His lips were just about to twist up into a smile, but I didn’t get to see it. The whole room, no, the whole house, was plunged into darkness as my electricity cut out.
“What the hell?” I complained quietly, not wanting to disturb Ivan who had already been in a pitch black room, so didn’t need to be woken up by any of this.
A growl emanating from Cole was the only response I got from him. Before my eyes could even adjust to the darkness, I heard his feet padding rapidly from the room. He was running, taking off toward the front door, but I wasn’t about to leave him alone. I followed him. A motorbike was burning down the street, one I could only imagine belonged to the dreaded man I was trying to hide from. He was still trying to torment me, even with Timothy and me inside the house, which meant he wouldn’t back down.
He was going to do everything that he could to make my life a living hell. Until I was one of those women at the bottom of the lake. Leaving Timothy all alone. Or worse, with him.
But I couldn’t express any of this to Cole because he had already ripped from the shackles of his human body. His bear burst free as he ran down the road to chase after the bike. After him. The last thing I wanted was for my two worlds to collide in such a horrific way, but this was all out of my control. There was nothing that I could do about it.
“Fuck,” I muttered as I raked my fingers through my hair, losing sight of both of them. “Fucking hell, this is a nightmare. Why can’t he just leave me alone?”
I suppose the only thing I could do was get the electricity back on while I waited for Cole to return. Whether he would bring Brady back or not, I wasn’t sure, but I had to be prepared for everything. At this point, anything was possible.
Thankfully, it didn’t take long for me to find the fuse box in the basement, and to notice that the switches had been flicked down into the off position. That meant it didn’t take much to get the lights back on, but also that it was a purposeful act. Someone had done this on purpose to haunt me. Him. I turned from the box and found Cole panting breathlessly behind me, his eyes dark and hungry.
“What happened, did you find him?”
“Not yet,” he growled. “But you don’t need to worry about that. I have his scent now and I will not stop until I get him. He isn’t going to be able to hurt you, I swear.”
Before I could question him or ask him anything at all, his mouth was on mine and he was taking all his passion out on me. I could feel how much he wanted to get Brady away from me, and I appreciated that. I felt so safe with his arms wrapped around me, holding me tight.
I barely knew what was happening before Cole turned me around and sat me down on the stairs. With an intensity in his gaze that was even more powerful than the way he looked at me on the hike, he tugged my pants down and ripped my panties off at the same time.
This man wanted to eat me alive, and my God I wanted to let him.
His eager nose nudged my thighs apart, opening me up to him, and even though I knew this was only going to complicate things even more, I was more than willing to be distracted by him. I tossed my head back and let my legs fall apart, drawing his lips closer to me.
The anticipation was crazy. I knew it was going to be so that I wanted to scream out his name before he had even connected with me. The hot streams of his breath had me doused in flames already. I was half whimpering, half purring.
Oh fuck!
Then all thoughts left my brain as his tongue finally connected with my core. He circled my clit hungrily, eagerly. He was relentless and sent an onslaught of pleasure ricocheting through me. I could barely breathe, never mind speak.
This was so different to the way Simon made me feel as he fucked me, and it was nothing like Ivan’s fingers. How was I going to decide when all the men surrounding me were unique and special, making me feel things I never had before?
I wasn’t about to make any choices right now, because I was on the edge of Cole’s tongue, about to lose my damn mind. I truly didn’t think I would be able to handle it.
And then it hit.
It hit me like a tsunami, hard and fast, swallowing me up whole and consuming every single part of me. I wasn’t connected to the planet anymore, I was floating through space, on cloud fucking nine. Cole was electric. The way he set me on fire was incredible.
What the hell was I going to do? Everything was so insane around me. But there were parts of this that felt so good, I didn’t want it to end.
I never wanted it to end.