Forbidden (Blood Ties #7)

“Wider.”

My jaw ached, jerking and shuddering, fighting against the cold. He slid his fingers inside and along my tongue.

“Suck,” he commanded.

I closed my eyes as shame filled me.

“Did I tell you to close your eyes?”he snarled.

I wrenched them open.

“I said,suck.”

I did, drawing his fingers deeper inside my mouth.

He looked down. “You like to cut,Daughter?Is that it? You like to cut and bleed and be empty?”

Tears filled my eyes as he thrust and withdrew, penetrating deeper with every motion. This was not foreplay, this was a violent assault. One that didn’t fill me with pleasure…it filled me with fear.

“You are nothing but my own needs. Do you understand that?” He pushed his fingers all the way inside until my throat closed around him, until he dropped his knees to the hard floor and grabbed the back of my head in a savage grip.“You are no one.”

My eyes teared. My throat clenched, until he let my head go and instead savagely yanked the strap of my bodysuit, tearing it down…and exposing my breasts.

“You are nothing butmyentertainment.” He gripped my breast with one hand, his fingers still shoved down my throat. “Nothing but a string topluck.”

I flinched as he pinched my nipple. Pain flared, the cruel, blinding rush, familiar. He pinched again, only this time harder, until a low animal sound tore free from me.

“I am your blade now,Daughter.I am the honed edge of the razor you crave, the prick of the needle you long for…and the drug you can never escape.”

Saliva strung from his fingers as he pulled them free before he dropped his hands and rose, looking down at me.

“Now, you will go with the others. You will not fix yourself. You will not kick and scream and you will not try to run. Do you understand me?”

My shoulders trembled, threatening to curl.

Some part of me wanted to.

But this was a test.

And more than a test for me.

The…darknesslifted that cruel gaze.

“Walker,” he called one guard at the edge of the room. In an instant, the male obeyed, striding closer. I realized every set of eyes was fixed on me. There were more men here than I expected, each one watching me with ravenous stares. “I want you or your man to watch her every move. You’ll call me the second she steps out of line, or any issue at all. Am I clear?”

The guard’s gaze moved to me and he nodded. “Understood.” He turned his head and waved his man over.

“I do not want her out of your sight,” Darkness commanded, then lifted his gaze to the sea of women behind me. “Let this be a lesson for all of you. Your bodies are no longer yours to command. They belong to someone with far more power than you.”

He lowered his gaze to mine. There was something unspoken in them. A plea…a prayer. One he was desperate for me to understand before he stepped away. “Go.” He turned his gaze away. “Your lessons continue tomorrow.”

Then, on a dime, he turned and strode away, heading toward the men at the edge of the room.

“Sleep well, Trouble,” the smooth, seductive tone of the Devil came behind me. “You’re going to need it.”

I wanted him to leave with the other man. My chest ached with every resounding boom.

Something was happening here. Something I didn’t understand…or remember.