Page 33 of Cruel Master

This could possibly work.

No sooner do I think that do I jump when the door is suddenly kicked in. I let out a squeak as I'm suddenly met with Gabriel's blazing blue eyes as he bursts in the door angry as hell.

He's angrier than I've ever seen him, and fear grips my heart.

“Nora.” My name is a growl torn from his lips, and my stomach drops as he comes over the threshold.

“How did you find me?” I ask stupidly. Of course he found me. He was always going to find me.

His eyes fall on my arm, and I cover the spot he's looking at as if he touched it physically. I feel something hard underneath the skin, and my eyes widen as comprehension dawns on me.

He must have implanted a tracker in me the other night when he forced a tattooed wedding band on me.

“You should know I'll always find you,” he grits out.

I shake my head as tears rush to my eyes. I should have known.

I expect Gabriel to yank me to my feet and force me to go back to his mansion with him, but I feel a shiver of fear when he kicks the door shut angrily, and then he's on me in the bed, pushing my dress up.

“Gabriel, please,” I beg him, but he shushes me with a harsh kiss on my lips. His kiss is punishing and bruising, and I hate my body for the way it reacts.

Then, his hands are between my legs, expertly making me orgasm. I scream as he forcefully pulls orgasm after orgasm from me before he finally pulls his cock from his pants and thrusts into me deep and hard.

“Look at me,” he snaps at me.

I close my eyes together tightly, but he grabs my chin in his hands. “Nora.”

My eyes fly open.

“Feel the way your body responds to me? You feel how much pleasure I can give you?”

His eyes are desperate, and it cracks something inside me.

“I know you feel how good I make you feel, kitten.” He skims his lips along my jawline, breathing harshly. “Why isn't that enough for you?” He hisses in my ear as he punctuates his words with sharp stabs of his cock, sending tingles rushing throughout me.

I stare up at him and guilt twists my stomach at what I see in his eyes. Yes, his eyes are still blazing at me in anger, but what gets to me is the hurt I see hidden in them.

It suddenly hits me. I acted just like his mother by leaving him. Gabriel will never ask for it. He's too proud. But I know he wants my love.

And I ran from him. My heart fractures.

I know it's completely fucked up and I shouldn't feel sorry for him, but I do. Especially whenever I see a tear glisten in his eyes before it leaks out, revealing his true emotions. “Why, Nora?” His voice breaks, and it spears something inside me. “Why can't you love me?”

My heart cracks clean in half at the vulnerability I finally see in Gabriel. I swallow as he gathers me close to his chest and buries his head in my neck. He pounds into me harder and faster than he ever has as if he’s trying to get so deep inside me I’ll never get him out.

I squeeze my eyes shut tightly and gasp. My orgasm takes me just as I feel him spill his heat inside me.

He collapses onto the bed next to me and for once, he doesn't leave me. Instead, he gathers me close to his chest and holds me until I can't hold it back any longer.

I burst into sobs and cling to him as I cover his chest with my tears.

Gabriel whispers sweet nothings in my ear as he holds me close and strokes his hands through my hair and along my back.

He's a monster, but it suddenly hits me that he's the monster I've fallen in love with.

ChapterTwenty-One

I'm awakened againto the sound of the door slamming open.

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