“Get out,” she commanded without bothering to look at me.
Ignoring her, I stepped into the room and shut the door behind me. “Please, I just want to be left alone.” Walking to her, I pressed against her back. She inhaled sharply.
“Too bad, I can’t leave you alone.” I spun her around so she was facing me. Tears ran from her eyes as she stared at me in disdain.
My nostrils flared and my jaw clenched. “You had feelings for that man? Is that why the tears?” I reached up to wipe one but she snatched out my touch.
“You might be a monster, but I’m not!”
A half smirk formed on my face. I brushed my hand around the side of her neck and cuffed it. Azeira flinched. They were covered but knowing the markings I made were still on her sentdelight through me. “Just be lucky I didn’t make you stay to see the blood drain from his pathetic body.”
Her eyes widened with fright. “You killed him?” she asked in a shaky tone. “I thought you said if I stabbed him he would get to live!”
“Nothing like that came out my mouth. You stabbed him because you needed to be taught a lesson. He died because he touched something he had no reason touching.” My hand curled around her slender throat. She swallowed hard against my touch. Her breathing became shaky as her chest expanded and deflated slowly. “What does that even mean? I was the one who left without permission. He knew nothing about this arrangement.”
It amazed me that she believed all of this was because she left my house. While that played a small part, it was bigger than that.
I stepped into her, forcing her back so she was pressed against the window. “I guess I didn’t make myself clear enough for you. Any man that touches you will be taken care of how I see fit. You are mine and mine alone to have and control as I please.”
Her eyes flashed with anger as she pushed a heavy brush of air out her nose.
“Just because you say you own me doesn’t mean it’s literal. I’m a person, you know.”
The smirk on my face grew. “No, you’re whatever I tell you to be.” My thumb brushed her pulse point. “What don’t you understand? Once you agreed to come here and be mine, that’s exactly what you became,mine.”
Azeira blinked rapidly. Her mouth parted then snapped shut. She furrowed her brows while her forehead creased.
“But why? Why me?”
Bouncing my eyes around her face, I took in everything about her—the small cluster of brown beauty marks under her left eye, the smile lines on each side of her mouth, the small flat moleover her right brow, how high her cheekbones were, and the delicate curve of her jaw.
I dropped my eyes to her mouth. Her full lips were outlined in brown into ombréing into pink in the middle.
“It’s simple. You are my toy to play with how I please. Nothing causes more of a rush inside me than dirtying up something so pure and clean. I saw you tonight. You might have hated what I forced you to do, but you felt the rush from it too. I saw how your eyes flashed with exhilaration. You might not be someone who wants to hurt people, but you weren’t completely turned off by it, were you?” My voice lowered and darkened. I tightened my grip around her neck. Her nostrils expanded and her lips parted.
Desire filled her orbs.
“No,” she gasped. Her cheeks flushed warm red. The look in her eyes was wary yet they glistened with interest and need. It pleased me seeing her have an internal battle with herself.
“I can feel your pulse racing.” I tapped the center of her throat, causing her to swallow hard. “And you know what I believe, Azeira? No matter how good a person is, there’s always a small window of darkness hidden under all that, begging for someone to let it out.”
Moving my other hand to her stomach, I slid it down, bypassing her shorts and shoving my hand inside her panties.
“I knew it, this pussy’s soaking. Did stabbing that man do that? Or did the thought of me defiling you make your pussy rush like a raging river?” I pushed a finger inside of her.
It caught me off guard when she pushed herself up and her lips crashed into mine. I froze. It had been years since I’d kissed a woman. Years since the thought alone didn’t repulse me. Need clawed at my insides, bursting through and taking over. Gripping her neck, I took control of the kiss, forcing her lips open with my tongue and owning her mouth.
She moaned and pressed her chest into me.
“This little pussy wants to be fucked and stretched, doesn’t it?”
She whimpered and nodded.
“Beg me then.”
Another finger went inside her. I shoved it deep and curled them forward. Her knees buckled and she gripped my shirt tightly.
I choked her tighter. She gagged and her eyes dilated and glossed over with lust.
