Page 86 of Beautiful Venom
This is the only way to get close to Kane. Though I’d be a liar if I said some part of me doesn’t come alive at his words.
“Will you hurt me?” I whisper.
“Yes.” The word is like a whip to my sensitive core.
I clench my legs. “How much?”
“To your limits. And I don’t mean the limits you believe exist in your head, but beyond that.”
“Will you give me a heads-up?”
“No.” A slight smirk lifts the corner of his lips. “Where’s the fun in that?”
I gulp, both deep fear and morbid expectation coursing through me. “Can I still use ‘red’ to stop it?”
“Yes.”
“Okay, then.”
“Red is the only word that can stop me.No,stop it, andI don’t want thiswill only turn me on. Your fight turns me on.”
“Sick asshole,” I mutter under my breath.
“I heard that. And if I’m sick, what does that make you? Because you’ve been rubbing your legs together the entire time I’ve been painting a picture in your head.”
“I havenot.”
He smiles like a predator who’s locked in on his prey. “Now, shouldn’t you thank me for saving you? I’ll retrieve your bike and drop it off at your dorm. I’ll also get Isabella off your back. Permanently.”
“After you let her and who knows how many other people watch you fuck me, I don’t see the point.”
“Watch me fuck you?”
My fingers clench in my lap. “At the initiation. There was a camera, no? Isabella implied that she watched the entire thing.”
“And you believed her?”
“What was I supposed to do?”
“Isabella is not a Senior member and wasn’t even there. The only members present were me, Preston, Jude, and three others who aren’t on the hockey team.”
“Wow, thanks. At least now I know Isabella didn’t see the video, but the others did.”
“They did not.”
“But…the camera?”
“Disabled.”
“How did she and her brother know, then?”
“Probably Preston spreading rumors in his free time.”
Oh.
A part of me is still skeptical, but when I stare into Kane’s cool eyes, I believe him.
Which I probably shouldn’t, considering the circumstances.
