The lust, the purepoweroozing into me through the bond was enough to bring me back to life.
His hands gripped my blouse, tearing it from my body and I gasped against his mouth as his palm squeezed my breast.
“You are going to have to do better than that,” he whispered when I moaned. His voice shook with restraint and something hungrier. I arched into his touch, warmth flooding into me, sinking into my skin. He pulled away, trailing his tongue down my neck, leaving a warm wet path in his wake. I cried out as he bit down on my nipple, pain ebbing into pleasure. This male would be my undoing. No one had ever made me feel the way he did.Alive.I plunged my fingers through his hair. I needed to kiss him. Needed him to fuck the life back into me?—
“Your shadows,” I whispered, eyes widening as the volatile things crawling over his skin.Hurtinghim. His eyes were pure black, dark veins spreading around his eyes.
I tilted my head, exposing my neck.
“No. You are too weak right now,” he growled, pulling my pants from my body. “I can stay in control.” I wasn’t sure if he was reassuring me, or himself.
A whimper left my lips as he trailed a feather-light touch down my stomach, pausing between my thighs.
“I need to make you moan loud enough for that fucking Mortal to hear from the infirmary.” His unhinged words sent a needy rush of heat between my thighs, and he slid his fingers against my overheated flesh. Excruciatingly light. He chuckled at the impatient noise I made.
“It is a matter of pride,” he murmured, plunging two fingers inside me.
A low,involuntary moan escaped me, far louder than I meant it to be. My body jolted, inner walls twitching around his large fingers as they moved in and out of me without mercy.
“Just like that, love,” he praised as his dark eyes devoured me. He loved this. Loved seeing me shaking under his touch. I could feel it through the bond. It tingled against my skin and overfilled the hole in my chest. He growled, the bond flaring hot and sharp between us. “I want to hear it,” he grunted, adding a third finger into me, and I threw my head back from the stretch.
“Who. Do. You. Belong. To?”
His fingers drove into me, each word punctuated by his knuckles striking my flesh.
When I didn’t answer, he pinched my clit between his thumb and forefinger, hard enough to steal my breath.
“I belong,” I moaned, surrender curling through every word, “to the Commander of Death.”
A sound more animal than male tore through him as he pulled out of me. He flickered like a wraith as he undid his belt and shoved his pants down to his knees.
Darkness tugged at his very existence, but those dark, endless eyes stayed on me. He gripped my ankles and pulled me to the edge of the bed.
He looked unhinged. Like a monster. It should have scared me, but the wetness coating my thighs showed us both just how much I liked it.
He gripped my legs behind my knees with brutalising force and I reached between us, wrapping my hand around his thick cock and pushing him against my entrance. He growled, shoving into me without mercy.
My back arched off the bed, stars shootingacross my vision.
He was fully seated in me with one thrust. I struggled to adjust around him, pain and pleasure blurring as he slammed into me. He snarled, throwing his head back, half of his face consumed by shadows. He reached between my legs, thumb pushing against my clit and rubbing it in time with each merciless thrust.
“Fuck!” My back bowed off the mattress, the pleasure crushing the air from my lungs.
His need slammed into me through the bond, replacing every bit of magic I had lost.
“Please. I need?—”
The words fractured apart with every claiming thrust.
“Tell me,” the Commander panted, voice rough and uncontrolled.
“Harder,” I moaned.
His control snapped. Shadows surged, wrapping around my wrists with a cold bite of pain to hold me in place. He slammed into me with brutal, devastating force, gripping my hips as if the world would end if he let go.
My vision went black at the edges and the world splintered into heat and light. “Commander!” My cry fractured, my fingers clawing into the sheets as my body tightened and then shattered beneath the wave of release. He fell over the edge with me, roaring with a deep, primal sound that shook the bedframe.
His body locked over mine, cock pulsing hard as warmth spilled inside me.
