Page 43 of Love & Monsters
One corner of my lips twitched up. Vadric’s dilated yellow eyes flickered to the movement, absorbing every small move my body made. My heart rate slowed down as we stared at one another. All my muscles tensed to prepare for what I couldn’t stop myself from doing next.
Without warning, I bolted down the hall.
My feet slapped against the stone thanks to the shoes Meela gave me. It was a good thing I had no desire to be silent as I ran, otherwise my shoes alone would have given me away.
“Argh!” Vadric roared after me as he witnessed me slip right past him and into the darkness beyond. His growl thundered through the fortress under our feet.
Uninhibited fear and maddening delight coursed through my veins. I heard Vadric’s heavy steps on the ground behind me as he chased after me. Knowing that there was a terrifying monster with horns and fangs and claws hunting me down like a wolf with a rabbit was… exhilarating and arousing in ways I didn’t know I could experience.
I felt my blood running through my veins. I felt the fire blooming under my heated skin. I felt the air filling my lungs with each gasp as I pushed myself into a sprint.
“You can’t run forever, little one!” Vadric roared as I disappeared around a corner. The sound sent a thrilling tingle through every nerve in my body.
He inhaled loudly, reminding me of a bloodhound on the trail of its catch. A rumbling growl passed his lips, sounding like an angry wolf.
“I can smell you, Mina. Your fear is intoxicating, and it only makes me want to chase you down that much more.” His tone was gravelly, and my core throbbed with need. “And Mina, I can also smell how aroused you are. No matter where you go, I’ll find you, and when I do, I’m going to devour that dripping cunt.”
Those salacious threats made me stumble. Or maybe I wanted him to catch me, and that was just an excuse. Either way, I tripped over my foot and slammed into the wall. My hands flew out in time to stop me from crumbling to the floor completely.
It was too late to get up now. Vadric charged around the corner. My body wouldn’t move as we locked eyes. I heard my blood rushing in my ears and his heavy breathing as we stared down at one another.
His lips spread into a devilish smile, his cheeks splitting apart with it and revealing a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth. He moved again and my body instinctively scrambled to get away. But Vadric was too fast and too close now.
My hand pushed off the wall as I turned around to keep running. I wasn’t fast enough. Vadric’s arms encircled my waist, squeezing the air from my lungs as he swept me off my feet.
“I caught you,” he whispered huskily into the crook of my neck. His hot breath on my skin made me shudder. Yet I continued to squirm against his embrace.
“No! Let go!” I thrashed against him. Equal parts rubbing my backside on him as I pretended I wanted to get away.
“You’re mine now, little one. The scent of your excitement is the most enticing perfume.” The tip of his tongue flicked my earlobe before slithering down my neck. My pussy throbbed, and an unbidden moan left me as he tasted my skin.
It knocked a demeaning yelp out of me when Vadric tossed me over his shoulder. My eyes snapped open, and I saw his backside and the stone floor rapidly moving as Vadric raced down the halls.
“Where are you taking me?” I demanded.
“I’m taking you to my bed, little one. You don’t get to excite me in this way without facing the consequences.” His palm slapped my ass, and I cried out from the sudden sting on my bottom.
“No, put me down!” I slammed my fists into his wide back, hearing the solid thump each time they connected. It didn’t affect him at all, and I might as well have been a kitten pawing at him.
Vadric stopped and the next thing I knew, he shrugged me off his shoulder. I plopped to my feet with my back sliding down a door. Two hands thudded on the door over my head and Vadric crouched to be at eye level with me. His brows furrowed, and his lips pressed into a strained thin line, barely containing himself in that moment.
“Tell me now that you don’t want me, little one. No games. Just the truth. Do you truly wish for me to stop?” The intensity in his eyes caught me off guard. It thrust me back into the real world, suddenly pulling me from my delirium, faced with the very real consequences of our actions.
“Mina, tell me now before I lose control and take you anyway.” Vadric’s face was so close as he leaned in. I heard the plea and the desperation in his voice. It echoed the feelings running wild in me.
I didn’t think. Instead, I grabbed his face and pulled him in for a soul-crushing kiss. Vadric was getting exceptionally good at kissing, and his lips locked with mine instantly.
Pulling back to breathe, I kept my hands on his face, leveling our eyes to peer into the depths of black and yellow staring back at me. “Chase me, hunt me. Make me beg and scream and cry. Bite me, scratch me. Fucking tear me apart if you need to. Just do it while you’re inside of me, Vadric.”
His claws dug into my hip, pressing me harder against the door. “Sitting at that table with your tight, supple body pressed against me and your round ass in my lap rubbing on my cock—” Vadric growled in frustration without finishing his thought.
“Vadric,” I whimpered his name. Pleading with him to keep going.
“I want to feel you from the inside, little one. However, if I were to succumb to that desire now, I might break you in half.” His forehead pressed to mine, and I felt the trembling in his body so close to mine.
I pulled his face closer. My lips hovered a hair’s breadth from his as our eyes closed. “Then break me, Vadric.”
Twenty-Five
