I forced out words, as choked as they were. “The choice is yours, Hells. But you make it now. Make it before you give yourself a reason to not move past this. Before it becomes too easy to give up.”
I’d hit the nerve I needed to. Her tears sprung and the resentment in her eyes escalated.
Instead of severing her hold on my throat, I forced it harder. Urged her to lose control and take her anger out on me. It would be her one shot at having me not fight back, and she didn’t disappoint.
Naked, though not at the mercy of the exposure, she used the heel of her foot to kick out the back of my knee. Her arm wrapped around my throat before my knees hit the bathroom floor, and three seconds later I felt my consciousness slipping as her choke hold crushed either side of my esophagus.
Untold moments later, Hallie slapped at my cheek as I roused, sprawled on the bathroom floor and the cool tiles pressed against my cheekbone.
“You fucking done now?” I coughed, rising to my knees.
She scoffed. “I’m only getting started.”
“I don’t believe you,” I taunted, staggering to my feet and ignoring the sharp ache in my windpipe.
I caught the wayward slap aimed in my direction and forced Hells against the closed bathroom door. Her back hit it with a loud thump, and I pinned her there with my thigh shoved between her bare ones. Capturing her hands and locking them above her head, I smirked, goading her, and lifted my knee higher until she had to stretch up onto her tippy-toes.
“C’mon, Hells; you’re gonna have to try harder than that.”
Her jaw set tight, and nostrils flared in aggression. “Just fuck me already!”
The suggestion had my mind shifting. Despite licks of arousal pulsing through my dick, I stared her down. “No.”
“Yes.”
“No.”
She grunted and bucked within my restraint, and I couldn’t help but laugh.
“Let go of me, Avery.”
“Not happening until you show me how much you want it.”
Hallie’s forehead colliding with my nose cut my snicker short. A head-spinning bolt of pain burst behind my eyes and my grip loosened on her wrists. I reared back, sniffing and blinking hard to clear the stars from my head.
“You fucking deserved that,” she hissed and shoved past.
I touched my nose to check for blood and glared at her despite the pride welling so deep in my chest that it made me love her infinitely more.
My vision cleared as Hallie stepped into the shower, throwing an antagonizing smirk my way while pulling the door shut. Now that she was back, there was no fucking way I was backing down until we’d finished the process.
“Oh, no you don’t,” I snarled, wrenching the glass door open and stepping into the shower, fully clothed.
Hallie tried to shove me out, and the short scuffle that followed found her with her back pressed against the far wall, leg wrapped around my hip, and me scrambling to free my dick from my sodden, clinging uniform I hadn’t changed out of yet.
Hallie’s impatience won out while I fumbled with the zipper. She reached between us and started rubbing tight circles over her clit. I breathed a smile when her head tipped against the wall and a low moan filled the stall.
The arc of her neck, littered with dew drops from the shower spray, begged for my grasp. Lining myself up with her entrance, I worked my way into her, then wrapped my fingers around her slender throat.
“‘Bout time,” she panted.
I arched and thrust in hard, pulling a deep, taunting laugh from Hallie’s mouth. Her tits bounced with each jolt of our bodies colliding, and her fingertips worked harder over her clit. The pulsing around my dick increased as she pushed herself closer to orgasm.
I drove into her harder, but not necessarily faster, in a rhythm that had my pending release coiling low in my abdomen. Pulling her neck forward and slamming my mouth onto hers instantly heightened the stimulation.
“Fuck that feels good,” she breathed out as I licked my way across her lower lip and took hold of it between my teeth.
My fingers bit hard into her hip as I thrust into her as hard as I could until one of Hallie’s euphoric cries outshone the rest.