Page 60 of Defy

Staying her movement, I said, “I’m going to service you by making you choke on my cock if you don’t stop that and shut up.”

“Promise?”

I grabbed hold of her face, bringing mine right up against hers. “Stop playing with fire, or you’ll get burned.”

“I know you want to do it.” She licked her lips, making me crave to bite them and watch them swell as tears pooled in her eyes.

“What is it you think I want to do?”

“You want to push me to my knees like you did in the club and fuck my face. You want anyone who watches us on that security camera that recorded us, that is continuing to record us, to know I belong to you.”

If she only knew the true depths of her words. The primal desire to mark her as irrevocably mine hummed through my blood. I wanted every-fucking-body in the world to know.

I bound her to the rafters and fucked her mindless, giving me one and her multiple mind-blowing orgasms, and it still wasn’t enough.

“How did you come to this conclusion?”

“First, you claimed me, remember? You’d put a sign on my forehead that says “belongs to Damon Pierce” if I let you. Second, you’re a control freak, and I challenge you at every turn and refuse to give you the things you have always gotten with everyone else.”

“And those are?”

“Unfettered access into my life. I don’t answer questions when you ask. I don’t do what you tell me as soon as you say them. And you can’t fit me into any of your little boxes.”

“If you know that’s what I want, why do you make it harder for me?”

Something passed over her features, and immediately, the lighthearted mood disappeared.

“Because my life isn’t about making everything easier for you. I am going to make things easier for me. I know I can be a brat, but that is a game we play, and it turns you on. I know my worth.”

“Are you saying the women before you didn’t know their value?”

“Not at all. Your previous women bent for you too easily because you are you. You overwhelm and intoxicate. You do it to me. Today’s situation was an example. I got too wrapped up in you and learned how badly you can hurt me.” She pushed my hands away and moved to pick up her dress. “I won’t forget again that I want you but don’t need you. It’s a hard lesson to learn.”

Turning back to me, she stepped into her clothes, adjusted the straps, and pulled up the front zipper.

“I’m sorry, Sophia.”

“I won’t be a pawn in anyone else’s life. I won’t let you use my passion or love to manipulate me.”

“I wouldn’t do that. What have I done to make you think that?”

Over her shoulder, she said, “You want evidence to prove my innocence instead of accepting my word. Nothing you say will convince me otherwise.”

“I told you that I believed you.”

“Bullshit.” She whirled around. “I won’t ever forget the suspicion I saw on your face when she made those accusations.”

“I fucked up.”

“Oh well, now at least I know that no matter how you feel about me, it won’t ever stop you from having doubts about me.”

The cool, detached way she delivered her words revealed more about how I hurt her than I realized.

Brick by brick, I saw her reinforcing the walls she used to protect herself.

No fucking way, not from me.

“I don’t doubt you. You know what you are to me.”

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