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I expel a harsh sigh and lower my forehead to hers. Our chests touch, heart to heart, the dirt between our bodies a conduit for that purifying burn.
“You want me to tell you placating things and make this easy for you. I won’t, because it won’t ever be easy for us.” My thumb travels over her delicate jawline. “But I will paint the whole fucking world red for you. I’ve tasted enough of your grief and regret to haunt me a hundred lifetimes. If you’re torn away from me, I won’t seek retribution after the fact—I will eviscerate the fucker before they ever get the chance, Halen St. James.”
A torn sound escapes her, and she bites into her lip to fight it back. The dark fringe of her lashes sheen with unshed tears as the rain falls harder. I tug her lip free of her teeth and sweep my thumb across, lost in her fragile softness.
“Christ, you really are a genius. Just so fucking smart, Professor Locke.” The vitriol in her tone halts my movements. “You say you don’t want to lose me, so your plan is to burn the world down with us in it? Your arrogant, reckless actions will forcemeto loseyou.”
I swallow hard as what she said on the ridge comes back in startling clarity:Because killers eventually get caught.
My hold on her wrists loosens, and she seizes the chance. She brings her balled fists down on my chest. Her hands slip against the rain and mud slicking my skin before I capture her arms and restrain her again, dropping my full weight on top of her.
Halen struggles for a second longer, then gives up the fight as those fierce orbs of silver alight on me. “The guilt I’m suffering isn’t for Wellington. It’s because of you, for what I’ve done to you. What I’ve made you. And now I’m complicit—youmakeme complicit in putting Devyn in danger, in every life that you’ve taken since that night together. Do you understand you could be put to death? You killed an FBI agent. God, I loathe you for making me care…for having someone to lose all over again. Fuck you to hell and back for that.”
The fire rages into an inferno behind her gaze, and goddamn, I’m entranced with my fiery siren of fury. “Fuck.”
“Did you hear what I fucking said?” She’s a vortex of wild emotions churning out of control as her gaze aims to pulverize me. “You’re already locked in a mental institution?—”
“Because you put me there?—”
“And you manipulated a dying woman?—”
“That I didn’t know was ill.” I secure my hold on her tighter. “But I would do it again. In a fucking heartbeat. To have you just like this beneath me, I would do it again and worse. I’m that sick and evil and twisted. Whatever label you want to slap on me, I will be that goddamn devil. You will always come first.”
The boom of thunder provokes fresh tears, and I trail my thumb down her lips, letting the pad taste her delectable melancholy. “You will never lose me,” I vow to her. My elbows dig into the mud as I palm her face, gently coaxing her eyes on me. “Look at me, Halen. There is nothing in this universe that can tear me away from you, not even death.”
A racked sob escapes her chest. “You can’t know that.”
My tongue glides over my bottom lip, tasting her riled emotions that threaten to consume her. That’s my job. I was made to consume her sweet heartache.
“Let me take the pain,” I whisper. “Let me take it for you.”
The softest sound escapes her, a sigh so gentle and sweet it aches. “We can’t do this. It’s madness.” She licks her lips to further torture me, then she lowers her arms to strike me with her fisted hands.
This time, I’m prepared, and I catch her forearms and link her bound wrists around my neck. “I promised you we’d talk until our breath gave out, but I’m entirely too famished, and this devil is going to feast.”
My mouth crashes against hers, and I hold her bound to me, kissing her deeply as I drain more of her fight.
As the storm darkens the sky, I unlink her arms from my neck and draw to my knees above her. I shed my soaked shirt, letting it drop to the ground as I stare down on her filthy, half-naked body. Before she can try to squirm away, I grip the waistband of her jeans and yank her pants down her thighs, tearing them to her ankles.
Her sharp cry travels straight to my groin. “God, you’re fucking crazy?—”
“You haven’t seen the bounds of my crazy, sweetness.” I bring her restrained ankles over my head and latch on to her hips. “We’re just getting started.”
Hoisting her hips off the ground, I lick a hard seam up her pussy, a damn deviant as I relish the divine taste of her. A low groan rumbles out as I breathe over her, a crooked smile stealing across my face at how wet she is.
“Tell me to taste you,” I demand.
“Not like this. Go to hell?—”
“Then you can curse me while you come in my mouth.” I suck her clit into the hollow of my mouth and flick my tongue over the sensitive flesh before I surround my mouth over her, and her back arches off the ground.
My fingers dig into her skin with bruising force as I hold on to her writhing hips. As the steady drizzle of rain patters our bodies, I indulge on her, my tongue a fiend invading her as I lap at her sweet arousal like a starved beast.
Untamed lust fires through my veins as I feel her already so close to shattering against me. “Do you still despise me?”
Struggling to capture a full breath, she says, “Yes.”
I smile against her. “I’m going to fill you so deeply, there’s no room to hate me.”
