Page 45 of The Casella King

He pulls my hips up, the pressure now excruciating on my shoulders as I’m pressed farther into the ground. I feel him enter me slowly, a low rumble leaving his throat as he buries himself completely inside me.

The position is unforgiving as I feel every inch of him stretching me from within, and my core aches to let go around him, to let the ecstasy take me into its embrace.

“If you come on my cock, I will punish you,” he rasps as his fingers dig into my hips, and the sensation from the pain in my shoulders to the pleasure between my legs rattles my brain. “You don’t get to come tonight, sweetheart.” I squeeze my eyes shut at his words, focusing on controlling my pleasure as he takes his.

“So fucking needy,” he groans as I push my hips back, meeting his thrusts. His hand lands down on my ass hard, the loud slap echoing through the empty air, and I just know I’m going to be sore. I feel him remove my panties from my mouth, and I immediately take a huge gulp of air into my lungs. A loud moan escapes me as his thumb dances around my ass, then enters me.

He rams into me hard, jerking my body against the ground, the belt cinching the skin on my wrists further. I moan with pleasure as he uses me, taking what he wants.

“Now pray.” He slips his thumb out of me and pulls my hair back, my body following, relieving the pressure off my shoulders. “Pray to me for your salvation.” I feel his breath beneath my ear as my neck is craned backward.

“Please…” I manage to say through bated breath.

He thrusts in and out of me, as his other hand snakes between my breasts, and closes on my throat.

“…Forgive me,” I whisper, and I don’t recognise the sound of my own voice, so depraved and breathless.

“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.” He quotes Shakespeare as he tightens the hold on my neck. “I vow to show you that by sin, you and I will rule the world, combined and intertwined together in all our darkness.”

I whimper as he pulls out of me, the loss of friction making my clit throb with need, and before I can blink, he’s in front of me.

“Open your mouth,” he says, and I moan as he forces himself inside me, and with a few thrusts, I feel his cock pulse, warm liquid pooling inside my mouth. “Swallow every last fucking drop,” he growls as he looks down at me, his black eyes darker than the night sky.

I do exactly as he says, tasting him on my tongue, the warm, salty liquid travelling down my throat.

“That’s my good girl.” His lips curve into a twisted smile as his fingers grip my cheeks, forcing my lips to pout. “Now don’t you ever disobey me or run from me again. Unless you want me to put you on your knees and watch you beg me to fuck you, like the slut I know you want to be. For me.”

EZRA

“Look at him.” My voice is stern as I watch as Aries slowly lift her head, and stare at Ray. The blood is now dried on his skin as he sits in the middle of my basement, hands tied behind his back. “Now tell him what you couldn’t.” I push a stray hair away from her face, then cross my arms and lean against the wall, waitingand watching, hoping that even a sliver of the darkness within her will emerge.

She takes a deep breath in, closing her eyes.

“Aries, help me,” he whispers, his head bowed, energy probably on the brink of running out from the amount of time he’s been down here without food.

I push off the wall, stepping forward, I walk behind Ray, pulling his head up. “It’s rude not to look at the person you’re speaking with.”

“He’s a murderer, a killer, a psychopath.” He swallows before continuing. “Aries, call the police, do something!” he yells, struggling in my hold.

She stands there, staring back at Ray, and a small flash of darkness glides into her eyes, slowly growing larger as the seconds pass.

“Shut up, Ray,” she speaks, gritting her teeth.

There she is.

I grin, watching the darkness consume her vision as she clenches her fists at her sides, and I know what she’s feeling because I’d been there.

Several years ago, when my father had me kill a man, I knew in that moment I’d never be the same again. In that split second it took for my finger to leave the trigger as the bullet flew between the fucker’s eyes, something in me split open, and a thick cloud of black seeped into every crevice of my body, paving the way for the monster I am today.

“That’s it, sweetheart, let it in.” I walk out of the way and watch, intrigued by what she will say, what she might do.

“Aries,” Ray whispers, sobbing softly.

“I said shut up.” She steps closer to him, and before I know it, her arm swings out, slapping him across the face, his head whipping to the side. I feel my mouth twitch into a smile. She wipes her cheek with the back of her hand, sniffling, and it takeseverything in me not to scoop her up in my arms and make her pain mine. “You’re such a coward.”

“Please just let me go.”

“I need to say this. I’ve kept it hidden like some sort of embarrassing secret for too fucking long.” Her breath shakes as she speaks. Ray looks up to her, his cheek red, her hand imprinted onto his skin. “That day you left me at the altar, a part of me died.” She looks to the floor. “I loved you, I put my trust in you, and you broke me.” My chest cracks so loud I fear she may have heard it.

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