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“Why?”
“What do you mean ‘why’? You saw what you saw.”
“Yeah, but why would that enrage so many different people? It doesn’t make any sense. Make them cautious of you, yes. But I’m assuming you haven’t gone around bloodsucking on anyone, correct?” She scrunched her nose, and I took that as a yes. “If that’s the case, why so much hate?”
“I-I’m stronger than most.”
I remembered the way she punched my face. I would have to agree there. “Is there more?” I prodded.
“Sometimes, I can’t control my strength. Especially when I’m emotional.”
“Duly noted. Youarea brat sometimes.”
“I am not! What the hell is wrong with you?”There she was. I loved that fire.It filled a hole inside of me I didn’t know I had. “Do you not think maybe it’syourasshole attitude that causes it?”
“Youwouldturn it around on me.” She growled like an angry kitten, and my dick twitched. “I mean, it’s the best way to take the attention off you, right? You have an avoidance tactic among other things.”
I was pushing her buttons, I knew it. I needed to see what this emotional outburst brought. Maybe it would help us both understand.
“You are such an—”
“Asshole. I know. You’ve said this plenty of times. We’re going to have to work on switching up your vocabulary.”
She lunged at me, and I caught her wrists in a tight grip, pulling her against my naked chest. Without the tape over hers, I could feel her little nipples pebble through the fabric.
“I wouldn’t, if I were you,” I warned.
Her eyes narrowed and my cock fully hardened. She didn’t realize how fucking beautiful she was when she was like this. Things started to click into place. Maybe this was why she was skittish around men. Who the hell could keep their hands off this? I would have to get more vigilant around her, especially now that more people knew she was all woman under her clothes.
“Let. Me. Go. I want to go home.”
“Not yet,Sili. Not yet. I got a few more questions.”
“I’m done with your stupid questions! This is getting nowhere!” She kneed me, and I twisted quickly enough for it to hit my thigh instead of my groin.
She began to struggle and continuously kick until we were knocked off-balance, and I ended up on top of her with her arms still firmly in my grip on the floor.
“Go ahead,Sili. Show me this strength you have. You’re probably lying to me.”
She did knee me then, in the gut, knocking me off her. Leaping on top of me like a crazed woman, her little hands scratched and clawed at me while my arms continued to block most of her hits. Her legs were straddled around me, and I groaned when she ground down against my erection.
My hands went under the hem of the shirt and grabbed her ass, forcing her to grind down on me again. She panted on top of me, caught by surprise, her arms planted on the floor over my shoulders. She was so fucking innocent. I was in pain as I tried to hold myself back. Being the bastard I was, I ground against her panties, too, trying to get some more of the friction we created.
Fuck. The adrenaline from the fight to this fight at home, had my blood pumping. My previous anger morphed into lust as her eyes stared at me like a deer caught in headlights.Was she untouched?It was hard to believe, in this world where death was around every corner.
Not wanting to scare her any more than she already was, I kept her on top of me, giving her a sense of control over the situation. She could remove herself at any time.
“What are you doing?” Her voice was breathless, the attitude from earlier gone.
If I knew this was all it took…
My hand slapped her ass with a loud smack for all the times she had been a brat toward me. She squealed and fell against my chest, breasts pressed up against my flesh in the worst kind of temptation.
“What is wrong with you?” she screeched, and I slapped her again, rubbing the sting away with my calloused hands longer than I needed to.
“All that mouth on you needs to be taught a lesson. I’m not done asking questions.”
Our faces were so close, I could see the flecks of light reflected in her dark eyes, framed by the longest lashes known to man.