She’s mine.
Finally,completelymine.
Haven goes dead still in my arms. She even stops breathing for a long moment, her eyes flickering up to mine.
Wide. Terrified.
“Kai, please,” she puffs out on a frantic breath.
I scrape the sharp tip down her face, over her plump lips, and then switch it out with the handle. She tightens her mouth, denying the slim handle entry inside.
“Open wide, Miss H.”
Chapter 55
Haven
There’s so much adrenaline racing through me, I feel like I could float away…but Kai’s keeping me in place.
My heart hammers inside my chest.
My mouth is dry.
But the ache in my core is so overpowering, I barely feel the throbbing in my foot where the glass cut me.
Never should have brought an ice pick to a fistfight. Now my only weapon has becomehisadvantage.
How did this happen?
Ha, please. Iknewthis would happen.
I mean, come on.
If I really wanted the advantage, I’d have stabbed him with the ice pick when he was torturing my injured foot. His eyes were right at stab-level.
But I might have killed him.
And I’m pretty sure we haven’t reached that point in our relationship.
Yet.
“I saidopen,” Kai grates, pressing the handle of the ice pick so hard against my lip that I taste blood in my mouth.
I reluctantly open my mouth to let the wooden handle slip inside. It’s hard. Salty, I assume from the sweat on our hands. Sad to say, it isn’t the worst thing I’ve had in my mouth.
Not by far.
Aw, fuck. Why’dthatmemory have to surface? I thought I tied enough rocks to it it would stay at the bottom of my murky mind until I died.
“There’s my good girl,” Kai murmurs.
I stare up at him through quivering lashes as he pumps the ice pick’s handle in and out of my mouth. The cabin’s exterior spotlight catches sparkles on the lighter brown strands in his hair and makes his green eyes glow. God, how that mischievous smirk of his sends me back.
Way,wayback.
But going back that far is dangerous. Like trying to find your way through a forest at midnight. Tripping isn’t the only danger. Imagine losing your way. Being trapped there forever, in the dark, with the monsters.
So I wrench my mind back to the here and now, like I always do.
