term.”
Adopted? I was never adopted. No one wanted me.
Rubbing my arms, looking down, hiding the tears. It's been a long and emotional day.
“No one adopted you, because I wouldn't let them.”
Rearing my head, I want to spit in his face for being such a cruel bastard.
“Leave me out of your nastiness. I'm not a rock. I'm fragile.”
My voice is cracking, becoming hoarse, but I need to fight back. I just know I can't show weakness. It's whipping me, in the back of my head, screaming at me not to back down.
“I'm older than I look. I'm not being malicious,” he says in a milder tone.
J.j.jesus. He's been stalking me my whole life?
“Say my name,” he orders.
“ No. This is ending right now. Take me home or I will scream so long and loud, SWAT will be blowing you up.”
“ I'm faster than I look too. Do you really want to press your luck with me? It should be clear to you, even in your grief, that I have run out of patience today.”
“ What do you want?”
“ You. It's always been, as always will be, you.”
“ You're insane. I'm. Not. Interested. How can I make that any clearer? I think you're a complete asshole. And everything you do just proves it more. Fuck off! Fuck you! Get a fucking life! Is that clear enough?”
Wings flare out, blocking out all light, closing in around me so fast, I don't have a chance to react. In a nanosecond, I'm shut in complete darkness, with two pinpricks of glittering starry eyes in front of me.
Chapter 9
“Scream all you want, no one will hear you now.”
I belt it out, my rage, my fear, my panic. Slamming forward, rallying fists into an immovable bulk. Using everything I remember, I elbow hard into his solar plexus, shoving the heel of one hand up and against his jaw, following through by ramming the heel of the other hand up into his nose. Fighting blind in this pitch ink around me.
“ Fuck you! ”
Stomping a sharp heel onto a foot, boxing around myself into his groin, I smash my head back into him, giving myself an instant concussion when I connect with bone.
“Are you quite finished behaving like a wildcat?”
Whipping around, leaping up I head-butt him, nearly breaking my own nose. Yelling, “FUCK YOU!”
I sink my claws into his naked chest and rake down, hard .
My wrists are snatched, held in a clamp so tight pain shoots up both arms.
“That is enough!”
Tugging wildly, I drop, kicking both heels into his legs, my left shoe comes off. Pulling heavily with all my dead weight against his hands, I sink my teeth into the hand holding my wrists, biting for all I'm worth.
“Stop it. Sarah, that is enough.”
I pretend to give in. Going weak in his arms, waiting for him to let my hands go.
He pulls me up off the floor where he holds above my hands, waiting for me to stabilize, slowly releasing his grip.
“ You always were such a fighter.”
Before he's even finished his sentence I lunge, digging my thumbs with their long nails into his eyes. Huge arms shove me hard, cutting down into my elbows, making both arms instantly lame, whipped around, I'm held tight against him, my heart pounding, breathing hard from exertion.
“Try that again, and I will hurt you for the first time in my very long life.”
He forces the air from me when he tightens both arms, emphasizing his words, “Are we clear?”
I nod, he's squeezing the life from me.
Maintaining his hold, he forcefully rotates me, slowly lighting up his wing-cave with his eyes. They get brighter in increments. Now I can barely see, I'm a little scared. He's like a devil.
“Are you going to behave?”
I'm aching, and his grip is harsh.
“Mmm.”
I can taste blood in my mouth. How did that happen?
“Why do you have to make this so hard? How long are you going to hate me?”
“ Forever and ever. You haven't given me one reason to like you. Here in Austin, we like our men with charm and manners. You lack both. Move, you're not welcome here.”
Instantly we're back in
Adopted? I was never adopted. No one wanted me.
Rubbing my arms, looking down, hiding the tears. It's been a long and emotional day.
“No one adopted you, because I wouldn't let them.”
Rearing my head, I want to spit in his face for being such a cruel bastard.
“Leave me out of your nastiness. I'm not a rock. I'm fragile.”
My voice is cracking, becoming hoarse, but I need to fight back. I just know I can't show weakness. It's whipping me, in the back of my head, screaming at me not to back down.
“I'm older than I look. I'm not being malicious,” he says in a milder tone.
J.j.jesus. He's been stalking me my whole life?
“Say my name,” he orders.
“ No. This is ending right now. Take me home or I will scream so long and loud, SWAT will be blowing you up.”
“ I'm faster than I look too. Do you really want to press your luck with me? It should be clear to you, even in your grief, that I have run out of patience today.”
“ What do you want?”
“ You. It's always been, as always will be, you.”
“ You're insane. I'm. Not. Interested. How can I make that any clearer? I think you're a complete asshole. And everything you do just proves it more. Fuck off! Fuck you! Get a fucking life! Is that clear enough?”
Wings flare out, blocking out all light, closing in around me so fast, I don't have a chance to react. In a nanosecond, I'm shut in complete darkness, with two pinpricks of glittering starry eyes in front of me.
Chapter 9
“Scream all you want, no one will hear you now.”
I belt it out, my rage, my fear, my panic. Slamming forward, rallying fists into an immovable bulk. Using everything I remember, I elbow hard into his solar plexus, shoving the heel of one hand up and against his jaw, following through by ramming the heel of the other hand up into his nose. Fighting blind in this pitch ink around me.
“ Fuck you! ”
Stomping a sharp heel onto a foot, boxing around myself into his groin, I smash my head back into him, giving myself an instant concussion when I connect with bone.
“Are you quite finished behaving like a wildcat?”
Whipping around, leaping up I head-butt him, nearly breaking my own nose. Yelling, “FUCK YOU!”
I sink my claws into his naked chest and rake down, hard .
My wrists are snatched, held in a clamp so tight pain shoots up both arms.
“That is enough!”
Tugging wildly, I drop, kicking both heels into his legs, my left shoe comes off. Pulling heavily with all my dead weight against his hands, I sink my teeth into the hand holding my wrists, biting for all I'm worth.
“Stop it. Sarah, that is enough.”
I pretend to give in. Going weak in his arms, waiting for him to let my hands go.
He pulls me up off the floor where he holds above my hands, waiting for me to stabilize, slowly releasing his grip.
“ You always were such a fighter.”
Before he's even finished his sentence I lunge, digging my thumbs with their long nails into his eyes. Huge arms shove me hard, cutting down into my elbows, making both arms instantly lame, whipped around, I'm held tight against him, my heart pounding, breathing hard from exertion.
“Try that again, and I will hurt you for the first time in my very long life.”
He forces the air from me when he tightens both arms, emphasizing his words, “Are we clear?”
I nod, he's squeezing the life from me.
Maintaining his hold, he forcefully rotates me, slowly lighting up his wing-cave with his eyes. They get brighter in increments. Now I can barely see, I'm a little scared. He's like a devil.
“Are you going to behave?”
I'm aching, and his grip is harsh.
“Mmm.”
I can taste blood in my mouth. How did that happen?
“Why do you have to make this so hard? How long are you going to hate me?”
“ Forever and ever. You haven't given me one reason to like you. Here in Austin, we like our men with charm and manners. You lack both. Move, you're not welcome here.”
Instantly we're back in
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