Page 8 of The Demons We Hide

“No?” This time, he does laugh. The sound is light and contrary to what I think of when I see the big goth-looking behemoth that is Alexio Medicci. Normally, he’s all muscle and dark broody behavior, like a Doberman brought to life in a human man. Now, it seems I’m getting the puppy version.

I arch and grit my teeth when he sets his finger over my asshole and pushes. It’s a light touch, more a request than a full-blown demand. My flinch isn’t so much a testament to current pain, but remembered pain when I’d tried anal once before.

I didn’t like it then and I don’t know that I will now. I’m so turned on right now, though, so soaked that I’m not sure I won’t say yes if Lex asks for it. I can feel my cunt dripping down my inner thighs and my head is full of what feels like cotton.Maybe it won’t hurt this time.

“Anal isn’t supposed to hurt, Juliet.”

I blink, realizing that those words had come from Lex.Had I said the last part aloud?I shake my head.Damn it, why can’t I seem to focus?

“If you want…” Am I really going to tell him yes? Am I going to offer him my ass? Maybe. It feels too wrong though. Like it’s a secret place that shouldn’t be shared again. Then again, who gives a fuck what I do with my body? It’s mine, isn’t it?

“No, baby.” Despite Lex’s words, his finger still gently massages my dark hole. “I won’t take your ass tonight. I have to prepare you and as much as I’d love to see you come on my cock with your ass stretched around me, we have to work up to that. Tell me what you meant by ‘maybe it won’t hurt this time.’”

Shit. I totallyhadsaid that aloud.

With a groan of disbelief, I sink further into the mattress. “It doesn’t matter,” I tell him. “If you don’t want to do it tonight then at least fuck my pussy.Please,Lex, I’m dying here.”

“Who?”

“Huh?” I glance back over my shoulder to see Lex staring at me, the shadows of the room sliding across his face and shielding almost all of his expression. There’s no hiding the rigid set of his shoulders, though, or the tightness in his jaw.

“Who hurt you?”

“No one.” Frowning, I jump slightly when he pulls his finger away from my asshole and reaches for something out of my line of sight. The sound of a bottle top popping open echoes throughout the room, then something wet and sticky slides down my asscrack. A gasp escapes me, and he murmurs a soft apology in a near whisper as the cool liquid slides towards my asshole.

“Tell me,” Lex says. “Who fucked your ass and made it hurt?”

His finger returns and aided by the new liquid, he slides almost too easily into my ass. I arch up as tingles race up and down my spine.Fuck. Me. It definitely didn’t feel like that last time.

“Bran,” I gasp, my chest pumping up and down as Lex pushes his finger in to the first digit and then pulls it back out before sliding it in further. Something warm unfurls in my belly. Sweat slicks down my spine and my nipples pebble, aching with need. “W-we tried it once before, but it … it didn’t work out.”

“You said it hurt,” Lex repeats, but I’m too focused on what he’s doing with my ass to really hear him.

I moan, pushing my hips back and forcing his finger deeper. “It didn’t feel like this,” I admit. “More … ohfuck,do more.”

The room grows fuzzy as Lex answers my plea by withdrawing his finger and fucking it back into my ass. He clamps his free hand on my hip and holds me in place as the restraints around my wrists bite into my flesh. I gasp, arching and bowing and thrusting as he drives into my ass, adding a second finger and scissoring them apart ever so slightly. My hole stretches and for a moment, I think it’s too much and that the pain will come back, but then he eases out gently. My cunt weeps at the mixture of pleasure and pain.

An orgasm builds low in my stomach once again and swells like a quickly filling water balloon, threatening to burst at any moment. My insides clench and release and I moan into the soft black satin sheets. Lex sleeps on black satin. That’s a little surprising and also... not. He seems to like black.

“No!” I practically scream, my head coming up and swiveling around to glare as Lex’s fingers disappear and I feel him climb off the bed. “I was almost there!”

Lex chuckles. “Don’t worry, baby,” he says. “I’ll let you come—just not until you’re coming around my cock.” He disappears from view, but a stream of golden light tears into my periphery. A bathroom? A moment later the sound of running water reaches my ears and I know I’m right.

I tighten all over when he returns, body on display. Now that I’m not focused on what he’s doing to me, I can appreciate that olive skin of his wrapped in various tattoos. The small script over the side of his abdomen comes into view and I remember touching that spot with my fingers the night in his SUV. Lex moves closer and closer, right up to the side of my head. I want to lean down and trace those words with my tongue. Then … maybe the rest of him.

The restraints around my wrists come free and my arms sag downward. Before I can yank myself free from the cuffs, Lex has both of my hands in one of his. With a deft movement that speaks of his strength, he flips me onto my back and then comes down on top of me. I spread my legs easily, tipping my face up as he hovers. My own juices are trickling back towards my ass and mixing with the lube he’d used. I’m primed to be fucked and tired of waiting for it.

“Feeling good?” he asks, a wicked grin on his lips.

I frown. “I…”Do,I realize. Idofeel good. I feel relaxed and calm even though I haven’t had an orgasm. Then I remember the chocolate he’d given me. I was right. It wasn’t just candy.

“Did you drug me?” I narrow my eyes on him.

Lex’s hold on my wrists tightens at the question. “I only gave you a little something to take the edge off,” he says. “You liked it, and so did I.” His words remind me of how he’d eaten his straight from my cunt.

Heat burns through me hotter than ever. Gasping as my skin comes alive and my head fogs over with lust and need, I try to focus on something, anything to keep myself sane. “What was it?” I ask, breathlessly.

“An edible,” he answers easily enough. “Small dosage.”

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