Page 91 of Dance of Ruin

I cry out, hips jerking, unsure whether I want more or less oreverything.

“Almost…” he murmurs, voice strained.

My eyes roll back as a tearing sensation dissolves into something hot and melty.

“Fucking…”

Warmth floods my core as pure, unfiltered pleasure suddenly fills my veins.

“There.”

Then he’s fully inside, buried to the hilt, every fat, hot, hard inch of him claiming every single piece of me.

His mouth is near my ear, his voice a low, reverent growl as he grinds deep.

“You feel that, baby?” he breathes. “That’s your old life ending.”

Then he starts to move.

I choke on a moan as he slides out of me, only to shove right back in.

Deeply. Punishingly.Unmercifully.

Forcing my body to admit exactly how much I crave the submission. The stretch. The brutal rhythm of his hips as he starts to pick up speed.

I dig my nails into his back. I bite his shoulder. I scream into his mouth as he swallows the sound with a growl.

And I realize—I’ve never wanted anything so badly.

Just him.

And beingtaken.

There’s no first-time gentleness. He’s not “making love” to me.

He’sclaiming me.

Maybe I’ve never really been Odette at all. Maybe I've always just been waiting for the moment my wings turn black, and I embrace Odile.

My body jolts as I cry out, hands scrambling for purchase on the stage, my back arching against the worn wood. He growls viciously as he starts to ram into me harder, pulling almost all the way out before driving his thick cock back in again, over and over.

“Fuck,” he hisses through clenched teeth against my throat as I whine for more. “So fucking tight.”

The pain is real.

But not enough to make me want him to stop.

If anything, it makes me wantmore.

Because it doesn’tremainas pain. It changes. Sharpens. Becomes heat and pressure. Becomes something only he can pull from me.

This doesn’t feel like innocence lost.

It feels like innocence being torn from my body. Ripped apart, and devoured, and rewritten as something darker.

Odette dies in the end.

I don’t want to die.

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