Chapter 170 Chapter 170

Chapter 170 Chapter 170
Amber
Or rather he let me.
But I didn’t care as I let the words spill out in a messy, angry rush.
“You are so bossy. So arrogant. You spend the entire night telling me what to do, how to behave, when to look at you, when to stop looking at you, when to keep a clear head, and then you just…what? Decide I don’t get what I want? You make me dance with you like that, touch me like that, look at me like you’re two seconds from losing control, and then you shove me away and tell me to go to sleep like I’m some child who needs a bedtime?”
One dark brow lifted and the corner of his mouth twitched.
“That herbal liquid is really taking its sweet time waking you up”
I pulled at his collar harder, making our chests slam. “I am wide awake”
“What do you want, Red?”
I made an exasperated sound and released his collar only long enough to throw both hands up. “Can’t you see it? I’ve been screaming it at you for hours.”
He looked mildly amused now. Dangerous, but amused. 
“Say it one more time.”
“You’re such a narc.”
His hand coiled around my waist without warning and yanked me forward. My knees slid across the sheets until my body was flush against his, chest to chest, the hard line of him impossible to ignore. 
Heat flooded my face and lower.
“That doesn’t stop you from wanting me,” he murmured.
I glared up at him, breathless. “See? You know exactly what I want.”
He nodded once, slow. “I just wanted to make sure sober Red was talking to me. Not drunk Red.”
I blinked as I realized what he had said and let the words sink in.
The headache that had been pulsing behind my eyes was gone. The double vision had vanished. I was no longer seeing two of him either.
The room sat still and clear around us. The herbal tonic had done its job with ruthless efficiency. I was sober.
But it didn’t change the fact that I still wanted him just as badly. 
Maybe more, now that every sensation was sharp again instead of blurred by alcohol.
He opened his mouth, probably to start another lecture about the Hunt, and I pressed a finger against his lips.
“Shh, I don’t care about the Hunt,” I tried to keep my voice low and steady. 
“I might die tomorrow so stop pushing me away. Give me this night, let me have some joy without having to worry about what tomorrow might bring. Right now.”
His eyes flared, silver going almost black. The hand at my waist flexed hard.
“You have no idea what you’re asking for.”
“I do.” I kept my finger against his mouth for a second longer, then dropped it to rest against his chest. 
“I’m frustrated. I’m yearning. And if you don’t kiss me, I’ll go find someone who will.”
The almost-smile vanished as if it had never existed.
One second I was kneeling on the bed in front of him. The next he had flipped us around, slammed me against the hard length of his body so tightly the air left my lungs in a startled rush. 
One hand fisted in my hair, the other locked at the small of my back.
“Say that again.”
The warning in his voice was pure heat and possession. I stared up at him, mouth watering despite the pulse hammering in my throat.
“Either you kiss me right now or...” I whispered. 
“Or what?”
The possessiveness had crept fully into his tone now. It should have frightened me. Instead it made the ache between my legs throb harder.
I held his gaze and let the last scrap of boldness rise. “Or I will find another man to…”
I never finished the sentence.
His mouth crashed onto mine, bruising and relentless. 
The kiss was nothing like the careful, restrained ones from before. This was pure claim. His lips forced mine apart. His tongue swept inside like it belonged there, dominating and stealing every coherent thought. 
I made a startled sound that melted into a moan against his mouth. My hands flew to his shoulders for balance as he deepened the kiss further, tilting my head exactly the way he wanted, devouring me with a hunger that left me shaking.
I was the kindling and he was the ember that set everything alight.
I arched into him helplessly. The bed creaked as he bore me backward onto the mattress, never breaking the kiss. 
His weight settled over me, solid and overwhelming. One of his knees forced my legs apart. 
The hard ridge of his cock pressed against the damp heat of me through the layers of fabric still between us. I whimpered into his mouth. He swallowed the sound and kept kissing me like he intended to mark the shape of his mouth onto mine permanently.
When he finally tore his lips away it was only to growl against the corner of my mouth.
“What were you saying again?”
I couldn’t form words. All I managed was another broken moan as his mouth dragged down the side of my throat, teeth scraping, lips sucking hard enough to leave marks. 
Every place he touched burned and every place he hadn’t touched yet ached to be touched. This was what I had been craving for weeks—the loss of his careful control, the raw, dominant edge he usually kept locked down.
“I asked you something, Red”
“I…was…saying that I…would…go find…anoth-...”
He was not gentle.
He reached for the neckline of the crimson dress and yanked the fabric down with one sharp pull. 
The thin material tore slightly at the seam as cool air kissed my bare breasts a second before his mouth curved into a lazy smirk.
“Find another?”
I tried speaking again. “F-find…an…another…m…ma…”
His mouth came down on my left breast and his mouth latched onto one nipple relentlessly. 
The suction was hard enough to border on pain. 
Pleasure spiked through me so sharply my back bowed off the bed. My hand flew up to cover my own mouth just in time to muffle the loud, helpless cry that tore out of me.
He tore the other side of the dress down with equal force, exposing both breasts fully. 
The ruined fabric bunched around my waist. He switched to the other nipple, sucking hard while his fingers pinched and rolled the first one. 
The dual sensation made my thighs tremble around his hips.
“Will you even think of going to another guy?” he demanded against my skin, voice rough.
“I was just…”
“You belong to me, Red. Your pussy belongs to me, and your mouth will moan only for me. Do you understand?”