Page 22 of Shadow's Edge

A tight coil formed deep inside me, my muscles starting to flutter around him as the buildup grew stronger.

Jagger felt it.

“You gonna come on me, baby?” His voice was a low growl, rough and full of promise.

I whimpered in response, unable to form words. Grinding my hips against him, I dragged my clit over the ridges of his abdomen, searching for the friction I needed.

Jagger was a step ahead of me.

“Here,” he whispered, lowering one hand between us. His thumb found my clit, circling it with slow, calculated strokes, justlightenough to drive me insane.

It wasn’t enough, and he knew it.

His lips brushed against my ear. “Tell me you’re mine,” he murmured, the words sending a fresh wave of heat through me. “Say it, and I’ll give you what you want.”

I was too far gone to argue, too desperate. At that moment, I would have given him anything. My pride. My dignity. A goddamn kidney if he’d asked.

I nodded frantically, but that wasn’t good enough for him.

“Say it,” he demanded, stilling inside me, refusing to move.

IsworeI was going to murder this man. I was trained inmultipleways to kill. My skills in hand-to-hand combat were unmatched. And if thisbeautiful bastard didn’t start moving again, I’d make sure he found out exactlyhowskilled I was.

But looking up at him, at the raw hunger in his eyes, the smug curve of his lips, I acknowledged the brutal truth. I needed him alive to get what I wanted.

So, I played dirty.

I clenched around him, tightening my walls until his jawlockedand his whole body trembled above me. His restraint wascracking.

I smiled. Leaning up just slightly, I let the words fall from my lips, a whisper full of sin.

“I’m yours.”

The second the words left my mouth, Jaggersnapped, his controlcompletely shattered.

With a raw growl, he slammed into mehard, the force of it knocking the air from my lungs. My head tipped back, a scream ripping from my throat as the pleasureexploded. And I let it consume me.

“Fucking right you are,” he growled, his voice dark and full of possession as he drove into me, over and over, each thrust harder, deeper, sending me spiraling closer to the edge.

My body was already primed, raw from the way he’d pushed me past my limits before, but this—this was something else entirely. I was already close when his fingers found my clit, pinching just enough to send ashockwavethrough me. That was all it took.

The orgasm hit me like a supernova, stealing every breath from my lungs. My muscles locked tight, my body shaking, my visionblurring. My core clenched around him so hard that I could barely comprehend the sensation. It wasn’t just pleasure, it was somethingmore, something primal, something that shattered every single preconceived notion I had about sex.

I barely registered Jagger’s groan above me, the deep rumble of his pleasure vibrating against my skin, but Ifelthim—felt the way he tensed, his control snapping as he lost himself inside me.

I didn’t know how long it lasted, but when it finally ebbed, I was left limp and spent beneath him, my fingers still clutching the comforter in a death grip. My muscles ached, and my body tingled in the aftermath. What the hell had just happened?

Jagger collapsed on top of me, his skin hot and clammy against mine, his breath ragged as he buried his face in my neck.

“Holy fuck,” he panted, voice raw. “I’ll move in a second. I just… can’t feel my body.”

A breathless laugh escaped me, surprising me. There had never been a moment where I’d felt thiscloseto someone, not even during missions where every movement, every breath, had to be in sync to stay alive. But this, this was different. This wasn’t just trust, it was something I wasn’t sure I’d ever felt before.

Jagger lifted his head, his lips curling into a lazy smirk, his eyes warm with amusement as he looked down at me. I wasn’t sure if what we’d just done had been making love or fucking—butwhateverit was, I realized something. Itrustedhim. And maybe—just maybe—Jagger was the exception to my rule. And I was willing to take that chance.

Chapter 6

Kyle

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