Chapter 15
FIFTEEN
CHANEL
Somewhere tucked into the back corner of my mind, I prayed I hadn’t just sprouted my angel wings in the middle of a Manhattan pub surrounded by humans.
And that I hadn’t taken flight right off the sidewalk in front of O’Boyle’s where there were always no less than fifty people loitering out front.
I certainly hoped I hadn’t done so with my pink Chanegan hair.
I could hear Zuriel’s screaming already.
Yet none of that mattered. Hell, it barely registered.
It was a flicker of a lightning bug passing by.
The rage rushing through my veins consumed me.
How could she? How COULD she? My cousin had never been a hypocrite before, but her choosing this to be where she starts made my blood boil.
After the way she’d acted, the way she’d treated me after she caught me kissing Kaso, to catch her doing the same thing was offensive.
No, not the same thing. Doing worse, so much worse.
I’d only kissed Kaso, and technically he’d started it both times.
My impulse control only knew so much strength, but there she was fucking Andreas in a pub’s bathroom.
I scream-growled and it echoed between the tall buildings.
My wings pumped hard and fast, carrying me uptown toward a very specific penthouse apartment.
When his apartment came into view I didn’t slow down or even land.
I flew straight to the door and shoved it open as hard as I could.
The glass flew inward and slammed into the glass wall.
If it broke or cracked, I didn’t notice.
I didn’t care. I didn’t notice if there were fires in the balcony firepits or in the wall-sized fireplace inside the living room.
I didn’t notice if there was a television or radio on, or if there was food cooking on the stove.
The boiling rage in my veins carried me across the swanky marble apartment and toward the one scent I’d be able to pick out in a crowd of thousands.
Kaso.
I was done resisting.
I was done pretending I wasn’t craving him.
I was done saying no.
I tracked his heady scent to a set of wooden doors.
With a flick of my wrists, they burst open, slamming into the walls just like the glass doors had.
I slid to a stop in the doorway, my chest and shoulders rising and falling as I took in ragged, furious breaths.
My hands still balled into fists at my sides.
Kaso was sprawled in the middle of a king-sized bed with only a black, silk bed sheet draped across his naked lap.
The dim golden glow of the lamp attached to the wall beside his head cast a devastatingly perfect light on the angles of his muscles that were on display.
He had one leg bent and was using it to hold his arm up while he held a book.
My gaze tracked the muscles tensed in his forearm and my boiling rage began to burn a different kind of heat.
I let my eyes soak in every bare inch of him until I got to his throat where I found the heavy pulse of his heart beating against his veins.
He swallowed.
I looked up and met those golden eyes and growled, “You.”
His gaze slid down my body, barely making it to my shoulders before he was biting his lip with one of his fangs.
He hadn’t moved even an inch, as if he was afraid to spook me.
But as his sights reached the microscopic hem of my Mrs. Claus’s skirt, one very significant part of him stood tall, tenting the black silk sheets in a way that had heat pooling low in my belly.
He lay there standing tall, begging for my attention.
And tonight, I was going to give it to him.
I lunged for him, clearing the distance between us in the flash of a second.
In the distance I heard a heavy book slam into the wall, but I ignored it.
I landed in his lap, straddling his thighs with my legs.
Whatever was holding him still unlocked in that instant, as I rolled my hips up the hard length of his body.
He let out a guttural moan, slid his hands up the outsides of my thighs, and gripped my hips beneath my skirt.
I dove for his mouth, taking his lips with mine hard and rough.
His fangs poked my bottom lip, but it only sent the inferno burning hotter.
When his tongue slid into my mouth and tangled with mine, a wild, feral moan escaped me.
All of his fingers dug into my skin, some beneath my panty line.
I rolled my hips and we both hissed against each other's mouths. That was it. I wasn’t letting this moment slip away.
I was going to have him. All of him. I reached between our bodies and yanked the silk sheet away.
The immediate heat of his hard body had me squirming and grinding against him.
But it wasn’t enough. There was still one last piece of fabric between us.
He was caressing my body and gripping me tight, yet not making the next move, so I reached down between our bodies and gripped the base of his cock with one hand while tugging my satin panties to the side with the other.
When the tip of him pushed inside of me, I threw my head back and gasped.
My whole body trembled. I buried my hands in his hair and held on tight.
He gripped my waist with both hands and pulled me fully onto him, completely sheathing himself inside my body.
I threw my head back and screamed. He buried his face between my breasts and groaned a string of curses.
My trembles were a full-on earthquake now.
He wrapped his arms around my body and yanked me into his chest. “You,” he growled.
I rolled my hips and a violent scream slipped out my mouth. It’d been so long, too long, since I’d been intimate with a man. My body was too sensitive to every little sensation. One swish of my hips had tremors raking through me. It was Heaven but it wasn’t enough.
“Kaso,” I whispered with a little moan as my body trembled in his arms.
He chuckled against my mouth, sending shivers down my spine.
And then my back hit the black silk sheets. I was wrapped between the heat of his body and the coolness of his sheets.
Kaso understood the assignment. Without missing a beat, he hooked my legs over his shoulders, braced his palms in the bed on either side of me, and then rolled his body in the most perfect wave.
I arched into him as he thrust deep inside of me over and over and over.
I sank my nails into his flesh, whatever I could reach.
His face hovered just above mine, our noses brushing with every roll of his hips.
Our hot breaths tangled in the slim space between us, but we didn’t kiss.
There was no time for kissing now. He took me rough and hard.
The growls leaving his mouth pushed me closer to climax.
We’d resisted this for so long. Too long.
We were feral.
I loved every second.
My body was on fire, my insides coiling with the need to release. “Kaso,” I moaned as I dug my nails into his skin, then sucked one of his fangs between my lips.
He moaned and dove for my throat. I arched my head back for him, pushing my chest flush against his.
He rolled his hips back, sliding out of me in such a way that had me hissing.
With a satisfied chuckle, he thrust back inside of me at the same time that he sank his fangs into my throat and the world exploded behind my eyes.