Chapter Seventeen – Kieran
When I put on the mask, I watched as her demeanor changed. She stood a little straighter, couldn’t take her eyes off me. The mask, as it turned out, held a power over her—it was something I’d have to remember for the future.
When she took off, I was a man of my word, and I waited until my phone’s timer hit five minutes before I went after her. And even then, I was measured in ending the timer and clearing it from my phone, even slower in locking the screen and sliding it into my pocket.
I’d find her. I knew it in my heart. As badly as I wanted to have her right this minute, I also knew she wanted the hunt to last. I did, too. I never imagined we’d be here, playing primal like we were animals, but there were lots of things I never imagined that had happened.
Such as agreeing to share her, for example.
For so long, Laina was mine. For so long, she was all I could see, all I could think about.
She’d become everything to me, and the thought of letting another man have her, even once, filled me with a type of rage I couldn’t quite describe—and yet, look at us now. Things had certainly changed.
I raced through the forest in the same direction she went.
A part of me wondered if, after a while, she got tricky and decided to zigzag or something, but her end goal wasn’t to evade me forever.
It was to be caught and taken every which way possible, so I assumed my girl tried to stick to one direction to put as much distance between us as possible.
Running through the forest at night while wearing a mask, believe it or not, was not easy-peasy.
No lemon-squeezy here. It would have been one thing to simply give chase, but it was another thing entirely to do so while wearing this mask.
As if the darkness of the night did not already limit my vision, the eyeholes in the mask severely limited it further.
My field of vision was not as great as it should’ve been, which was why—I hated to admit—I tripped once or twice.
Or, you know, a few more times than that.
But, hey, I was getting better as the seconds wore on. I thought.
Thank goodness Laina wasn’t around to watch me fumble at first and laugh at me. Hell, I’d like to see her try to run while wearing a mask like this.
Actually? No, I wouldn’t. This mask was mine, and no way in hell would she ever wear it. The way she immediately changed when she saw me put it on? I bet that girl was already wet with the thought of me catching her, and that was not something that made it easier for me to chase.
Hunting my girl with a semi-hard dick was actually not easy at all.
This forest was acres and acres of old trees, large enough to blot out the entire night sky and not let much moonlight through.
Places like this, close to cities, were becoming fewer and farther between.
So many developments popping up everywhere you went.
Drive three and a half hours, and you’d be surprised at the level of nature you could find.
The forest was quiet, save for the sound of old, dead leaves crunching under my shoes as I went.
I didn’t hear Laina, didn’t know how far away she was, but that only fueled me to keep pushing, to keep going.
Harder, faster. The goal was to catch my girl and lay claim to her in a way only I could, while never taking off this mask.
It’d been so goddamn long. Too long. I was a man in the desert, trapped with sun and sand all around, and she was my only oasis—tonight, I planned on drinking deep, on drowning myself in that oasis.
The last time I’d had her, the only time I’d had her, was at that college party, when I’d caught her about to give herself to some random frat boy.
How furious I’d become, just like that. How enraged. I didn’t think I’d ever gotten so angry in my entire life. I could still picture that night perfectly in my head, the memory burned in my brain unlike no other. Injured as I was, I couldn’t stand back and let it happen.
It was a damn good thing I went, too, otherwise no one would have known where she’d been taken. Who knew what those crooks Tessa hired would’ve done to her. She might’ve been killed, or worse—raped, tortured, and then killed.
Not on my watch.
The seconds went by, turning into minutes, and I started to wonder if, perhaps, I’d decided on the wrong thing and that, maybe, Laina had decided to zig or zag after all.
I made it to a wide tree trunk, and then I skidded to a halt to listen, to see if the forest would give me any clues, if it would tell me I was completely off-base or if she was nearby. I held my breath as I listened.
I wouldn’t call it a miracle, but I would call it something, because right when I quieted, I heard the faintest sounds in the distance: someone stepping on leaves, someone running. And just like that, I was close. She was almost within reach.
I didn’t hesitate a second longer; I launched into a full-blown run, heading right toward the sound.
To say I was excited would be an understatement; I was fucking thrilled.
My hands practically itched with the need to touch her, and my dick had passed the semi-hard definition and now landed firmly in the hard category.
Yeah, it made running right then a bit harder, no pun intended, but I managed.
My eyes had long since adjusted to the darkness, and even with my slanted field of vision, I finally spotted her racing away a good thirty or so feet ahead. She tossed a look behind her when she realized she wasn’t alone anymore, and the moment she saw me, her legs worked overtime.
But even so, she was no match for me. A burst of energy exploded inside me, and I closed the distance between us without tripping once. A good thing, surely, because I didn’t think I’d ever live it down if I fell while hunting my girl.
I leaped over a fallen log and reached her within a few seconds after.
I grabbed her by the wrist and yanked her back as we both skidded to a halt, using her momentum to slam her into my chest as she twirled around.
Laina let out a hard gasp and set her free hand on my chest, while my other arm wrapped around her back and held her firmly in place.
“Got you,” I growled out the words. “You didn’t think you’d run from me forever, did you?” As I asked the question, I slowly cocked my head at her, gazing down at her while both our chests rose and fell with heavy breaths.
She squirmed a bit, like she was still trying to get away, but soon enough it was clear I would not release her, so she ceased with the futile struggling.
“You got me,” she said, breathless. “Now that you have me, what are you going to do with me?” There was an edge to her question, a sultry edge that was definitely not there before.
My entire body hummed. “You know exactly what I’m going to do… I hope you’re ready to get dirty.” Even I was shocked at the tone of my voice; the mask really did make me sound different. Or maybe I felt like a different man when I wore it, like I could truly be myself.
All she did was nod, and I couldn’t wait any longer.
I worked on taking her clothes off, starting with her shirt and her bra.
Once off, I let them fall to the forest floor, and then I went to slip her shoes off, then her pants and the panties underneath.
Just like that, she was naked. Naked and all mine.
She helped me out of my clothes next, careful in keeping my mask on while I lifted my shirt up and over my head.
Without saying another word, she dropped to her knees and worked on my pants, tearing them down to my ankles and revealing my very hard cock.
She took it in her mouth with no warning, and I threw my head back and moaned into the mask as my hand found the back of her head.
Fuck. I didn’t mind this at all.
Laina practically hummed as she bobbed along my length, taking me in deeply.
Her tongue swirled around the tip, catching what precum must’ve been there.
Moans came from me, though the sounds were muffled thanks to the mask.
Eventually I angled my face down so I could watch her worship me like I was her only god.
After a while, my hips began to rock, pushing my cock deeper into her throat.
With my hand on the back of her head, she could only take it.
The feeling of her wet mouth around my length was unreal, and the only thing that would’ve been better would be if I was buried between her legs—and that would come soon enough.
I could feel the pleasure in me threatening to surge, so I tightened my grip on the back of her head and muttered, “I’m almost there. You’re going to take it like a good girl, aren’t you? You’re going to swallow everything I give you and still beg for more.”
She made a sound that I knew was her agreeing; couldn’t forget how quickly she’d lost herself for me that day when I’d told her I’d give her something to tattle about, kissed her, and slipped my hand down her body.
My hips rocketed forward as the orgasm took hold of me.
Heated pleasure pumped through my veins as I emptied myself in her mouth, and like a good girl, she took every single drop I gave her, gobbling it up as if she couldn’t get enough.
Greedy, hungry, the kind of desire only she could display when it came to me.
Right then, there were no thoughts of any other man in my head.
She was mine. Fully, completely mine, and I was dying to bury my cock in that sweet pussy.
I pulled out of her mouth and slipped out of my shoes, fully stepping out of my pants.
I helped her lay down on the forest floor, though I arranged my shirt as a barrier of sorts for her torso.
She’d be the one on the ground; I didn’t want her to be too uncomfortable.