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A shadow wraps around my wrist to lift my hand to his face. “But look at you. Still here, letting me touch you.”

My fingers trace his carved jaw without my permission. He’s beautiful in a terrifying way, all sharp cheekbones, cruel mouth, and those glowing eyes… but I can’t stop touching him.

“What are you going to do to me?”

His grin shows teeth that are too big, too long, too sharp to be human. “Punish you, Red. That’s what tonight is all about.”

The shadows tighten around my waist, my thighs, my arms.

“But first, I’m going to kiss you.” His thumb traces my bottom lip. “Then I’m going to strip you out of this fucking dress that’s been driving me fucking crazy.”

A shadow slides between my breasts.

“Then I’m gonna spread you on my bed and feast on you until you forget your name.” His voice drops lower, darker. “And when you’re begging, cause you’ll beg, my sweet little mate, I’m going to fuck you until you understand what it means to be mine.”

My body shudders.

Mate. The word should scare me even more than his shadows, more than his monstrous teeth. Instead, it settles deep in my chest, feeling warm and heavy, like it’s been there my whole life.

“I don’t even know your real name,” I whisper.

“Nik’s good enough for now, baby.” His thumb drags my bottom lip down. “But you can call me Daddy when I’m inside you.”

He fucking winks. I should knee him in the balls for that. But before I can react, his shadows pulse as he growls. Then his mouth crashes on mine. His tongue pushes past my lips and fucking fills my mouth, hot and slow. He tastes like cinnamon, whiskey, and cold winter air. Fucking amazing… His large, warm hands hold my face, his teeth catching my bottom lip and tugging until I whimper. When my knees give out, Nik’s shadows catch me before I slide down the wall. They squeeze my nipples through my dress, with one of them pressed right over my soaked panties, rubbing me. I moan into his mouth, and he swallows the sound, then growls. I feel it in my chest, my nipples, my clit. And I’m grinding on a phantom limb in a stranger’s house, and I don’t even care.

When he pulls back, I’m panting and dizzy. My lips are swollen, and my panties are ruined.

“Still scared?” he asks.

“Terrified,” I admit.

“Good.” He scoops me up like I weigh freaking nothing, his shadows dancing around us. “Now, let’s see how loud you scream when you come on my cock.”

Oh, shit.

Chapter Seven

NIK

She tastes like fucking EVERYTHING! I carry her to my bed, my shadows stripping her as we go. The red dress puddles on the floor. Her bra follows. By the time I lay her on my black silk sheets, she’s in nothing but tiny, soaked panties.

She tries to cover herself, but my shadows pin her wrists above her head. “Holy shit, this is really happening!”

“Been happening since you walked into my club, sweetheart.” I stand at the foot of the bed, drinking her in. All her curves spread out for me like a fucking feast. “Now, the only question is: you gonna be good for me?”

Her chin lifts. Even tied up with shadows, my girl’s got fight in her. “Depends what you mean by good.”

Fuck, I love her already.

I let my human form drop completely. Shadows writhe around me, through me, ARE me. My cock springs free…bigger than any human alpha’s, fucking dripping because I’ve been hard since I first sensed her.

Her eyes go wide. “That’s not going to fit… anywhere…”

I chuckle. “It’ll fit.” I crawl on the bed, caging her in. “We’ll make it fit. Everywhere.”

She breathes raggedly, her chest heaving, her full tits rising and falling. All that soft, dark brown skin ready for me to fucking gorge on.

I lean and drag my tongue along her throat. She tastes like vanilla, fear and arousal. “Now shut up and let me enjoy you.”