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I pushed on his body, my tattooed right palm landing square on the tattoo on his chest. A raw energy filled my hand, shooting through his body. We both gasped.
I fought my overwhelming desire and pushed him hard. “Collin, stop.”
“Ellie.” His mouth found mine and I was lost in a sea of longing, but I regained my senses as he began to enter me.
“No!” I scooted back and took several quick breaths to regain control. My body and soul screamed in protest, desperate to have what I knew only he could give me.
Hurt replaced confusion on his face for a mere second before his trademark cocky look returned—the one I’d first seen when we met at the New Moon.
The day he’d come in to purposely break the curse.
I scooted back more. “You owe me answers, Collin.”
“Now?” He lifted up, panting.
I realized the absurdity of it. He was naked and I was in my bra and skirt in the front seat of his truck, millimeters away from giving in to what we not only wanted but apparently supernaturally needed. The implication of that thought scared me, but I couldn’t focus on it right now. “Yes, now. You owe me answers.”
Collin still hovered over me, his face close to my waist, and my treacherous body reminded me how close his mouth was to lower, intimate parts of me. My eyes rolled back in my head as I suppressed the desire to lift myself up to him. But I knew myself enough to realize that if I went through with this, I’d regret it for the rest of my life.
Collin lowered his body onto mine, driving me crazy with the skin-to-skin contact. “I tried to give you answers, Ellie.” His voice was husky as his mouth traveled up my neck to my ear, pulling my earlobe into his lips. “You didn’t want to hear them then.” His hand slid between my legs and my head shot back as I arched my spine, my body begging me to give in.
Still, that persistent part of me screamed for attention.Listen to what he’s saying, Ellie.
I focused on his words, a tiny flame of anger sparking to life.
He’s using you now, just like he used you to open the gate.
My anger exploded into fury, replacing my desire and bringing me to my senses. “Are you fucking serious?” I pushed on his chest to get him off of me, but he resisted, his lower half still pressing me down on the seat, the evidence of how much he wanted me hard against my thigh. “I had just watched my father die, after you betrayed me and released hundreds of creatures that vowed to torture me for hundreds of years. HowcouldI listen to you then?”
He watched me for a second, and I could almost see the wheels turning in his head as he tried to figure out how to play me.
How had I never noticed that before?
Contrition filled his eyes, and one of his hands cupped my cheek. “You’re right.”
I waited for him to continue speaking, but he merely watched my face while his thumb stroked my cheek in slow circles.
“I’m not one of your whores, Collin. You can’t use me and then toss me away when you’re done.”
His eyes widened. “Is that what you think I did? You think I tossed you aside? You were never like any other woman in my life, Ellie.”
“I’m sure ofthat. No other woman could help you break a four-hundred-year-old curse.”
He sighed, his shoulders slumping.
“You walked into that restaurant and thought, ‘Stupid Ellie doesn’t remember anything about the curse. I can play her like a fiddle.’”
His head lifted. “It wasn’t like that.”
“It wasn’t like that?” I pushed hard, and he finally got off me. I scrambled back until my spine was pressed up against the passenger door as he took a seat behind the steering wheel.
“You knew damn good and well who I was the moment you walked through the door. How long had you known?”
He closed his door and leaned his forearms on the steering wheel, looking out the windshield. The moonlight swathed his naked body like a blanket, and I wanted to cry at the irony. The most gorgeous man I’d ever hoped to be with had probably only slept with me to get what he wanted. Just like the way he’d dealt with every other woman in his life.
“How long, Collin?”
“A couple of weeks.”
