Page 59 of Wicked Princess (Knight's Ridge Empire 2)

“So why did he?” I blurt out in my desperation to know everything.

He blows out a long breath. “I don’t know. Clearly it wasn’t for you to get to know Toby. But he wanted you protected.”

“Protected?” I ask, my brows pulling together.

“Yeah, your dad had things put in place when you arrived to keep you safe.”

I can’t help but laugh. “What a joke, when it was you I needed protection from.”

“He’s smarter than he looks. He clearly knew I wasn’t your worst threat.”

The reminder that someone out there wants me dead sends a wave of fear through me, but I lock it down fast. He shouldn’t have that kind of power over me.

“So now what? I come back, you use me as bait and what… hope he kills me this time as revenge for my father’s pa—”

I don’t get my final word out because my back collides with the wall, all the air rushing from my lungs as Seb’s lips slam down on mine in a bruising kiss. It’s a move that I’m much more used to, and as his fingers dig into my ass and he squeezes harshly, I forget all about my freak out and finally let myself drown in him.

Gone are the soft and gentle caresses from before, and in their place are his brutal touches that burn me from the inside out.

“I hate you,” I seethe when he finally releases my mouth, but not before sinking his teeth into my bottom lip until the familiar taste of copper coats my tongue.

“Fuck, yeah,” he grunts, ripping my panties from my body and throwing them somewhere behind him before his fingers find my core. “You love me hating you, don’t you, Hellion?”

“Seb,” I cry, my head falling back against the wall with a loud thud as he spears two fingers inside me. “Fuck.”

“So wet,” he murmurs against my neck. “So tight.”

A wanton moan rips from my lips when he bends his fingers, finding my G-spot right as he sucks on a patch of skin, grazing it with his teeth.

“I’m going to fuck your cunt raw, Princess. It’s been too long. Way too fucking long.”

With his hand holding my hip, he sinks to his knees once more, but any tender kisses or comforting words are long gone as he throws my leg—the one with his initials still cut into my skin—over his shoulder and dives for my pussy.

“Missed this. Been fucking starving for it.” The vibration of his voice against my sensitive skin is almost too much to take as his fingers and tongue work me toward what I know will be an earth-shattering release.

He’s right about one thing. It’s been too fucking long.

His tongue laps at my clit, his teeth biting and grazing as his fingers rub at the exact spot that makes me see stars.

“Come for me, Hellion,” he growls darkly. “Come all over my face.”

My fingers twist in his hair as my release approaches, but the pain only spurs him on and he eats at me like a man possessed as the one leg that’s holding me up trembles, my knee threatening to give out.

“Princess.” His eyes lift to mine and I lose all my fight to defy his orders.

“Seb,” I scream, my eyes slamming closed as pleasure barrels into me, making the world, everything other than the two of us, disappear.

This… this is what I fucking needed.

“Fuck, I need inside you, Hellion.”

I don’t realize we’re moving until a door slams and I’m thrown onto the bed. Any concern about my healing seems to have been forgotten as he falls on top of me, crushing me to the bed.

“This what you wanted, baby?”

He kisses down my spine, sucking my skin into his mouth and biting until I swear he’s going to break my skin.

“Please,” I whimper, my previous orgasm already forgotten as another begins to build.