Page 25 of Above All Else

The urge to wet my thumb and wipe it from her perfectionteased me.

She swung again, sending herself off balance in a half spin, her arm flinging behind her and toward me. I reached out, took hold of the offending weapon, and wrenched it away. “I’ll take that.”

June fell to the ground, her negligee creeping up her waist as she glanced up at me, her knees blooming red.

I tossed the weapon aside and stood over her as she grimaced, my dick hardening.

“Don’t…” She dug her fingers into the dirt road beyond the gate and drive, and dragged herself away from me.

I could drag her back to the cabin by her ankle... right now.

“Don’t what?”

June pushed herself to her feet as blood dripped down her shin. She hobbled to the left, back into the trees, her hand reaching out for support. “Leave me alone.”

Her words burst out in a raspy scream, bouncing between the trees that stretched for miles. No one was going to save her, even with the party raging on a fair distance behind us.

We were in our own little world out here.

Just me, her, and my desires.

“Don’t leave you alone?” I laughed as I mocked her. “I don’t intend to—not like Ethan.”

Her brows squeezed together as she heaved in lungfuls of air. “You killed him. He didn’t...” she sobbed. “He didn’t leave me.”

I pulled the mask from my face and dropped it in the leaves beside me. “Do you know where your precious boyfriend wasbefore he took you out tonight?”

“Working. He had a business meeting.”

I raised a brow. “Working his co-worker into his desk, bareback... and rough.”

“You’re lying.” A storm brewed behind her hazel eyes, darkening them. “That doesn’t give you the right to kill him, Carter Morgan.”

Why didn’t I wait until he high-tailed it back to his side piece?

“No one gets to hurt you but me.Thatismyright.”

“You’re insane.” Her feet scuffed against the ground as she backed away, kicked leaves and pine needles to the side. “What happened to you?”

“You did.” I pointed my index finger at her and gritted my teeth. “You happened to me, dollface.”

“Don’t call me that. You said yourself you wanted nothing to do with me.”

“That was before.” I rushed her. In the blink of an eye, I had her bound against my chest. “Now I want everything.”

I thrust her face down and straddled her hips. She gave a pained sob as I grabbed the back of her neck, keeping her face affixed to the dirt.

“Keep struggling, dollface.” I rubbed my hardening cock against her ass. “You’re such a vicious temptation.”

“Carter...” A sob broke from her lips, putting my hips on pause. “Do anything you want to me, but don’t...don’t do that.Please.”

Rape?

That’s something I hadn’t considered.

“Why shouldn’t I?” I leaned in closer, pressing my chest against her back, my teeth nibbling the soft cartilage at the top of her ear.

“I’m just...” Her voice softened to a whisper, and I tugged on her ear, causing her to squirm.