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My pulse quickens, but I hold my ground. “I’m still here.”
“Yes, because you’re not fucking listening!” he barks, darkness flashing in his eyes, his body coiling like a snake ready to strike, his bare arms and shoulders clenching and rippling. He looks like he’s battling some inner demon, like he’s fighting with himself, Jekyll and Hyde.
“I don’t have the boyfriend gene,” he spits. “I’m not capable of giving you what you want. I’mnotthat man.”
I take a deep breath, but I don’t falter. “I never once said I wanted that.”
A dark smile tugs at the corners of his mouth, but it’s not kind. It’s laced with bitterness and self-loathing. “Then what do you want, Freya?”
The room feels impossibly small, the air thick with tension. My throat tightens, but I force the words out. “Maybe I don’t need the emotions and the relationship.”
His lips curl into a smirk that is utterly devoid of warmth. “So just sex?” His voice is mocking, but underneath that, I can sense the anger, the desire, the fear. “Just me fucking you like a greedy little cumslut? That’s what you want?”
Fuck.
Yes.
Yes?
“Maybe,” I whisper, the word hanging between us like a challenge.
Mal’s head shakes side to side. “If you stay here one more second, I’m not going to hold back,” he growls, his voice rough and raw. “And believe me, Ihave been.”
“No one asked you to do that,” I whisper quietly. My feet start to move on their own, carrying me toward him.
Mal barks mirthlessly. “What the fuck do you want, Freya?”
My heart pounds in my chest. I know I’m standing on the brink of something dangerous, in front of a gaping maw that could devour me whole, but I can’t walk away. I don’t want to.
I don’t knowhowto.
“You,” I whisper as I come to a stop a foot away from him. “I wantyou.”
Mal’s body stiffens, his eyes turning downright venomous and black. Without warning, he grabs me. A gasp tears from my throat as he roughly spins me around and slams me against the windows behind me. His fists press to the glass on either side of my head as he looms over me. The searing intensity of his gaze is overwhelming, his breath hot against my skin.
His lips hover just over mine, the inches between us crackling with electricity. “How do you want me, Freya?” he growls, his voice low and dangerous. “Tell me how.”
I want to fall into the suffocating heat between us, to let the thick, tension consume me. I want to lose myself in him.
“However you want,” I murmur, my voice shaky but resolute. “However youneed.”
In an instant, Mal’s hands wrap tight around my throat. His body presses to mine, every muscle taut with tension, his breathragged as he hovers above me. His lips ghost over mine, teasing, taunting.
“It’s going tohurt,” he growls, his voice full of dark promise.
My breath catches, and my body trembles with both fear and desire.
I press my hands against his chest, gently pushing him back. Mal grabs my wrists and slams them above my head. The force of his grip sends a shockwave through me, my pulse racing as he pins me firmly against the wall.
“Are you going to force me?” I whisper, my voice trembling, though there’s a flicker of darkness inside me too—a part of me that longs for him to take control, to erase all thought, to make me forget everything but him.
His lips twist into a smirk as he leans closer. “Is that the game we’re playing?” he murmurs, his voice low and dangerous.
My heart hammers in my chest, my mind at war with my body.
Say no. Walk away.
You need more than this.
