Page 66 of Rugger: The Huntress

“Argh.”

There was a sharp pain in my chest. My spine curled forward from instant regret.

Snap. Snap.

I’d come too close to lose sight of things now. I tried pulling away and breaking free of his hold, but not even pain loosened his grip.

“I’m owed the same courtesy,” he murmured close to my ear. His voice was strained. His body was adjusting to the level of pain the bullet had inflicted. “Fuck me like you fuck them niggas before you cut their lights out.”

“You took something from me. Something very precious. You don’t deserve courtesy.”

“I regret to inform you that I’m about to take something else, Rugger.”

“Psalms,” I grunted, growing tired of the bullshit. “I have nothing else to give.”

He moved closer, planting his lips against my ear, “Your virginity.”

His words swelled my clit and softened my defense.

“I’ve been fucked… thoroughly, but that’s something you should know, Mr. Ten Steps Ahead.”

“That was business, love. This is pleasure. You’ve never shared a mutual interest with a man, so it doesn’t matter how many bodies you’ve dropped. They weren’tpersonal. Should I be mistaken, give me that nigga’s name right now. There’s no room for us both on earth. I’m the only one breathing who will be able to claim this.”

He cupped my pussy from behind. My breath hiked in my chest. Psalms was no fool. He was accurate in his revelation.There was no one else. There had never been anyone else. There would be no one else. Not even him after tonight.

“Let me go,” I demanded, squirming against him.

The rigidness of his dick made my escape much more complicated than it had to be. Restraints weren’t my weakness.Hewas.

“You’ve never been courted,” he breathed against my neck. “You’ve never been praised. You’ve never been held to the regard I see you in. You’ve never been supported. You’ve never been encouraged. You’ve never been invested in.

“You’ve never been sought after. Chased down. And, caught. You’ve never been the center of a man’s world. You’ve never been the beginningandthe end. You’ve never been affirmed. You’ve never been cherished. You’ve never been met with intention. You’ve never been loved.

“And, you’ve never been fucked, Rugger. Not for real. Not by a real man. Because, I promise you this won’t feel like anything else you’ve ever experienced. You talking thoroughly… I’m talking wholly. Mind, body, heart, and soul,Gazelle.”

Gazelle. I sucked in a sharp piece of air, filling the emptiness of my lungs.

“If you think for a second a bullet in the lower leg will stop me from doing all the things to you that have replayed in my head nonstop over the last month, you’re sadly mistaken. I don’t scare easily.

And, until you come to the realization that you want me as much as I want you, I will dedicate my life to hunting you like the lost treasure you are. I’ll kill everything that touches you. I will disturb every ounce of peace you think you have, and I will enjoy it.”

He pressed his stiffness into me.

“You’re a sick man.”

“Tell me the name of a sane motherfucker that’ll be able to deal with a woman of your caliber and–”

“You’ll kill him,” I finished his statement.

“That is accurate, but wasn’t what I was about to say.”

“Let go of me.”

“Only if you promise not to put a bullet in my head.”

“I can’t make that promise.”

“Then, I can’t let you g–”

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