Chapter 18 #2
“No.” She pushed away from me. “You won’t. You can’t promise me something you have no control over. You can’t do anything. You don’t know what it’s like . . . to slowly be losing yourself every day. I won’t turn into one of them . . . I won’t.”
“Hanna.” I reached out.
“No!” She hit my hand again, another sob contorting her body, feeling like a dagger to my own.
“I can’t trust myself anymore.” She waved in the direction of Markos’s camp.
“I couldn’t stop myself. I could have been seen.
” She hiccupped and gasped. “I am a threat. To you . . . to the group.” She shook her head. “I have to go . . . far from here.”
“No.” A deep growl hacked through the air, my body crawling over to her, clutching her wrists, tugging her closer. “You are not going anywhere. You are staying here. You are staying with me.”
A tiny gasp hitched her throat, her watery eyes finding mine, searching for an answer I wasn’t sure of myself. I just knew every fiber of my being I would not let her go.
“I’m telling you this once, little viper.
You aren’t going anywhere without me.” I tugged her closer, feeling the dominance surge from me.
I had lived centuries, had a lot of lovers, and one time I thought I found my mate, but nothing came close to what I felt now.
I would slaughter anything that stepped into this forest and tried to hurt her.
I would destroy anything that got in my way, and if she ran, there was nowhere she would go that I wouldn’t find her.
The overwhelming sensation curled in my chest, making me feel dizzy.
“You can’t fix this, Scorpion.” Her eyes pleaded with mine. “I am only a danger to you all. And it’s only going to get worse.” She sniffed, pulling her chin up. “You need to promise me something else.”
“Anything.”
“When it’s time . . . you will kill me.”
As if a tsunami crashed down on me, yanking me up and away from her. “What?” I stumbled back.
Wiping her eyes, Hanna got to her feet, standing strong. “Please, if you care for me at all. You will do this. I won’t become a monster.”
“No.” I gritted, fury bubbling off my skin. “Fuck no. How dare you even say those words?”
“I will kill everyone here without thought or concern. All my friends. Everyone I care about. You.” She gulped back emotion. “You have to promise me. Don’t let me become that. Please.”
Her pleas felt like an actual knife to my chest, bending me over, pain shredding through me. “No . . .” my voice croaked, my head shaking, staring at the ground. “I won’t do it.”
“Scorpion. Look at me.”
I couldn’t.
“I said look at me.”
Her voice was my own siren song, my body obliging her. Locking down my jaw, my eyes tracked as she stepped up to me, her hands cupping my face.
“You said you’d do anything.”
“Not that,” I ground out.
Her hands dropped away, but her gaze on me didn’t relent.
“Right now, all I see is a badass woman.” I stepped into her, my frame looming over hers.
“Who has the instincts of a wildcat and can tear into meat with a fierce hunger.” My hands slid over her cheeks, clutching the back of her head hard.
She let out a tiny huff, her eyes tapering like that cat was being summoned.
“You only took one dose. This might be all it is.”
“And if it’s not?”
One side of my cheek lifted, my thumb wiping away her drying tears.
“Then I better start taming this pussy now.” I yanked her into me, not giving her any time to react before my lips were on hers.
I was attacking, inhaling, and devouring the mouth I had fantasized about for far too long.
Even when she was our prisoner, chained up and being a pain in my ass, I couldn’t stay away.
Taking watch every chance I could, assuring myself it was because I wanted to torture the pretty, pampered blonde human from HDF.
She was spoiled, ill-trained, and too confident for her own good, and I convinced myself I hated her sharp tongue and even sharper teeth.
Though I jerked off every night to images of our hate sex, her mouth around my cock, still handcuffed to the wall as I hammered into her.
Somewhere along the way, my hate turned into something completely different. I saw nothing but strength and fire in her, nothing but depth and beauty. She fascinated me, challenged me, angered me, and made me want to fight the world to keep her protected and close.
There was nothing I wouldn’t do to make sure of that.
My tongue slid deeper into her mouth, and I tasted the salt from her tears, only making me want to replace all her pain with pleasure.
“Scorpion,” Hanna groaned, meeting me with the same ferocity, her hands hooking my belt loops, pulling me closer to her. Another groan came from her when my hard cock pressed into her, wanting to burn through the layers and feel her heat wrap around it.
Desire rode over me with desperation. I no longer cared that an enemy army was only feet away and our group was probably waiting for us to ride the hell out of here. I couldn’t pull away from her.
“Hanna.” My voice was hoarse, giving her an out, willing her to stop me because I couldn’t.
“Make me feel something other than pain and fear.” She tugged harder on my pants as she lowered herself back to the ground, taking me with her. My body covered hers, our kisses becoming deeper, needier.
Shouts and gunfire from the base close by only made Hanna rock into me harder, ripping my jacket off and tearing my sweater over my head. Her mouth covered my chest, sucking on my nipple.
“Fuck!” My dick turned to steel. Adrenaline moved like lightning through me as I rid myself of the rest of my clothes. We didn’t have much time. But the outside threat raised the intensity. The demand.
Stripping her, my mouth was back on hers as I lowered my body over hers, our bare skin sparking like flames as it touched.
“I need you now.” She rolled into me, my dick sliding through her folds. “Oh gods . . .” Her head curved into the leaves over the ground. “Scorpion.”
Next time, I would take my time. I liked it rough, and I preferred it kinky, but right now, my only thoughts were being inside her.
“Watch me,” I growled, leaning on one elbow and gripping my dick. Her pussy was wet and dripping for me. “I want you to watch my cock plunge into you.”
She moaned, her legs widening as she went up on her elbows, her pupils dilated, her nipples hard.
I pushed in slowly.
“Akarlak.” I want you. I hissed; she was so fucking tight. My eyes stayed on her as I pushed deeper inside her, watching her expression as I filled her.
“Oh gods!” Her body jerked, a loud moan heaving from her mouth. I moved fully over her, slamming all the way in, my hand covering her mouth as she screamed. Her core throbbed around me, clenching and adjusting to me.
“Hanna.” My eyes rolled back in my head, the sensation overpowering me.
“More.” She slammed her hips up into me, sinking me deeper. Sucking in, I thrust in deeper, her body rolling and moving with mine.
With every move we made, louder groans came from us. The intensity was like nothing I had ever experienced before, and my past was full of fantastic sex with thousands of different partners over the centuries.
This? This sunk into my very being, drilled into my veins, and coated my skin. It owned me.