Chapter 5
BONES
F ucking Aries.
My cock swells as I catch a glimpse of Mia in the front window. He called her pretty, so I suspected she was hot, but fuck… This woman is gorgeous. I picture her down on her knees with my hands around her throat. I’d love to make her swallow every drop of my cum before I end her life.
She’s closing the curtains as if that’s going to keep the monsters out. Nothing and no one can stop me.
I pull down my black ski mask and creep to the back of the mansion. Lucky for me, I’ve partied here so many times, I know this stone fortress better than Mia herself. She’s an outsider in our town and in her own house.
The door to the wine cellar is easy to open with my lock pick. I hold my breath and wait a few minutes after the wooden door creaks open. When I don’t hear any footsteps stomping overhead, I keep going.
I lock the door behind me before I head up the stairs to the foyer. But not before snatching a bottle of bourbon from the single-barrel spirits shelf and setting it by the door. Mia’s grandmother always kept a stash for me. She had a soft spot for me. Ever since that night, I kept her bastard of a husband from smashing her face in.
I smashed in his instead.
It’s a shame I have to torment her granddaughter. But Emma is long gone. What she doesn’t know won’t hurt her. At least that’s what I’ll tell myself when Draven orders me to send Mia to the shallow grave next to hers.
I keep to the shadows, watching Mia move around the house. She walks through each room, turning on lights, unaware of the predator who lurks behind her. I smile underneath my mask. The thrill of the chase is what I live for. The adrenaline, the heat in my chest, my cock rock hard as I fantasize about the fear and horror in her eyes when I finally reveal myself.
The whistle of a tea kettle has her heading toward the kitchen. I hang back, hiding behind the wall, and wait for her to turn it off. My pulse races as I hear the boiling water slosh into the teacup. She breathes a heavy sigh, whimpering. Her safety is an illusion . The hot water comforts her. Which makes this so much more thrilling.
I turn off the foyer light and drag the tip of my blade down the kitchen door, digging it into the wood. The teacup rattles on the counter. I can almost hear her erratic heartbeat from the other side of the wall.
The door bursts open. “Who’s there?”
I flatten myself against the wall.
She spins around, looking for the light switch. “Fuck.”
I follow her in the dark, my need to touch her growing. She runs her hand along the wall in search of the light, which she won’t find in that direction.
I inch closer and blow out a cold breath.
She trembles when it reaches her, folding her arms over her chest. “ Who’s there? ”
In two short strides, I’m at her back. “Your worst fucking nightmare,” I growl in her ear.
Without warning, she spins around, fists flying. One lands on the side of my jaw. Fuck. It staggers me for a second.
“Try again, asshole,” she hisses. “I already have a nightmare.”
I charge toward her, grab her shoulders, and slam her up against the wall. “Not one like me.”
With my body pressed against hers, my cock swells. She lets out a quivering breath. “Is that all you got?”
I chuckle and wrap my hand around her throat. “Feisty, aren’t you? I bet you’re fucking crazy in bed. Should we find out?”
She swings again, but I duck out of it this time. I pin her arms above her head and nuzzle her neck. “Fight me as hard as you want; it only makes me want your pussy around my cock more.”
“You’re sick. Get out of my house.” Her chest heaves with something other than fear. Dare I say our little lamb is turned on? Perfect. There’s nothing better than the moment when fear turns to lust.
I press the full weight of my body against hers, smashing her limbs against the wall. “Not until you agree to pack up and leave. You’re not welcome here, little nightmare girl.”
Her eyes widen. “This is about the poison? I already told your boss I’m not selling. Now get the fuck out of my house.”
Beautiful and defiant. I might become obsessed. “I don’t have a boss, pretty thing. Just a disdain for the devil. And you brought him back to our town.”
Confusion mixed with shock flashes in her eyes. “How do you…”
“This is Ever Graves, darlin’. I know everything that goes on here.”
Her upper lip curls in disgust. Without warning, she jerks her knee up into my groin. “Fuck off!”
Fuck. A searing pain shoots through my balls. I lose my grip on her as I double over. “You’re going to pay for that,” I choke out .
She makes a run for the kitchen.
I take a deep breath and stagger forward. “You can run, but you can’t hide, little lamb.”
I regain my composure halfway there and charge the rest of the way. Now I’m pissed all the way off.
I practically knock the kitchen door off its hinges when I throw it open. Mia is up against the counter, a butcher knife in her hand.
“Now, what are you going to do with that, baby?” I creep toward her.
She backs up, her hands shaking. “Don’t come any closer, or I’ll gut you.”
I laugh and keep moving toward her. “You’ll have to be quicker than me then. No one is quicker than me .”
She whimpers when I reach her. “Time’s up.”
I dart to the side as she swings the knife wide. When I come back around, I seize her wrist, squeezing it between my fingers until the knife clatters to the ground.
“No,” she cries.
I hoist her up and slam her down on the breakfast table. “Didn’t your parents teach you not to play with knives?”
Her cheeks are flushed. I can’t tell if it’s from anger, fear, or desire. “My parents died when I was a baby, asshole.”
I almost lose my edge at her words. The pain flashes through her eyes, and she goes limp. “You’re better off,” I grumble. Fuck. I forget she’s a Harker for a second. Forget she’s an orphan.
She stops struggling and gazes up at me. “Well, I know you’re not Aries. He’s much taller. So who the fuck are you?”
I can’t help but laugh. If she thinks calling me shorter than my blond Adonis friend is going to annoy me, she’s very wrong. “I’m bigger where it counts.”
Her cheeks flush bright red. “Whatever.”
I look down the length of her body to see that her oversize T-shirt is barely covering her ass now. It must’ve gotten hiked up in the tussle. Her panties are white cotton. I lick my lips, unable to control my cock from twitching. Most men salivate over black lace thongs or red G-strings, but I’m a sucker for the purity of white fucking cotton.
My breath hitches when I notice the wet spot in the middle of her slit. “You’re not a good girl, are you, little lamb?”
She tries to sit up, but I push her back down and pin her hands against the table. “ Answer me ,” I growl.
She wiggles her hips. “If you don’t get off me, I’m going to be your worst fucking nightmare.”
I haven’t felt this fucking alive in a long time. There’s something about this girl. Something broken and feral and hungry. A streak of chaos that hides beneath her innocence and naivety.
I drag my fingertips down her arms, sending goose pebbles across her flesh. Her nipples poke through her shirt. I want to twirl my tongue around each one.
She stills, her pulse racing, as I make my way down to her bare legs. I stroke the insides of her thighs, inching closer to that sweet wet spot on her panties. I wait for her to kick or scream or make a run for it, but the only part of her that moves is her chest. It rises and falls erratically.
She’s so fucking hot.
I tease at the edge of her panties, tracing the outline of them with my finger. I can easily slip inside…
Fuck, I’m supposed to scare her, not turn her on. I pull back and wrap my hand around her throat again. Her eyes widen, and she gasps as I squeeze so hard that she starts to flail. I need to remind her that I’m a fucking monster. “Sign the papers, Mia. If I have to come back, you will regret it.”
I let go and make a run for it while she tries to catch her breath. I grab the bottle of bourbon on my way out and lock the cellar door behind me. I don’t want any other monsters getting in here tonight. She’s my little lamb .
The machine between my legs does nothing to soothe the ache tonight. When I pull into Aries’s driveway, I can’t remember how I got here. The entire drive was a blur. As I kill the engine, the house lights up.
I let myself in with my spare key and make a dash for the liquor cabinet. Aries’s house is spotless as usual, all modern with state-of-the-art appliances, abstract paintings, marble floors, and white furniture. I feel like a bull in a glass house every time I’m here.
“How did it go?” Aries steps into the living room, barefoot and shirtless, wearing only a pair of gray sweatpants. His blond hair is wet and messy.
“Terrible. You downplayed how hot she is. I told you I’d find out.” I can’t keep the scowl off my face as I shoot a finger of whiskey down my throat.
He smiles and leans up against the wall, folding his arms over his chiseled chest. “I take it you didn’t get her to sign the papers either then?”
I roll my eyes and give him a look that says don’t fucking test me right now. “Draven has no idea what he’s up against. She is stubborn as fuck. We might have to kill her. But I want to fuck her first.”
“You’re sexy when you’re frustrated, you know that?” He tilts his head to the side, sending a quiver straight to my cock.
“I’ve been hard for the past three hours. All I can think about is bending that brat over her counter and fucking her pussy raw.” I take off my leather jacket and toss it onto the nearest chair.
His eyes darken. “You know I don’t like it when you get like this.”
I can feel the darkness clawing at me. It runs in the Crane blood like a disease. Well, at least in the male blood. My little sister, Lettie, is the only one who seems to have dodged it. She’s the sweetest, most goddamn cheerful person I know. I’m suddenly grateful that she’s not in Ever Graves right now. Mia Harker brought the fucking devil back to town, and it’s affecting us all.
I crack my neck. “I’m fine, Aries. It’s not like before. I’m not going to hurt myself again.”
He breaches the gap between us and cups my face in his hands. “I think you need a session in my office .”
The heat in my body climbs. Fuck. I really need to release this fucking hard-on before I explode. But I always get carried away…
“I don’t know.”
“It will make you feel better, Bones. You know it will.”
I nod and knock back another shot. “Yeah, you’re right.” If anyone can pull me back from the edge, it’s Aries and his wicked fucking ways.
I follow him down to the basement. When he flips on the lights, my adrenaline spikes. It’s been a while since I’ve been down here. As I glance around the red-lit room, my cock throbs. Different sizes of whips and paddles hang along the walls. There’s a contraption in the center of the room that looks like a guillotine. And in another corner is a gurney with restraints hanging down.
I swallow hard as I remember the last time he tried to fix me. It was agonizing, brutal, and so fucking beautiful.
“Take off your clothes and lay on the bed over there for me.” Aries’s voice is soothing, coaxing, and laced with hunger. His sexual appetite is never satisfied—his tastes unusual to the average person. But there’s nothing average about us.
I strip down to my bare feet and lay back on the bed—a mattress without sheets or pillows. I spread out and wait for him. This is the only time in my life when I give up control. And only to him.
“Good boy.” Aries takes his time securing my wrists to the bedposts. He licks his lips as he stares at my engorged cock. “We’re going to get that taken care of for you.”
I nod, already euphoric. I love it when he plays with me. It’s like a drug .
“Open your mouth for me.”
As soon as I obey, he thrusts a ball gag into it, fastening it tight behind my head. It threatens to suffocate me, but I breathe into it, surrendering to the discomfort. The more I do, the more it turns me on.
Aries picks a thick wooden paddle from the wall. I feel a little pre cum leak out as he stalks toward me. “Spread your legs nice and wide for me, Bones.”
Fuck. I feel all the blood rush to my balls as I open up for him. A growl escapes my throat. A fucking cry for mercy even though mercy is the last thing I want or need.
Aries towers over me. A sadistic smile creeps across his lips as he raises the paddle and brings it down against my inner thigh—not hard, just enough to wake me up.
I jerk my hips as if electric currents sear through me. But then a deep spasm grips me soon after. I moan and try to beg, but my words are jumbled with the ball gag weighing on my tongue.
He does the same to my other thigh, bringing the paddle down with a light smack. My skin tingles. It sends shivers to my cock, to my ass, the pleasure snaking around every inch of me.
Aries climbs onto the bed and settles between my legs. He sucks on his index finger before sliding it inside my anus. “You’re so tight.”
I clench and tremble around him as he thrusts in and out.
“Yeah, that’s it. Relax for me.”
My entire body contorts when he shoves his finger in past the second knuckle. I let out another moan. Sweat drips down his torso, casting a glowing sheen across his rock-hard abs. I watch the way his muscles flex as he grips me. He’s a fucking work of art. Like a statue carved out of stone.
I lift my hips, moving to the rhythm of his finger as he fucks me with it. The tension in my shoulders starts to melt away.
“Such a good fucking boy. Letting me get so deep. ”
Fuck I’m about to break, and he’s only just begun.
Without warning, he pulls his finger out and hops off the bed. He laughs as I whine through the gag.
When he comes back over, his pants are off, and he’s holding a box of his toys . A pocket pussy is strapped to his waist. “I’m going to need you to take slow, deep breaths for me, Bones. You’re going to cum so hard you might black out.”
Oh, fuck. This is a new one.
My body aches with need as he straddles me. He wedges a pillow under my ass before squeezing half a tube of lube inside it. “Deep breaths,” he coaxes.
I gasp as he lifts my balls and slowly inches his cock inside my ass. I shake and shiver at the feel of him stretching me. The pain and pleasure are indiscernible. I yank on my restraints, but they only get tighter, threatening to cut off my circulation.
“Shhh, relax. Breathe. Fuck, you feel so good.” Aries rocks his hips, pushing in deeper with each thrust. “Now I’m about to really fucking get you going.”
I gasp again as he grabs my cock and guides it inside the fake pussy he’s got strapped to his waist. It’s warm and squishy but so fucking tight. So fucking good. I let out a deep moan as he thrusts his cock deeper inside my ass while my cock burrows all the way inside the toy pussy.
“Mmm, now we can cum together.” The way he moves his hips is dangerous. The way they roll up and down in slow circles threatens to shatter me with each thrust. I use my restraints as leverage and raise my hips to meet his, losing myself to the chaos of Aries Thorn.
Spasms flicker down my shaft, tormenting me in the best possible way from the tip of my cock all the way down to the deepest part of my anus. I twist and convulse around him, guiding my orgasm out for release.
“There we go. Cum for me, Bones. Cum inside my pussy . ”
Oh, fuck. I can’t hold back any longer. A cry dislodges from my throat as I arch back. His hot fluid bursts into my ass just as I erupt. I grind into the toy pussy while Aries fucks me like an animal. He unleashes a demonic growl, digging his fingers into my thighs.
“Mmm, now you’re my dirty boy, aren’t you? Letting me fill you so fucking full.”
I feel tears stream down my cheeks. I’m so fucking overcome with pleasure that I can’t contain it in my body. My cum drips down my cock and underneath, soaking the both of us. I can’t breathe, but I don’t care.
Aries grabs my chin, pinching it hard between his fingers. “Who fucks you the best?”
My chest heaves as he rips the ball gag off my face. “Only you, Ries . It’s always you.”
He smirks and slaps my face. “Good boy.”
With his cock still inside my ass, he kisses me deeply. Our tongues swirl together like two fireflies caught in a mating ritual. I moan as I taste the poison on his lips. The sweet fucking poison mixed with a dark desire that we reserve only for each other.
“You always know how to make me feel better.”
He leans forward to release my wrists from the restraints. “That’s because I know what’s best for you, Bones.” He sits back on his heels and slowly pulls the toy pussy off my cock. “We’ll get through this Harker situation just like we’ve gotten through everything else.”
I nod and rub my wrists, sad that they’re free even though they hurt. “I’ll check in with Draven later. I’m going to head down to Duffs again to unwind.”
Aries smirks. “You mean you’re going to go find someone to beat the shit out of.”
I shrug but then give him a wink. He knows me well .
Fucking and fighting are my two most favorite things. If I can do both on the same night, then I’ll take it.
Plus, I don’t have the heart to tell Aries that a tiny sliver of me is still reeling over my encounter with Mia Harker. Cracking a few faces open should at least help me get some sleep tonight.