Page 27 of The Villain

His piercing blue eyes searched mine, like he was performing some kind of human lie detector test. “Then how’d you drop to your knees so perfectly for me?”

“I knew I would. I wanted to as soon as I saw the lion on your throat. It was just a feeling.”

His fingers gradually loosened, then let go of my hair. “Maybe you’re just easy.”

I glared at him. “I’d rather have every one of my limbs cut off one by one while I’m wide awake than get on my knees and suck the dick of a man who isn’t worthy.”

“Oh. You think your mouth is special, huh?” he sneered. “A man has to beworthyof it?”

“Power makes me hard. And I’d never met a man who had any. Not until you walked into that shed.”

“So that makes me special?” His voice was low, a little softer.

“Yeah,” I answered honestly. “You are.”

Cian tilted his head thoughtfully, then reached out and caught my chin between his thumb and forefinger. “You’re telling me that my cock is the only one you’ve ever had in your mouth?”

“Yes,” I breathed.

Something shifted behind his eyes, and burning embers seemed to ignite the blue until they were nearly translucent. He let go of my chin, then slid his hand down my back and along my crease. A thick finger pressed against my hole through my sweatpants, and I swayed against Cian’s chest, bracing my hands on his hard stomach. Blood filled my cock in a rush, making me dizzy as he swirled his finger.

“And here?” His tone was nothing but a guttural rasp.

I slid my hands up his torso, sifting through his dark chest hair before digging my fingers into his pecs. “No one.”

His face darkened, and his hand left me in an instant before fingers wrapped around my throat and squeezed. “Don’t lie to me,” he snarled.

I stared straight into his eyes. “I’m not lying. I’ve never been fucked, and I’ve never fucked anyone else. I was saving…” I swallowed roughly. “I know it sounds fucking crazy, but I was saving myself for someone.”

His lips curled into something darker. “Who?” A single word, wrenched straight from his gut.

“Someone who didn’t exist until I met you.”

Cian

I couldn’t decide what I wanted to do more: snap Devlin’s neck or bend him over the counter and show him what it meant to beowned. Knowing I was the only one to have Devlin on his knees, that I would be the only one to have his virgin hole, made the beast inside me roar in victory.

My entire plan, the one I’d made before ever laying eyes on Devlin, had now gone up in smoke.Literally.Devlin was mine. I’d never had a single thing that was just mine. I’d always shared—my mother with my father, my father with his crew, my brother with Rhys. But I didn’t have to share Devlin. And I wouldn’t.

The only person I’d ever felt possessive over was Jace, but in a much different way. When he was younger, I’d obsessed over everything: what he ate, who his friends were, what school activities he participated in, how the crew treated him. Anyone who looked at him wrong was taught a lesson with Rhys as my backup, so I’d never felt truly alone in the way I cared for him. My possessiveness over Jace was controlled. Rational.

With Devlin, my possessiveness felt manic, like I was constantly on the verge of spiraling out of control. Not that it was going to stop me.

Too late, the beast raged.

With one hand still wrapped around his throat, I reached down and squeezed his ass. He made a strangled sound and swayed into me, his fingers digging into my chest.

“You begged me fuck you in the dirt. And you’re telling me that would have been your first time?”

A shudder racked his body, and his hard cock pressed against my thigh insistently. He swallowed, Adam’s apple bobbing under my palm. “Yes.”

“I could have hurt you.”

“Maybe I wanted you to.”

I slid my hand into his crease again and pressed two fingers against his hole through the fabric. “You don’t get to decidewhen you hurt.” I pushed harder, and his breathing hitched. “OnlyIdecide that.”

His entire body shuddered again, and any doubts I had about Devlin’s attraction to me vanished. He was nearly panting now, and his entire torso had a pretty red flush that spread to the tips of his ears.