Page 12 of Deception

“God,” I bite out as my other hand fists against the cold stone.

The ghost of her hair cutting into my flesh, incensing my already frayed control, and for this one moment, all I can see is the curve of her throat, stretching as I yank at her hair tauter and tauter as her tits threaten to spill from the deep V of her dress.

Sweeping my thumb over the head of my dick, I pick up the pace. The feel of her body haunts mine. The warmth and the lithe curves. And her supple flesh that fills me with the urge to bite and maim. To control and dominate.

The erratic pulse of my heart hammers in my veins, harder and harder the faster I fuck my fist. It’s wrong. Wrong to want her. Dangerous to crave her. Still, I can’t stop. Thrust for thrust, I chase my tight, unyielding grip, and I imagine it’s her I’m fucking. That it’s her muffled cries and hoarse gags filling the air and not my frustrated and uncontrolled grunts.

It’s so fucking wrong.

Yet, with my muscles coiling tight around my bones, it’s her fucking eyes I see. Boring into mine. Wild and torrid.

“Fuck…fuck…” The curses echo around me as her tongue sweeps over her lips, and her throat clenches while her eyes weep for me.

Collapsing into the wall, I come hard and fast, my cock pulsing as my release coats my stomach and inescapable heat scorches me from the inside out.

“Shit.”I’m fucked.

Beyond fucked. The girl needs to go. It’s time to end the game.

The only problem is that ending the game means backing down, and I’ve never backed down. Not once in my whole thirty-two years. I don’t stop until I win.

Getting out of the shower, I pause in front of the balcony doors and watch. Her wracking body as Red uses its weight to pull on her restraints, still putting up a fight. I like that. Admire it, even. She’s more like us than she thinks. Maybe when she realises that, she’ll break for me. When it finally dawns on her that no one is coming for her. Because I know that’s what’s keeping her going.

Hope.It’s there in her eyes. All. The. Fucking. Time.

The cacophony of the dogs’ howling doesn’t die down while I get dressed. I need to get out of here. Forget about her and the fucking mistake in the shower. It won’t happen again. It can’t. When it comes to her, the only thing that needs to get fucked is her willpower.

Pausing in the shadow, I watch her shake the dogs down with every kick of her legs and twist of her body. The torturous burn must be agonising right now because her ferocity is dulling. It’s obvious even from a distance. Red is growing weary.

The girl won’t last…

Emin’s words come back to taunt me, and I remind myself like I reminded him—I want her weak. I need her to snap. To fall apart at my feet.

“Break,” I grit under my breath as Nero jumps at her from behind.

He’s always liked a toy.

The sight of him pretending to maul her makes my gut twist.

Red is my toy. My pet.

Before I can stop myself, I’m walking out of my room. The house is quiet and dark as I take the stairs down quickly, skipping two at time as though I’m on a countdown. And maybe my insanity is. Because this is crazy.

“Tomasz,” my father calls from the doorway of the drawing room. The flicker of the flames licks the walls behind him. “We need to talk.”

“I’m busy.” Before he can get another word in, I head outside.

It’s a starless night, with the moon hidden behind thick clouds and the fresh incoming bite of winter lingering in the air. The smaller of the dogs spins to look at me. Gaius growls as though he’s protecting the girl from me, and if I didn’t know that he was afraid that I’m taking the new toy from him, I might actually teach him a lesson in loyalty too.

“You don’t have to be like him.” I pause at the voice coming from the shadows of the gazebo beside me.

“What do you want, Vanya?”

“Let her go, Tomasz. She’s just a girl. A young, helpless girl.”

“Helpless?” I scoff, stepping inside the small structure that overlooks the vast lake. “Isn’t it past your bedtime?”

“What are you going to do when you have daughters and your enemies come for them? What mercy will you pray for when they take them away and savage them like this?”

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