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I pull out and thrust back in.

“He doesn’t get to hear you scream.”

Her eyes hold mine, still so fucking defiant even as they blur beneath a shine that twists the air in my lungs.

“He doesn’t get to feel you squirt all over his cock.”

I ram into her,growling,thenyank her head furtherback,pulling strandsfree as I arch her nearly in half.

“He doesn’t get to enjoy what’smine.”

Irip off the lower half of my mask andkiss her bloody mouth as my cock pumpsinto her.She thrashes beneath me, but my griptightenson her hair,forcingher to stillas I take what’s mine.Shebites my lip, and I know she’s close again.

“Tell me it’s justanatomynow,” I sneer. “Tell me you’re notjusta dirty little whore.”

“I’m not.”

“Liar!” I shove her head down, coating her mask in the blood on the sheets. “You like having another man’s cock in you. Youlike to pretend you’re being raped, that you’re notintothis when you’re soaking the godsdamn sheets and the mattress underneath. Now say it!” I demand as I yank her head back up. She gasps, spitting blood free from herlips. “Admit that it isn’t just anatomy.Admit that you likedcoming on Aleric’s cock!”

I slamin and out ofher,dragging the dead man’s cock out of her pussy with my movements so it’s just me inside her now. Me and my rage and my need to have no lies between us.

“Admit it, sweet girl,” I growl as I wrap a hand around her throat. “Tell me the truth so I canforgive you.”

Iwant to forgive her. I want to forgive her for all her lies, for all her pain, for all the choices she made where it wasn’t me.“Admit it, Sau,” I beg as I slam into her again.I kiss the side of her neck, my chest burning with the need to hear her words. “Admit it.”

Sobbing, she nods,finally breaking apart. “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.”

“Sorry for what?” I ask, my words tight, my body still.

“I’m sorry I…” She chokes back a sob. “...enjoyed it.”

“Enjoyedwhat?” I growl between clenched teeth. “Say his name.”

She shakes beneath me, her walls down, unable to lie to herself anymore, to lie to me.On a wail, she admits,“Aleric.”

Fifty-Five

HER

31OCTOBER1987

He collapses against me, breathing hard and fast, the anger all pulled out of him.He’s shaking, as am I, and I cry beneath his weight, wanting him to say something, to yell at me, to accuse me, to hit me as he fucks me. To do something other than just shake on top of me like I’ve ripped out his heart, his soul, his reason for carrying on.

A broken noise comes from behind his mask, and I wonder if he’s crying. But then I realize he’s laughing, a wild, manic wheeze that’s ripping through his whole body.

“I knew you werea whore,”he rasps. Pressing his lips against my neck, he kisses his way up to my ear as I lie in shock. “But you’remywhore,” he says. “You will always be mine, Sau. I don’t care how many cocks end up inside you, you will forever be mine.”

“I don’t want any other –”

“Shhhh.” He presses a finger to my lips. “Don’t lie to meafter that truth.”

It is the truth, but I bite the words back, knowing he isn’t able to hear them right now. I might feel a bond to Aleric, he might draw me in like a siren’s song, but I don’t want him. I want my husband.

I just want my husband.

“So what now?” I ask softly. “Will you come home?”

He stiffens.