MasukAstrid “Stop.”The brute’s hands froze inches from my throat.I couldn’t process what was happening through the roaring panic in my ears except that he wasn’t touching me anymore and I could still breathe.Viktor stepped into the room and the brute straightened up immediately like a dog responding to its master’s command.“I changed my mind.” Viktor didn’t even look at him. “Get out.”The brute looked at me slumped against the wall and then back at Viktor and I saw frustration flash across his scarred face but he didn’t argue.Then it was just me and Viktor.Somehow that felt infinitely worse.He walked over slowly and crouched down in front of me and studied my face.“You’re still fighting.” He sounded almost impressed. “Even now when you’re terrified and bleeding and you thought you were about to be raped. There’s still defiance in those eyes. I can see why he is so obsessed with you.”I didn’t respond because my throat was closed up and I couldn’t have spoken if I wanted to.“I wa
Sebastian The velvet box was so small in my hand it almost didn’t seem real.The middle of the street was filled with emergency lights flashing red and blue across the pavement and EMTs loading what was left of the driver into an ambulance.Her blood was still on the pavement.Not much, just a few drops mixed with glass and motor oil, but I could smell it over everything else.I’d know her scent anywhere and smelling her blood made my wolf surge up in my chest that I had to physically force back down.“Rhys.”Kade’s voice came from somewhere to my left.The forensics team was still examining the sedan where it had come to rest half on the sidewalk. The front seat completely soaked in blood, windshield shattered outward, clear signs of a struggle inside based on how the steering wheel was bent.“Rhys, we need to move.” Kade stepped closer. “Viktor knows we’re here by now.”I didn’t respond.“We found her phone in the wreckage,” he continued. “Last message was from the rideshare app s
Pain woke me up before consciousness did.My lip was split and swollen and tasted like copper, my cheekbone was throbbing where that woman had hit me, and every time I tried to breathe deeply my ribs screamed at me to stop.I tried to move my hands and couldn’t.Plastic bit into my wrists and when I pulled against it the pain got worse but nothing gave.Fuck.I forced my eyes open and immediately wished I hadn’t because the single bare lightbulb hanging from the ceiling felt like someone was stabbing ice picks directly into my brain.I was sitting in a metal chair that was bolted to the floor and my hands were zip-tied behind the back of it and there was a camera on a tripod in the corner pointing directly at me with a little red light blinking.Oh god.Oh god oh god oh god.My stomach twisted and bile rose in my throat but I swallowed it down because throwing up while tied to a chair seemed like a really good way to choke to death.Think Astrid.Don’t panic just think.What would Rhy
I spun around with my heart in my throat ready to scream only to find Vanessa laughing like she’d just pulled off the funniest prank in history.“Oh my god your face!” She doubled over. “I’m sorry I couldn’t help it.”My heart was still trying to escape my chest. “That’s not funny.”“It’s a little funny.” She straightened up wiping her eyes. “Come on, let’s go inside before you have a heart attack.”She walked past me toward the coffee shop entrance and I followed her inside my legs still shaking from the adrenaline.The place was half full with the usual evening crowd. The smell of coffee and fresh pastries hit me and made my stomach twist because I’d forgotten to eat anything since breakfast.“You want something?” Vanessa was already at the counter pulling out her wallet.“Just tea.”She ordered herself some caramel macchiato thing with extra whip and my tea and we found a table by the window where I sat down and immediately started bouncing my leg under the table.Vanessa scrolled
He didn’t come back.I sat in that shower until the water ran cold and my skin pruned and my fingers went numb but he never came back and eventually I had to accept that he wasn’t going to.I wrapped myself in a towel and walked back to the bedroom dripping water everywhere and sat on the edge of his bed staring at the door willing him to walk through it.He didn’t.The house was silent except for the sound of my own breathing and the clock on the nightstand ticking away seconds that felt like hours.I waited.And waited.And waited.By the time the sun started setting I’d moved from worried to angry and by the time it was completely dark I’d cycled back to worried again because what if something had happened?I grabbed my phone and pulled up his contact and stared at it for a full minute before I finally hit call.It rang four times and went to voicemail.I didn’t leave a message because what would I even say?Hey where are you and also why did you fuck me dirty and then disappear?I
“That’s it.” His voice cut through the haze in my brain. “Let me hear you. Let me hear how much you like being used.”I should have been offended by that but instead it made me wetter and I rolled my hips to meet his thrusts and chased the friction.“Look at you.” There was something dark in his tone. “Grinding on my cock like you’re in wolf in heat. So desperate for it you’ll take whatever I give you.”“Please—” The word escaped before I could stop it.“Please what?” He thrust harder. “Use your words.”“I need—” But I couldn’t finish because my brain was shorting out.“You need to come?” His thumb found my clit through the fabric and pressed down. “Is that what you need?”“Yes—oh god yes—”“Then come.” His other hand went to my throat and squeezed just enough to make breathing difficult. The combination of pressure and friction and the slight restriction of oxygen sent me over the edge without warning.My orgasm hit like a freight train and I came so hard I actually screamed and my







