“I want you.” I harden my words, knowing it may not be the approach that most women would use, but I’m tired of not showing anyone who I am. I’ll show them all. I’ll let the real Seleme out for all the world to see—starting with this strange mountain of a man who’s taken a piece of my heart…a piece I’m not sure I’ll ever get back.
“Such a sweet little vamp.” Maxim releases a long, controlled breath. “Trust me when I tell you that tight little hole between your legs owns me and my cock already. I want to bend you over that bed and fuck you into midnight.”
I grab his hand and press it harder onto my sex as he drives his middle finger deeper inside of me, making me moan as it fills me and I gasp his name. “Maxim…”
His eyes light, and I want to see them look at me like that forever.
“Say it again. Say my name while part of me is inside you.”
“Maxim,” I reply.
“Again.”
He pumps his finger up and down until rational thought is gone and his arm wraps around my waist, holding me to him until his heart beats against mine.
“Maxim.”
His mouth drops to my lips and he fingers me until I fly apart again under his grip. I thrash and call out, crying words I’ve never spoken before as my thighs clutch on his hand as his tongue winds in my mouth.
He makes me feel normal and exquisitely unique, all at the same time. Grounded, and yet ready to take flight into something new. He makes me feel safe and protected and at the same time free and flirting with a new sort of danger. The security I feel with him is unlike I’ve felt with anyone before.
Even my own father.
When I come down, his breathing is fast, his hips driving that hard length once again against me, and I look at his face. He looks more like an animal every moment. Nostrils flaring, pupils black with the intensity of a predator the moment before it tears the throat out of its prey.
“I don’t think I can put into words what I feel right now.” The look in his eyes does not match the softness of his words.
“Try.”
He shakes his head, his fingers slipping from me as they come up to trace the evidence of my own desire over my lips. When they are slick with my cum, he kisses me, moaning and lingering for a long moment before he withdraws.
“You’re going to have to understand, I nearly chased you down that first night you jogged by my house. I nearly chased you down and dragged you back with me. The draw to you was so strong it felt impossible, yet more real than anything I’ve felt in a long time. Ever. Every day it grew stronger, until now, now that I’ve touched you…” He sucks his fingers into his mouth, then brings them out and runs them down the curve of my jaw. “Now that I’ve tasted you, I know deep down I’ll never let you go. I’ll spend every second of every day wanting you. Watching you. Making sure you are safe. That no one else touches you. I’ll be a monster for you. Obsessed. And I know a woman like you deserves more than that. More than a crazy, obsessed beast. But the only other option is to not be with you. To watch you from afar, and I know that is also impossible. I don’t want to destroy you with my obsession, Seleme, but I don’t see any way around it.”
“I don’t want you to see a way around it. I want you to want me.”
“I’ll be on you like a dog. Watching you sleep. Watching you work. Watching you, always watching you.” His voice breaks, and with it my heart. He is alone. Like me.
Having him this close seems to settle something deep inside me, something that’s been restless for as long as I can remember.
I smile, bringing my hand to the side of his face as I trace my thumb just under his dark eye. “I’ve never had a dog, but I’m beginning to think I’d like one.”
“Dogs mark their territory.”
I bite my bottom lip, and that tightness knots my stomach again. He leans down and breathes me in, and once more I’m spinning.
“How?” I ask, the fluttering in my belly like a thousand doves’ wings taking flight.
“There are many ways. But the first…is like this…”
He brings his face to my neck, teeth raking over my flesh, before the sharp pain explodes as he bites down and everything goes black.
Six
Maxim
I’M FUCKING LOSING it.
Seleme goes limp in my arms as I continue pinching her flesh between my teeth and fuck me if I don’t want to bite harder.