I took one hesitant step toward him.
“That’s it, baby. Come to me.”
I stepped closer. My arm reached out.
Hyde leaned over and smelled my still-damp hair. “You smell sweet enough toeat.”
My fingertips touched his chains.
Hyde chuckled. “I knew you wouldn’t choose that weakling over me.”
I started.
What the hell was I doing? Henry Jekyll was sweet and caring. He was risking his entire career, his life’s work just to prove to me that it wasn’t him who’d hurt me. I looked up at Hyde’s condescending smirk. “Henry Jekyll is twice the man you’ll ever be. More, since after tonight you will cease to exist.”
Hyde bared his teeth as once again he tested the strength of the chains. The metal links rattled against the brick wall.
Caught up in my own anger, I continued to goad him. “You’re nothing.Nothing to me.”
Hyde lurched forward, but his body was jerked backward by the pull of the chains.
I laughed. “You’re not a man. You’re nothing but a chained-up rabid animal.”
Hyde let out an ungodly howl.
I flew backward so suddenly I tripped and fell to the floor. I scuttled back on my hands and feet as Hyde strained and pulled at his chains.
Fuck. I had gone too far.
With a terrifying roar, Hyde pulled one bolt out of the wall, then the second.
He was free.
The monster was free.
Screeching in terror, I rolled over onto my hands and knees and scrambled to my feet. I ran across the lab, desperate to reach the door.
I never made it.
Hyde grabbed me from behind. He used my own momentum to turn me and slam my back against the wall. His body followed, crushing my ribcage as he snatched at my hands and drew them over my head. His breath was warm against my cheek as he heavily inhaled and exhaled.
“Let me go!”
He leaned over and ran the tip of his tongue up my neck. “Tastes like… submission.”
I whimpered.
His mouth crashed down on mine. I tried to lock my jaw, but it was no use. He pressed his thigh between my legs, and I was lost. I opened my mouth. His tongue drove inside, showing no quarter. He licked, laved, and taunted me, sinking his teeth into my lower lip until we both tasted blood, only to lick it away and kiss me even deeper.
He pushed his thigh up against my core as he kept his fingers intertwined with mine, holding me prisoner. His chains clattered against the wall, near my ears.
“Say you want this,” he breathed against my mouth. “Say it.”
I thrust my head to one side. “I don’t. You are using my body against me.”
Transferring my wrists into one hand, Hyde tore at the collar of my dress until the thin fabric relented. I had dressed in a hurry this morning, preferring comfort over form. So I was bare underneath, with no bra on. He leaned down and sucked one pert nipple into his mouth.
I groaned as my head rocked back and forth against the wall.