Page 85 of Cruel Knots

“We should stop,” I say while my heart races from both arousal and fear. “This is not right.”

“What’s not right?” he asks in a rough voice. “They wanted my brothers dead. They probably wanted to use and abuse my sister until they got bored. And you. You would’ve been in Callum’s arms by now. Are you disappointed, Lucia?”

I shake my head. “I don’t want to go back to him. But this...I don’t want to be a part of a murder.”

“This isn’t murder,” says Leon. “It’s punishment.” His fingers dig into my hair and pull hard. The tug on my tresses borders on pain. “This world is different from the one we stole you from, Princess. Our rules are different here. You betray your master and you pay with your life. They all knew this since the moment they allied themselves to us.”

He thrusts his hips at me.

A gasp escapes me as I feel the prod of his erection against my stomach. He grins at my wide-eyed expression.

I step further away, my back hitting the bars of the cell. “Please, Leon,” I beg. “Not here...” I moan as he cups me over my trousers while his other hand squeezes a nipple.

Leon licks his bottom lip, clearly enjoying my reaction.

Heat rushes through my veins, making my core throb harder. I’m quickly reaching a new level of fucked-up. Two men are weeping and cursing while the third bleeds out, all of them stark naked, and all I can do is moan against Leon’s mouth.

My head falls against his chest as his hips jerk forward again, his hardened erection stabbing me in the belly.

“Don’t ever betray me, Lucia,” he whispers against my ear. “I’d hate to do the same to you.”

My eyes widen as the full implication of his warning cuts through the hazy fog of lust. I moan out as his grip on my pussy tightens.

“You’ve always been the omega for us,” he whispers, nipping at the shell of my ear. “I knew it the moment I laid my eyes on you.” His warm breath spreads over my sensitive skin, drawing a shiver out of me.

His finger traces up and down the seam of my trousers, stroking my core into a hot frenzy. He’s slow and meticulous like he has all the time in the world to do this to me.

“I can feel how wet you are through this,” he says, his amber eyes boring into mine, his breathing as harsh as mine.

He removes his hand from my breast but only to clutch his knife.

I watch with bated breath as the blade slides into my waistband. He maneuvers the knife in such a way that it easily cuts through the fabric without leaving a mark on my skin.

The trouser slides down my hips.

A gasp escapes me as I hurry to pull it back up but he stops me. “Let it go,” he demands, tightening his grip on my wrist. Spinning me around, he shoves me against the bars.

My fingers curl around the cold iron bars as my ass is bared to him. Cool, musty air brushes over my heated sex, drawing a shiver out of me.

The sound of a zipper being lowered reached my ears, melting my insides at once. My teeth sink into my bottom lip as I anticipate the push of his thickness at my entrance.

He taps my pussy lips with the tip of his cock.

Gripping the bars tightly, I arch my back. I need to satiate my desperate hunger despite the macabre surroundings.

A gasp escapes me as Leon suddenly pushes inside me.

My breath catches in my throat as he pulls out completely and thrusts in again, shoving me up against the bars. My insides stretch to their limits and I wait for the discomfort to ease into that delicious friction I hunger for.

My moans mingle with the pained groans of the men behind me. A part of me is very aware of how I’m choosing to ignore everything around me. I can no longer tell if I’m completely broken or being rebuilt into someone new.

Leon’s hands come up to grip my wrists as he thrusts into me with rough grunts. “You’re so very tight, Princess,” he says, panting harshly. “Who’d tell you’ve had both me and my brothers inside you already?”

Hot, blinding pleasure spreads through me. His heat seeps into my skin, driving away the chills. Nothing matters anymore except for the feel of his pulsing cock plunging deep inside me.

I want to hate this man who’s tainting me in blood and sin.

At the same time, I want him to remember the time when we were younger.

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