Page 9 of The Hunted

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Hunter

Her sugary scent overwhelms my senses as my fingers hook into the sides of her panties. I fight the urge to tear them from her body. I’m waging an internal battle between wanting to see every bit of her bared to me right now and wanting to drag it out and savor the moment. It’s maddening and is driving me insane. The ultimate tease. My cock twitches with anticipation. I’d rather keep her panties intact as a token of this moment instead. This can only happen once. I can only allow this one moment of selfishness.

With my mind made up, I begin to slowly slide the thin material down and glimpse just the slightest hint of her pussy, teasing myself with what I’m about to see. My fingers caress her soft skin. Fuck she is beautiful like this. Flushed cheeks, kiss-swollen lips, pebbled pink nipples. Beautiful. She can try to fight this all she wants, but her body tells me the truth. She’s just as hungry for this as I am. Before I can further enjoy the moment and claim this damn scrap of material as mine, a knock sounds at my door.

“Bane.”

Ace shouts my name and follows it up with three more knocks.

“Bane.”

He shouts one last time, and my jaw clenches. You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.

I lower my head down onto the soft expanse of her stomach and groan. She rubs her hands through my hair for a moment before she realizes what she’s doing and pulls them back. My scalp tingles, crying for more of her touch.

“You getting that?” The cool tone of her question doesn’t go unnoticed by me. The moment is ruined now that she’s had a few seconds to come down from the lust-fueled high we were just sharing.

I push myself up off her with a frustrated growl and pull the edge of the blanket over her to cover up her tits.

“Do not move. I will deal with this and be right back.”

I point at her, letting her know I have every intention of finishing what we started. I have waited weeks for this moment. I’ve spent hours watching her, waiting for this.

She nods to show me she agrees while she appraises me from head to fucking toe with those beautiful green eyes. She watches me grab my cock in my fist and give it a couple of long, slow strokes from root to tip before I head for the door. My hard-on isn’t going anywhere. I open the door to see Ace standing on the other side.

“What the fuck do you want?”

I throw the words at him. He looks me up and down and laughs when he notices my stiff dick. I’ve never wanted to punch my best friend in the face more than I do at this moment.

“Am I interrupting?”

“Yeah, Ace, you are. What do you fucking want?”

I don’t have the patience for his bullshit right now. Not when my prize is lying nearly naked and ready a few feet behind me.

“Well, you aren’t going to like this, but I need you to come with me. A couple of members got into it over one of the girls, and let’s just say, Lazz got a little heavy-handed.”

I don’t doubt that at all. Lazz is still looking for any chance he can get to vent his frustrations. God knows he has plenty of reason to be angry, but he can’t continue to drown everyone and everything out with booze. He’s been getting sloppy for months. That’s one of the reasons why I had to relieve him from assignments for a while and have him stay away from the manor. I should have known it wouldn’t take long for his vengeance to find an outlet here.

“Where are they?” I ask as I rub my hands over my face.

“In the common room. Separated for now. They refuse to come to a gentlemen’s agreement on the matter.”

“Fucking stupid idiots. Why are they fighting over a woman? There are plenty around here to be had.”

“Ha!” sounds from behind me. I turn to see a shitty expression plastered on her beautiful face. A furrow of disgust rests between her brows and her lush mouth is drawn into a hard line. When she realizes we’re watching her, she turns away.

“You got something to say?” I ask the back of her head. I don’t know why but that look of disgust pisses me off. I was just beginning to make progress with her. How quickly everything I’ve planned has gone to shit.

“No.”

It’s the only response I get.

“Give me a few minutes, Ace. I’ll be down.”

I shut the door on his smirking ass face.

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