I stand up and put my hands on my hips. “Why is everyone being so fucking nice to me? I just wanted to come here, sulk, and be sad while trying to come to terms with everything. But nooo, everyone insists on being kind to me. It’s making me fucking sick.”
“Fine. No more nice,” Elvor replies, tossing me over his shoulder and smacking my ass roughly before holding a hand out for Judd.
Before I can even get a word in, Elvor has portaled us all into his room in the pit. He drops me down roughly, my body bouncing on the mattress.
I pout up at him, and he continues to scowl at me, pointing one of his large fingers toward my chest. “No more running.”
“I didn’t run,” I protest.
“You did,” he counters, looking exasperated by my brattiness.
“I had no control over fucking Toth portalling me to a warehouse to dispose of a bunch of angels.”
“You ran,” he growls. I scramble up onto my knees, but I still don’t meet him eye to eye, so I stand up on the bed and point at his face. It only seems fair.
“Of course, I fucking ran! I left before you could leave me like everyone fucking does. I’m not worth sticking around for.” I shout it in his face, and I want to swallow it down as soon as the words escape. I wonder if there’s a massive hole somewhere in the pit I can jump into.
Elvor grabs my face roughly, his fingers nearly digging into my skin as he enunciates each word. “You. Are.Mine.”
My eyes leak, watering for a whole new reason, and Judd takes the moment to step in. He’s gentle as he touches Elvor’s arm to calm him down. I don’t want him calm; part of me wants him to make me pay for everything I’ve done. I deserve to be used the way I’ve used them.
“Mara, please let us take care of you. We’ve been worried sick about you. You’re ours. Let us show you,” Judd pleads with me. I want to believe him, trust both of them and myself. Elvor removes his hands from my face and grabs my hips.
“How can I know that I’m not compelling you? How can I know that it’s real?” I ask.
Elvor groans, and that’s when I feel his power wash over me. It should feel stifling, confining, and terrifying. Thankfully, he had his hands on my hips, so when I crumple to the bed, it’s a smooth transition.
It feels like relief.
I can move my eyes but nothing else. The large fae demon has the gift of paralysis, and I can’t help but be thankful that, for once, everything is out of my hands, and there’s no way for me to ruin this moment. I’m not sure what I deserve, but I know they deserve to take what they want.
Chapter23
Ihad no choice but to use my power against her. She was basically yelling at me to take control and make this better for her. This is the only way I know how to make it better for all of us.
The fact that she doubted my feelings for even a moment is unacceptable.
She’s about to learn who she belongs to and that I don’t give a fuck what her lineage is. She’s mine, and I don’t care if she does compel me half the time. I’d rather live a life where Mara tells me what to do than a life without her at all.
The fact that she thinks she’s in charge of the entire dynamic that the three of us have is comical to me. She folds so beautifully when I dominate her. I hate that she’s doubting herself for even a moment.
It’s probably all fucking Toth’s fault.
She seemed upset after killing her mother, but this devastation that she is carrying with her after being taken by Toth is disturbing.
She lies still on the bed, and Judd looks at me and then back to Mara.
“What did you do to her?”
“Paralyzed,” I reply, though she isn’t truly. She’s mostly just incapacitated and at my will. “She can feel but not move.”
“She canfeel? She’s aware?” Judd asks, looking down at Mara, who blinks. “Blink once if you’re okay with this,” he asks her, and she blinks once.
I smack her thigh once and watch as her pupils dilate. “Judd’s going to get your pussy ready for me,” I tell her. Judd looks over at me, wide-eyed, and blinks like I’ve spoken a foreign language. I’m already frustrated enough with Mara, I don’t need him being difficult as well.
I step behind him, gripping his dark hair between my fingers as I whisper in his ear. “She’s ours, show her.”
“Sweetheart, this is really what you want?” Judd asks her again, and she blinks once. “So, she’s just going to lie there and take it?” Judd asks me incredulously.
