Page 33 of Alluring Darkness
My mouth drops open. They livehere? I thought it belonged to one of the professors or something.
As soon as we’ve stopped, I quickly unbuckle my seatbelt and slip out of the car while calling, “Well, thanks for the ride.”
I don’t even make it two steps before Jace appears in front of me, blocking my path. “Not so fast.”
With a quick sidestep, I try to dodge him. But he moves like a viper. Grabbing my arm, he twists it up behind my back hard enough to make me cry out. The sound is immediately cut off as he slaps his other hand over my mouth.
I uselessly try to fight him as he starts marching me towards the front door. Jace might be the youngest of the Hunters, but he’s definitely not the weakest. Pressed against him like this, I can feel his rock-hard muscles shift against my body.
Rico unlocks the front door and walks inside while speaking to Jace over his shoulder. “Get her up to Eli’s room. I’m going to grab some rope.”
A startled noise makes it out of my throat, but it’s blocked by Jace’s hand. Eli’s room? Rope? What the hell are they planning to do?
I dig my heels into every step up the stairs until Jace loses patience and lifts me up and throws me over his shoulder instead. At least it gets his hand off my mouth.
“Let me go,” I snarl, trying to twist my body out of Jace’s arm. “Or I swear to God, I will—”
“You’ll do what, exactly?” Kaden interrupts. He’s following us up the stairs, and that sadistic amusement gleams in his eyes as he gives me a mocking once-over where I lie across his brother’s shoulder. “You’re so far out of your league here that it’s almost ridiculous.”
Before I can retort, Jace yanks open a door and stalks inside.
My heart lurches as I’m met by an elegant room with dark wallpaper and polished wooden floorboards. All the furniture is made of dark wood. And everything, from the grand desk by one wall to the double bed opposite it, is neat and tidy. A testament to the fact that Eli demands control over everything and everyone around him.
The room even smells like him. I can’t pin down the exact scents, but it smells dark and mysterious and absolutely intoxicating.
For a moment, I’m so overwhelmed by that incredible scent that I lose track of what I’m supposed to be doing. The next second, Jace heaves me off his shoulder and tosses me down onto the large double bed.
The mattress bounces underneath me and the dark sheets rustle as I land back first on it. I try to scramble into a sitting position, but before I can, Jace straddles me.
Air escapes my lungs in a huff as he settles his massive weight right on top of my chest. Kicking my legs and pushing against his thighs with my hands, I try to get him off me, but his muscular body remains firmly where it is.
While I’m busy cursing him to hell, Rico walks through the door carrying a bundle of thick ropes. He tosses two of them to Kaden before starting towards my legs.
My heart pounds in my chest and a throbbing starts at my core as the two of them deftly secure the ropes around my wrists and ankles and then tie me to the bedframe with efficient moves.
Once all the ropes are in place, Jace climbs off my chest. I draw in a deep breath now that his weight is no longer pressing down on my lungs. Then I try to yank my arms and legs free. My restraints remain firmly in place.
Well, they sure know their way around knots.
Narrowing my eyes, I turn to glare at the three brothers now standing by the side of the bed, watching me with amused expressions on their faces.
“Seriously?” I pull at the ropes again. “Were you all boy scouts or what?”
Jace chuckles, and Rico gives me a nonchalant shrug. But Kaden only walks over to the desk and writes something on a piece of paper. Once he’s done, he returns with it and a paperclip.
My pulse thrums in my ears as he leans over the bed and reaches towards my chest. But all he does is to secure the paper to my shirt using the paperclip. I raise my head as much as I can and read the two words written there.
Have fun.
My stomach flips.
“Have fun?” I challenge, staring at them in disbelief. “Have fun? Fuck, has anyone ever told you that you’re a bunch of arrogant entitled assholes who don’t—”
“Kaden,” Jace interrupts. “Don’t you have something to shut her up with?”
A wicked smile spreads across Kaden’s lips. “Of course I do.”
I yank furiously against the ropes again while Kaden disappears out the door. “When I get out of these restraints, I will—”