“I can’t hear you!” he bellowed, pushing the wand harder into my skin.
“I didn’t want to get up for breakfast.” I stammered out as tears rolled down my cheeks.
“Is that allowed?” he continued finally removing the device away from me for a second.
“No,” I whimpered.
“Is it ever going to happen again?”
“No. I’ll do better.”
“Have you learned your lesson?”
I frantically nodded my head. “I promise I have.”
“I don’t know about that. I think you need a little bit more to really understand your place in this world.”
“Katherine,”Reese whispered as he shook me.
“W-what,” I tried to sit up in the pitch-black room. “What’s going on?”
Reese climbed into the bed next to me. “You were screaming bloody murder in your sleep. Are you all right?”
I curled into his arms. “Just a bad dream. I’m sorry for waking you.”
His lips rested on my temple. “I am just glad you’re all right.”
“Will you stay with me?” The dream was still attacking my thoughts making me uncontrollably petrified.
“Of course.” He climbed under the covers, tucking me in to him as he held me.
Rolling over to face him, I let my lips land on his as my fingers trailed down his chiseled muscles.
Pulling away, his whispered, “I don’t know if that is a good idea.”
I shifted away. “Sorry.”
He pulled me back towards him. “You have nothing to be sorry for and trust me there is nothing more that I want right now than to show you how much I want you to be touching me and kissing me. I just don’t want to take advantage of you.”
“You’re not. I want this,” I admitted.
Reese
As Katherine lether fingers twist into my beard, I felt my resolve to not fuck her start to dwindle. I didn’t know the rules on this shit, I was making them up as I went along. It scared that shit out of me that she was only falling for me because I saved her but I couldn’t help that she had infiltrated my every thought.
I couldn’t get her perfect body out of my head. And that made me feel so fucked up. She was a vulnerable victim and I was her rescuer—there had to be lines drawn somewhere.
“I really do want this,” she muttered again.
Fuck.
I kissed her cheek.
“Are you absolutely sure? Because once this starts, I am never letting go of you. Not in a captive way, I mean as far as I am concerned we will belong to each other.” I did my best to explain what sex meant to me. the fact that she would be mine—not in a creepy way—but it was how the world worked for me.
“I understand, Reese. I want to be yours. I remember what it was like before Alastor. When you’re with someone—you’re with them.” Hearing her words sent a calm over me.
Rolling on top of her, I let my lips lock with hers.