Page 18 of Marked By Him

She may have been fragile but she wasn’t weak.

I wet my lips. My throat was so thick with rage, the words were almost a growl. “I don’t think you get it, so I’ll explain it to you. Everything that happens in life is a tiny piece of a greater design. A divine plan. There is a reason foreverything.”

Her breath came heavy and short. Her skin flushed the prettiest pink. Her breasts pressed against my chest. She was so soft, so feminine and delicate underneath all that fire.

My voice declared annoyance, disgust. My body revealed something else. My cock swelled, hard and pulsing, until it fucking ached. There was no hiding it. My pants were too thin and we were too close.

When the time came and I was called to judgment, I could honestly say I tried.This is what Adam felt like.

I pushed into her, tightened my grip on her hair and pulled her harder against me.

Her full lips parted as she sucked in a breath. That pulse point in her neck thrummed faster, which only made my balls ache for release.

“There’s a reason you survived when you shouldn’t have. There’s a reason you showed up at my gate and not someone else’s. And there’s a reason—” I hissed between my teeth, stopping my next words.There’s a reason you belong to me now.

“What?” Her breath was ragged. “Say it. There’s a reason for what? What’s the third thing?” Her voice was small, adding to the position of power I had over her, the power I never wanted but had been given anyway.

I felt my sanity slipping through my fingertips. Parts of myself that I’d resolved to keep hidden sparked to life, viciously lashed at the cage I’d locked them in. I’d endured years of self-discipline. Loneliness. Pain.

Bad things happened when I lost control.

People got hurt.

People died.

She did this. She’d infected me like the fucking virus that had infected the world.

“Nothing. It doesn’t matter.”

She huffed and narrowed her glare. “I survived because I ran. And I showed up here because I ran. That’s it. It’s that simple.”

I didn’t expect her to understand. She was from the outside. Outsiders were selfish. They believed their purpose was the survival of one. Here, our purpose was the survival of the many.

I let go of her wrists and her hair, then took a step back. “If that’s what you believe.”

Her stare dropped to my mouth, lingering there for a second before running down my chest, my stomach, stopping finally where I was hard as fucking stone. She shuddered. Her eyes flared.

I didn’t move, didn’t adjust myself, didn’t care that she saw what I felt, thick inch after thick inch pressing against the fabric, begging to be set free.

As if catching herself before falling, her head snapped up. She swallowed. “Am I still free to go? Or is keeping me here part of theplan?” She spit out the last word.

A smile stretched over my lips. “You don’t seem to want to leave.”

A challenge glinted in her eyes. “And you don’t seem to want me to leave.”

“Then, there it is.”

“There what is?”

“The third thing.”The reason you’re here and I can’t let you go.

My gaze locked and held with hers. Her chest rose with her breath. Her nipples strained against her yellow t-shirt. And time passed, achingly slowly while I took back my self-control, willing my dick to obey.Inhale. Exhale.Steady and slow.

I needed to get a hold of myself. Because if I slipped, if I didn’t rein this shit in right fucking now, I was going to destroy her. From the looks of it, the outside world had done a good enough job of that already.

“There’s a bathroom upstairs,” I said. “You know how to work a bath, don’t you?”

Her eyes hardened.There it is.There was the fight I’d seen earlier. There was the fire that made me feel alive. It was the challenge that got my dick hard.

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