Page 92 of Darkest Before Dawn


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“Inara, please.”It’s a special kind of hell watching my wife cry.

“I’m here.I’m with you.Don’t let me go.”

“Never,” I whisper.

Her eyes are wet, pleading.She needs me to keep me with her.Present with me.I set my hand on the back of her neck and clamp down.Nothing focuses the mind more than the threat of a constricted airway.“And when you leave this Earth, I’ll chase you.I’ll follow you into the darkness, and we’ll be together.”

She shudders with a sob.I move my hand around to the front of her throat, collaring her.“You are mine.”I increase the pressure of my fingers and watch her mouth go lax as she calms under my dominating touch.

“Yes,” she whispers.I squeeze her neck tighter and shift my position so I can reach down and plunge the fingers of my free hand into her sex.

Her body bows upward, and her pupils bloom.She’s wet, wetter than I’ve ever known her to be.My fingers are drenched.

“My gods, you’re beautiful.Come for me.”

Her muscles squeeze my fingers, and I groan, imagining that vice grip on my cock.Later.This is for her.

“Come for me, now,” I growl, and like the good girl she is, she breaks apart around my fingers.I pin her down by her neck and sex, keeping her grounded when she’d fly off the bed.She seems to love the force of my control, writhing with a round of aftershocks.Her pussy milks my fingers.“Good girl,” I praise her.“My good girl.I love how you come for me and me alone.”

I wait until her eyes find me and pull my dripping fingers out of her.I suck her essence off my hand.Her taste is sweet and tart, addictive.My arousal kicks into overdrive, making me dizzy.Making my body throb with wanting.

I’m drunk on desire just from dominating her.“Thank me for letting you come,” I order.

She licks her lips before she obeys.“Thank you, sir.”

Sir.She called me sir.I don’t deserve the gift she’s giving me, but I’ll take it, selfish sinner that I am.I growl again, clamping my hand on the back of her neck and pulling her up for a kiss.I force my tongue into her mouth, making her taste herself, and she opens for me, allowing me access.It makes me wild.

I’m shaking with need and violent urges when I lay her out in front of me.I kiss down her body to lap up her orgasm.I want to drink her down.It’s not enough to make her come and submit to me.I want to consume her.

She cries out when I thrust my tongue into her cleft.Reaching down, she seizes my hair and tugs like she will rip it out from the root.

“No, it’s too much?—”

“I’ll say when it’s too much.”I shackle her legs and hold them apart, wide enough to hurt.It makes her gush all the more.

Pain and submission.My perfect girl.

And she’s giving me all of her.Everything I wanted and chased for so long.She’s giving me something only she can give, and I feel like the king of the world.

I have to be careful; I have to go slow.Otherwise, neither of us will survive this night.

She allows my violence, even feeds off of it.I nip at her labia, then lash her poor clit until her knees lock around my head and she screams.

And then I can’t take it anymore.I rise over her and line up my cock at her dripping sex.Her body accepts mine, even though I punch my hips into hers, thrust after brutal thrust.

And she takes it.She takes my possession and brutality and transforms it into something beautiful.She takes all of me, and I didn’t know I was craving that until now.

And as we come together, sweat gilding our skin and sealing us together, we become one and it feels like love.I love her, and I know she loves me.If I have to wait forever until she admits it, I will.

All that matters is that she’s mine.

Inara

I wake up a new woman.I lie in the circle of Rex’s arms, marveling at the lightness I feel.Rex exorcised something from me.I feel sore and hollowed out but also loved.It’s like he lanced the wound, and now I can heal.

A thought intrudes—a tiny shadow in my happy glow.There’s one thing I didn’t tell him, one part of my visions I didn’t explain: the death I’ve been seeing in my dreams was mine.

But I don’t want to think about that right now.