Page 48 of Whispers in the Dark

No, I could never hurt Brynn. I wanted to, for what she’d done to me and continued to do to me, but I’d never be able to bring myself to do it. She might’ve kept me in Hell in recent weeks, but she was the only Heaven I’ve ever known in this miserable fucking life. If I wasn’t careful, I’d set her in flames, burning this entire thing down until we were both nothing more than ashes. From them, she would always bloom again, because as delicate as she was, Brynn was strong, resilient, and provided light and life whereas everything about me took it all away.

Brynn was breathing heavily, and I dropped my gaze lower and watched her chest rise and fall with each deep breath. Icould hear her, too. The sound of it again echoed in my ears. I knew I should leave, but I couldn’t stop myself. I also couldn’t stop myself from looking back into the eyes that haunted me every second of every godforsaken day.

“I need to see you,” I said, and watched as she exhaled sharply.

“Are you okay, Adrian?” She asked.

Adrian! I’d never heard my name fall off of a woman’s lips before Brynn. It too, echoed in my head, and constant voices and sounds were causing the damn thing to ache. I was angry, but I was more than anything else – impatient.

Quickly, I tugged my own shirt over my head. Brynn was staring at me with her shoulders squared. She was so foolishly brave, but unafraid of the very parts of myself that left me terrified. I made quick work of removing my sweatpants, and when naked in front of her, I watched as her eyes widened.

“You see me, and now I need to see you.”

When she didn’t make an attempt to rid herself of her own T-shirt, I grabbed the material and yanked her to me. The sharp intake of breath was all I heard as she stood her ground. We were now face to face, and our lips were mere inches from one another.

“Remove your goddamn shirt, or I’ll do it for you,” I warned.

Finally, she let out a huff, then more slowly than I would’ve liked, she tugged it up and over her head until she was now as naked as me. Brynn stood there, and other than the occasional shiver, she remained calm. I didn’t want or need that right now.

I needed something which would allow me to release all this violence that had been building inside of me since I’d learned of her betrayal. I needed to punish Brynn for her duplicity, and I would, but I didn’t want her to simply submit to me. I needed the anger I could sense from her when I’d been in Japan. I needed the anger I could feel emanating from her now.

Stepping forward, she instinctively took one back. We repeated the rhythm for a few steps until she was once more pinned against the wall. “Fight me, Brynn.”

“I’m not going to fight you, Adrian. I think you need to– ”

“Do it,” I sneered, then gripped her throat in my hand. It would be so easy to squeeze and not let up until her last breath left her, but once it did, I’d be done for, too. Still, it didn’t stop me from tightening my grip. “Let it all out.”

And she did with a single motion. As soon as she struck me, I felt the sting from the blow in my cheek. The corner of my lip quirked upward, even as she repeated the action.

“Again,” I demanded, to which she complied before finally dropping her hand to her sides.

I could see the tears once more as they fell down her cheek. Still gripping her by the neck, I loosened my hold on it, then leaned close to her. My other hand dropped to her heart which was beating erratically in her chest. In fact, her entire body trembled. I dragged my hand lower, and as soon as I slipped it back between her thighs, I felt how wet she still was. While wracked with fear, she was also turned on.

“I want to hate you so much,” I said to her as soon as I brought my hand to her face. “But, I can’t. You’ve gotten beneath my skin, and no amount of time or distance has gotten you out from under it. You’re a fucking addiction I cannot shake. Tell me that you want me, too. Tell me, Brynn. Tell me, and I will fuck you straight through this damn wall.”

“Adrian...”

“Tell me, Brynn...”

She let out a small sob, then responded. “I want you.”

I growled, then released her neck long enough to reach down and lift her. Once I had her where I wanted her, I spread her quivering thighs apart, then slammed into her. Brynn cried out, then I silenced her when I fused my mouth back to hers.She surrendered to me right away, and I alternated between thrusting my tongue into her mouth and my cock into her pussy as each motion mimicked the one before.

Brynn wrapped her arms around my neck when I ripped my mouth away from hers, then began to drive into her. The force of each thrust made a thudding sound against the wall, but I never slowed or lessened my speed. When I’d mentioned wanting to fuck her through the damn wall, I hadn’t been lying.

The dull noise, combined with her mewling cries, began to drown out the other sounds in my head. They were still there, always lingering and forever haunting, but they were being replaced by ones I’d dreamed night after night of hearing once more.

I lifted her higher, and gripped her throat once more. Then, I buried my head in the crook of it as I worked us both toward the edge. Innately submissive, I could sense her restraint as I brought her to the very brink, but she never fell over it. And she wouldn’t without my permission.

“You'remine! Every part of you ismine! And when you come, your orgasm will bemine!”

“Please...” she managed to get out before I raised my head to look into her eyes.

“Give me what ismine, then take what isyours!”

Her entire body tensed as she came, then moments later, I found my own release.

34.Adrian

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