Chapter 22
Twenty-Two
T heo
“Stop struggling.” I slid my hand from Nerine’s mouth. “Eavesdropping on a private conversation is impolite.”
“I have no idea what you are talking about.”
“Is that right? Then tell me what you were doing inside this passageway.”
“I was on my way to Mama’s room to say good night.”
“Interesting, since her room is in the direction you just came from. You look very guilty right now, Angel. Want to try for another explanation? How about the truth this time?”
“Fuck off with your guilty.” She added a tirade of profanity in Greek and tried to elbow me in the stomach.
I grabbed her wrists and positioned her palms above her head, flat to the wall. “That wasn’t very nice. What would your Mama say about you using that language?”
She bucked against me. “Mama isn’t as pristine as you believe.”
“Compared to you, she’s the Virgin Mary.” I crowded her, giving her no space, and forced her to turn her cheek and press it against the side of the passageway with the brick wall. “I know firsthand since I was part of your corruption.”
“I should have punched you in the face and asked Papa to assign someone else to guard me.”
“You should have stayed at your rich girl’s school instead of joining us peasants.”
“I got expelled, or did you forget that part?”
“That’s right.” I brought my mouth a hairsbreadth from hers. “I didn’t learn that bit of information until two years into watching you and your bitchy attitude.”
“I wouldn’t have had the attitude if you weren’t such a jerk.”
“You liked my jerk side. It got you wet.” Releasing her wrists, I slid my palm down her arms, along her waist, and down the front of her pajama pants to cup her bare, slick pussy.
“Keep dreaming.” She pushed back, scraping her nails against the brick, and ground her needy cunt against me. “I hated you. It made me want to shoot you.”
“Your words contradicted your actions. What’s that saying? Oh yes, there is a thin line between love and hate.” I pushed two fingers into her heat, pumping a few times before curling them to hit that bundle of nerves deep inside her.
She thrashed, not carrying her delicate skin may have abrasions from her movements against the brick. “Oh, Theo. Fuck. That feels so good.”
“Answer this question if you hated me so much. Why did you push it to the next level? You were the one who grabbed me by the shirt and kissed me.”
She met each of my thrusts with her hips, her pants erratic as her pussy dripped all over my hand. “It was temporary insanity.”
“And what do you feel now?”
“It’s still insanity,” she gasped, tiny spasms surrounding my fingers.
“If your insanity is ongoing, how can it be temporary?”
“You dickmatized me.” She pushed out with her hands and bowed her back. “Just like that. Fuck, just like that.”
“This isn’t my dick, Angel.”
“Shut up and make me come.”
“Always the brat. You want to come? I’ll make you come.” I circled my thumb over her clit while pumping hard and fast, just as she liked it. “But then you deal with the consequences.”
“I didn’t do anything to warrant consequences.”
“That’s where you are so wrong. Now scream for me.” I pressed down on her sensitive clit, coasting the edge of pain she loved so much without taking it to the place I knew she couldn’t handle.
Her body immediately reacted, and she tumbled over into climax, moaning and mumbling noncoherent words.
“That’s it. Squeeze down on my fingers with that beautiful cunt of yours.”
“Yes, Theo. I love that.”
Her orgasm continued to ripple through her, her head thrown back against my shoulders, her body held up by the positioning of my very aroused one.
The drive to fuck her rode me. But first, I had to make something clear.
“You will not walk these passageways until we know this house is safe. Do I make myself clear?”
“You—you don’t tell me what to do.” Her pussy spasmed with the remnants of her release, making her response so breathy and seductive.
“Oh, but I do. You’re not safe. That bastard wouldn’t have gotten into the library if we didn’t have traitors among us.”
“I can protect myself.”
I pulled my hand from her slick heat, bringing my fingers to my lips and sucking her essence into my mouth. God, she tasted better than the finest of wines.
“Listen carefully: pretend all you want, but you barely survived after taking on someone who rarely, if ever, trained. Relax,” I cooed into her ear when she stiffened. “You are ours to protect, remember?”
“Theo, I—” I covered her mouth with my hand, cutting off whatever she planned to say.
“You don’t ever speak of it. Don’t let it hit the air. You are the Angelos. End of story.”
She nodded, and I glided my palm down from her mouth, over her neck, and to the base of her throat. “Now, back to what I was saying. All passageways are off-limits. And unless you are with a security team, you do not go anywhere.”
“I already told you I won’t ever be a prisoner again.”
“This isn’t being a prisoner. This is part of your role as the Angelos. Security is part of the job.”
She elbowed me in the stomach, making me hiss. “Bullshit. I doubt anyone ever ordered Papa around like this.”
“He understood how things worked.”
“I call bullshit again. You think his penis made him smarter. Fuck off with that.” She jerked, ready to fight me for her freedom again.
Well, here we went again. The woman would not listen to reason.
“Why won’t you make anything easy? I’m trying to keep you alive.”
“You are trying to boss me around. I’m not an idiot. This set of passageways only goes from bedroom to bedroom. You can’t access anything else unless someone uses the secret access point. Mama and I are the only ones with the combinations to its security lock, jackass.”
I gritted my teeth.
She was going to drive me bonkers with all these passageways. I fucking needed maps of all of them and where the fuck they all were and what connected to what. This was ridiculous.
“I swear. Do you want to know who’s insane? It’s me.” I pressed my sexually frustrated front to her back. “Back in the day, I would have gagged you and paddled your ass for being a mouthy brat. Then fucked you senseless.”
She stopped struggling and went utterly still.
Immediately the energy changed, and my cock grew harder. I dropped my head to the back of her head. Both of our breaths grew unsteady and faster with each second.
A whimper escaped her lips.
“Theo.” The husky way she said my name conveyed so much desire and need.
No. Those thoughts had to remain locked away.
She’d endured more than she should have with that bastard. The last thing I wanted was to trigger a single one of her demons.
I pressed my face into her hair, the craving to give her what she asked at war with the worry this was too soon.
“Please.”
“You can’t be serious. Not after what you lived through.”
“It isn’t the same thing, and you know it. The marks you leave are from pleasure and because I asked for them. They aren’t because of anger or rage. Your pain is sweet, delicious agony that I fantasize about.”
“I’m not sure if I can go to that level with you. Not yet, anyway.”
“I’m not delicate. What he did to me doesn’t change how I loved sex with you.”
“How can you expect me to hunt you in the dark, force you to submit, and then fuck you? What we did before were games with rules we all knew.”
“What do you call what happened right now? We’re in the dark, and you hunted me, forced me to submit, and fucked me with your fingers.”
“That is completely different than what you are asking me to do. I love you too much to chance hurting you.”
“Theo.” Her tone grew hard. “I’m not saying hunt me through the various passageways of this house, catch me kicking and screaming, and fuck me.” She hummed, making my cock jerk. “Though the idea of that turns me on more than you can ever know.”
“Then what are you saying?”
“I want you to be Theo with me.”
“Meaning?”
“Stop restraining yourself. I want my Theo.”
Her Theo. She had no idea who her Theo was anymore. The things I wanted weren’t anywhere near sweet. What we’d done in the past was the tip of the iceberg of the things I enjoyed now. I’d explored the darker side of my desires while abroad. I refused to unleash them on her.
She wasn’t ready by any means.
“Who is your Theo?”
“The lover that washed over me like a raging storm and consumed me whole.”
“I see.”
She couldn’t possibly expect me to give her all of me to that level. It might destroy her. But maybe a portion of it would satisfy her.
Who was I kidding? This was a temporary solution, not a long-term fix.
“What do you see?”
“You’re telling me I’m being too gentle with you. That you like it rough with me since that’s our kink.”
“You are brutally honest with me. You fight with me. You won’t ever take my shit. You don’t sugarcoat that I’m a bitch sometimes. And through all of it, you still want me. That’s the Theo I fell in love with. That’s the Theo I want.”
“Are you saying you love me, Angel?”
“You know I do.”
“Do I?” I wrapped her hair around my fist and jerked her head back, leaning down and hearing her breath grow shallow. “Say it.”
“I love you, Theo.”
I grazed my teeth down her neck, and immediately, goosebumps prickled her skin. “Repeat it.”
“I love you.”
“You want it rough?” I pushed her shirt up, cupping her breast and then pinching her nipple hard enough to elicit a whimper from her lips.
“I want you untamed.”
“You’re not ready for the games.”
I expected a protest, but instead, she said, “That doesn’t mean you can’t fuck me like you mean it.”
“Are you saying I didn’t mean it all the other times I pumped my cum inside you over the last few days?”
I kicked her legs apart and pushed her pants down, letting them catch at her knees, forcing her to lose balance and readjust.
“You held back. Be refined in public. With me, you’re brutal. You bite, mark, and scare me in the most beautiful way.”
Pulling back her hips, I freed my cock, sliding it along the seam of her pussy, up through her folds and then back again.
I released my hold on her hair and gripped her shoulder and neck. A second of worry crept in. The bruises were fading, but they weren’t gone, and now she wanted me to put more on her.
“Stop thinking and do it. I won’t break. The last thing on my mind is that bastard when your hand is around my neck.”
Instead of giving her what she wanted, I dropped to my knees and licked her wet, slick pussy.
“Oh, fuck.” She pushed back against my face, and in response, I smacked her ass, which caused her to moan, “More.”
This I could give her. I peppered her ass, feeling her skin heat, massaging the muscles under my palms with each pass.
“Harder. I need hard.”
“No, it’s time for my midnight snack.”
I tongued her cunt, pushing into her channel, lapping at her delicious taste, feasting, loving every second of it. I brought her to the edge and then pulled back, keeping her from going over multiple times.
“You’re the devil. Let me come.”
“Not unless it is on my cock.”
She glared over her shoulder. “I want to fucking come.”
“And you will come when I’m fucking you with my cock.” I thrust two fingers into her, followed by a third. “Is this what you wanted? The taste of pain.”
“Yes.” Her knees shook, and I wedged my shoulder against her thigh to give her leverage. “I fucking love the sweet agony. More.”
“Ride my hand. I give you sixty seconds to make yourself come. Otherwise, you’ll wait until my cock rams into you.”
“It’s your hand. You’re supposed to deliver.”
“It’s your cunt. Make it come.”
“I hate you.”
I scissored my fingers inside her, and she released a hoarse cry and started to gyrate her hips.
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” I nipped her ass cheek hard enough to leave a mark.
Her back bowed, and she gasped. “That’s my line. Only I get to use it.”
I bit her on the other side, knowing she’d have matching teeth imprints.
Her pussy quivered and flexed.
A surge of satisfaction coursed through me, and my straining cock wanted me to stop its torment.
I had no doubt precum dripped onto the floor, and the drive to plow into Nerine’s sopping heat pushed at me. But I wanted this woman so crazy on edge that the second I plunged my dick into her, she’d fly over the abyss.
“Thirty seconds.”
“Shut up. I’m concentrating.” She moved up and down my hand, working herself in tiny increments. “Help me. Bite me again. Pull my hair. Just fucking put that big cock in me.”
“Fifteen seconds.”
“Stop with the counting. It’s annoying.”
“This isn’t my problem.”
“Asshole.”
“Don’t tempt me, Angel. I don’t have lube on me, and your puckered opening is calling my name.” I feathered my digits inside her. “However, the way you’re dripping all over my hand, I wouldn’t need anything extra.”
“That’s it, Theo. That’s it.” She dropped her forehead onto the stud running down the wall. “I can’t without you.”
“What was that?”
“You heard me.” The way she gritted her teeth had me smiling.
I loved her frustration and arousal. Eventually, we’d work up to how things were before the bastard broke our world apart.
“Time’s up.” I pulled free of her heat, eliciting a growl from her.
“Fuck, time’s up.”
Rising to my feet, I gave her no warning before pushing my fingers into her mouth. “I’d rather fuck you.”
Her only response was to moan and suck harder on my fingers.
“You like the thought of that, hmm?”
Sliding out of her mouth, I took hold of her neck in the way she craved and notched my cock into the sopping opening of her pussy. “Now, be a good girl and tell me what I want to hear before I give you your pleasure.”
She lifted her arm, scraped her nails down my scalp, and then cupped the back of my neck. “I can’t without you, Theo.”
“And.”
She tilted her head up while pulling mine toward hers and then whispered against my lips, “I love you.”
I slammed to the hilt inside her.
She instinctively pushed back with her hips and called out, “Yes. Finally.”
God, there was nothing like the heat of her engulfing my cock or the way her cunt rippled and pulsed as her arousal grew.
“Didn’t the first orgasm take the edge off?” I pumped in and out of her in shallow thrusts meant to torment and drive up the need again.
“Not even close. My body spent too long hibernating. Now, I want you to service my needs every chance I can get. I hope you and Xander are taking your vitamins.”
Pulling out to the tip, I plowed brutally into her, forcing a guttural gasp from her lips. “It’s more about if you can handle us. Remember, it’s one cunt to two cocks.”
Her pussy clenched at my words, and I flexed my fingers around her throat.
Her breath grew into rapid pants.
“You dirty, filthy Angel. You love it when we fuck you together.” I pounded her, making it so she had no choice but to take what I gave.
“You know I do.”
She moved both hands to the wall in hopes of using them to keep her body steady against my assault.
“There is one way we haven’t taken you,” I said through a shallow breath.
The thought of Xander and I filling her sweet pussy at the same time had my cock growing harder. It was our way of claiming her together.
“I—I know.”
“Are you ready for that?”
She knew what I was asking.
“Yes. Once I’m completely free. I have to claim my position before the other families. I want to own who I am first.”
“Then you’re ours.”
“Then I’m yours.”
I jerked out of her, turned her, and lifted her a second before filling her again. I set a relentless pace.
“Theo,” she gasped, her arms twining around my neck.
“You sealed your fate with us.”
“I did that when I was in high school.” She leaned forward and bit my lower lip hard enough to draw blood.
However, before I could retaliate, she licked it away and hummed. “Now stop with all the talking and fuck me.”
I gave her no verbal response, only adjusted my angle and rolled my hips, giving her the friction she needed to push her right to the cusp.
I held her there, thrusting with the right rhythm and slowing enough to drive a few expletives from her lips. And right when her nails dug deeper than necessary into my shoulder, I sent her flying into bliss.
“Oh, God. Theo.”
Her pussy clamped down on me so hard it was almost too much to allow any movement. Her muscles flexed and squeezed, and a flood of her arousal soaked my cock.
I gritted my teeth as the erotic pulsing around me forced my balls to draw up and caused my thrusts to grow erratic. In the next second, her continued clenching sent me over the cliff of release.