“Knox.” I snap back to his face. To those eyes—dark, nearly black now—that burrow into me.
“Kneel.” His lips barely move around the word, teeth gritted.
“Okay.” My knees hit the floor, the concrete biting into my skin. This basement has seen more violence and death than I ever will as a doctor. “I’ll do it if it means you’ll let me live.”
His eyebrows crush together, fury sparking. He suspects I’m lying.
By the look he levels at me, he doesn’t like it. Not one bit.
“I want it,” I blurt, the truth that might save my life. That might get me what I need, and that’s him. My chin tips down, my lashes lifting to meet his gaze. “Take me.”
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Iwant it. Take me.
The words are a whisper that crashes into me like a scream. They echo inside my head.
A shock to the system.
I needed to hear her say it. And I did.
Even surrounded by knives, blood, and the stench of bleach, she isn’t scared. She doesn’t look away.
She wants me.
The man whose face she’s just seen, the face she doesn’t deem as ugly.
My cock throbs against the zipper, straining in my jeans. Air scorches my throat, my breathing is shallow.
Sweet, beautiful Skylar has no fucking clue what she does to me. How her need maddens me.
How feral I am over her virgin mouth. I’ll be the first to have her lips wrapped around my cock, the last to spill my cum down her throat.
My control tears at the seams. My thoughts, all of them, are about marking, owning, claiming my Skylar.
While I take in her beauty, she waits for me. Her stare possesses mine, her jaw tight, breath quick.
I’d bet my life that her pulse is a frantic drum beneath that soft skin.
I want to drag my tongue over her pulse point until I know the rhythm of her heart by memory.
Heat surges through me, possessiveness hammering at my ribs.
“Come here.” My teeth grind together. “Closer.”
One knee scrapes the floor. Then the other.
Watching her like that stokes a feral impatience under my skin.
I undo my jeans button. Skylar gasps when I drag the zipper down.
She’s so reactive. So focused on me.
Her eyebrows pull tight, her eyes helpless as they draw lower, straight to the thick outline of my dick.
Her attention, her red cheeks, they drive me insane.
