Chapter Forty

I was fifty shades of freaking red.

Axel was gentle; the movement of his hands around my clit was just as gentle. I didn’t want to think about what was happening, how close he was, or what he was doing to me.

And he watched me squirm beneath his gentle touch. I let out a silent gasp when his lips circled around my aching nipple.

A moan left my lips. Axel: I had cried out his name; how could this feel all wrong and yet so right?

Two fingers dipped into me, and I moaned louder, struggling against the bind, riding my hips against his fingers, chasing his thrust. Axel watched my body; he watched the effect of what he did to me and how my heat pooled around his fingers, taking him in, and then he was out of me.

I couldn’t imagine how lost I had been. My gaze travelled back to Thane, who watched me greedily. The lust darkened his eyes. What type of bond did Thane share with Axel?

Axel held something in his hands: two dark-coloured balls, with a string connecting both of them.

“Look at him,