“Amazing,” he growled and palmed my ass, taking over control of my movements. “Eyes on me,” he demanded, and I snapped my eyes to his. I tried to move on him again, but he held me absolutely still. We were chest to chest, nose to nose, and there was no escaping his burning gaze, not that I wanted to. But this…this pulsing, aching, tightening string of light between us roared all the louder as if now that we held nothing else back, it could fully shine and glow.
He moved me then, slow at first, then faster and faster. Using his leverage on my ass to up our pace, all while holding my gaze. He shifted beneath me, adjusting so he leaned back just enough to—
“Omigod!” I moaned at the small change in position and the way it had his cock sinking deeper and deeper with each time I rocked against him, hitting a spot so deep inside me I saw stars. “Lachlan,” I breathed his name as he used one hand to tease my clit and the other to keep control of my body atop him.
Heat danced and sparked beneath my skin, all of my muscles clenching as he pushed me toward that sweet edge. I reached behind me, yanking his hands up and positioning them on the arms of the chair. “Hold these,” I demanded, and fire ignited in his eyes. “Or I’ll spank you,” I teased. His lips turned up in a smirk, but he obeyed.
Me.
He obeyed me.
Because here, with him, I wasn’t a human with a traitorous past. I wasn’t an enemy.
I was his, and he was mine.
“Eyes on me,” I mimicked his earlier words, and then I lifted so his cock slid all the way out of me before slamming down and taking him to the hilt again.
And again.
And again.
Over and over until he gripped the arms of the chair so hard I heard the wood groan.
I switched paces, from slow and hard to fast and frenzied. I kissed and nipped at his chest as I moved on him, took all the liberties with his perfect body as he continued to hold the chair. Dizzy, the power over this male made me absolutely dizzy.
And soon, I couldn’t keep up the game. I couldn’t keep torturing him in the way he’d done to me so many times. My body demanded his, and I lost myself entirely to the instincts roaring in my soul.
I crashed against him, my body clenching tight.
“Fuck,” he hissed, his fangs descending. The sight made me liquid, and I grabbed the back of his neck, hauling him flush against my chest. “Valor?” My name was a question, and I answered by tossing my hair over my shoulder to expose my neck.
“Please, Lachlan,” I said, groaning while I still moved on him.
He hardened to another degree inside me, and my eyes rolled back in my head.
“Lachlan,” I moaned.
His hands flew to my back, supporting me as his fangs slipped into my flesh.
Stars burst behind my eyes with the flood of heat sizzling through every inch of my soul. I shattered into a thousand pieces of brilliant light, my heart soaring with each tug he took at the holes he’d created in my neck. His groan against my flesh sent me tumbling over the edge again, and my thighs trembled around his hips.
Lachlan jerked his head back, lips stained red with my blood as he roared, finding his own release inside me.
I fell over his shoulder, breathless against him as my heart beat wildly.
He ran his tongue over the wounds in my neck, and I shivered against him. His cock hardened inside me again, and I sat up, laughing. “Already?”
“Always,” he growled and slanted his mouth over mine. He tasted like him and me, and the combination made my head spin.
“Get on the bed, Lachlan,” I demanded, gently sliding off of him.
He arched a brow at me, his eyes lighting up with the demand in my tone.
“I owe you a spanking.”
15
Lachlan
“A hundred, easy,” Ransom said as we walked into the residence.
“I’d guess a hundred and fifty,” Benedict argued, raking his hands over his hair.
“Or more,” Hawke added.
My mind was already working, calculating odds based on what we’d just seen. It would take a full-on assault to breach the walls—
“Lachlan?” Valor asked, coming out of the library as we passed by, headed for the war room.
My heart clenched as she stood there, eyebrows raised in curiosity. “You guys head down. I’ll be right there,” I said to the guys, motioning for them to continue down the hallway. A few seconds later, it was just Valor and I standing on the hardwood.
The muscle in my jaw ticked as I clenched my teeth. Why was I delaying? Wasn’t this what we’d been working for the whole time? The obvious truth danced in front of me—the second I told her, it was the beginning of the end.