I wanted pleasure to replace agony, but it didn’t.
After a lifetime of suffering, I couldn’t help shifting beneath him, wanting him to give me some space...just for a moment.
Tears came to my eyes for ruining this.
For taking something so special and making him feel like a beast.
As if he sensed my discomfort, he captured my mouth in the sweetest kiss and...withdrew.
“No,” I mumbled against his lips. “Don’t go. I don’t want you to stop.”
“Hush.” Tilting his head, he brought his hand to his mouth. Never looking away from me, he sank his teeth into his healed flesh. His eyebrows knitted together as he broke the skin and didn’t say a word as he pulled his finger free—revealing golden-tinted blood on the tip.
“What are you...?” I trailed off as his shoulder dipped and his hand disappeared between my trembling legs.
I gasped as he pressed his bleeding finger inside me.
I clutched his shoulders as he found that stinging tear deep within.
And I froze as the pain suddenly vanished in a sizzling wash of heat.
His forehead furrowed as he touched every part of me, curling his finger, seeking out every piece that he’d broken.
He healed me...and good God, I couldn’t stand it.
I couldn’t survive the level of intimacy and care. How he put my needs over his, even though he quaked with hunger so intense, the tips of his hair kept catching fire.
“Better?” He pressed a second finger inside me, loosening a curse as he found both penetrated deeply with no barrier to stop them.
I was beyond speech.
Past words.
Grabbing his wrist, I yanked his touch away and dug my claws into his hip.
He smirked as I jerked him back where he belonged.
He snarled as I wrapped my fingers around his cock and placed him exactly where I wanted him.
And then he roared as he claimed me in a single thrust.
And.
It.
Was.
Glorious.
Chapter Forty-Three
I TRIED TO BE GENTLE.
I tried to be soft, so I didn’t scare her with the depth of how much I wanted her but...it didn’t work.
I sank inside her, filled her, took her,fuckedher.
Where the hell had she been all my life?
