Chapter 26 #2
I snort. “You’re deranged. And not that I owe you an explanation, but I’ll say it anyway because I hope it makes you feel like a dickhead: I was dreaming about you that night, asshole,” I spit. “If I said Ethan’s name, it’s because I was annoyed that he was interrupting that dream.”
I glare at him, hoping for something that would suggest he’s human and maybe capable of remorse.
Nothing. I get nothing for my efforts.
My gaze drops to the folded paper on the table.
“Did you seriously buy the goddamn restaurant?” I snatch up the contract and scan it, my jaw dropping. “For…seven MILLION dollars?!” My eyes are wide as they dart to his.
Vaughn lifts a shoulder.
“That’s insane!” I spit at him. “I mean that is legit psychotic behavior!”
“You don’t know the half of it,” he murmurs.
“Oh, you mean like drugging Ethan?!”
He rolls his eyes. “It was sodium pentothal. He’s being dramatic.”
I stare at him. “You gave my ex-boyfriend truth serum?” I shriek. “And then grilled him about our relationship? Vaughn, what the fuck—”
Adrenaline spikes in my system as he wraps his fingers around my throat.
“Would you rather I tied him to a rusty chair in a basement and cut pieces of him off while I asked him those same questions? Or perhaps I could fuck you in front of him just so he’s clear on whose you are.”
“No!” I snap, grabbing his wrist and tearing his hand away from my throat. “You don’t get to just keep fucking me whenever you want.”
He sighs. “We both know no isn’t a word that will stop me—”
“I’ll use it.”
He goes still at the coldness in my tone.
“I’ll fucking use it,” I say tightly. “I’ll use the safe word. Just try me.”
Vaughn’s eyes turn dark. Finally he exhales slowly, a low growl rumbling in his throat. “Fine. What are they.”
I frown. “What are what?”
“Your demands.”
“Demands?”
“You just made a threat, Evelina,” he says patiently. “Therefore, you have demands you want met or you’ll make good on said threat. So what. The fuck. Are they.”
I think for a moment, then smirk at him. “You’re going to do something you don’t do.”
Vaughn’s icy eyes cut into me as I try not to visibly shudder. It feels like I’m staring down the barrel of a gun, or trying to negotiate with a wild animal that already has the taste of blood on its tongue.
I take a shaky breath. “If this”…I wave a finger between us…“is going to continue, then we’re a we.”
Vaughn frowns. “It’s not exactly condoned that an Adept date their Acolyte—”
“Then I’ll quit,” I snap. “I’ll take myself out of consideration to join the Syndicate.”
“And your father?” he says with an amused edge to his voice.
“Don’t,” I snap, holding a finger up to his face. “Don’t you dare try and hold that over my head. I’ll walk away and I’ll find some other way to help him.” My lip curls. “Some other one.”
Vaughn’s face and gorgeous eyes darken lethally.
The seconds tick by agonizingly slowly.
“Fine.”
Wait.
“What?” I blurt, my brow knitting.
“I said fine,” he growls, his eyes piercing into mine. “We’re a fucking we.”
Delight flickers and jumps inside me.
“And what does that mean?” I murmur.
“How the fuck should I know?” he grunts. “You tell me.”
I bite down on my bottom lip, trying not to grin.
“It means we’re together. Like, together-together.”
He rolls his eyes. “Jesus Christ. So, a couple?”
“Yes,” I mutter. “If I’m going to be having sex with you—”
“Which you are.”
Heat bubbles inside me.
“Well, then yes, we’re a couple.”
His jaw sets. “And that means…?”
It's my turn to roll my eyes. “You need me to define what a couple is?”
“I told you,” he growls. “I don’t do ‘we’. I don’t do couple, either.”
“If you’re with me, you’re with me,” I say.
Vaughn cocks a brow. “Elaborate.”
“Firstly, it means we’re exclusive.”
“Says the girl who was just out on a date with her fucking ex-boyfriend.”
I groan. “Are you serious right now?”
Vaughn grunts to himself. “Fine. Continue.”
“It means you take me on dates. We do things together.”
He frowns. “We already do things together.”
“You chasing me through the dark before fucking me on the floor is not a date.”
“How boring,” he drawls. Then he frowns. “By the way, if this deal involves me not fucking you, we don’t have one.”
I feel my face heat. “No, we do, it’s just… We have dates first.”
“And then I can hunt you through the dark, pin you to the floor, stuff your panties in your mouth and fuck your greedy wet cunt with my fat fucking cock?”
Jesus.
My entire body ripples with heat.
“Uh…yeah,” I mumble.
Vaughn’s jaw grinds. “Anything else?”
Yes, I want to scream. I want to be allowed to kiss you. I want to wake up next to you instead of alone in a guest room.
But there’s pushing your luck, and there’s asking for miracles.
“That’s…it,” I say quietly.
Vaughn eyes me for another moment in silence.
“Fine,” he finally grunts.
He touches the underside of my chin with his fingers and lifts my gaze to his.
“We’re a fucking we,” he mutters.
The flickering feeling jumps inside me again.
“But don’t say I didn’t warn you,” he growls.
Suddenly, he turns and walks over to the door and shuts it. A loud click fills the private room as he turns the lock and then slowly looks back at me.
The air grows warmer. The walls feel closer together. I swallow nervously and back away from him as he advances on me, until my butt hits the table.
“W-what are you doing?” I stammer.
“Dinner isn’t over.”
My mouth twists. “Oh, you’re going to force feed me again?”
“No.”
Vaughn reaches past me and violently clears the table with a single sweep of his arm. Glass, porcelain and appetizers all go crashing to the floor as my heart lurches into my throat.
“Vaughn—!”
I shriek when he grabs me, lifts me up, plants my ass on the table and then shoves me back across it.
I shudder, biting back a whimper when he shoves my dress up, hooks his fingers into my panties, and rips them down my legs.
The lace catches on one of my shoes, leaving them dangling from a high heel as Vaughn throws my legs over his shoulders and pushes between my thighs.
Oh fuck…
I cry out when he clamps his teeth down hard on my inner thigh before sucking on the bite, making me thrash. He does it again, his teeth followed by the warm rasp of his tongue lapping at the wound before his attention shifts.
My body arches and the air goes whooshing out of my lungs with a choked cry as his mouth finds my pussy. He drags his tongue through my lips, spreading me open before he sinks his tongue into me.
I moan, gasping and writhing as he tongue-fucks me, dripping onto the tablecloth beneath me, clawing at his hair. His mouth slides higher, and I cry out sharply when he wraps his lips around my swollen clit and sucks.
Two thick fingers push into me, stroking in and out easily and curling against that spot inside. I moan louder and louder, my whole body shuddering and shaking as he fingers me and sucks hard on my aching clit.
He shoves my thighs back and apart, spanking my ass sharply and making me cry out as pain blooms within me, swirled together with the pleasure and that high only he is able to bring me.
He spanks me again and again and again before he pulls his mouth away and slaps my pussy. I squeal, pure fire exploding between my thighs. He does it a again, making me cry out before his mouth suddenly returns to my now-throbbing pussy, his tongue licking away the pain as I melt against him.
It’s the mix of brutality and pleasure that does it for me.
The push and the pull.
The sweet and the sour.
He spanks me, slaps my thighs, reaches up to twist and tug at my nipples viciously while he devours my pussy.
Until suddenly, it all crashes over me like a black wave.
I scream into my hands, my body jolting off the ruined tablecloth as I come hard against Vaughn’s dangerous tongue.
I’m still shaking when he bites my inner thigh and then starts to crawl up onto the table with me. He pushes my legs apart, yanks the top of my dress down, bites my nipples, and then snarls into my neck like a wild animal as he slaps my pussy with the swollen head of his huge cock.
“The next time you decide to have dinner with an ex-boyfriend…”
I scream when he rams into me with one brutal thrust, burying every thick inch of his fat cock to the hilt deep inside my clenching walls.
“You should know that I’ll be fucking you in a pool of his blood.”