ADONIS I couldn’t admit out loud all the things I wanted to do to her. I had seen her hesitation in her eyes. Sure, she had been shaky around me before, but that seemed to have magnified since the attack. She was holding back, even after my efforts. I looked at the wall clock, impatient for Abigai
“I’m not yours, Adonis,” she said, trying to pull away from my hold on her waist, but I tightened my grip. I jerked her against my body and said, “Maybe not yet, but I can make you if I want.” I let go of her and stepped back into the kitchen. “Are we celebrating something today?” She walked aroun
“Why don’t you paint?” “Lack of inspiration. My head’s always filled with blood and gore and screams and dead bodies. After seeing all the red I do, I don’t really get the urge to look at paints anymore. You get the idea.” “Sounds horrible.” Keeping her lips pressed to the glass, she spoke. “You k
BELLA I returned to the kitchen after my brief call with Cole. Thanks to him, he’d stopped me from committing a huge mistake. My woman, Adonis had said, and it shouldn’t have felt half as good as it had. It had been even more wrong for my insides to curl at the possessiveness oozing from those two
He cupped my head with one hand and the other he looped around my waist. He might’ve felt I was struggling to stand. I moaned lightly against his lips and he pulled back. Our gazes locked. His eyes were dark, darker than the times he held onto his anger, than the time he chopped that man’s fingers.
“I never beg,” I said with pride. He was too eager to get what he wanted. “You will. And,” he made a long flick with his finger, carrying the wetness up to my clitoris, “you’ll be screaming for more.” I whimpered with irrefutable hunger. He drew circles on my clit, taking all the time of the day.
ADONIS “You ordered Julian to kill the man from the cafe attack?” were Dom’s first words when I entered the study room. Had he interrupted my time with Abigail for this? I frowned at his tone. “Why is it such a big deal?” “It’s a fucking big deal because I wanted to get information out of him. I
“You better have a good reason to show up this late.” Gael’s eyes flickered with worry. Something that caught me off guard. He seemed like an overconfident kid, but today he was different. Terrified. “You have to help me,” he said, his voice shaking. “Help you? Kid, just because I deal with moron