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Chapter 101: Rough Night
Riley’s POV
The moment the words left my mouth, I froze.
I had not planned to tell him. Ezra had always been impossible for me to read. He could burn down my world for me one second and turn around to kiss another girl the next. Also knew that he was such a dangerous fuckboy. He had so many more options besides me. Telling him how I felt would only humiliate myself in the end.
Yet I still let it slip out.
I had spent so long trying not to hand him the softest part of me that now, with the words already franging between us, I felt almost dizzy with panic.
Ezra slowly turned around to face me.
The moonlight cut across his face, but I still couldn’t read it. His expression had gone so still that it scared the hell out of me.
“You said…you love me?” he asked, his voice slightly hoarse.
My throat felt tight. I swallowed and forced myself to breathe.
There was no way back now.
“Yeah,” I said quietly, clenching my fists. “Yeah, I do.”
He kept staring at me.
My heart was beating so hard it hurt. The silence stretched and stretched, and with every second he didn’t answer, I felt more panicked.
“I don’t know how much of it is the mate bond,” I admitted, my/voice shaking a little now. “Maybe some of it is that. Maybe all of it started there…I don’t know. But this is still how I feel.”
He still said nothing. His tall figure was silent and still in the darkness.
The panic got worse.
I took one step toward him and kept going because stopping now would have been worse.
“And I’m sorry,” I said shakily. “For my mom. For what she did to you family. I hate it every bit of it. I wish she sever left as and she never met your father. But I couldn’t stop her. I was just a child when everything happened, and even now. Fear I seem to stop any of the damage she causes.”
His jaw tightened slightly. I could see hurt and anger flickering across his face.
I felt foolish suddenly Like I had just opened my hands and offered him my heart, only to realize he was still too fraqmated and furious to take it.
So I gave him the only escape could think of
“You don’t have to say anything,” I said quickly “You know what? Just torger at You have Viola now And she’s everything your father wants and everything this palace approves of Maybe that’s better Maybe
I didn’t get to finish
Because Ezra had crossed the distance between us in two strides and crushed me against him
The force of it drove the breath out of me His arms wrapped around me a tightly yould barely move, and then his mouth was on mine. Rough, desperate, and eager
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made a broken sound against his lips and clung to him instantly.
All the fear and humiliation and grief from the night seemed to crack open at once.
I felt tears spill down my face before I even realized I was crying.
Ezra kissed me harder.
When he finally pulled back enough for me to breathe, his forehead pressed to mine, his hands still locked around me.
“Let’s go,” he said.
I blinked up at him, still breathless. “Where?”
“Anywhere. I need to get out of this fucking place.”
Before I could answer, he shifted.
One second I was in his arms. The next I was on the back of his wolf, fingers buried in black fur as he launched into the night.
“Ahh!” I gasped.
“Hang tight!” he growled.
We tore across the palace grounds and through the trees beyond the walls, leaving the castle behind in a blur of moonlight and cold air. I held on with everything I had while the world rushed past us, my face buried against his neck, my pulse still wild.
He didn’t stop until we were deep enough in the woods that the palace had disappeared completely.
A narrow stream cut through the clearing there, gleaming silverly under the moon. The water moved quietly over smooth stones, and the trees leaned in close enough to make the whole place feel hidden from the rest of the world.
Ezra shifted back the moment we reached the bank.
Before I could even catch my breath, he caught me by the waist and pushed me down onto the grass beside the stream.
He kissed me like he wanted to devour me. His hands were everywhere-my face, my hair, my waist, my bare skin-as if he had to touch all of me to make sure I was real.
I wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed him back with everything in me. The fear in him was still there under the heat 1 could feel it. So much anger, so much hurt, so much grief he had been carrying so badly and so alone.
But now I was here for him.1
Maybe that’s why you needed a mate.
He started tearing my clothes. I remembered something and I broke the kiss just enough to whisper, “Wait what about Vola
Ezra’s mouth brushed the corner of mine “There’s nobody else Just you.”
“Liar. Everybody says she’s your fiancé…”
He pulled back enough to look me in the eye “Lused her to make you jealous That’s all she was She doesn’t love me either She’s just using me to stay in this palace Tomorrow I’ll make sure she’s gone”
Something in my chest loosened.
I touched his face and kissed him again before he could say anything else
My hands moved through his hair, down the back of his neck, over his shoulders. He shuddered under my touch like he had been holding himself together by force and was finally able to let loose
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The stream whispered beside us. Moonlight moved across his skin. His mouth found my throat, my collarbone, my naked chest and traveled down to my belly button.
I sucked in a sharp breath as he kept going downwards.
“Wait…don’t…”
“Stay still, babe,” he draped my legs over his broad shoulders and buried his face down. “I want to feel you.”
I threw my head back as his lips found my bottom. An extreme pleasure-something I had never experienced before-shot through me. I kicked my legs, twitching, gasping, but he held my legs and kept my still.
I had my first orgasm under his lips. Then he came on top of me and thrust into me.
He moved over me with a kind of rough care that rocked my whole world. Every time I touched him, I could feel how close to breaking he still was. So I kissed him, held him, let him bury himself inside of me, which burned the two of us.
When it was over, he gathered me into him and held me for a long time.
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