He resisted. “No.”
I wrapped an arm around his throat and kept going. “Yes.”
The ties fell away. Alexei snarled and gripped the headboard, knuckles white in the dim light of the early dawn. “What are you trying to do to me?”
“Whatever you need.”
“You do not know what I need.”
“Let me guess then. It all ends the same.”
It didn’t, but I took Alexei’s silence as the end of his protest and pried his hands from the headboard.
I rolled him over, easing him onto his back.
His glare was biblical. “You are trying to be nice to me. That is something you need, not me.”
“You don’t know what I need.”
He snorted. If he’d been a different man, he might’ve rolled his eyes around the world and back. But he wasthisman. The one who held my stare with no fear or respect that I hadn’t earned.
I dropped a palm either side of his head, leaning down to kiss him, half expecting him to evade me.
He didn’t. He let me claim him, a quiet sound escaping him as he fought to stay passive.
Good luck with that.I already knew how his body responded to my lips on his. I’d seen it, felt it, and committed it to memory.
His arms were still raised over his head. With one hand, I yanked them down. With the other, I held his legs apart and slid back inside him. The new position didn’t take me as deep, but it didn’t need to. With his face so close to mine, his fierce gaze tearing holes in me, I was as deeply submerged in him as I dared to be.
His body clamped down on my dick. I saw fucking stars but held his gaze as I started to fuck him again, hard and slow, carving the pleasure out of us both.
Alexei’s glare remained, lip curled in a snarl that made me want to sink my goddamn teeth into him.
I bent to kiss him again, pausing before our lips touched. “Put your arms around me.”
“No.”
“Yes.”
Alexei arched his back, catching me off guard. “Make me.”
I didn’t need to make him do anything, but fuck, if I didn’t crave the sensation of his arms squeezing me tight.
The stand-off stretched out. I fucked Alexei into the mattress, holding my own release at bay while I chased his down. He’d come already tonight, we both had, but this was different. This was the pinnacle we needed to walk away from this fucked-up encounter with our heads on straight.
Yeah, that’s right, webothneeded it. Alexei could hide the whole fucking world from me, but not that. I saw it in him as plainly as I saw it in myself.
I drove hard into him and pulled out slow. Alexei bit his lip, eyes sliding closed, concealing his intoxicating stare from me.
Nope.I gripped his chin. “Look at me.”
I waited for the inevitable response.No.
But his lids fluttered and he held my gaze. He snatched a breath. So did I. Then his arms came around me and he held me in a vice-like embrace that anchored me to the universe.
Fuck. I needed that hold. Without it, I’d fucking soar, and I wasn’t sure I’d come down.
I kissed him, plundering his mouth so roughly I tasted blood. “Tell me what you need.”
