Page 256 of Fangs
Wolf took one look at the dark circles under my eyes the following day and tried to insist on having someone in the room with me again. I finally convinced him to let me keep trying, but the few times I did manage to fall asleep, the nightmares I woke from made sleep impossible again. Wolf stubbornly started sitting outside the door so he could hear me and come in and wake me up. He looked almost as exhausted as I did, and I hated it.
After several nights of this, I was lying in bed, staring at the ceiling, when there was a soft knock on the window.
Confused, I sat up and almostscreamed at the sight of Lee perched on the windowsill of the second floor like an overgrown bird. I stomped to the window to open it for him.
“What the fuck are you doing?” I hissed.
“Comin’ to see you,” he whispered with a devilish grin.
“What’s wrong with the door?”
“Wolf’s sittin’ outside of it.”
“So?”
“So, I don’t want him to know I’m in here,” he smirked.
I blinked. “You can’t be serious.”
He slid inside the window, effortlessly contorting his body to fit through the space. I leaned out the window, looking at the straight drop to the ground. There were no handholds I could see.
“How the fuck did you get up here?” I asked.
“I’m a man of many talents.”
Before I could even fully turn, he was pulling me into his arms, lips hard and hungry on mine. I gasped, and he took advantage of the moment to deepen the kiss, his tongue tangling with mine and sending shivers down my spine. His fingers tightened on my waist, and a whimper escaped my throat.
He broke our kiss to shush me, his dark brown eyes glinting with his grin.
“Are you insane?” I breathed as my brain jerked back into gear. “My brother is right outside the door!”
His gaze darkened to a smolder that made meache.“So be a good girl and stay quiet.”
He kissed me again, and the memories that haunted me were lost to the sensation of his hands sliding down to palm my hips and his mouth taking my lower lip between his teeth. I threaded my hands into his hair and pressed myself harder against him. He broke our kiss to groan a quiet curse.
“You remember when you took my thumb in your mouth?” he asked, his thumb brushing across my lips.
I nodded.
“I almost lost it right there.” His eyes were locked on my lips. “All I could picture was how pretty that smartass mouth would look wrapped around my cock.”
Heat sizzled through me. There was a desperation in him I liked. There was no sweet lead-up, no tender moments, and that was exactly what I needed. I pulled him into a kiss again, letting my hands trail down his stomach to dip below his shirt. He groaned against my mouth as I slid my hands across the plane of his stomach. He was so warm, as though fire ran through him, and I wanted that fire to devour me.
Lee released me for a moment to shuck his shirt off and drop it on the floor before grabbing my waist and sealing his lips against mine again. He backed me toward the wall beside the door, and once I was leaning against it, his fingers hooked in the waistband of my sleep shorts.
“These damned shorts,” he said, flashing me a sinful grin, and then he slowly slid them off my hips, crouching as he went.
I sucked in a breath, feeling a flash of self-consciousness as I stood half bare against the wall, but he ran his hands up my calves, coming to land on the backs of my thighs, his fingers tightening on my skin like he was physically holding himself back.
“Gods, you’re perfect.” His eyes were hungry as he gazed at me. “I want to taste you. I want to feel you come apart on my tongue.”
“Lee,” I breathed, my entire body pulsing with heat and want.
He stayed crouched on the ground and looked up at me, the firelight highlighting his cheekbones and casting shadows on his face.
“What do you want, Freckles?” he asked in a low, sensual voice that made the throbbing ache between my legs worsen.
I could see the desire in his eyes. He wanted me, but he was giving me a choice. It made me feel powerful in a way I hadn’t experienced before. The Voiceless and their God of Death thought I was a game piece they could move across the board, a body they could use and control, but I’dfought,and Iwon.And now I was here with this man who teased and flirted mercilessly but also cared for me when I was at my most vulnerable and spent his time hanging out with me so I wouldn’t be alone.
