Page 66 of A Smile Full of Lies
My chest seized. I wasn’t sure my heart was even beating anymore.
“S-Say what?”
The words fractured out of me, barely a breath.
He didn’t stop. One gloved hand lifted, trailing the backs of his fingers down the side of my throat. The leather of his gloves gliding cold and smooth over my too-hot skin. My body betrayed me, trembling with a heady mix of hunger and terror.
“You know who I am.”
My lips parted, the name catching in my throat before spilling out in a whisper I couldn’t hold back.
“You’re… Nox Obscura.”
The sound of it on my tongue felt like a sacrificial offering to a dark god… like surrendering to madness.
“That’s right, baby,” he purred.
The endearment made me shiver.
He crowded closer, boxing me in. His hand slid from my throat down to my hip, his grip hard and possessive. Then his thigh pushed between mine, forcing me open, rocking up into the wet heat there. Even through my jeans and panties, the intimacy of the touch electrified me from the top of my head to the tips of my toes.
A sharp gasp tore out of me at the sensation. My knees buckled, and my hands shot forward, clutching the front of his jacket like it was the only thing keeping me upright.
He caught my jaw in his other hand, leather-covered fingers gripping until I had no choice but to look up. The purple neon lights of his mask seared in my vision, consuming everything as he stared down at me.
“You’re going to come for me,” he said darkly. “And you’re going to do it like a good girl.”
My breath came in short, stuttering bursts I couldn’t control.
“I… what?”
Before I could even process what he’d said, his thigh flexed beneath me, pressing hard into the soft, wet ache between mylegs. Denim and lace dragged rough against my swollen clit, and I swore the contact lit me up from the inside out.
A broken sound tore out of my throat before I could swallow it back. My head tipped back against the door behind me, skull knocking wood, my body arching forward on instinct like it didn’t give a damn that I should be ashamed of how I was responding to him, to the chase. My hips rocked into him helplessly, greedy for more, like he’d unlocked something feral in me I couldn’t cage.
His gloved hand tightened around my throat, holding me steady, while the other hand cupped my hip and dragged me closer, forcing me to move with him. He made me follow the deliberate flex and grind of his thigh, dragging slick heat out of me even through the barrier of jeans and panties. My body burned, alive in every nerve ending.
“You’re already close,” he murmured against my ear, the distortion in his voice thick and dangerous. “Aren’t you?”
A trembling, wordless sound clawed its way out of me, nothing human, something raw and animalistic. My hands curled against his chest, clutching at his shirt like it was the only thing tethering me to the earth.
“It’s okay, sweetheart,” he said darkly, dragging his gloved thumb across my lower lip. The rasp of leather against tender skin made my breath catch, and my lips parted for him automatically.
Then his thumb pushed past them, pressing against my tongue. I should’ve turned my head, should’ve bitten down, should’ve donesomething,but instead I closed my lips around his thumb and sucked, a helpless, broken sound vibrating in my throat.
The taste of leather, sharp and strange, coated my tongue. Humiliation scorched through me even as the heat in my core blazed white-hot. My body betrayed me, my pulse pounding like this was the most natural thing in the world.
“You don’t have to hold back,” he murmured as I sucked his thumb, my tongue swirling against it in a way that felt obscene and desperate. “Not with me.”
When he finally slid his thumb free, slick with my spit, I made a choked noise in the back of my throat, half-relief, half-loss.
He chuckled, the sound utterly smug and pleased, and it gave me goosebumps.
A moan ripped out of me, humiliating in its raw need. My hips jerked involuntarily, chasing pressure like I couldn’t stop myself even if I tried.
“Let go for me, beautiful.” His voice dropped, rough, guttural, a growl that went straight through me. “Let me have you.”
I choked on another moan, squeezing my eyes shut and losing myself in the feel of his big, powerful body pinning me to the door.
