Page 15 of Ruthless Redemption

I opened my eyes again and nearly tumbled into the vivid blue eyes that I’d fallen for that first night. I’d gone with my instincts that night and it had given me more than I could have dreamt for.

I tried to wriggle free from his hold, but he only tightened his grasp on both my neck and my pussy. In fact, his fingers sunk deeper as they slipped inside me.

A wild riot of sensations rushed through me, slamming against my tenuous hold on logic and our situation at hand. I had no defense against his touch. None. My head could argue about it all night long, but my body betrayed me every single time.

“We should stop before someone walks in,” I tried, between clenched teeth at the same time my thighs inched farther apart to give him more access.

He chuckled, a dark sexy sound against the shell of my ear that sent shivers racing down my spine.

“If I stop now, I can’t give you what your body is begging for, babe.” His fingers, now pumping in and out of my core, picked up speed. “Who am I to deny you what you need? Especially when it means I’ll have the wet proof in my hand.”

I wanted to deny it, I really did. But he was right. I could already feel the pressure building as I raced headlong towards something I could never deny.

“Still want me to stop?” he asked, the darkness in his voice nearly detonating my orgasm on the spot. I had no defense against him. Not when I could hear his need right alongside his sarcasm. When it came to control right now, he wasn’t any better off than I was.

I shook my head, biting the inside of my lip to keep from moaning my consent.

A whimper escaped anyway when he tilted his head to brush his lips along the side of my neck, just below my ear. “Beg me,” he whispered as his fingers glanced across my clit. “If you want me to take away the ache, then beg.”

There was a dangerous undercurrent in his voice that I didn’t quite recognize and it only made my heart beat faster. I’d seen my big, beautiful badass in so many ways since the night we met. Sometimes in real life and sometimes only in my dreams. But this was so much more than all that came before. This air of dominance. The seduction of it was too much to deny.

I leaned forward into the palm still wrapped around my throat while inching my legs open farther. “Please, Houston.”

His growled response rumbled through my body as he ground his erection against my ass. God, I wanted to touch him so bad I nearly burned alive with it.

But he was in total control and he obviously wanted me just as I was.

“Tell me more about Axel.”

His statement took me so far off-guard I nearly missed it. Did I mention how hard it was to focus with his fingers stroking inside me? Or maybe it was his harsh breath at my ear that had me losing it. Either way, I was dumbfounded.

“What are you talking about?” I panted.

Another growl vibrated against my neck, this time the frustration it carried obvious. “Has he touched you?”

If he wasn’t pinning me tight against the chair with his body I would have reared back. I still tried, but he didn’t allow me to move. “Of course not! What the hell? What is wrong with you?”

“He wants to.”

I didn’t respond. Not only did he not ask a question, but we both knew he was right. Axel had, in his own way, let me know that he was interested. I may have pretended not to notice mostly, but once upon a time I’d entertained the idea of getting involved with him.

I’d been lonely and desperate. Axel had represented a path to freedom I’d been tempted to take.

I didn’t.

I couldn’t.

There was only one man I wanted and substituting another, well…

What a hot mess that would have been.

He leaned closer, his hot breath at my ear caressing me. “I would have killed him if he touched you. Just like I did the others. Just like I will when we catch up to your fiancé.”

A sick jolt of lust shot through my belly. I’d been well aware of what it took to rescue me and I wasn’t then, or now, repulsed by it.

Shocked? Yes. Frightened at the time. Also yes.

But now? Clearly on board with his plan, as evidenced by the extreme arousal firing its way through my blood.

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