Page 105 of All the Devils are Here

“I will be eating certain parts of you, yes.”

A laugh burst out of me. “I’m not exactly going to argue with that.”

“Are you sure you want it?”

I moved, draping myself over his body and enjoying the way his tail moved to hold me around my waist. “Is there a reason I shouldn’t? You can’t hurt me, and,” I lowered my voice. “Iwantyou to fuck me.”

“Once I hunt you, I can’t stop,” he said. “I will make you mine.” As if I didn’t know what he meant, he touched Ariel’s mark. “I want to see my scar on you.”

My heartbeat sped up, and he heard it. In my chest I felt amusement, Ariel awake and teasing me from afar because of my arousal. I sent back the equivalent of my middle finger, which made his laughter deeper.

Ban released a different kind of growl. “I can scent your arousal.” His voice was rougher. “Are you feeling well, Mate? Because if you are not, I need to calm myself.”

The stiffness I’d woken with was fading, and I wasawake. His nose brushed my temple, inhaling the scent of my hair, and I shivered. I wanted this. I wanted to meet my mates where they were, and I still remembered the visceral desire for him to do exactly this. Hunt me. Take me.

And a day of sleep after so much pleasure? I was in withdrawal.

“I’m feeling great.” I rocked my body against his. “So good.”

Ban went still as a statue. But not like Laurent. This was the predator in him. His hands on my arms tightened, and I wasn’t sure how much he was human or feline.

I wet my lips, adrenaline spinning through me with excitement and desperation. “I don’t know how to do this. Do I run? Do I fight?”

So fast I barely noticed the movement. I was on my back with him above me, feline fangs at my throat. Ban was hard, his cock pinned between us as he held me down. “Run all you like, mate. I will catch you. But don’t fight me once I do.”

Arching up into him, he growled, and the sound rippled over my skin and left chills behind. Naked as I was, I felt the wetness between my legs grow. “You sure about that?”

“I can’t harm you on purpose, but I don’t want to hurt you at all. Don’t fight me.” His nose brushed mine.

“Okay.”

Later I would ask him how he felt, and if he felt in control, we could try again, and a little differently. I liked the idea of fighting back almost as much as I liked the idea of being hunted to begin with.

“Call Ariel,” he said.

“What?”

My mate smirked, eyes luminous in the half-darkness. “He’ll take you somewhere on the island so I can’t immediately follow your scent.”

“You already asked him, didn’t you?”

“Yes. But in the end, it won’t matter.”

My stomach tightened. “Why?”

Ban sank down my body with the grace and silence only he could manage, tongue covering my nipple, teasing me. The scrape and roughness of it made me close my eyes. A precursor of what was to come.

“I know every inch of this island, and it won’t take me long to find you. Wherever you are.”

He ripped himself away from me and shifted, dropping into his feline form and disappearing. I stayed still for long moments, catching my breath. I was really doing this, and I couldn’t keep the smile off my face.

Clothes. I needed clothes. They weren’t going to make it through the night, but I also wasn’t just going to wander around the island naked.

How did I call Ariel?

“Like that,” he said, making me jump.

“Fuck, don’t do that.”

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