Page 45 of Wolf.e
“Make the right choice, Brinley, so I don’t have to flip this knife over and slit your beautiful throat with it.”
My legs begin to shake, and my protest dies before it reaches my lips as I give in to him. My orgasm is inevitable, and I’m lost to whatever this is, whatever I am, with him.
My heart thunders in my chest as the slightly curved handle pulses against a place deep inside me and I feel like I may explode or lose control of my bladder—or both.
I tip my head forward and meet his gaze, reaching my hand up to the side of his strong jaw, running a thumb over his cheekbone.
“I don’t want to die,” I moan softly.
“Then come, little hummingbird, and say my name while you do,” he commands.
My hand feels small against his face and the gentle touchI’m offering him in this moment feels wrong, but his eyes take in the look of desire I’m surely wearing and grow dark, like he might devour me at any moment.
“I don’t know your first name,” I say breathlessly. “Tell me,” I add as the tight coil of heat takes a deep hold within my belly, my thighs, my soul.
“Gabriel,” he answers softly against the shell of my ear.
“Gabriel…” I whisper his name for the first time, and the sound he makes is animalistic. It’s enough to hurl me over the edge, to fall into the dark, stormy depths of him as I unravel around the handle of his knife.
“Gabriel,” I cry out again, louder this time and his answer is a deep growl that rumbles through his chest.
“Again,” he commands, and I do what he says, calling his name as the euphoric release of an explosive orgasm rushes to my center from every cell in my body and I come harder than I ever have, soaking the handle, his hand and his forearm.
With no end in sight, I call his name again along with some form ofplease, moreanddon’t stop,all while hating that I want him, this man I don’t even know with the hollow gray eyes.
When I open my eyes finally to the sound of our breathing, the only thing I see is treetops, my shame, and the stars.
Who am I in this moment? Who is this woman who just came without abandon all over the blunt end of this murderer’s knife? And where is the torment I should feel?
Gabriel pulls his knife from me, and I look down, finding he’s gripped the sheathed blade so hard it cut his hand through it and his blood drips from his palm into the grassy earth. He replaces the knife at his hip and skims his fingers into my pussy, pushing his blood into me, smearing it all over my swollen lips. It feels like a marking, a type of claiming.He slowly pulls them out, moving his hand up to my face to spread his blood and my cum all over my lips, like he’s painting his masterpiece.
“I live insideyounow, little hummingbird,” he says as he leans in, staring down at me, his mercury eyes focus on my lips and all I can hear is his breathing. A battle wages in his eyes as his hand slides to the back of my neck where he grips possessively before his control snaps and he violently fists my hair. He pulls at my roots sharply, tilting my head back just before he captures my lips with his own, kissing me deeply.
I lose my breath, unprepared for the kiss I never thought would come. I’m docile and molded to him instantly. Wolfe kisses me as if he’s desperate to taste me. His lips press into mine, and his tongue plunders, hungrily. I meet it with my own, just as eager as he is. The taste of copper and my own arousal washes into my mouth, and he groans into my lips before releasing me, leaving me completely unraveled.
He feasted on me for mere seconds, but it was the most incredible kiss I’ve ever experienced, one that commanded my entire body.
I realize as I watch him try to compose himself now that thereisa part of him, however small, that is fully capable of losing control.
“Fuck—” he says, turning his face from me. When he returns his eyes to mine, his pupils are contracted. They’re controlled again, devoid of any emotion. He grips my throat.
“You do what I say now, and you stay alive,” Wolfe says, his voice low.
He turns and begins to walk, expecting me to follow, and I ask myself what just happened. How he goes from so intense to cold and emotionless so easily. The rush of fear returns almostinstantly. The haziness from my orgasm and the kiss evaporating by the second, making things clear once again.
I realize I truly have no idea what it means to be his and the thought of finding out terrifies me. As I follow Gabriel out of the woods, I know that the woman I was before we met might as well be as dead as the man he just murdered.
Chapter 23
Brinley
“I’m going to get an infection from that knife,” I say as wooden stairs creak under our feet while we climb them.
Gabriel unlocks the door to his private cabin and ushers me in. I realize I prefer his first name, the only reason why that I can fathom is because it somehow makes him more human than his last.
“I just finished gutting a man with it. It was completely sterile. Sanitized. Twice. Hospital clean.” He leans in and the scent of him overwhelms me again. It doesn’t even seem like the endeavor in the woods caused him to break a sweat. “And I wouldn’t put his blood anywhere near you,” he says gruffly.
“But yours is okay?” I ask, kicking my muddy wedge heels off. I’m lucky I didn’t break an ankle trying to run in those.
