“You want anything else before I get into bed, babe?”
Blaze was stripped down naked and standing by the door, ready to close it. I shook my head, letting my eyes trail over his inked body, all firm and tight and deadly.
He wasn’t aroused yet, at least he wasn’t fully hard yet, but I didn’t think it’d take much to get him there. Did I want that? Was I ready for that again right now? He’d been rough earlier, but not cruel, so would he be the same now, or would he go back to forcing me because he enjoys it that way?
“Babe? Seriously, stop fucking me with your eyes, and answer me.”
Answer him? I had no idea what his question had been, so I just shrugged and wriggled down into the bed. I wasn’t wearing anything either, because it was easier with the bandages on me.
Blaze closed the door, and joined me in the bed, leaning over me to place a bottle of water on my bedside table. The smell of him, the feel of him moving over me, it was all enough to make my heart speed up, but he also brushed over the cuts on my chest by accident, and I hissed out a pained curse as he moved.
“Fuck! What did I do?” He pulled the covers down, even as I tried battling with him to prevent it, but all he wanted to do was check the dressings.
“Sorry, that was stupid of me. Guess you’re not gonna want to fuck then?”
I groaned and rolled over onto my side with my back to him.
“Go to sleep, Blaze, I’m exhausted.”
He wriggled right up behind me, wrapping an arm carefully around my waist as he spooned me, his dick twitching occasionally against my butt.
For once though, Blaze did exactly what I asked of him, and he let me sleep, safe in his arms where nothing could hurt me. Except him.
48
Blaze
Iwokeuprockhard, and wrapped around Anneka, exactly where I fucking belonged. She wasn’t sleeping easily though. She twitched in my arms, and I realised that was what had woken me.
She was having a bad dream, further evidenced by the way she suddenly panicked when I tightened my arms around her, and started screaming and flailing around, almost elbowing me in the face and narrowly missing kicking me in the nuts.
I couldn’t hold her without hurting one of her injuries, but she rolled onto her stomach, still crying and moaning, so I did the only thing I could. I hauled the covers away and slapped her ass as hard as I could.
She shrieked, jerking awake and rolling and lurching up onto her ass.
“Ow! Jesus, Blaze, did you slap my ass?” She rolled onto her side facing me, and one hand was pressed against her butt, cradling the stinging cheek.
“Sorry. You were having a nightmare.”
“Andthat’show you woke me?!”
I lay back down too, facing her. “I didn’t know what else to do. You were trying to beat the fuck out of me, and then you lay on your stomach, and I knew you’d hurt all those cuts. I panicked.”
“And smacking my ass was the best you could come up with.”
“Actually yeah, now shut up and let me check those bandages, you crazy bitch.”
Anneka rolled onto her back and winced, as her butt cheek pressed against the warm sheets.
“Next time find another way, dammit.”
“How bad was it?” The bandages all looked intact, and I couldn’t see any fresh bleeding, so I decided to leave them as they were for now.
Anneka had fallen silent, blinking up at the ceiling as her hand reached blindly in my direction. I squeezed it lightly, glad there was enough growing light outside to let me see her face enough to read her expressions. She was freaked out, but thought she had to hide it. From me? She didn’t need to hide a fucking thing from me.
“Tell me, Anneka. This is the sort of thing you need to share, so you can get past it.”
She rolled her head in my direction, and her eyes looked bright with tears.