Chapter 57
The decision felt like a knot in my chest. I wrung my hands together as I contemplated what to do next. The water from the ceiling of the cave dripped down my hair as I sat in the moss bed.The sun was setting, the sky a brilliant pinkish orange hue through the wavy glass shower of the waterfall.
I could run to Grayson, set him free, and depend on his strength to keep Dominic at bay. But Dominic would surely find us and there would be a fight to the death. I would lose one of them, if not more if the other wolves found us during the night.
The other option was to stay. I could wait to see if Grayson escaped, now that he was awake and calling for me. If he could just survive for a little while longer than Dominic would turn into his wolf and the bond would be broken.
But what if Dominic woke and, in his fury over my absence, went straight to killing Grayson rather than searching for me. It was too risky, and the bond pulled so deeply inside of me, to be by his side, that my only option was to seek Grayson out. With him at least I could use my powers, even if they were unpredictable.
I stood, resolved with my decision and wiped mud from my legs with my trapped hands. I stared at the ropes, I needed them off. Looking around for some sort of sharp edge, I eyed a rocky bit at the back of the cave.
It was darker where I kneeled to rub the ropes against the jutting stone. A few strands gave way, fraying out with the satisfying motions. My knees felt sore on the hard ground, the memory of the last time I kneeled making my breath hitch.
I sawed against the rock faster, pushing the thought of Dominic’s member to the back of my mind. Instead, I concentrated on Grayson. He was safe, for now. He wasn’t moving but he was watching me as closely as I watched him.
The emotions he leaked out weren’t any I had felt from him before. He was worried about me, genuinely scared for my safety. He was even panicking and I imagined him desperately trying to escape whatever situation he was in.
My heart ached, the want to ease the pain I didn’t know he could feel rushing my movements against the rock. I gritted my teeth, only half way through the corded rope. Damn Marek for being so good at his craft.
I shifted on my knees, trying to get a better angle for deeper cuts when the shadow caught my attention.
The waterfall was so loud, I hadn’t heard him come. At what point? I thought. At what point did my wall fall and let Dominic in.
He stood dripping, droplets falling from every steaming muscle like rain coming out of clouds made of fire. He grinned under his glowing eyes.
He was proud of himself, he had successfully found me without my knowledge and now I was completely trapped with the full moon already beginning to rise.
I cowered back, sliding on my butt to the very back of the cave as though it would swallow me up in its shadows. His head cocked to the side, like I was challenging him.
"Come on, princess." He breathed heavily, driven by a thrill that was spreading its way into my own chest.
"Don’t be shy, now." He took a step closer, eyes bright with hunger under the fighting wolf inside him.
He reached a hand out, an oddly kind gesture with how aggressive his stance was.
"It’s time," he told me.
Grayson’s panic rose as I thought of what to do next. Fighting or running wouldn’t help me. I could bring forth my powers but another thought pressed into me. An option I had been fighting against since the beginning.
I looked up at him, thinking with a heavy heart about my decision. I could end his relentless attacks by just giving in, letting him have me and completing the Binding Rite. The bond wanted it more than anything, and I was tired of fighting it.
I reached out, taking his hand in mine.
He pulled me to my feet with enough force that I fell right into his heated chest. He gripped my arms, leaning down. I didn’t stop him as I returned his kiss. His tongue dipped into my mouth and my body felt like jelly.
Darkness was falling over us as a silver light replaced the dying sunset. The entire cave shimmered with the ripples of light through falling water.
I moaned against his lips. The invisible pull felt like it had been reaching out into empty space and only now was twisting around its other end, making it whole. Making me whole.
He pulled back, eyes eating me up before his hands began to work at removing my clothes. His hands were rough and less sensual than Grayson’s as his talons tore through the material of my bra. I pulled my own skirt down, letting them sit around my ankles and his finger twisted and pulled at my underwear.
A simple slice and my undergarment fell away in a ruined mess. He leaned back, relishing the moonlight as it drifted over my body. His fingers hooked in his own pants and he pulled them down in a swift movement.
My heart raced and both my openings watered for him. Thoughts of Grayson burned away into the full moon as my body called for Dominic.
His hand brushed down my arm until he grabbed my hand. Stepping so close that I could feel his breath on my neck, he pressed my fingers down against myself and guided my fingers in circles. I groaned in light noises as his other hand tilted my chin up to kiss him.
"Do you want me?" He asked between our lips, already knowing what my answer would be.
The power he held over me constantly confused me and I once again found myself unable to refuse him. The wetness beneath our intertwined fingers grew as I burned for him. I nodded and his hand moved to my shoulder, pushing me down.
He followed me down while gripping his fully erect penis and connecting our mouths together. Rubbing himself and twirling his tongue around mine with a growing sense of victory.
My nerve endings were buzzing with the sensations that I felt coming from my own body as well as the ones he was projecting back to me. His hand reached for me, gliding a finger inside without any warning. I cried out as I felt what it did to both him and I.
His lust for me to be wrapped around him, to have him inside me, was overwhelming. His eyes were all I could see. His scent, his skin, his touch.
He grabbed my waist then, flipping me over onto my stomach. I gasped as the cool water touched on my bare nipples and tried to pull myself up. He yanked my hips closer to him, arching my ass towards him.
My hands held me up as water dripped from my breasts. He gripped at the part of me that was raised to him before sliding down my back until he could pull at my hair. My back arched down, raising my ass even higher while his other hand found my hole, the solid form of his cock rubbing against the sensitive area.
I whimpered, the image of myself on my hands and knees while he threatened to push into me from behind flashing in my mind from his view. I leaned back, asking for him. He placed himself right against me, pulling my hair harder with anticipation for his surge.
Thoughts of Grayson interrupted my mind. His body on mine, the way he touched me with a gentle hunger. I begged Dominic to take me while calling for another in my mind. I cried out for saviours while screaming for them to stay away, to let me have this.
They each scarred my memory. Marek, Julien, Jax, and Grayson all fighting their way into my arms while Dominic kneeled behind me. I could feel all of them near, feel their searching, feel their....
Dominic thrust himself hard and I cried out with a mixture of pain and pleasure.
He didn’t wait as he pulled himself out and pushed back in with quick successions. Each thrust fell deeper as the tempo of him found its rhythm.
The hand in my hair pulled harder and the other reached down around my waist to touch at where we met. My eyes rolled back and my mouth fell open as I moaned loudly.
I had thought Grayson was rough but now my time with him felt as fragile as glass compared to the way Dominic took me.
He let go of my hair and my head fell forward. He pulled me off of him and turned me around. I felt like a doll in the way he handled me, yet I relished the way he treated me.
The pain of betraying Grayson was already too much, if Dominic claimed me in the same way, I don’t think I would be able to handle it.
I was turned around and pushed down onto his lap. My hands still tied, I draped my arms over his shoulders. We found each other with ease as I moved my hips over him, hugging his chest into mine. Closing my eyes, I dug my fingers into the skin of his back, breaking through the surface. He held angrily under my ass cheeks, helping me bounce on him while gratified grunts left him.
Dominic was rough. Deliberately selfish movements that took exactly what he had been wanting. And I loved every second. I wanted to be his prize. To be the one he had nearly died for time and time again. I was the one he was after and now he had me.
His breathing quickened as I felt the rising feeling in his chest. I opened my eyes, purple waves swirling around the hollowness of the cave. My own heat matched his unwillingly, the bond reaching inside of me and forcing our spirits together while our bodies joined.
The feeling wasn’t of this world. I could feel a moon goddess I’d never known, spreading fingers down to bless our union. My head fell back as his speed quickened, hands moving to my breasts.
Time slowed as he pounded into me until an energy exploded inside of me, making me cry out in bliss.
The purple mixed with the silver of moonlight and seemed to vibrate with my release. I could feel my body sucking him in as his own release relinquished to my power. He sighed heavily as he filled me and I gripped my fingers in his hair as I returned to his mouth.
The Binding Rite was complete, I could feel it in every atom in my body and his. We were bound, sealed by a kiss, by blood, by his cum inside of me.