Page 28 of Bitten By Chaos

“As what? Julian?”

He met my eyes. “As the desire to punish you for allowing yourself to get in this situation. The picture of you coming for me while I punished you overtook my mind.” He stepped toward me. “It was like nothing else got through as I watched you, in my own head, moaning with pleasure while simultaneously begging for forgiveness.”

Primal fear rose to the surface along with a distinct ache between my thighs I couldn’t ignore, and I was sure Julian scented. It was both the sexiest and most frightening thing he’d ever said. Maybe more frightening because of my reaction.

“That is why I needed space,” he finished, reaching for me, but stopping before actually touching me. “I would rather end myself than harm you even in the smallest way.”

“A little sex play is healthy,” I managed to breathe.

“That was far more. Believe me, what I pictured doing to you was not…healthy.”

My body wept for him despite my mortification. Apparently, I was into that.

“Maybe it’s something that will pass,” I offered, stepping closer to him.

“It will not go away, Charlotte.”

I sucked in my bottom lip as the heat coming off his freshly fed body seeped into my bones. “Lessen?” I tried.

“I don’t know,” he whispered, staring at my mouth. “You fed from Merl again.”

“He fell on some rose bushes, and I was there. I was so hungry.”

Julian’s eyes flashed red, and he pulled me in by the waist with a sudden strong grip, making me gasp. “And were you sated?” he asked over my lips.

“Not in every way,” I said, lost to my body’s lustful reaction to this man.

Julian had me up against a tree in a millisecond, wrists held captive in one of his hands above my head. The understanding dawned on me that we’d done this type of dance on multiple occasions, and I’d practically come when he tied up my wrists. Was the first mate to turn always the dominant and the other submissive? I wondered as he scraped his fangs along my neck to the swell of my breast, his other hand sliding through the slit in my dress and up the inside of my thigh, already soaked with my need.

“I will kill him for baiting you,” he growled above me before sinking his fangs into the flesh of my breast.

My eyes rolled back in my head as he willed pleasure over me, finally finding the source of my wetness and plunging two fingers inside.

“You’re mine,” he growled, lifting his face as he pumped and curled then met my clit with his thumb.

I groaned, unable to form words as he added a third finger to the mix.

“Mine. Mine. Mine.” He repeated the word with every thrust until I screamed it back to him as I shattered around his ministrations. I went weak as he worked me down from my orgasm then lifted his fingers to his mouth to suck them dry.

“Fuck, Julian.” This was the kind of dirty, carnal behavior I never knew I needed.

“Do you want me to?” he asked, nose to nose, still gripping my wrists above my head.

I was about to tell him to do every filthy thing he wanted with me when a scream broke the air.

We both spun around, searching for the danger. The blood I’d scented earlier and assumed was Julian’s meal grew stronger, and several types and flavors mixed together like an over seasoned steak.

With one shared glance, we dashed through the bushes to the clearing I’d almost made it to with Poppy. A shining blue portal hovered a few feet above the ground, and quite a few people had come through.

A blood-soaked Sam held Lydia across his lap, her arm twisted the wrong direction, and a gash across her chest that had split open her shirt and was oozing crimson. Hazel lay unresponsive on the ground, clothing torn and covered in yet more wounds. And to the other side, a disheveled and distraught Binx cradled Tabitha, who’s head lay at an impossible angle, eyes open and empty.

Above and to the right, stood the demon Grival, the very one I was tasked with murdering. Behind him, half slung over the portal, lay another body—that of the other demon board member, Daria. And in the last living demon’s hand, held suspended in the air, hung Zoe.

Suddenly the idea of removing Grival’s heart sounded like a fantastic idea.

Chapter 10

Once More with Heart

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