“No,” I manage to get out.
“Tell me why.”
I can’t tell you.“It wouldn’t change anything,” I admit.
He leans his face close to mine. “It would change a lot,Koldunya,” he whispers in my ear. Chills run through my body. “I would be dead.” He lays his hands flat on my thighs and inches closer to my waist. “I won’t give you another chance.”
I shake my head, trying to come up with something to say, but nothing comes out. He lifts my silk gown from under me so it’s bunched around my waist.
Then he pulls me closer to him. His muscular frame pushes right against mine. My head falls forward slightly when his lips hover over my neck. Goose bumps take over my skin. I lose control of my breathing as his hands roam my body freely.
“You’re just as fucked-up as I am,” he says as if he can read my mind.
His words don’t even get to my head because I already know that. The want I have for risk is something I shouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole, but Iwantto. There is nothing welcoming about being here with Mikhail, and yet I can’t think of a better way to spend my time away from home. Years of being locked in a house hasn’t done me well. Mikhail intrigues me. Am I really as fucked-up as he is?
I don’t know if I can’t move because I’m terrified or because I want him to continue putting his hands on me.
His fingers trail closer to my inner thigh, and I suck in a sharp breath. When he reaches the seam of the lace, he pulls it to the side. I don’t stop him because I want this as much as I don’t want to admit to it. It feels as if my mind and body are screaming at each other. My body wants to pull him into me and crash my lips against his, and my mind wants to push him off me and tell him to go fuck himself.
But my body is winning.
His finger slides over my clit, and I drop the gun. His touch is soft—I begin to crave it. I’ve never hated someone so much yet wanted their skin on mine. I swallow the noises that threaten to fall from my lips.
“Oni biliy pravi o tebe, Koldunya,”he mumbles.They were right about you, Witch.He takes his hands off me and steps back.
“What are you—?” I breathe frantically.
He turns away from me, picks up the gun from the floor, and opens the bedroom door. Then he stands by it staring at me. “Out,” he demands.
“I thought—”
“You thought what? That I’d fuck you?” His eyebrows rise slightly.
Thank God it’s dark in here. What the fuck was I thinking—that he wanted me too? This is humiliating, but he doesn’t need to know he just offended me.
“Can’t please me, and I’ll just find someone who can. Lev? That’ll be interesting,” I say with a sass that comes out of nowhere.
He walks over to me slowly, pulling me into him by my hair. My body stiffens when I feel the cold metal touch my inner thigh. I don’t need to look down to realize he’s holding the gun I threatened him with against my skin.
“Oh, yeah?” he asks as his grip on me tightens. “Tell me what his reaction is when you’re screaming my name instead of his.”
I tilt my head to the side and push Mikhail’s chest to get him out of my way.
“Sloane,” he mumbles.
I hesitate to walk out the door.
“I want you on your best behavior tomorrow. And if not, I’ll just lock you up again.”
And with that, I storm out of his room.
CHAPTER10
MIKHAIL
Iwalk into the billiard room and grab a pole off the wall. Then I step up to the table and hit the cue ball, knocking a four in the hole.
“You’re late,” Lev says.