Je Suis a Toi (Monsters in the Dark, #3.5)

by Pepper Winters

Ripping his mouth away, he grunted, “Don’t run from me. Because it makes me want to fucking chase you and hurt you and teach you a goddamn lesson for ever thinking you had the power to leave me.” My thoughts vanished. My body took over. Q had this power. He reverted me from intelligent woman to begging pet. I knew what was coming. I knew because I knew him. And I wanted it. So, so much. I wanted it more than candlelit dinners and fancy getaways. I wanted it more than diamonds and feather beds.

I’ll never get over how much I need you. How much your body calls to mine. How much your mind challenges me. How much your fight begs me to snuff it out.” His eyes darkened from green to demanding grey. “Even now that doesn’t scare you, does it, sweet Tess? Knowing that the entire time I’m fucking you—the entire time I’m cock deep in your pussy, and my hand is around your throat, and my teeth are in your flesh—I’m battling the urge to strangle you and make you bleed.”

The woman with a temper to rival mine, intelligence to run my entire empire while still asleep, and the ultimate truth.” “Truth?” My low heels clicked on the ancient flagstones of the castle. The temperature wasn’t as snug as our home, but cheery fires roared in the humongous entrance hall as we traded foyer for the heart of the castle. He hugged me closer as staff appeared from nooks and crannies to take our coats and give us a welcome cocktail. “The truth, Tess. That you own my ass. That you’re the one with all the power.”

I wanted her. No, I was beyond that. I was fucking obsessed with her. She was more than my world. She was more than my lover, best friend, and partner. She was the blood in my heart, the breath in my lungs, the fucking marrow in my bones. Without her, I wouldn’t exist. Without her, my body would be nothingness: no heartbeats, no mind, no man…no animal.