Rabbit needed to press his palms against the wood of the door just to remain on his feet, the tension and the suspense of the overly charged moment almost doing him in. He used to do well under pressure, but that ended last year, and now…Now he was a quaking mess, and it was nearly impossible for him to hide.
Baikal had to have noticed, but he didn’t seem to care, the asshole.
“What?” Rabbit struggled to maintain some semblance of dignity in this nightmare situation but failed miserably at it. “I need a moment.”
“You’ve wasted all the time I’m willing to give already,” he clicked his tongue disapprovingly. “It hasn’t even been a minute since you gave yourself to me and you’re already disobeying?”
“Just like that? That’s it?”
“You wanted to add more terms?” Baikal chuckled at him mockingly. “Should have thought of that sooner.”
“Still.” He wasn’t ready. He’d come here with the mindset to get through adateand even that had been a lot for him. Now he was being told to get naked in front of a man he’d only ever had two conversations with?
Rabbit had never been naked in front ofanyonebefore.
“I don’t like to be lied to,” Baikal’s voice dropped an octave and the room seemed to darken. “If you thought you could agree just to get rid of me, then run off and hide somewhere, you’re sorely mistaken. Now, take off your clothes, Rabbit, or tonight won’t end pretty.”
Rabbit’s hand reached for his pocket, but Baikal had never returned the candy bar when he’d fed Rabbit a piece earlier and it was missing. His heart was thumping so wildly he thought it might burst out of his chest, the sensation only getting worse when his gaze absently wandered over Baikal’s shoulder and back on the screen still playing porn.
The muscular man had the smaller one on his side on the bed and was thrusting into him so hard the smaller one had to brace himself on the headboard with a palm to keep from slamming his head repeatedly against the wood. They looked into it, but the sounds were a mix of pleasure and pain and every now and again the smaller one winced at a particularly brutal ramming of cock deep inside of him.
His hole was so stretched Rabbit thought it might tear and he was both fascinated and completely freaked out by that. The man in the video was massive in both length and girth. There was no way Baikal was anywhere near that size, right? This was a professionally filmed video—of course they’d hire actors with massive dicks because that made more money. Dicks that size weren’t common and the likelihood of Baikal being that large…
Rabbit couldn’t risk it. Just the thought of being penetrated by something like that sent shivers down his spine and before he knew it he’d turned and slapped his multi-slate to the control panel.
The door clicked open and he shoved it, taking a step out into the hall, fully intending to make a run for it after all. He’d never gone back on his word before, but he was far too inexperienced to handle someone like Void. If this was the type of porn he was into, surely he’d want to handle Rabbit in a similar fashion and—
A large hand wrapped around the nape of his neck and hauled him back into the room before he’d gotten more than two steps out of it. The door slammed shut and he was tossed away from it, stumbling and hitting the ground with a heavy thump that sent shockwaves throughout his bones.
Rabbit quickly checked his right wrist, having landed on it, worry that he’d been injured momentarily causing him to forget what he’d been so afraid of only a few seconds ago. Fortunately, the sting dissipated quickly, and he glanced up to tell Baikal off for jeopardizing his ability to play.
But the words got caught in his throat.
Void was glaring down his nose at him, his shoulders squared, hip cocked. Gone was any of the playfulness from earlier, as though a dark shadow had been cast—both literally and figuratively, because the entire wall at his back was now shrouded in a thick dark fog impossible to glimpse through.
Rabbit’s mouth hung open. “What did you do?”
“Caught you,” Baikal’s voice was as deep and chilling as the darkness he’d created. “Trapped you.” His movements were calculated as he stalked forward, advancing even when Rabbit scrambled backward. “And now, little bunny, I’m going to take you.”
He bumped into the back of the couch with nowhere left to go, and the second that happened Baikal pounced. Rabbit made a startled sound as he was dragged up off the floor by the front of his shirt and yanked around to the other side of the loveseat. When he was shoved down onto it, he scrambled to get up, only to be pushed back. This time he froze when Baikal wrapped that hand around his throat and squeezed.
It wasn’t enough to actually suffocate him, but the threat was there, and Rabbit went still as a statue, wide eyes locked onto Void.
“Remember, you had your chance,” Baikal practically growled. “You agreed and you don’t get to go back on that decision. I was trying to be thoughtful since this will be our first time, but you spat on my generosity and now I’m no longer in the mood to cater to your delicate sensibilities.”
Only one other person had ever raised hands at him, and Rabbit braced himself for the nightmarish flashbacks he sometimes got…but they didn’t come. Instead, his breathing labored and he felt flush, the sounds of the porn still playing on the screen trickling through that sense of fear. He didn’t look again, worried it would send him spiraling a second time, but he listened to the sounds they were making, and something in him stirred to life despite the situation.
There was a very dominating Brumal Prince standing in front of him, his hand around Rabbit’s neck, staring at him like he was about to swallow him whole. Not to even mention the man was also a Shout, rare even on Baikal’s origin planet.
And apparently his power was the ability to manipulate shadow.
Fantastic.
Not.
Now Rabbit had to contend with the possessive touches and hide the fact he was afraid of the dark. At least the regular lights had been left alone and it was just the door being blocked.
All thought of hiding or doing anything, however, fled his mind the second Baikal made his next move.
