Page 26 of Lady Killer

“Fight it is,” I growled under my breath.

“What are you—?”

I lunged at her before she could finish, watching as her pupils blew open in real time as her sympathetic nervous system activated in the face of the threat I posed. It was a visceral response, one she couldn’t hide under the mask she usually wore, and I drank in her raw emotions.

She attempted to dodge to my right to evade me, but I was faster than her, my limbs longer and stronger, and I snatched her up mid-step, wrapping my hands tightly around her waist.

Her hands, so small and delicate, pushed down on my own in a futile attempt to dislodge me.

She started to hiss, “Let go of—‍”

I couldn’t have that.

Everest might hear her and intervene.

Yanking her into me, I pulled her back flush to my chest and slapped one hand over her mouth, cutting her off, while keeping the other firmly banded across her waist.

“Quiet,” I whispered, brushing my lips across the soft skin of her ear and causing her to shudder and shift her body against mine.

Using the opportunity, I spun her off me and pushed her back. Her eyes widened with the bite of pain when she collided with the wall behind her.

She opened her mouth to protest, but before she could make a sound, my hand was back in place, silencing her as I pinned her with the weight of my body.

Pressed up to her, I could feel her heart beating almost as if it were my own.

“Somehow, I’ve given you the wrong impression,” I rasped, keeping my voice low.

Like a viper, I struck, ripping my hand from her mouth and shooting forward to catch her lips with mine.

The memory of our kiss in Shady Harbor had been haunting me for weeks, and I refused to let another second pass without indulging myself once more.

And what better way to correct her impression of me?

Alternating between sucking on her lower lip and gently biting it, I teased her mouth open.

At first, she resisted, going rigid in my arms, but I refused to accept her retreat and took her lip between my teeth again, pulling her mouth even closer to mine.

Her body relaxed almost imperceptibly, and then she let me in.

Our tongues danced together, and I pressed my growing erection into her stomach.

She was too fucking short.

Needing to give her more, I gripped her hips tightly and pushed her farther up the wall and off the floor, so I could grind my cock against the mound of her pussy.

Fuck.

She wasn’t getting away with just a kiss today. I didn’t care if I had to kill Everest to get a taste of her. Tangling my hands in her thick hair, I pulled her head back, opening up her mouth even further to me.

Every inch of her will be mine.

But first, I had a punishment to administer.

Before she knew what was happening, I bit down hard on her lip, drawing blood.

Her body went stiff as she shrieked in either pain or surprise, and I slapped my hand back over her now-bloody mouth.

“I said, ‘Quiet.’”

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