Forbidden (Blood Ties #7)

Rage boiled within me. No one will dare touch a single strand of her hair.

Protect her.

That same savage hunger filled me now as it had before when I’d burst into the apartment to see her at the hands of that fucking guard.

I’d killed for her before.

And I’d kill again. I’d kill them all if I had to…until she and my brothers were the last ones standing.

THIRTY-ONE

Kane

“I want you.”I breathed heavily against her collarbone and slid my fingers out of her. “Christ, I want you.”

Her clit trembled under my touch, pulsing harder as I dragged my fingers over the tiny nub. She let out a whimper as she grabbed my wrist and clamped her legs shut.

So swollen…and so goddamn sensitive.

My cock twitched. The urge to fuck her was overwhelming.

“Open your legs, Helene.” I demanded.

She jerked her gaze to mine. Panic and desire ignited in her stare before those perfect thighs parted. It was just the programming, I tried to tell myself. Just the drugs and the conditioning. But the longer I held that stare, the more I knew this was more.

Her mind was strong. Probably one of the strongest I’d ever seen…she could fight this if she wanted. She could buck against the voice I’d put inside her head, the one that told her to obey. She could defy me easily, but she didn’t.

Those dark eyes looked black in the wash of the tiny red blinking light as they fixed on mine. She scowled just slightly before that carnal hunger pushed through, and I knew instantly this was more than the techniques I’d used on her and the others.

This was real.

Fuck.

My pulse thundered, booming in my goddamn skull. I lowered my head and grazed her neck with my lips. I wanted to kiss her…more than that…I wanted all ofher…and it wasn’t just sex, either. I lifted my gaze to hers and could almost feel the rush of air as I fell into oblivion.

This wasn’t supposed to happen.

I jerked my gaze to the blinking red light on the camera and inhaled, drawing in the seductive scent of her come. I was moving before I knew, pushing up from the floor, her once warm desire cooling on the tips of my fingers.

She sat naked on the floor, her knees bent, cunt on display. I reached up and hit the switch on the camera, ending the view. They’d seen enough…and there was no goddamn way they were going to watch what was about to happen.

“Kane.” She whispered, her tone etched with fear.

“It’s okay.” I reached out, heading to the opposite side of the pitch-black room. “Just stay where you are.”

The special insulation swallowed my footsteps in the room, one designed to absorb every sound, to leave the space completely silent. One designed to strangle the senses, leaving you disoriented and vulnerable.

It worked, even on me. I reached out, tentatively searching the air until I touched the edge of my desk. Theflickof the light came, spilling soft light through the room. For a second, I didn’t want to turn around to see her. I didn’t want to meet those eyes.

Because if I did, she might see the battle that raged inside me.

I was falling for her.

For the same woman my brother was infatuated with.

The woman who held our fragile existence in the palm of her hand.

One wrong word, one wrong move, and we’d all be kneeling with a gun pointed at our heads.