Chapter 218: The melody of your heart
“My ruthless Alpha,” I breathed against his lips.
It seemed I had tempted fate enough for one night; without warning, he swept me off my feet, carrying me to the bed and dropping me gently into the center of the mattress before looming heavily over me.
“Are you ready for your punishment?” His grey eyes gleamed like molten silver in the dim room, hungrily sweeping over my bust, tightly fitted inside the dress.
“Any punishment from your hands is a pleasure,” I whispered, trailing my fingertips up his tense neck, sliding beneath his open collar down toward his collarbone—right over his scent mark. The Alpha shuddered violently, the darkness in his eyes turning wilder, hungrier.
“What you do to me…” he growled low in his throat, followed by the sharp tear of fabric.
He ripped the dress straight along the seam. We wouldn’t have been able to get it off any other way—it had been sewn directly onto me along the side seam to ensure the heavy fabric wouldn’t press against my belly. The original design had included a delicate hidden zipper, but we had been forced to abandon it at the last minute.
The white silk dropped to the floor, leaving me completely bare beneath my massive man, wearing only my high crimson heels and the scarlet lace garter around my thigh. That single detail drew his darkened gaze like a magnet. Stripping away the dress had done nothing to ease his restraint, but he was holding back with every ounce of his willpower.
“Turn over,” he commanded hoarsely, stepping off the mattress to stand flush against the edge of the bed.
Obeying, I shifted onto my knees, arching my back slightly. Magnus’s broad, calloused hand slid over my hip, trailing across my skin in a deceptively gentle stroke.
“You were a very bad girl today, breeder. Recklessly letting those bastards devour your body with their eyes. They could have lunged at you right then and there,” he growled huskily, delivering a light, stinging slap to my rear.
It didn’t hurt—there was no real force behind it. Just a rush of goosebumps and a flare of heat in my blood from the subtle, dominant game he was playing.
“You were right there. I was completely safe beside my Alpha.”
𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂
The second, sharper slap came without warning. A muffled moan escaped me as a scorching wave of arousal raced up my spine.
“I’ll have to gouge out the eyes of every male who was there,” my husband growled, voice dark and lethal.
“No. They already know I’m yours alone.” I whispered the words and arched my lower back even deeper. A heartbeat later, the tip of his finger traced a feather-light, teasing path along my bare, exposed entrance.
“So wet… Does punishment excite you this much?”
He thrust two fingers into me without preamble, tearing a loud, shocked sob from my chest. I hadn’t expected the sudden invasion. Scorching pleasure rolled through my overheated body as his other hand clamped hard around my hip and yanked me back. The thick, stone-hard length of him pressed against my ass. When had he even gotten rid of his pants?
“Answer me, Jane. Do you like it when I punish you?” That silken, dangerous whisper belonged to the devil himself—a demon-tempter who teased without mercy, driving me right to the edge.
“I like everything you do to me,” I breathed, ending on a sharp cry when he crooked his fingers and pressed exactly against the most sensitive place inside me.
“Did you touch yourself while I was gone in this goddamn mansion? Did you stroke yourself and come with my name on your lips?”
Hot shame flooded my cheeks. It had only been once. One single time, when I’d found his hoodie, saturated with his scent. I simply… hadn’t been able to stop myself while I breathed in his pheromones, trying to quiet the ache of missing him.
“How do you know?” I choked out as he tightened his grip on my hip and worked his fingers faster.
He was pulling sparks from me, methodically pushing me toward complete madness. I hovered right on the brink.
“I watched. There’s a hidden camera in the room. I saw the way you arched on that huge bed and touched yourself so greedily.”
“I’m so ashamed—please, stop talking…” I buried my burning face in the pillow, yet my hips still rocked back helplessly in time with his ruthless fingers.
“I loved every second of it. Show me now. Live. While I take you.”
Magnus yanked his fingers free. In the same breath, I felt the searing head of his cock nudge against my entrance—and then he went completely still. Desperate to finally feel him, I pushed back, but he held me in place with an iron grip on my hips.
“Go on. Touch yourself.” The alpha’s low chuckle brushed my ear as he eased inside me just enough to torment.
I bit my lip hard enough to taste blood and obediently slid my fingers over my slick clit. Centimeter by centimeter his thick length sank into me. The moment our bodies finally locked together, he exhaled roughly through clenched teeth. He pulled me up by the shoulder, forcing me to turn and rise onto trembling knees. One powerful arm banded beneath my breasts, holding me steady so I wouldn’t collapse, and he claimed my mouth in a hungry, devouring kiss.
Then the real world shattered into exploding stars behind my closed eyelids as he began those deep, measured thrusts. His strong arms were the only thing keeping me from falling into the abyss. Absolute power over my soul and my trembling body. The sensations were too bright, too overwhelming for mere moans. Only cries and broken sobs spilled from me, tangled with the deep, chest-born sounds he made in answer.
At some point in the madness, the pleasure grew so bright, so close to agony, that I pulled my hand away and clung desperately to his neck. He stopped at once.
“Don’t stop touching yourself.” He caught my wrist and forced it firmly back into place.
When his finger joined mine, sliding wetly over my clit, I couldn’t hold back the ragged moan that tore from me.
The rhythm shattered completely. The man hauled me against him in one powerful pull, raining scorching kisses down my throat and biting the skin right beside the mating mark. Our scents tangled in the air, thick and dizzying—pure euphoria. The tight coil low in my belly wound tighter and tighter, sending fire racing through my veins. My hands shook as ecstasy crackled through me like lightning.
“I love you. I… love you so much,” my husband whispered against my ear and sank his teeth harder into the mark.
My soul caught flame. Every coherent thought fled. My body began to shake violently as a massive, all-consuming orgasm crashed over me and dragged me under.
“I love you too… so damn much.”
***
Later, lying on the tangled sheets and slowly drifting down from the high, I traced lazy circles over the black ink that wound across my husband’s broad chest. He carded his fingers gently through my hair and stroked my head in slow, soothing passes. Eyes closed, I smiled in quiet happiness, simply listening.
“You’re smiling,” Magnus murmured thoughtfully. He tipped my chin up and studied my face. “What are you thinking about right now?”
“That I love this melody more than anything.” I rested my open palm against his cheek and brushed my thumb across it.
“What melody? It’s quiet in here.”
“The melody of your heart.”
I whispered the words against his lips, then nipped playfully at the lower one. In the next breath, I was on my back, pinned beneath his heavy body. Hot hands slid along my waist. His cock, already hard and ready again, pressed insistently against my bare thigh.
The long night still held plenty of pleasure for us. We had earned the right to think of nothing but each other and to finally quench this thirst. Though even a lifetime would never be enough to satisfy the unbearable need to touch his skin and belong to him completely.
Nothing in this cruel world could ever make me wish for a calmer fate. No matter what the future brought, my heart and soul would belong to him alone—forever.