Page 34 of Alpha's Embrace
I rose from the bed. I wore nothing and his eyes widened, taking on a strange sheen.
“There are reports about me. Funneled to you?” I came closer and he looked as if he wanted to back away, but he held his ground.
I liked that he seemed scared. Or angry. I liked that I appeared to have power over him.
I wasn’t erect because I’d already taken care of that before he knocked, but I was hot all over, quivering, flushed. The skin at my temples cooled in the air from my sweat. My hair was pushed over one eye and I brushed it back with a graceful gesture. I knew I was beautiful, even still half-asleep. Maybe more so. I was a Sylph. So be it.
Tory licked his lips. His scent went hot with a smell like the blacktop where I exercised when it got over-heated in the summertime. Like before, I smelled a bond within him, but faint. What had happened to this man?
Tory shut the door behind him. He looked me slowly up and down. His pants grew tighter at the crotch.
I took a deep breath. The people who worked here did not normally behave this way. They came in twos. Or they kept my door open when dealing with me so the guards were within hearing distance. Even Geo had kept to that obvious protocol.
Where were my guards?
“I know you’re trying to get his attention,” Tory said. “Even now, you’re trying to seduce me with your bare body and your faked innocence. You know exactly what you’re doing. And you’re doing the same thing with Geo, aren’t you?”
Ah, so he didn’t know for sure what was between me and Geo.
Slowly, I reached for my robe. In that moment, Tory dashed forward and grabbed my hand. He was gloved, but it didn’t seem to matter. He pulled my body to him hard, wrenching one of my arms up behind my back.
I was no weakling. I’d worked hard to keep myself in shape from the exercise I’d been allowed. I elbowed him in the ribs and twisted out of his hold though he still had a strong grip on my arm. It hurt, but panic fueled me. No one had ever attacked me here before. No one dared.
I cried out. A pounding began from outside. Not Tracy’s usual thumps. Not Cedric. But at my door. My guards.
That was when I realized Tory had flipped the door lock from the outside before coming in. They had keys, but after Geo had given me freedom in the castle, they no longer were used to using them for my door.
I heard a scramble outside, and a jingling.
Tory heard it, too.
He pulled me close again, even as I shoved against his chest, and he ran his hands down the sides of my body.
“So soft and hard at the same time.” His fingers traced my ribs, my waist, and my stomach before finding my cock. He wrapped them around it, still gloved, and pulled hard.
White pain shot through me and into my vision. I cried out, a yell that made Cedric start screaming from his own room. “Misha,” he called. “Misha!”
I scrambled with my hands, my nails clawing at his sleeves, grabbing, pinching.
I kept thinking the door to my room would open, the guards would rush in and this terrible thing would stop happening. But something was wrong. They were taking too long.
“Stop! Stop!” I yelled. I didn’t want to feel this way. I didn’t want to fight. I’d never had a violent thought in my life. But I didn’t want this. I didn’t want Tory.
The sudden realization stopped me.
I wanted everyone. I loved everyone. I wished for the touches of anyone who crossed my path. Why not this Alpha?
I should love him but all I felt was contempt and fear. He had that bitter odor. His touch hurt. His gloved touch. Strange. I felt no arousal at all from it.
In that moment when I’d stopped fighting, he leaned into me. His free hand came to my throat and grasped it, closing tight. He had big hands and he closed his fingers around the sides of my neck pressing hard. He knew where my windpipe was and the heel of his hand pushed until I gasped.
I opened my mouth, struggling for air. My hands were trapped between us. I stopped fighting at once. It would get me nowhere. I was strong, but Tory was stronger.
All I could do was lean into him as he pressed against me, allowing my air to become totally blocked. I let my muscles relax until I felt him relax.
Little sparkles began to form around the edges of my vision.
It was now or never.
