Gorgon
The world didn’t calm once Cole drove away. It just went silent—the kind of silence that came before something broke, and he felt as though he was holding his breath waiting for that to happen.
Steam drifted from the exhaust of trucks still idling in the yard. Snow hissed as it melted against hot metal. His men were waiting for orders, eyes flicking between him and the road like dogs watching their master decide whether the hunt was over.
He told himself to look away, but he didn’t. There was something about Kimi that seemed to draw him to her, and there was no way that he’d ignore that now. She was his, and the sooner she realized that, the better.
He pulled her into his arms and sealed his mouth over hers, putting on quite a show for anyone still standing in the yard.
He was marking her as his own, and the guys would know exactly what that meant—she was hands off to everyone else now.
Kimi seemed to get the memo, too. He ended the kiss, and she staggered back from him.
She looked at him as though she knew exactly what he had just done, and he couldn’t tell if she was pissed or amused. Probably a bit of both.
“Was that for them or for me?” she said, looking around at the rest of the guys in the yard.
He shrugged, “Both,” he said, honestly. “Because you and the guys all need to realize that you’re mine now,” he said.
She put her hands on her hips, and he knew that she was going to give him some trouble.
Honestly, it made him horny as hell when she gave him sass.
“Now wait a minute,” she started, “just because we slept together doesn’t mean—” He didn’t let her finish.
Instead, he pulled her against his body again and kissed away her next words.
When he finally finished making a meal out of her, he let her slide down his body, careful not to let her go again.
“We did more than just sleep together, baby. And if you’ve already forgotten how well I fucked you last night, I can give you a refresher course.
” Trudi barked out her laugh behind them, and Kimi’s cheeks turned the cutest shade of pink.
“I think that you’ve proven your point,” Kimi whispered to him.
“I know that the guys understand, but do you, honey?” he asked.
She shyly nodded and smiled at him. “I do, although I might need that refresher.” She winked at him, and he couldn’t help himself.
Sure, they had just faced her ex, and the danger of him coming back was still there, but he couldn’t let her challenge go unchecked.
He hoisted her over his shoulder as she squealed for him to put her down.
He swatted her ass, “Hold still, honey,” he ordered. “This is going to have to be a quick refresher, but I’ll make sure that you get the full course tonight,” he teased, swatting her ass again, making her squeal.
“Um, I’ll just hold down the fort then,” Buck called after him as he headed up the stairs to his room.
“You do that,” he shouted back over his shoulder.
He carried Kimi into his room and sat her on his bed.
She looked him over, and he smiled down at her.
“What are you going to do with me now?” she asked.
He liked this game that they were playing, and God, he wanted to take his time with her, but he also knew that Buck would be banging on his door in no time.
“Well, I need a shower, and I need to fuck you. How about you help me do both at the same time? Otherwise, this will be over fast because Buck will be up here to drag my ass back downstairs if I take too long.” She gleefully nodded her agreement, and he walked into his bathroom to turn on the hot water and stripped out of his clothes.
“You’ll use all the hot water,” she murmured, walking into the bathroom to find him.
He flashed her his wolfish grin. “Then get naked and get in before I do.” She didn’t hesitate for long. The sound of her jeans falling to the floor, along with the whisper of fabric as she tugged her shirt over her head, and the small, almost shy sounds she gave him, made him hard.
When he reached out for her, their hands found each other in that cloud of steam that had filled the bathroom. They needed no words this time. All the things they’d said—promises, threats, apologies—they didn’t belong here.
Her skin was warm from the steam, and his hands shook slightly when he touched her shoulder, tracing the line of her collarbone, feeling both the strength and the fragility she carried in equal weight.
Kimi looked up at him as the water caught her lashes, and for a moment, it stopped being about survival.
He brushed her hair back, pressing his forehead to hers.
“Tell me to stop,” he said quietly, the same warning he’d given last night, but never with this much hope that she wouldn’t ask him to stop.
She didn’t answer. Instead, she leaned into him, her lips finding his, slow and deliberate, the kind of kiss that pulled years of restraint out of a man.
Every breath turned heavier as the water drowned out the rest of the world, and all he could think about was the way her hands found the back of his neck like she’d learned him already.
It wasn’t frantic, but it wasn’t soft either.
It was the kind of closeness that stripped the war out of both of them for a heartbeat’s length.
When she whispered his name against his throat, it wasn’t a plea. It was a declaration. He caught her face in his palms and met her eyes. “If I touch you,” he said low and raw, “I won’t undo any of this after.”
“Then don’t undo it,” she breathed. The shower hissed around them, beating against their skin, washing off the cold, the fear, and the rest of the world. Gorgon kissed her again—slow, steady, reverent—the way a man does when he’s not sure if he’s saving himself or ruining what’s left of his soul.
“Say that you’re mine, Kimi,” he growled as he backed her into the spray of the hot water.
“Gorgon,” she breathed. She didn’t give him the words, though, and for some reason, he wanted to hear them from her more than he wanted his next breath.
He hauled her up his body, letting her wrap her legs around his waist. “Tell me that you’re mine, Kimi,” he said again as he thrust balls deep into her warm body. She gasped and whimpered his name again, but still didn’t give him the words that he wanted from her.
Gorgon knew that he was setting a punishing pace, but he didn’t care.
He pounded her into the cold tile wall, taking what she was willing to give him and pushing her for more.
“The words, Kimi,” he growled. “I need to hear you say them. Tell me that you’re mine.
” A stubbornness flashed across her features, and he knew that she was going to give him one hell of a fight.
Two could play at that game. He pulled free from her body and let her feet hit the tile floor.
“What are you doing?” she hissed.
“I am waiting on you, honey. I need to hear the words,” he said.
“Can’t we talk about this when we’re finished?” she asked. He couldn’t help his smirk. He knew that she was close to finding her release, and he hated doing this to her, but he wouldn’t let her get away with not telling him what they both already knew.
“No,” he breathed. “I can see it in your eyes, honey. Every time you look at me, I can see that you’re mine.
I just need you to say those words to me.
If not, I’ll soap up, and we can be finished with our shower.
But I won’t touch you again without the words, Kimi.
” He was pretty sure that his balls were going to turn blue without being able to touch her, but he meant it.
She twisted her face into the cutest scowl.
And he knew that she didn’t want to give up without a fight, but he could tell the moment she resolved herself to giving him what he wanted from her.
“Fine,” she said, dramatically throwing her hands in the air.
“I’m yours, does that make you happy?” she hissed.
Gorgon pulled her into his arms and kissed her, not able to help his smile.
“Yep, that makes me pretty fucking happy,” he admitted.
He didn’t give her time to argue with him, lifting Kimi into his arms and sliding back into her body.
She moaned out his name as he pushed her back against the wall.
He snaked his hand between their bodies and ran the pad of his thumb over her clit, making her cry out his name.
God, he loved it when she said his name, but he loved hearing her say that she was his even more.
“Tell me that you’re mine again, honey,” he said, his voice sounding like gravel from need.
“I’m yours, Gorgon,” she shouted, as he helped her find her release. He didn’t stop until she was sated in his arms, and then, he found his release, breathing her name against her skin as he kissed his way up her neck to her mouth.
He kept her pressed between him and the tile wall until he could finally catch his breath. “You’re so fucking perfect,” he breathed.
“You are so fucking stubborn,” she whispered as he let her slide down his body.
He couldn’t help his chuckle, “You’re one to talk. But I’m glad that you’re finally able to admit what we both know, honey,” he teased, backing her into the hot spray of water. He grabbed her ass and squeezed her cheeks in his big hands.
“Oh, what’s that?” she coyly asked.
“That you’re mine now, Kimi,” he growled, pressing her against his already growing erection.
“Again?” she asked, seeming to melt into his body.
He nodded and dipped his head to kiss her. “I can’t get enough of you, honey. I’m constantly hard whenever I’m around you. I have been since you got here.” Admitting that to her wasn’t easy, but it was the truth.