Despite the cold, my bones began to melt, my body growing pliant against his tautness, eager for the contrast. Eager for him.
He read the change in my posture correctly and a low growl rumbled through his chest straight into mine. “You like being hunted, little thing?” he hummed. “You like knowing you bring out the animal in me? That I get hard as steel imagining ripping a hole in these tight little shorts big enough for my cock to slot through straight into your wet cunt? I wouldn’t even have to prep you. You’re probably soaking wet for me already.”
God, he was right.
It should have been embarrassing, but I was beyond that. Maybe I couldn’t own my feelings for Tiernan, but I could own my body’s response to him. To his cruelty. It yearned for it.
I arched unconsciously, drawing a wicked chuckle from him. He collected both wrists in one of his expansive hands, the other trailing down my body, stopping to tweak a hard nipple before descending to my core which he cupped possessively.
“You want me to break through this virgin pussy?” he asked coldly, the heel of his hand digging into my clit deliciously. “You want me to take the last part of you I don’t already own?”
My body and free will were the only things I had left to call my own. So why was I so eager for him to possess them?
I didn’t have an answer.
All I had was a second heartbeat in my sex, throbbing for him. My pussy clenched desperately around nothing, already eager to be filled, already swollen. I wanted him to set his teeth to my skin, his cock to my folds, his hands on my limbs and rip me apart with pleasure.
“Fuck me,” I told him before I lost my nerve. “Fuck me, you monster.”
A shaft of moonlight pierced through the night like a blade and stabbed Tiernan in the eyes, making them glow unnaturally green. A second later, we were submerged in darkness again and Tiernan was moving, dipping down to whisper against my ear.
“Remember, little thing, you asked for this,” he warned.
And then his lips were catching mine, locking them in place and sweeping inside with a hot stroke of his silken tongue. I groaned and surrendered myself to the storm of longing he raged inside of my skin.
He kissed me like he wanted to kill me. Like he owned my very breath and demanded its return. There was no romance in the way he stole my air and claimed my body like it was his right. No love or sweetness. Only animal need and driving force, a desire to conquer me that lit us both on fire.
I writhed beneath him, not because I wanted him to let me go but because I loved the hard cage his body made around mine. He kept my wrists pinned, his other hand disappearing into his pocket. A moment later there was a soft snick and a knife appeared above my heaving belly. I trembled like a pinned butterfly but didn’t protest as he drew the tip of the knife down my exposed belly from the underside of my covered breasts to the band of my shorts. The scrape of metal made me shiver. He pressed the blade harder when it traced over the placket of my shorts, already wet between my thighs. I held my breath, the tiny pop, pop, pop of stitches coming undone under the knife the only sound other than the distant crash of waves and the harsh rasp of our breath.
When my shorts were sliced open from stem to stern, he folded the knife in one hand, replaced it in his pocket, and used his fingers to rip the only barricade between my pussy and the night away from me. My underwear cut into my hips and broke away in his hand, a scrap of blue lace he tossed away. It caught on the air and sailed down the beach.
He hadn’t even touched me, not really, and I was all overheated skin pulled taut over tense muscles. I needed him to unlock me, send the arousal crowding my insides spilling out into the night.
I didn’t have to beg.
His hand was there suddenly, two fingers diving straight into my virgin sex, his thumb at my clit to rub away the sting of the stretch. He didn’t kiss me as he fucked his fingers into me, scissoring them to stretch me for his much thicker cock. Instead, he crowded me, an inch between our mouths, breathing the same breath, his eyes pinned on me even in the dark.
I ached to kiss him, to wrap my legs around him, to give myself to him but he wouldn’t let me.
He wanted to take, not receive.
And I was eager to let him.
“So fucking snug,” he muttered as he played in my sticky wet sex, adding a third finger even though I whimpered at the sting. “Hush, little thing, I know you like the burn.”