Page 37 of His Asset
Holy crap.
I’d never imagined intimacy could be so...magical.
I was still coming down from my high when Adam moved over me, then pushed one of my legs back so that my core was angled directly to the tip of his big, long cock.
I stiffened.He was about to—
My pained scream pushed away any further thought when he filled me beyond anything I’d ever imagined.Holy shit.This wasn’t pleasure, it was terrible, horrible pain.It was torture, as bad as what the scientists had inflicted upon me.
Adam froze, his eyes holding mine in the semi-darkness, his voice a dark croak in the still air.“You’re a virgin?”
Chapter Fourteen
Tears filmed my eyes, blurring the dark room even more.I’d been stupid, crazy to lie about Reuben and pretend I’d slept with him.But I’d been so caught up in the moment that my need to wound Adam, to make him feel less, even a fraction of how I—allof my kind—had felt at the facility, had blinded me.
The muscles in his forearms bunched as he moved suddenly, withdrawing from me before rolling off the bed and standing.
I gasped, less with pain and more with shock.“What are you doing?”
“You deceived me,” he grated, staring down at me.“You made me believe you’d been with another man, that you were experienced.”His eyes burned, and he took a step back.“Why, Bella?”
I narrowed my eyes, pushing down guilt.“I thought you’d be happy.”
His lips tightened, as though the truth hurt him as much as my lie had.“If you’d been honest I would have been gentler, would have prepared you more.”He pushed a hand over his face, and despite my discomfort and pain, a part of me was bereft that his body was no longer a part of mine.When he looked at me again, his eyes had gone distant.Clinical.Like I was just his subject again, his experiment.
My breath came out like I’d been sucker-punched in the stomach.“So—what?You’re just going to leave me like this?”Unfulfilled.Empty.Abandoned.My eyes were drawn like a magnet to his cock.I gulped.Impressive.Little wonder I’d felt torn in two.“Aren’t you going to finish what you started?”
His jaw tightened.“I hurt you.That wasn’t what I wanted.”His voice stayed quiet, but his eyes grew hard.“As if it wasn’t bad enough I had to watch you go through—”
“Don’t pretend you ever cared,” I interjected bitterly.
He shook his head, as if clearing it.“I know you blame me for your time at the facility, and I get that, I really do.But I’ve always cared about you, and I never once lied to you, Bella.”
His words stung.“I didn’t have a choice,” I gritted through my teeth.“I had to lie to you just so that I could be free.”
His eyes darkened.“You manipulated me, Bella.”His hands fisted.“You took advantage of my affection when you poured boiling water over your leg so I’d take off your ankle cuff.”