Chapter Fifteen
A hazy strip of sunrise slices through the space between the curtains, illuminating one side of Leigh’s face in orange light. Her dark hair is a mess, but it’s a mess on my pillow.
I’ve been watching her since I woke up, anxious about what will happen when she opens her eyes. Will she run? Hide? Pretend this never happened?
Maybe we pushed her too far, too fast. Things feel very different in the cold November morning than they did watching her run through the thrilling woods on Halloween night.
Even as I doubt the way I’d taken her, I know I couldn’t have done it any differently.
I’d reached the limit of my self-control with her last night, slowing myself the best I could.
Leigh affects me in a way I can barely survive, driving me past the point of reason, away from restraint and composure and right into a frenzied lust.
Leigh is different, and as much as I tried not to hurt her, there’s still a dark pleasure in knowing when she wakes up, she’ll feel what I did. I was inside her. Me.
This possessiveness has grown overnight until it chokes me. A black fear that someone else might get to see her like this after I have, sleeping peacefully in their bed. I can’t fucking handle that.
I can’t. She’s fucking meant for me, ever since that day I first saw her. Trying on the feeling of breaking the rules and seeing if it fit her. As she caught me watching her for the very first time. Chase, the creep. Nothing much has changed.
A low rumble of laughter rolls through me as I remember the words I’d almost bit out at Isaac. You’ve got no claim to her. She already has my last name. Yeah, she would have definitely found that creepy.
I can’t handle it. I need to know where her head’s at. I reach over and pull her from Danny’s side and roll her on top of me. She stirs for a moment, eyes bleary. I spit on my hand and pump my cock once, then slip it slowly inside her.
She feels like heaven. Like she was made to take me on an early morning, curled up in bed with me. I want her to wake up every morning to the stretch of me filling her.
A low moan escapes my gritted teeth as I push all the way inside her, bottoming out as she stirs on top of me, lightly pushing herself up with her hands. Her hair falls to my chest, tickling my skin as I grip her hips.
She searches my face, her mouth open slightly.
“Are you sore?” I ask her. She looks beautiful like this, mussed, sleepy eyed.
She nods, a small flush on her cheeks. She’s shy again, probably wondering what happens next.
“Good,” I say, “I want you thinking about me inside you every time I make you ache like this. Come here.” I pull her face down to mine, tucking her head to my shoulder as I rock inside her. Long strokes, but at a leisurely pace. This is my subtle claim on her.
She moans into my neck, her small hand wrapped around the side of it as she drops small kisses to my collarbone. “I loved last night, Chase. I love this.”
That protective monster inside me roars. “You can have it then. Whatever you want. I’ll make sure you get it from me.”
She raises up, her eyes searching mine. Seeking truth. “Not a trick?”
“Not a trick,” I repeat, licking her neck and sucking it so that my purple marks bloom on her skin. “It’s fucking real. This is real. This,” I repeat, placing her hand over my heart. “Is where you took over. Maybe it’s not sweet, what I feel for you. But it’s fucking real.”
She licks her lips, rolling her hips to meet mine. Slow and soul-crushing, the way we meet each other like midnight tides crashing onto the sand, climbing higher and higher. Drawing her deeper into my soul with each grinding thrust.
“What about our parents,” she says softly, hiding in my shoulder again at the thought.
“We’ll figure that out,” I say. “Don’t worry about that for now, I’ll take care of it.”
She nods into the crook she’s hiding in. “Okay.”
Her trust in me feeds the monster more, and I can feel the possession locking tighter. A chain around my heart. “Fuck, you’re killing me Leigh. You are too good to be true.”
She rolls against me, little licks and nips against my neck as she tests out her new seductive energy with me. “No, it’s real.”
Her words push me, and I fuck into her faster, deeper. Danny rolls, the deepest sleeper I’ve ever met, and she giggles until I roll her under me, one arm keeping me from crushing her while the other hikes her leg over my hip.
Sliding back into her, her head falls back to the pillow. “Quiet, Leigh,” I whisper. “Don’t make a sound.” I demand and she bites her lip as I pull out and thrust fully inside her.
Her mouth falls open, a hand slapping over her mouth as I raise over her, fucking her in short, rough thrusts. “You’re mine. You are fucking mine.”
She nods against her hand, brows furrowed as I push back on both of her thighs until she’s folded beneath me, her pussy on full display for me to watch as I fill her. “Mine.”
Her body starts to shake and my eyes cut to her face, fixating on the way she looks at me as I shove her closer to the edge. “Oh my god, Chase, it’s too much.”
“Nothing I give you is more than you can take. Come for me.” I circle her clit, and her mouth falls open in a silent scream as she comes, her pussy soaking my cock, squeezing me so tight I have to fight to stay inside her.
“Fucking hell, baby. You’re perfect.” She clenches again as her orgasm draws out and it pushes me headlong into my own.
I slam into her a final time and still, filling her until we’re both a sweating, panting mess.
I pull out, obsessively watching as my come drips from her pussy, swollen from the abuse it’s taken. I know her ass is just as sore from me last night, and the satisfied possessive monster growls low at the thought.
Her dark eyes study me. “Now what?” she asks quietly.
“Give me today to have my fill of you. I’m not letting you leave my bed anytime soon.”
She laughs, and the smile deepens my obsession.
My Leigh. Satiated in my bed, my come dripping from her onto my sheets. Danny would wake up at any moment and want to resume the festivities.
The high of the chase may have faded, but what remains unchanged is that wild, unhinged need I have for her. To taste her again until I drown in the way she cries out my name. I creep down her body, lifting her legs over my shoulders, ready to make good on my promise.
I devour her whole.