CH.116

Knox's jaw tightened as Serena raged at him.

Her accusations were like knives twisting in his heart and puncturing the armor he usually wore.

He felt his restraint rapidly wearing thin when she advanced on him with fists balled and the towel threatening to come loose from her body.

His eyes burned with a combination of desire and barely-restrained dominance.

Knox closed the distance between them and captured her throat in his large hands before slamming her back against the wall.

Although the force wasn't enough to cause her immense pain, it still knocked the breath from her lungs in a harsh wheeze.

He had moved so fast that Serena was startled to suddenly find his livid masked face mere inches from her own, their noses almost touching, and a sharp pain shooting through her back from the impact.

"Enough!" Knox growled again, his voice low yet deadly with a want he could no longer deny.

His eyes burned with an intensity that made her instinctively shrink back against the unforgiving wall.

"Do you know the only reason you still have your tongue to run wild is because you're my mate?" Knox growled through gritted teeth, his warm breath fanning over her face and making her nostrils flare. "No one dare speak to me this way!"

Serena's lips parted to retort but clamped shut again, her throat working convulsively against his restraining grip.

Knox before her right now. was beyond furious, like a caged animal ready to lash out with deadly force. However, so was she! She was mad as hell at being lied to and betrayed in the most gut-wrenching way.

Serena searched for the right insult to further hurl at him, something vicious enough to match the anguish lancing through her heart.

"Don't...Hmm..." Her words trailed off into a frustrated hum as Knox covered her vicious mouth with his.

He kissed her senselessly until she was almost out of breath.

Serena panted furiously and struggled to break free from his hold. She opened her mouth again but her voice broke on a sob, the fight suddenly draining out of her as if a switch had been flipped.

She sagged against Knox. Her body wracked with heaving cries that shook her slender frame. Despite everything, a traitorous part of her still craved his comfort, the safety of his arms around her like a balm against the world.

"How dare you show your face to me, you worthless child!”

“Haven’t I made it clear enough that I loathe the sight of you?”

“I hate the day I gave birth to you!”

"I hate being your mother!"

Knox's modest rationality, which was beginning to sneak into his mind, was shattered when these childhood memories flooded his head.

His scorching rage blazed anew and his very presence became extremely deadly.

Serena's eyes went wide. Her tirade stopped in its tracks by Knox's sudden change in demeanor.

She could feel the hard planes of his body against her barely clothed form. She could feel the arousal and anger swirling together in an intoxicating rush.

The cotton of her towel did little to conceal her aroused nipples straining against the fabric.

"You want answers?" he breathed, staring intensely into her eyes with wicked desire. The warmth of his breath caressing her flushed cheeks. "I'll give you answers."

With that, he crushed his lips against hers again in a searing, demanding kiss.

Serena stiffened at first, trying to resist, but Knox's questing tongue coaxed her lips apart insistently.

She melted against him with a desperate moan, anger giving way to hot need.

Her hands strained against his grip, then relaxed as she surrendered to his possession, parting her lips further to allow his tongue to delve deeper.

Knox released her wrists only to slide his hands around her waist. He pulled her ever closer until not an inch of air remained between their bodies.

Serena wound her arms around his neck as their kisses became increasingly frantic and hungry… all teeth and probing tongues.

The surge of passion intensified rapidly as Knox gripped Serena's thighs and lifted her effortlessly.

She instantly wrapped her legs around his waist, letting him carry her the few steps to the bed and tumbled them both onto the welcoming mattress.

Serena arched beneath him with a sharp gasp as his weight settled over her, deliciously trapping her beneath his solid frame.

Their eyes locked… a thousand accusations and indignation passing between them in the heated silence.

Knox stared down at her with an intensity that made Serena's breath hitch. He looked at her like a man dying of thirst, and she was the only oasis for miles.

Then he lowered his head to trail scorching, open-mouthed kisses along the slender column of her throat.

Serena tilted her head back to allow him better access, whimpering softly at the exquisite sensation of his lips, teeth and tongue on her sensitive skin.

She fisted her hands in his thick hair to hold him against her.

As if by instinct, her fingers found the buttons of his shirt and deftly began working them open one by one to expose his chiseled chest and abdomen.

She raked her nails through the mat of hard muscles, eliciting a guttural groan from Knox's throat that reverberated through her entire body and sent a fresh gush of arousal pooling between her thighs.

His deep rumble vibrated against the hollow of her throat, and his beard scratched deliciously on flesh.

He shifted his weight to one arm so his other hand could roam freely over the soft curves of her body.

Serena shivered under his reverent, possessive touch, feeling her anger dissipate and give way to desperate longing, to the profound need to reconnect with this man who held her entire world in his embrace.

his large hand cupped and kneaded the generous swell of her breast beneath the barrier shielding them.

“Hmm…” Serena arched into his touch with a soft cry.

Her towel finally loosened and fell away, leaving her gloriously bare before him.

Knox drank in the sight of her nude form with intensity before claiming her lips again in a searing, bruising kiss that left her dizzy and breathless.

As their bodies strained and undulated together, clothing was hastily shed until there was nothing separating them.

Serena could feel the humongous, hard meat pressing insistently against her inner thigh and she shifted restlessly, silently pleading for him to sheathe himself within her welcoming, aching heat.

Knox seemed to read her mind and didn’t intend to make her wait for long.

He positioned himself at her entrance, the thick head of his cock parting her slick folds then suddenly paused for a breathless moment as though searching hers for permission.

Serena answered by wrapping her legs around his hips and drawing him into her with a low, keening moan of rapture.

"Oh fuck...yes..." she gasped out when he pushed the tip into her. But her soft whimper soon gave way for an agonizing shriek as he filled her completely with a brutal thrust, stretching and filling her to absolute capacity.

“Fuck…!” Serena cried out in utter anguish, accompanied by immense pleasure to have his warm dick inside her. It felt hot, painful, yet utterly delightful.

Knox stilled for a moment, savoring the feeling of being joined so intimately once more.

He was sheathed to the hilt inside her, stretching and filling her so exquisitely. He gazed down at the woman writing beneath him with tears staining her cheeks and cussed inwardly.

He was aware that having sex with her would hurt her in the end. She was too tiny and too tight to accommodate his monstrous shaft.

However, she had pushed him to the brink, forcing him to enter her without proper preparation to ease her into accepting him.

Knox realized that he was too far gone from reason to stop himself at this point.

He ducked his head to trail hot, open-mouthed kisses along her jawline and throat as he allowed her to adjust to his impressive girth.

"You feel so damn good," he rumbled in her ear, his voice rough like grated stone. "Like you were made just for me. Taking every thick inch so perfectly..."

Then he began to move, rolling his hips in a rhythm that started slow and then gradually became fast and powerful.

Serena did her best to take him thrust for thrust as their lovemaking quickly built to a fever pitch.

There were no more words, only the harsh sounds of mingled gasps, cries of ecstasy, and the lewd smacking of sweat-slicked flesh against flesh.

Her nails raked brutally down Knox's back as he drove into her with increasing urgency, leaving reddened furrows in his tanned skin.

The pain was unbearable, yet she took it like a pro. She didn’t want to lose face in front of him after everything and give him the chance to consider Mia a better choice.

Above all the agony of his merciless thrusts, she could feel her climax rapidly cresting, building with each powerful stroke of his hips against hers, the thick ridge of his cock head dragging deliciously against her sensitive front wall.

Her muscles clenched around him so tightly, squeezing the very life of him and her nipples hardened even more.

"Damn it!" Knox panted against the curve of her neck, his breath hot and ragged.

"Let go for me...come all over my cock. I want to feel you convulsing around me..." A familiar voice purred within him.

Serena threw her head back and keened Knox's name to the heavens when her release finally crashed over her in shattering waves of bliss.

Her inner walls fluttered and continued to spasm around his pistoning length in rhythmic pulses as rapture blazed through her nerve endings.

Knox felt himself following her over the edge only moments later.

His body tensed and shuddered against her as he braced to pour himself into her depths with a series of harsh, guttural groans muffled against the crook of her neck.

However, his eyes flew open and awareness dawned as his fangs came out, urging him to sink into her flesh and mark her.

He quickly forced them back as was his approaching climax.

Serena gasped when she was suddenly flipped over on her stomach and her butt propped up.

“Knox…” Her words got stuck in her throat by his brutal jab that threw her body forward.

"Knox...!" Another shrill tore from her throat as he began ravaging her from behind without allowing her a moment of respite.

Her legs trembled violently, and she feasted the sheets like her life depended on it.

Serena drifted in and out of consciousness, feeling overwhelmed by the unbearable pleasure and delightful pain that wrecked her very core.

Knox was like a possessed demon... one that showed no mercy.

He pounded her relentlessly for long hours without reaching his climax but made sure he drew every last bit in her until she completely went still and numb beneath him.