With This Secret

He parted my folds with one hand, sliding his fingers up my dripping slit, and taunting the taut tortured bud that rested at the top. When I thought I would die from pleasure, he slipped into me. My back arched with pure bliss. He thrust the rest of himself into me, hard, and it shoved my hips against the counter.

“Oh fuck,” he swore at his complete possession of my body.

I writhed seductively against him in response. I turned to look at him and my soul almost left my body.

“Oh, my God!” I screamed.

21

Levan

I froze at her sudden piercing cry.

“What the fuck?” I exclaimed, trying to grab her arms to find out what was wrong, but she had already slipped away from my cock and was crouched down to the floor to hide herself.

My blood started boiling. The interruption was intolerable. Somebody had come in at a very wrong time and he was going to pay for it. “Who the fuck is that?” I roared, as I lifted my gaze to the door.

A man stood very still at the doorway.

Maxim.

My heart slammed into my chest.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck

“I apologize for the intrusion,” he said, without an ounce of real apology in his voice.

With a hard look at him I crouched down next to Bianca, her eyes looked enormous with embarrassment. I pressed a kiss on her forehead. “I’m sorry sweetheart, it’s my brother.”

“I’ll let you both finish,” Maxim said from the doorway.

As his footsteps died away, my balls felt painfully heavy, and my entire abdomen was taut with the need for release, but the moment was completely gone. Truth was I shouldn’t even have been doing what I was doing. Not with what was at stake. Gently, I pulled her back up. “I’m sorry, but I have to go talk to him,” I said, brushing golden strands of hair out of her face.

“No, it’s fine. Go ahead,” she replied with a small smile.

I could tell she was still visibly shaken. While she reached for her clothes, I quickly pulled up my pants. Then I pressed a kiss to her cheek, and was on my way to the study.

I went into the study, shut the door behind me, and turned to face him. “You came to scare her into the grave?” I gritted my teeth.

“Sorry,” he said in Russian.

I breathed deeply and tried my best to dissipate the anger I felt.

“You’re still excited,” he said sarcastically. “Go finish up and get right back here. I need to show you something.”

“Fuck you,” I snarled.

He grinned. “Well, well …”

I had a good mind right at that moment to knock the son of a bitch out. “Get on with it.”

“Bogdan just sent this.”

Something in his tone made me turn around, the hairs on my neck standing. With a frown, I headed over to the computer and looked at the video that was on the screen.

Maxim pressed the play button.

What I saw on the screen made my blood run cold. For the first time in my life, I felt real fear. It crawled over my skin like a god damn spider. I could feel the blood drain from my face as every nerve in my body contracted and shuddered. I actually felt cold.

Oh, fuck.

“Do you know her?” Maxim asked.

It was hard to speak. I swallowed hard and balled my hands into fists. “I do. That’s Bianca’s best friend, Aldie.” I turned away from my brother’s hard, searching eyes and picked up my phone. I saw all the frantic missed calls that had come in while I was enjoying myself with Bianca. I nearly winced with shame and fury at my own incompetence. With my heart pounding, I called Yuri back.

“What’s going on?” I asked urgently.

He didn’t answer immediately and more paralyzing fear pumped into me. “What is it?” I roared.

“The girl … Aldie. Bogdan’s men took her. They came in full force. All the hired mercenaries are dead and two of our men are injured. It’s bad. There are police everywhere.”

“How long ago was this?” I asked as I replayed the video again, my gut twisting as if a knife had been stuck in it to see the terror in Aldie’s face.

“Half-an-hour now.”

I ended the call and dialed Bogdan. The fear was gone. All that was left was a deadly calm. Bogdan had picked the wrong man to play his games with. He had underestimated me. Yes, I was young. Yes, I was inexperienced. Yes, I was not an insane psychopath like him. But he had forgotten the golden rule. A little sewer rat can be more dangerous than a cobra when it is cornered. It can fly up and sink its teeth right into your jugular. And while you are bleeding out, it will go right back to being just vermin.

“My Prince,” he answered. “I was just about to throw the girl to my dogs. I thought perhaps I captured the wrong pawn and you didn’t give a damn whatsoever about her.”