Page 67 of Make Them Bleed

“Arrow,” I whisper.

His dark eyes gaze up at me, and he hooks his thumbs in the waistband of my panties and I suck in a breath.

This is really happening.

“Did you ever watch me while I slept?” I whisper as he slowly drags my panties down my legs.

His eyes lock onto mine. “Honesty?”

“Always.” I’m so turned on it should be illegal.

“Yeah, Juno, I did. I watched you a few times.”

The thought of him watching me excites me and scares me. Yet, I trust this man more than my own breath. “Did you ever… you know, touch yourself while watching me?”

He swallows hard, and his silence is all-telling.

“Answer me, Arrow. Did you?”

His cheeks tinge the slightest bit of pink, and his eyes lock onto mine. “When am I not jerking off to thoughts of you?” His hot breath across my skin makes goosebumps rise in their wake. “Take off the hoodie. Now.”

I love how demanding he gets, and I do as he says, knowing I’m wearing absolutelynothingunderneath it. I fling my hoodie across the room, and I stand before him completely nude, and his eyes glaze over as he stares at me.

“Wow.”

I smile, gazing down at him. “At a loss for words?”

His lips tilt into a lazy smile. “Yeah.” His strong hands grip my thighs and he spreads my legs. “You’ve been very naughty, Juno.”

“How?”

His eyes snap up to meet mine like he wasn’t expecting me to challenge him. He nearly growls and this is not the man I grew up with. No, this is something new. He’s demanding and in charge, and callingmenaughty whenhe’sthe one who spied on me.What the fuck?

He’s aggressive as he spreads me wider. He slaps my thigh, and his stare turns heated in an instant. “Are you talking back to me?”

“Yes,” I say with a smile and instantly regret it when he rises to his full height before me.

“You think you can be naughty and talk back and not get punished?”

I blink.

“You can’t.” He pins my wrists above my head. “You’ll be punished for going on the dark web. That is not a place for pretty girls like you to hang out.”

I swallow.

“And you’ll be punished for meeting a stranger in an alley.” His hand wraps around my throat while the other keeps my wrists pinned above my head.

“But the stranger was you,” I clarify.

He tsks me,fucking tsks me, and this has my heart pounding deep inside my chest. “You didn’t know it was me.”

“Details,” I whisper, and he presses his forehead against mine, his breath mingling with mine.

He tightens his hand around my throat. “You continued to run around with this masked stranger, not telling me what you were doing, Juno. Me. Your best friend. You lied to me.”

My heart drops. “But it was you the whole time.”

He leans back a little so he can gaze into my eyes. “You’ll be punished for it. You’ll be punished for making me worry about you. You’ll be punished for lying to me…”