Page 80 of Tarnished Reign

“Flick that clit,” he says. “Do it the way you do alone, in bed, when there’s no one watching.”

I close my eyes, and for once he lets me hide. I flick my clit side to side how I like it.

“Fuck,” he moans.

I grind down on him, and my tempo increases as desperation takes over. He thrusts his fingers in and out of my ass, moving them harder, and I feel the orgasm rising. It’s different to when I come normally; it feels like it’s skittering around my body. In my clit one minute. My pussy the next. Then my ass.

I fall, and it’s too much. His fingers in my ass pump me fast, and it feels like I’m coming there too. It’s so intense that tears fall from my eyes, rolling down my cheeks as I try to ride out the single most powerful sexual moment of my entire life.

Once I’m done coming, he slides his fingers from me and grasps my hips. He controls my speed, working me on his cock the way he wants. The way he needs.

“You. Are. Mine.” His words are growled. “No one else’s. Mine.”

I nod, still leaking tears from my eyes.

“Say it,” he demands.

“I’m yours,” I sob.

And I am. I’m his, and I do think he’s mine.

In that moment as he comes underneath me, I see a future for us. Me, him, and Cade.

I realize the tears are ones of happiness too.

A while later, as we’re snuggled up, me on top of him, I speak. “Did you mean it?”

“Mean what?”

“Am I yours?”

“Yes.”

“Are you … will this carry on? After, I mean.”

“Yes.”

Oh, God. This is huge. My heart spasms with joy. “Can we go fetch Cade, once it’s safe?”

He stiffens under me. “Adriana, you can’t be saddling yourself with a kid at your age when he isn’t even yours. You’re too young. To sacrifice yourself for a child you’ve only known a few months.”

His words are horrible. Cold even. It reminds me I don’t really know him. This is a crazy, lust-filled, adrenaline fueled situation, and he’s not a man I’ve slowly gotten to know. I hold his gaze and make sure he understands how serious I am when I reply. “I want to look after him. It’s not saddling myself. He can’t stay there, Dimitri.”

“That’s what the authorities are for.”

I sit up fast and hard. Staring at him, I shake my head. “What did you just say?”

He sighs. “I get that you want to protect him. But you’re not the best bet for him.”

“Dimitri, if you think there’s going to be anything between us moving forward, you better shut up right now.”

He narrows his eyes. “Do you know how many people I’d let speak to me that way?”

“No. I don’t care either. Cade is important to me.” I’m shaking. With rage. With fear. With hurt because he’s so callous in this moment after being so passionate before.

“He wouldn’t be safe here,” he says. “In our world.”

“Bullshit. Your sister is. We’d both be safe under your protection.”

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