The cunning Hexen heir made me want to shed my purity and succumb to him.

As soon as his middle finger dipped between my plush labia, I tensed, growling. Colt paused, waiting until my shoulders relaxed again before rubbing me. He didn’t stray into my wetness but instead stroked my exterior, kissing my neck and leaning into me with a gentle rhythm of grinding against my butt. His erection wasn’t shy, its stiffness nuzzling between my cheeks from inside his sweats.

“Does this feel good?” he whispered.

Without invading me, he stimulated my clit enough to flood me with pleasure until my flesh felt swollen and sensitive. I followed the natural inclination of my body to move with his.

“Answer me,” rumbled Colt.

“Yes,” I breathed.

“Want me to put my fingers inside you?”

The hair on the back of my neck rose. His touch was only teasing me at this point. “Yes.”

Colt didn’t waste any time pushing his fingertips into my folds, massaging just under my clit and submerging himself in the sweet, sticky result of my excitement. An electric shock of surprise and pleasure made me arch my back, sitting up higher on my knees and inadvertently granting him better access to my pussy. A satisfied hum crawled from his throat as he slid two fingers inside me, continuing to massage my clit with the soft pillow of his thumb.

“You’re making me drip,” he panted into my neck, thrusting against me in time with the rotations of his wrist.

I couldn’t stop the sounds of gratification from chiming out of me. Breathing harder, I moved my hips against his, inhaling the musk of arousal that beaded off of us. His hand worked me up into a dizzying swelter as pleasure coiled inside my stomach, aching to be unleashed.

A breathless laugh escaped him. “Am I going to make you cum?”

I pressed my lips together, moaning.

“Orgasm for me,” he encouraged. “Choke my fingers with your tight pussy.”

The cadence of his voice in my ear drove me wild.

“Come on, Kiara.”

His heavy panting elevated me into overwhelming ecstasy. Heat gripped my body, pleasure trembling through me. I cried out in surprise at how intensely the feeling enveloped me, leaning back into him at the same time that he slipped his other hand into his sweats, muffling a staggered groan into my shoulder. His hard jerking behind me and subsequent shudder told me he’d fallen victim to the same pleasure. As my body slowly relaxed, Colt kissed my neck a few more times, then released me and stood up. Behind me, where I couldn’t see, he walked to a nearby counter, presumably grabbing a cloth with which to clean his hands.

I still felt pleasure even after he’d detached from me. Leaning forward on my hands, I bowed my head between my shoulders and caught my breath, searching for clarity through the erotic haze.

“I’ll give you that all the time if you want it,” said Colt, turning on the water at the sink. “Let me mark you. Then I can protect you, help you rescue Muriel. We can work together.”

I prickled, remembering Aislin’s warning. Colt’s touch had been pleasing, but my anger was quick to blossom from where it had initially taken root. “You’re shameless. I’m not letting you mark me.”

“We would have a telepathic connection. You really think I’d let anything bad happen to you after that?”

“Fuck you,” I snapped. “Just because you made me feel good doesn’t mean I want you. I’m rejecting our fated mate bond.”

Colt lingered behind me. Perhaps it was a good thing I couldn’t see his expression, but it didn’t save me from the crackle of fury and hurt our bond reflected off of him and onto me. I suspected he only wanted to mark me to take advantage of me, but something about the feelings I was experiencing through our bond rang with a sincerity I hadn’t expected. After drying his hands on a towel, he threw it aside and stormed back over to me, grabbing my wrists again.

I wasn’t prepared for his sudden aggression. My body was still weak from pleasure. He threw me into the cage, giving me little chance to retaliate. By the time I had turned onto my back to kick at him, he’d slammed the door and locked it again, leaving me still bound by the cords.

This time, he didn’t meet my eyes as he loomed over the cage. “I’ll give you some time to think about it.” The lack of emotion in his voice made him sound quite different than his heady growls in my ear had, just minutes ago.

Then, Colt whipped around, heading out the door before I could think of anything else to say.

Minutes of silence stretched into an hour before I realized he’d abandoned me for the night.

Chapter 12

Colt

I couldn’t get attached to Kiara. I wanted to drown myself in her smell and hold her close to me for eternity, but I couldn’t lose myself in desires that would never come to fruition. I couldn’t forget that she wanted nothing to do with me, even if, for passing moments, we became entangled. Making her cum wouldn’t change the fact that she still hated me.