Page 70 of Caged in Desire
Realizing I’m going to have to take my time and politic my way to her uncle causes me to see red. Spinning, I slam my fist into the wall, the impact breaking through the drywall. “Fuck!” I yell. I fall back against the wall, blood dripping from my hand. My heavy breathing is the only sound in the room.
My wife’s pensive voice breaks the silence. “Henry, are you okay?”
She’s sitting back on her knees at the edge of the bed closest to me, her arms wrapped around her waist, as if to protect herself. As if to fucking protect herself from me. I sigh, realizing how I’ve scared her with my little tantrum, and pull myself up from the floor.
“No, Katarina. I’m not okay,” I say, stroking her hair with my uninjured hand when I reach where she’s sitting. Her hands find my chest, rubbing up and down to try to soothe me.Try.“Someone is threatening my entire world, and I don’t know how to get to them.”
“Wait? You know who it is?” she asks, looking up with wide eyes, her movement paused.
“I have a good idea who it is. I think it’s your uncle, Katarina.”
“Henry, you can’t be serious!” she says, pulling back from me.Fucking pulling away from me.
I’m pretty sure there’s smoke coming from my ears as I lunge at her, grabbing her hips and yanking her back, flush to my body. “Yes. I am serious. And I’m trying to figure out a way to get to him without being shot down in the process.”
“Love, I don’t think it’s him. I mean, he’s always been sort of strange, but why don’t you just talk to him? I can reach out to Sasha.”
“Fuck, yes!” I say, remembering my cousin-in-law. Sasha and I have gotten close enough over the past few months, and I feel certain he wouldn’t do anything to hurt Katarina.
I plant a long kiss on the top of her head before pulling back to look into her beautiful violet eyes. “Stay,” I say as I turn to leave.
I’m going to the Taranov compound right fucking now, and I have a lot to arrange before I arrive. Starting with the jet, then I’ll probably need to get Danny in to make sure I don’t do anything traceably illegal, then…
“Excuse me?” the tiny woman says from behind me.
Turning, I see that she’s hopped off the bed and stands a few feet away. Looking up at me, she’s pouting with her arms crossed. She’s mad, and it’s fucking adorable.
“Yes?” I smirk.
“Where do you think you’re going? And what thefuckdo you mean by ‘stay’?”
I can feel my dick growing harder with each word from this brat's lips as I tower over her, walking her backward. “Language, little girl.”
For every step I take toward her, she takes two back until she hits the bed, losing her balance and falling back onto the mattress. I bend, caging her in with my arms and hovering over her, my gaze never leaving hers. “I’m going to figure out who is threatening mywife.Andyouare going to stay in the goddamn room until I get back. Is that clear?”
She narrows her eyes at me, trying to shove me, to no avail. She pushes with all her might, not forcing me to move in the slightest.
“I said, is. That. Clear?”
“You can't just keep me here, Henry! I was locked away for nineteen years, and I amnotgoing to be caged again! Not by you or anyone else!”
Her words flip a switch in my brain. I’mnotanyone else. I’m her fucking husband, and she better believe I’ll do whatever I have to to keep her safe. I’ll burn the entire fucking planet down to keep her safe. Picking her up by her perfect ass, I toss her back on the bed, giving myself room to crawl on as well.
“Oh, Kitten, you have no idea the lengths to which I would go to keep you safe. I’ll lock you in a cage and keep you hidden so that I’m the only one who knows where you are. You’re lucky I’m not tying you up and leaving you that way until I return. I’ll keep you safe until we catch whoever this is or whoever else may want to come aftermy wife.” With every statement, I move farther down the bed until I have her trapped against the headboard. I stop inches from her face, close enough for her to see the fire burning in my eyes. “I’ll make sure to come and fuck you, though, Kitten. I’ll keep you full of my cum, just like I promised.”
I crash my mouth to hers, my kiss as violent as my headspace right now. She tries to shove me off again, but it only makes me kiss her harder, biting and sucking on her lips and tongue. The blood from my hand now smeared all over her face where I’ve grabbed her makes her look every bit as animalistic as I feel. She bites back on my tongue, hard, the taste of metal filling my mouth.
“Mmm, fuck, baby,” I growl. “You know, you better be glad I’m in such a hurry or I would spank that bratty ass of yours.”
Try as she might, she can’t help the moan that escapes her mouth or the way her eyes roll back at my words.
“There’s my girl. Now be a good girl and let Daddy fuck you into this mattress before he has to go kill your uncle.”
Chapter thirty-four
It’s been hours since Henry left me locked in my room at Blanche’s, and I’m losing it. First, being confined toa single roomis totally different from having the entire estate and house to explore when I was growing up. Second, it hurts a lot more that it was Henry who did it. I can understand his urge to protect me, and it’s kind of hot that he got so worked up over me being threatened.Not sure what it says about me that I think it was hot…
I’ve never seen him as infuriated and inconsolable as he was before he left. Wild eyes, hands that seared every inch of me they touched…it was as if he needed to consume me so he could ensure I still existed and wasn’t a figment of his imagination. I told him before he left that the easiest way to make sure I was safe was to take me with him, and that I would sit quietly on his lap the entire time. He looked at me hotly, as if considering it, before groaning and saying I was safer here.
