Page 215 of Ominous: Part 1
“If you think I’d let anyone touch you, under any circumstance…” He leans up and licks a line up my throat, then bites.Hard.It sends a flush of heat between my thighs.
My mind flicks to Dominic, in the room just down the hall. “Really?” I remember Dom’s words about the threesome as Eli unclenches his teeth on my skin, the pinch of pain still throbbing. “You wouldn’t want to watch anyone else fuck me—”
“Stop talking and open your mouth.” There’s no malevolence in his words, but there is the thread of something like it. Jealousy, I think.
I smile at him, dropping my gaze to the pills in his palm, my fingers still wrapped around his wrist. “Don’t let anyone else in here.”
“I promise.”
“And don’t…”
He is very still. “Give me a line, and I won’t cross it.”
I don’t believe him, but I try anyway. “Don’t leave me in here alone.”
A slight frown graces his lips.
For a second, I wonder if he thought he’d just knock me out, then creep downstairs and fuck Luna. Was that his plan? I lift my eyes to his. He holds me closer, with his arm around my back.
“I never planned to,” he says softly. “You thought I’d fuck around with someone else?”
“You did,” I remind him, and this time, I’m the jealous one. Thinking of Luna’s mouth around him.
“You said you wouldn’t hold a grudge.” He sounds almost offended.
But he’s right. I did say it. It’s just, now she’s so close, and I might become incapacitated in the next few minutes. I don’t care what he does with me. I just don’t want him to do anything with anyone else. I take a deep breath. “I’m letting it go. Just stay with me, okay?”I won’t run, but you can’t leave.
I don’t wait for an answer. I sit up on top of him, one hand resting against his chest. I feel his pulse pick up, and it emboldens me. Slowly, I bring his palm to my mouth and dip my head.
Then I lick up all five pills from his palm.
A low noise leaves his throat.
I close my eyes, and each tablet sticks to my tongue with my saliva. Guiding his wet hand, I glide it down my throat. I work up saliva, then I swallow beneath his fingers along my throat as I shift his hand down lower, over my chest.
My heart.
When I open my eyes, he’s smiling up at me.
I smile back.
“Before we do anything,” I tell him, clawing my fingers against his chest. “You’re picking those fucking pills up.”
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Eli
How canI want to do so much damage to someone I crave every second of every day? I glance at the bottle of pills on my nightstand, every single one I picked up, save for the five she swallowed down all on her own. Now, she’s far calmer. I know the pills are to blame.
“Do you want to take a bath with me?” I ask her, thinking of laying her down in the jacuzzi tub, her legs draped over the side, her hips flush with the base of the tub, thighs spread wide as the water from the faucet gushes down over her clit.
I think of water rising, up to her ears, then over them. Her mouth. Her nose. Her eyes wide and staring up at me in fear, excitement, lust.
Faith I won’t let her drown.
If Dominic had touched her downstairs, I would have twisted the knife in my hand through his shoulder blades. I would have punctured his heart from the back.
As it was, even just hearing him talk down to her… if I hadn’t zoned out, I would have seriously injured him. I still might.
