Page 64 of Catch a Tiger

“Stop.” She pushed him away, but claws were digging into her skin and his whole body pressed her into the mattress.

“You wanted the truth, kitten. Can you taste a lie?”

No. She couldn’t.

“Then deny the bond.”

Mylo stared down at her, calculating just how serious she was.

“Or I can do it for you,” she murmured. “I just have to mean it, right?”

They stared at each other and Vix knew she couldn’t mean it – that forcing him to deny it would shatter her broken pieces into insignificant shards. It would be impossible to use them foranythinganymore, let alone a pretty picture.

But Mylo was always so careful with his choice of words. He was good at playing games.

He’d said he wanted her but not for what. Now he thought she was disgusting – too broken, but he hadn’t said hecouldn’tclaim her. He’d posed it to her as a question, almost as if he couldn’t figure out why he still wanted to claim her either.

Nothing he’d said was a lie – her summer tiger was just as devious as a demon or the fae.

If he truly didn’t want to claim her, it would be easy for him to deny the bond.

Vix opened her mouth, carefully watching the way his eyes widened just the teensiest bit. “I deny?—”

Mylo slapped his hand over her mouth with a snarl, eyes flashing gold. “Don’t you fucking dare.”

She wasverycareful not to show him just how relieved she was, not yet.

Pressing her hand to his chest, she stole another sliver of pain as she slid her palm down his scar, relishing in the feel of his skin.

Her hand slid under the fabric of his pants then and she gently wrapped her fingers around his cock, but she couldn’t even close her hand all the way thanks to just how fat it was.I don’t need human words to deny the bond, Alpha.

Mylo looked down at where her hand disappeared, and a dangerous smile played on his lips. “How exactly are you speaking to me right now? Are you a mind reader, little vixen?”

No. I was born wild, and so were you,Vix told him, sliding her hand down his ridiculous length to feel just how fucking big and hard he was. Her eyes closed as she tried to keep her teeth to herself instead of playfully biting his hand like she wanted to.I am what I am, no matter what my body looks like. All I have to do is touch your wildness with mine.

Gripping him harder made him hiss at her, but Mylo didn’t try to stop her. “Then deny the bond, kitten.Mean it.”

I…

The words wouldn’t come out, no matter how hard she tried. Vix looked up at him and saw the moment he feared she could. It hurt her just as much as it hurt him, and she had to look away from all that painshehad caused.

I can’t.

His grip on her mouth loosened ever so slightly. She didn’t dare look at him, not when she was trying so hard not to ruin whatever progress she’d made with him. Mylo was actually swelling even more under her brutal hold now.

Even if I don’t like you very much right now, you’remine. I can’t deny the bond…but you can. Her thumb found the slick precum at his tip and she spread it around, marveling at his control.Deny it, Mylo. Put me out of my misery already.

“We’re a triad. I can’t deny the bond, or it will be taken from Rune as well.”

I’m a fox, she reminded him, looking back at him just in time to see something like devastation in Mylo’s icy golden eyes.Iam the one who will claim you, not the other way around. Deny our bond, and I can still give Rune his.

Vix licked Mylo’s palm when his entire body froze as he processed that. It was adorable to see how angry it made him that she could still give Rune something he wouldn’t be able to possess.

This summer tiger had claimed him somehow. He was that tiger’s alpha, and the reason Rune listened to Samuel was because Mylo had acknowledged him ashisalpha.

It would destroy her if Mylo denied the bond, but Vix was used to pain. She’d been made for it. She let the tiger see that in her eyes – the resignation and the acceptance of what it would do to her.

His hand eased up and wrapped around her throat instead, the touch oddly gentle, like he was afraid to hurt her.

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