“What if I can’t?”

“I know you can.” I worked a finger into her puckered hole. She clenched her jaw, and I withdrew and dipped in a couple more times. If I weren’t such a shameless prick, I’d prepare her with a butt plug first, but I couldn’t wait. I needed to take her this way—needed it more than anything. I’d dreamed about it obsessively, jerked off at the fantasy the whole time we’d been apart.

The last thing no one had taken from her…it was mine.

I angled her face so I could see her eyes. Shit, there were those tears again. As I positioned the tip of my cock and inched into her, I leaned down and dragged my tongue up her cheek, tasting the addictive flavor of her pain. Giving her time to adjust, I waited several heartbeats, ready to explode, to pound my stress away.

To feel her tight around me.

I pushed in further, and she yelped. A man with a heart would have stopped for a few seconds so she could get used to my body invading hers, but I could barely manage to keep my pace slow and steady. I hungered for it too much. I pushed in another inch, eliciting another cry of pain.

“It hurts!”

Even as her muscles sucked me deeper, driving me to total annihilation, I hated myself for the heaving sobs that broke free of her twisted mouth. Her hands formed two tight fists, and she screwed her eyes shut. I was doing this to her, pushing her, being a complete and utter jackass…making her hate me.

Drawing in a breath, I willed my dick to take a breather. “Baby, you’ve gotta relax, or it won’t stop hurting.”

“I can’t!” she shrieked. “You’re too big.” She tried crawling up the bed, making it a couple of inches before I pulled her ass flush with my groin and plunged into her. The scream that tore from her mouth lanced through me. She attempted to escape me again, but I held her captive in my madness, my hands gripping her perfectly round bottom and keeping her exactly where I wanted her.

“Take deep breaths. Relax those muscles.”

“Please, Rafe,” she sobbed.

I pulled out slowly, opened the bottle of lubricant, and fisted my cock with a wet hand, then I worked my way back inside her, rubbing her cheeks as I settled into a gentle rhythm. “Your ass is mine, no one else’s.”

Slowly, her body relaxed, despite her hiccupping mewls that broke me to pieces because they reminded me of that fucking underground tunnel. Reminded me of her on her toes, taking the harsh bite of Brock’s whip.