Total pages in book: 70
Estimated words: 67140 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 336(@200wpm)___ 269(@250wpm)___ 224(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 67140 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 336(@200wpm)___ 269(@250wpm)___ 224(@300wpm)
The room has turned into an orgy right in front of my eyes. The men in the skull masks have disappeared, or they’ve taken off their disguises. I search the room for them or their collared partners but don’t see them.
I have bigger things to worry about. Jaeger’s kissing my breasts, but his hand between my legs has stilled.
I push at Jaeger’s head, and when he raises it, I cup his cheeks and kiss him. He hums, leaning into the kiss, bowing me back over his arm. His lips slide to the corner of my mouth and drag downward. He sucks on my nipple, and I cry out.
I’m shaking with the need to cum. My inner muscles clench around the weighted balls, and arousal surges through me, making me delirious. I’m so close.
Jaeger raises his head, laser-thin lights crisscrossing his face. “Do you want to cum like this? In front of everyone?”
I shake my head, but my hips are surging upward, seeking his touch. I might not have a choice.
He grips my pussy lips so hard I cry out. It hurts so good. “Beg me, Elodie.”
“Jaeger, please.” I’m sobbing. So overwhelmed by the lights, the pulsing music, everything about this night.
He releases my pussy, and the pain dies away, along with my hopes for an orgasm.
Jaeger stands up with me in his arms but turns and sets me down on the chair. I shiver without his warmth, feeling lost.
He leans in, cupping the back of my neck. “Are you going to be good for me?” His fingers twist in my curls, tugging a little, sparking a stinging sensation along my hairline.
The rest of the room, the booming bass and flashing lights, all fade away. There’s only the two of us.
I lick my lips. “I want to cum.”
“Soon.” He squeezes my knee with his free hand.
“I hate you,” I tell him. He smirks, but I’m seized with the need to tell him the truth. I catch his face between my palms. “I didn’t mean it. Jaeger, I…” I stare into his stormy eyes, unable to say the rest. I crave you. I want more time with you in the penthouse, cuddling on the couch. I want to be the one you whisper secrets to in the dark.
But I’m afraid.
His gaze softens. “I know.” He brushes his lips over mine. “I love you, too.”
He knows.
A sense of peace falls over me. Jaeger isn’t the man I would’ve imagined falling for. I didn’t choose him; he chose me. But every man in my life has left. Maybe a man who won’t let me go is what I need.
“I love you,” I tell him because I can’t go another second without telling him.
He pulls away, looming over me, and a chill falls over me. Something’s about to happen.
“You need to be brave now. And very, very good.” He blankets my eyes with a blindfold, plunging me into darkness.
Panic makes me thrash. “What—”
He sets a finger to my lips. “Not another word. Or I’ll need to gag you.” He waits for my nod and gathers my hands, binding them together with some sort of soft rope.
Then he fits something over my head. Something covers my ears, muffling the sounds around me but not quite silencing the pulsing music.
I fight another flash of fear. He’s taken away my vision, my ability to use my hands, and now my hearing. I remember the woman in the armbinder with the red ribbon.
I open my mouth and remember what he said about the gag. Still, I squirm when he touches me. He lifts one of the soft covers off my ear long enough to say, “Shh, bunny. Don’t struggle. Save your strength. You will need it.”
Then he replaces the covering, leaving me caught in my own dark world. I can only flex my wrists in the bindings as he picks me up and carries me somewhere. He has something planned. I don’t know where we’re going. I can only guess—upstairs, to the bar? Or into one of those illuminated rooms to put on a show?
I only know I’ll be with him. He’s promised to stay by my side.
I told him I love him, and I mean it. I don’t know when he became the one person in the world I can lean on.
I only hope he doesn’t let me fall.
Jaeger
The bass beat and sounds of dancers fade into the distance as I leave the ballroom and head into the bowels of the building. There’s another secret elevator at the end of a hall. This one doesn’t budge until I give it a voice command and angle my hand for a hidden sensor to scan my ring.
And then we’re descending, far below Club Empire, to a place only Fraternitas knows. Into the Abyss.
Growing up on the streets, you quickly learn of the secret passages under the city. There’s a whole world under New Rome—old pipes, subway systems, and underground rooms. It didn’t take us long to realize we could have free run of the place. When you’re small and insignificant, no one notices when you disappear. It’s a street kid’s greatest weakness—and our greatest strength.