Page 109 of Lifebound

Even if it didn’t sound like a lie, ithadto be.

“Tell me something, Rune,” I whispered, leaning as close to the bars as I could without being stung by this magic that hummed on their surface.

“What’s that?” he asked.

“Do you want me?”

I felt no regret, no shame, no embarrassment because I was consumed by magic and by this need for him that was slowly turning into fucking pain. I needed to know if he evenfeltthe tug a little bit, if that kiss we’d shared had been all me or if he’d wanted it, too. Because it had felt like he did, and he’d kissed me back with the same urgency, but then I’d basically begged him to do it.

So, I needed to know.

Rune looked me right in the eye, didn’t breathe in for a good moment. Didn’t blink or move at all.

“No.”

Liar.

He was a fucking liar because I could see the desire written in the colors of his eyes every time those charges of electricity went up and down the golden bars.

Or maybe I just didn’t want to break my own heart any further, or maybe I was just looking for an excuse to do what I knew I shouldn’t do—and maybe and maybe and maybe…

Either way, I stepped back and straightened my shoulders and said, “Then turn around. Don’t look at me.”

I continued to walk backward, and just the thought of what I was about to do made me want to fucking moan. This wasn’t normal. This wasn’t natural, but I’ll be damned if I could take it for a moment longer.

I give up,I thought.I fucking surrender.

“What?” Rune whispered, but I didn’t answer.

The leather couch was on the far right of the cage, and he watched me move all the way to it. The armrest was thick and round, and just as soft and as hard as I needed.

I put one leg on the other side of it, knee against the seat, and spread the other as far as I could, torso still slightly turned so I could see him standing there at the corner of his cage.

“Wildcat, what are you doing?” Rune demanded, his voice louder now, harder.

It vibrated right between my legs.

With my eyes on his still, I sat on the armrest, and fuck, it felt incredible.

“Don’t look at me,”I told him again. My voice came out breathless, but I didn’t care.

I closed my eyes, faced the bars behind the couch, and I moved on the armrest, forward and back, slowly. A moan ripped out of my mouth, and if there had been any part of me left that could have stopped me from doing this, it was gone now. My control flew right out of the cage where I couldn’t reach, and I started to pick up the rhythm.

My eyes were closed, my head thrown back, and in my mind, Rune was watching me. I didn’t dare look back to confirm it, afraid I’d find him with his back turned. I just continued to move on the armrest, rubbing my pussy against the leather as my back arched and I moaned every time I exhaled.

It was heaven. The feeling was so powerful, so intense that it took less than a minute of moving like that to get me close to the edge. I was dying for release, and no matter where it had come from, I was going to have it.

So, I moved off the armrest and sat on the couch, put my heels on the edge of it, spread my legs and pulled my dress up to my thighs. I didn’t dare open my eyes at all, both afraid that I’d see Rune watching, and that I’d find him at the other end of his cage, looking away. I just slipped my fingers underneath my soaking wet panties and touched myself.

The sensation made me scream as if in surprise. I hadneverbefore in my life been more turned on, more wet, and the way my fingertips felt sliding up and down my wet folds was fucking insanity. I slipped two inside me and my body came alive, my hips moving on their own, my back arching. My other hand was on my breasts, cupping and squeezing, then pulling the fabric down so I could pinch my nipples, the need driving me insane.

I cried out and moaned and whimpered, and I called out his name more times than I cared to count. If he heard me, so be it. I was way past holding back now.

And I was close, so close. I was moving, my entire body controlled by the pleasure ripping throughout me. All it took was a little bit of pressure on my clit.

The orgasm grabbed me and took me all the way to the sky.

“Rune!”I cried out, completely delirious, and my hips kept moving, making the high last a long time.

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