He didn’t think it was an if, did he?
He thought it was a when.
Fuck.
His knees shook so hard he stumbled backwards, falling onto the bed. I lunged forward and grabbed his shoulders. His arms clasped across his middle were all I needed to know he needed help. “Wait right here.” I whirled to the door. “I’ll be as fast as I can.”
I threw open the door and raced for my room, bursting in to fling myself into my closet. I threw on anything: panties, jeans, and a t-shirt with no bra. My damn nipples were too sore anyway. So I grabbed a jacket and my socks and boots and raced out.
