Forbidden (Blood Ties #7)

Her cry was sharp, ringing as I thrust in. I smothered it with one hand, feeling the heat of her breath as I grasped her shackled wrist.

“Shh…” I pushed in deep. “Easy, now. Go back to sleep.”

She bucked, fighting me until my weight pinned her down, letting me drive all the way in. “You fight me…you fight me and it’ll be worse.”

She unleashed a tortured, carnal sound and stilled, her breaths panting as I fucked her. I turned my head, finding that hateful stare. She wasn’t broken. Iknewbroken when I saw it. No,she was giving in.

I smiled, curling my spine to drive into her harder. “I warned you before, Helene, I have to have you.”

“Fuck you,” she gasped, but widened her legs for me.

I didn’t even wait for her to come. Just smiled and thrust, holding onto the feral rage in her beautiful eyes. Something shivered inside me. My pulse raced…my heart clenched as I stared at her and in an instant slowed my thrusts.

I fully intended to leave her desperate. But one look…one piercing stare, and I drove upwards, watching her breath catch and her eyelids flutter. Christ, I wanted to hear her moan, wanted to know she wanted what I did to her. “Can’t seem to help myself where you’re concerned,” I murmured. “Why is that?”

“Because…”she panted. “You’re asick fuck.”

Iwasa sick fuck.

Especially where she was concerned.

I didn’t just fuck her.

I punished her.

Thrust after thrust, until she thrashed her head from side to side, fighting what her body craved. I lowered my head, finding the peak of her nipple. My breath was warm, blowing back on me as I grunted, driving deep. “Come for me, Helene…come,”I commanded.

Her body convulsed.

Her core clenched.

I slammed my eyes closed, overwhelmed by the feel of her, and shuddered all the way down to my core. Her hand clutched the sheet, her legs spread wide open under me. But it was her eyes that transfixed me. Wide. Glassy. Like she was stripped raw, exposed, and completely and utterly surrendered.

I eased out of her, brushing her wrist and the metal cuff with my thumb. I’d never wanted to kiss someone so badly in my entire life. This was more than a need to connect…this was a need to belong.

“Sleep, Helene.” I searched her eyes, brushing a strand of her hair aside. “I’m the only monster you need to worry about tonight.”

She did, closing her eyes, mumbling. “You’re bad enough.”

I was…only the longer I was around her, the deeper this monster was starting to fall.

She shifted, making me move back from her body. I waited for her breaths to deepen, until I was sure she was under, and rolled over, grabbed the key from the nightstand, and unlocked the cuff around her wrist.

A murderer.

A rapist.

A shell of a fucking man.

That’s all I was.

I eased her hand against her body, watching her chest rise, then fall.

She smelled like me.

Like my wants and desires…and my future.

The room lit up with a ghostly green glow. I rolled carefully, snatched up my cell, and glanced at the caller ID before answering. “I’m here.”