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This is our truth—I need you, and you want me.
I’m fighting the urge to lick the bead of sweat trickling into her cleavage. I’m fighting so many urges when shedemands to know, “What will you do if I ever let you catch me?”
Gone is the lawyer who’s so careful, cold, and calculated. The one who’s been waiting for her. Now, I’m an animal, a predator in heat; I’m hers.
And I can’t hide it.
Last night, I was willing to wait forever for her. This morning?
I need to know …now.
“Did you like it today?” I stalk toward her, and she steps back, but I’ve got her trapped against my kitchen table. “Trusting that I’d chase you? That I won’t let you go? Did youlikeit?”
I hover close enough to swim in her scent. Like a king tide, the Earth, Sun, and Moon align, pulling me into her space, making her lips part and her eyes search mine.
This attraction is irresistible.
I won’t go another day denying it.
“Yes,” she confesses, “I felt like I was running from you and I liked it. It made me faster. Like you can’t ever catch me.”
I’m hot and sweaty and need to be unchained, so I rip my shirt off and toss it on the floor.
I stun her eyes with all of my ink, her stare drinking me in. Every flexing, glistening muscle on me is covered. Only my left leg is bare. The rest is all blacks and greys, all my pain and past, and I want her to see it. I need her to know...
“Then trust me when I tell you toneverlet me catch you because I will, Ruby, and you won’t survive it.”
My cock throbs, pressed at an angle against my abs, my swollen tip exposed, straining against my waistband. And I leak, remembering how she’s seen my pubic piercing.
I got it for her.
When I finally catch her heart, I’ll tell her. I’ll make herfeel how I got it months ago to please her.Only her.I didn’t let Wren feel it last night. That was an initiation. Not love.
I’m saving myself for my true queen; I’m saving everything for Ruby.
I won’t make the same mistake I made with Alena. I did that for her, not for me. And with Katya, I let myself be taken, instead of giving everything to her.
But for Ruby?
I’ll give her everything because I recognize a true queen when I see one. Alena was innocent, and Katya was entitled. But not Ruby. Even when she falls, she gets up. She fights back.
That’s a queen.
That’smyqueen.
She swallows nervously. “What do you mean I won’t survive it?” But desire hoods her eyes. “You said I was safe with you.”
I step even closer, licking my hungry lips.
“Your life is safe with me, Ruby, but your pussy is in danger. It won’t survive how I obviously need tofuckyou.Hard.”
I make her softly gasp as I let my burning gaze drop to the maddening outline of her sweet pussy lips in those leggings.
I want to rip them open with my teeth and devour her cunt.
I’m making her ribs heave, the sweat on her flesh driving me insane. Our lust. Our pheromones. Our bodies. Our breath. Our instinct to fuck is right here, demanding we do it.
“You say you don’t trust me, and maybe you shouldn’t,” I warn. “A very violent man raised me. He was a cruel animal. It’s my mother who made me human, but still. Yes, I’ll protect you, but I feel it when I chase you andonlyyou. I’m a beast who can’t control what I want to do to you.”