This heated copper rush slid down my throat, thick and intimate.
It had made my cock throb.
Made the world tilt.
It burned through me.
That taste in the shower. . .that wasn’t enough. I need more. I’ll drink every vein dry if that’s what it takes to keep her inside me.
I looked at her neck, at the pulse beating beneath her skin, and my teeth ached. I wanted to kiss her and fucking bite her until she screamed.
She’s making me fucking crazy. . .now I don’t need wine, don’t need air, don’t need food. I need what runs under her skin.
She whispered, “Kenji. . .”
I rose a little and pierced her with my gaze.
“During the test. . .I didn’t know if you were pissed, unimpressed, or. . .disappointed.”
My Tiger—my fierce, unbreakable woman—had actually feared failing me.
My chest clenched. “Disappointed in you? That’s blasphemy.”
She bit her bottom lip.
I lowered until my forehead pressed against hers. “I was so fucking impressed, I couldn’t breathe. I didn’t know how to show it without giving myself away. My men were watching. Reo. Rin. Satoshi. Kaoru. They can’t see me unravel. They can’t see how deranged you make me.”
Her lips parted.
“You didn’t just pass that test, Tora. You stripped me open. You reached into my chest and ripped out every defense I had left. My brain. . .” I lifted my head to look deep into her brown eyes. “My brain left me. It went into your grip and it hasn’t come back.”
Her eyes filled with warmth.
“I fell in love with you again.”
She raised her hand and brushed her fingers over my jaw. “Again?”
“When you came into my office that first day, my cock fell for you. I breathed you in and my nose and lungs fell for you. Then on our second date, when you cooked for me, my stomach fell for you. You made me crawl and my soul fell for you. Piece by piece, I keep losing myself to you.”
Relief softened her face, curved her lips, and sparkled her eyes. She looked so fucking gorgeous that it hurt. In fact, her relief undid me more than her fear ever could. The curve of her smile, the light in her eyes—fuck, it made me feral.
She had no idea how dangerous it was for her to look that happy in my bed, under my rule.
I brushed my thumb over her bottom lip, slow, like I was memorizing it before tearing it apart. “Soon there will be nothing left but what you allow me to keep.”
“I’m not going to let you keep anything.”
The words detonated inside me. My heart slammed against my ribs, my cock throbbed against her thigh, and the Dragon in me uncoiled with teeth and fire.
“Greedy Tiger.” I kissed her forehead, slow, loving, as if the gesture could brand my devotion deeper than my cock or my teeth ever could. “You’re the first person who’s ever made me want to be human. . .and the only one who makes me proud to be a monster.”
Before she tried to speak, I lowered my mouth to her jaw and bit her there, sharp enough to make her gasp, sharp enough to taste the edge of her skin.
“K-Kenji.” She whimpered, and the sound tore through me dousing gasoline over flame.
Groaning, I dragged my mouth down her neck, stopping at the place where her pulse leapt, frantic and beautiful.
My teeth grazed the spot, and she tilted her head back in surrender.
