Jaeger stalks forward, and I tilt my head up to him. “But it’s more than that, isn’t it? If they know I know, and I run, they’ll hunt me down.” By them, I mean his brothers, Fraternitas.
“Yes.” He gestures behind him. “That’s what happens to people who know too much. We drag them here. To the Abyss.”
My legs fail me, and I fall, but he catches me before I hit the floor.
The hunter has captured me, but this isn’t a game anymore.
“I can’t do this,” I choke.
“You can. You’re strong enough.” He presses me against the wall and frees a hand to cup between my legs. “I’m going to keep you, bunny.” His feral eyes are all I see. “You know too much, and now you can never leave.”
I shake my head, too frightened to speak.
“I knew it the night in the woods when it was just the two of us. No society, no civilization, no pretense. You showed me the core of you, everything else stripped away. You were fierce.” He’s stroking me, and despite all that’s happened, my arousal flares. I’m soaking his fingers. “You want me. Saying yes to this is saying yes to yourself.” He leans into me, trapping me between his hard body and the wall.
I close my eyes, but I can’t escape his touch.
He wants me in his world. He won’t take no for an answer.
I cup my throat and feel the ribbon around my neck. Tear at it. “What is this, really? What does it mean?”
“It means you belong to me.”
My hips surge against his hand, my body begging for an orgasm.
“Tell me the truth, Elodie. Tell me, and you can cum.” His lips at my ear send goosebumps running down my back. “Tell me about the man you want to kill most of all.”
“What?” The waters are closing over my head. I’m going under.
“Is it your ex?” Jaeger asks.
“No.” I can’t. I can’t do this. But I’m drowning in him, and I don’t even care.
“Tell me.” Jaeger twists his fingers, driving them deep inside me. The pressure in my skull increases, and my limbs start to shake. My mouth opens, and I hear myself say, “He was my professor.”
“Good bunny. You’ll give me his name.”
And I do.
Jaeger grips my throat and rams his fingers home. As my orgasm breaks, he squeezes my neck, cutting off my oxygen. It makes me spiral higher.
And then he’s inside me, hitching me against him as he impales me on his cock. He slams into me, and my world narrows to the blue fire in his eyes. He releases his death grip on my throat, and I’m no longer drowning. I’m flying to a place only he can send me.
Jaeger
It’sa long way back to Empire from the Abyss. We’re almost to the hidden elevator when a shadow falls in my path. Kaiser. He’s been following me, but now that he’s let me see him, I know he wants to talk.
He’s still wearing his executioner’s hood. His eyes flick down to Elodie, passed out in my arms. “She shouldn’t be here.”
I don’t argue with him. I knew I was breaking the rules before I forced her to watch our most secret ritual.
“The Devil will find out.”
“Will you tell him, brother?” I ask and walk past him without waiting for an answer.
He’s only telling me what I already know. Tonight was the beginning of the end. When the Devil finds out what I’ve done, he’ll pass judgment. I might be a dead man walking, depending on what he decides.
One way or another, the countdown has begun.
