Page 118 of All Your Bloody Lies

There’s a bit of hesitation, but she finally answers, “It’s what you smell like.” I wasn’t expecting that. “That, and apples. You taste just like that as well…”

She could bring me back to life with just that admission.

“Don’t make it weird.” The breathlessness in her voice accompanies the darkening of her cheeks. “It’s just a word, and it was easy to remember since I would only say it to you. Stop—I see your mind working.”

I tilt my head, my smile never ceasing.

“Kai, I swear.” Her back hits the glass barrier. “Stop it.”

Shrugging my shoulders, I slow my pace ever so slightly, “Stop what? I’m just walking to you.”

“No, not that, I can see the gears in your head. Don’t overthink the meaning!”

Me and my cock are so needy for her. The way she tries to hide how important that word is, it makes me wonder just how I have any control around her. “If you say so.” I don’t want her to use a different word, so I’ll concede to not giving her a hard time. Even if I want to make her continue to beg, I can make her do that for something else.

When I’m an inch from her, I tilt my head down, my hand cupping under her chin. “Though I will say, it may make me more feral hearing you call that out.” I feel her swallow. “May want a different safe word.” As I lean in toward her, I feel her fingers right at my hip, thetips of her fingers brushing under my shorts. “Use that word when you truly want someone to stop, and I’ll come running.”

Her fingers move toward my back, “Okay…” Her word tickles down my throat, “I don’t need a safe word with you, though, Kai.”

My eyebrow cocks, “So very brave of you.”

She releases a low laugh, and I could swear she nearly giggles.

“You know…” She runs her nails up my back, trailing across my shoulders and digging into me. “This isn’t the tallest building.” My hand moves from her chin to around her throat, “Someone will definitely see us.”

“At least there will be no question who you belong to.” I pull her to me, her bottom lip disappearing between her teeth. “Does that turn you on, baby? Knowing someone could see me destroying this delectable pussy of yours?” My fingers slip between her thighs and run the length of her slit over her laced undies.

A soft huff escapes her parted lips, “Yes—”

My finger pushes against her bud and she lets out a whimper, “I know we came to swim.” I push her back against the glass infinity ledge which stops right at her hips. “I still will, just not in the pool.”

The gentle pull upward of her lips makes me lean to take them, “Kai?”

“Yes,” I pause, nearly slipping on my words, “my little demon?”

“Stop.” Her voice like velvet, as though I could feel the depth of the word straight to my core. Its rich, smooth invitation to my skin when it’s not permitted to, but one my entire body couldn’t say no to. Her blood that flows through me ignites like fireworks in the night sky, my eyes go round.

Her throat strains under my grasp, “Remove your hand from my throat,” and as soon as the words slip from her lips, I follow the command.

This feeling of having no control of my actions, it truly isterrifying. “Xera…”

She draws her hands up my chest, “Do you feel me inside you, my monster?”

That was the first time she ever called me her anything, and if my heart wasn’t already trying to return to a Mundane speed, it would have with that.

“I do.” My fingers against her slit move up to her stomach, and then to her hip.

“Move my hair from my shoulder.” She leans her head to the side, and I don’t need further direction. I run my hand up her collar to her shoulder and gently move her hair, revealing her neck.

Her silvern eyes, those of the moon itself, stare up at me, “You see,” she whispers, and I gaze at the spot where I want to bite and make her mine. Physically I am under duress not just doing it, and dealing with the consequences after. “It is I that owns you. You are mine.”

I will risk destroying that glass barrier if we fuck against it, because there is no way I am not making my woman come the moment she allows me to ravage her.

“Take my bra off—with the clasps, you impatient creature.” I grin, and as she straightens her neck I do as commanded.

“I must admit.” As my arms circle her and undo the clips, I lean close to her lips. Her chin tilts up as far as she can go. “Being under your control, it’s quite sexy.”

She hums, “Do you fear me?” The drag of her nails up my arms sends goosebumps right back down them.