She kept watching, unable to move.
Alpha stepped away from the body, letting it drop down, his chest and arms covered in sweat and blood, and his eye on her. Knife in his hand, he jumped off the ring, searing her with his intensity to the point breathing became difficult, and strode toward her.
She tilted her head back as he stepped between her legs, close enough that her chin touched his thigh. He raised the knife and her eyes widened, not understanding what was happening.
Finally, he broke their gaze, his eye shifting to the side.
Zephyr turned to see Alec frozen in his seat, the knife under the wrist of his hand that had touched her hair, the edge of the blade pressing on it until she could see a line of blood break the skin.
“It’s going to be your neck the next time I see you near my wife,” Alpha growled softly. “Are we clear?”
Alec swallowed and nodded.
“Then fuck off.”
The blade came to her chin then, almost like his fingers always did, directing her focus back to himself.
“Who am I?” he demanded quietly, her face level with his waist, her eyes enraptured with his.
“What?”
“Who. Am. I?”
She swallowed. “My husband.”
The unscarred side of his mouth lifted but the amusement didn’t reach his eye. Before she could take another breath, he gathered her hair in his free hand, gripping it in the way that made her scalp singe with sensation. The blade traveled down from her chin, and her breath hitched, her body in flux of sensations at the confusing signals as it went down her neck, down the slope of her heaving chest, coming to rest in her cleavage.
“And who are you?”
Her mouth parted. “Your wife.”
He let the knife travel down the slope of her right breast to her peaked nipple, slapping it with the width of the blade, and she gasped, heat spreading through her body, pooling between her legs.
“Mine.”
With that one word, she was destroyed, decimated, done for, every cell in her body sizzling at the very public, very dominating claiming of her.
To drive the point home, even more, he threw the knife to the side, bent down, hauled her over his shoulder, tilting her world upside down once again.