Page 89 of Soft Tissue Damage
My lips curve in a dark smile behind the mask. “You kissed me, darlin’. Right after I killed those men in Fenton. I decided then and there that I needed you forever, and I decided I needed me, too. The real me. You gave me hope that you could love the man I really am.”
She thinks about this for a long time. “Are you going to ask me if my aunts deserved to die?”
I shake my head. “I’m sure you had your reasons.”
“Ask me.”
“If that’s what you want. Your aunts. Did they deserve to die?”
“They didn’t. Ask me if I’m sorry.”
“I don’t care if you’re sorry.”
“Ask me,” she insists, reaching up to grip my shoulders.
“Are you sorry they’re dead?”
“I’m not.” She laughs, a breathless, astonished kind of laugh. “What a relief it is to say that. I would have pretended to be sorry if a neighbor came in here tonight and found me, or the cops, or a friend. If it were anyone else, I would have wept tears of remorse, but those tears would have been a lie. I wouldn’t be sorry that they’re dead. I’d only be sorry that I lost you and Rosie. Those were the tears I shed just now. For you and Rosie.”
I take her face in my hands. “We’re the same, you and me. We’re meant to be.”
She grasps the chin of the mask and pushes it atop my head. As soon as she uncovers my mouth, she kisses me. She moans against my lips and wraps her bloodstained arms around my neck.
I don’t care if the room is red and dripping or the bodies of her dead aunts are lying nearby. I love Elena so much.
“Yours is the only heart that matters to me,” I say between kisses, taking her face in my hands as I devour her mouth. “Yours, Rosie’s, and our baby’s. I will do anything to keep you. I have done so many insane things already to keep you that you don’t know about.”
“Like what?” she asks breathlessly.
“Your contraceptives are vitamin patches. I’ve been trying to get you pregnant this whole time.”
Her mouth drops open in surprise. “Cullan!”
“Do you think I could sleep at night knowing your beautiful body was full of hormones that blocked your fertility? I had to make you mine, and this was the fastest way I could think of. Besides, I want a family with you, and I hate waiting for what I want.”
She twines her fingers through my hair, curiosity glimmering in her eyes. “What else have you done to keep me?” There’s a purr in her voice. I’ve been insane for her, and she’s not afraid. She likes it.
I smile wickedly. “Can you guess?”
Elena thinks for a moment. “My life has been so happy.Suspiciously happy. You’ve done things to make it that way, haven’t you?”
“One or two things.”
Her nails dig into my shoulders and her eyes darken with desire. “Tell me every crazy thing you’ve done. Make this your love confession. Tell me all the ways I’ve made you insane.”
I press my mouth over hers and stroke her with my tongue. Elena unfastens my shirt and opens it. “I ruined your life. I ripped it apart and put it back together again just how I wanted it, and I took great pleasure in doing it. I destroyed your apartment. Shut down the diner. Broke up you and Leon by sending you all those texts. Moved you in with me.”
“You beast,” she breathes, scratching her nails down my chest, hard enough to leave marks.
I pick her up in my arms and carry her through to the living room. “I’d do it all again. No hesitation.”
On the rug, we rip at each other’s clothes until we’re both naked enough that her nipples are bare to my mouth, and my cock can sink into her slick heat. Elena cries out and scratches her nails over me again.
“I thought of you as I killed,” I confess as I hammer my cock into her. “As the euphoria washed over me, I imagined sinking my cock into you so deep. Pushing my hand against your belly and feeling you from the outside.” I do exactly that, pressing so hard on her stomach that I feel the outline of my cock in her belly. Pleasure tightens my lungs, Fuck, I need this woman.
“You’re everything I was warned about and worse,” Elena says, moving her hand down between us to encircle my thrusting cock and then caress her clit.
“I’ve been watching you. I’ve been tracking you. There are cameras all over my house. Not just in the nursery.”
