Chapter 166: Chapter 166
Irina’s POV freewebnoveℓ.com
His mouth crashed down onto mine.
It wasn’t a kiss. It was a violent, absolute claiming. It was a punishment.
His teeth clashed brutally against my lips. I tasted copper instantly. The sharp, metallic tang of my own blood flooded my tongue. I gasped, and the second my lips parted, his tongue invaded my mouth. He swallowed my desperate cry completely.
The air in the freezing foyer was instantly sucked away. I couldn’t breathe. I was drowning in the blinding, suffocating scent of rain and damp earth.
"Mmph—!"
I shoved my trembling hands against his rock-hard chest. I pushed with every ounce of my pathetic strength. My mind screamed in pure terror. *Run. Push him away. Escape.* He was the monster who broke me. He was the Mad King.
But my body violently betrayed me.
The mate bond detonated in my bloodstream. It wasn’t just a spark. It was a devastating, high-voltage electrical current. It ripped through my veins, melting my muscles completely.
My inner wolf howled.
She didn’t want to run. She was ecstatic. She threw her head back in the dark corners of my mind and rejoiced. *Mate. Alpha. Ours.*
My knees actually buckled.
Nicholas didn’t let me fall. His massive hands dropped from my shoulders and aggressively seized my waist. His grip was an iron vise. He hoisted me up off the floor with a terrifying, effortless strength.
"Ah!" I gasped as my back slammed violently against the freezing stone wall of the foyer.
The cold rock bit into my spine. But the front of my body was completely consumed by his blistering heat. He pinned me there. His massive frame completely caged me in. I was trapped between the freezing wall and a burning inferno.
He tore his mouth away from mine. We were both panting heavily.
"You’re mine," Nicholas snarled. His voice was a raw, guttural rasp that violently shook my eardrums. "You hear me, Irina? You belong to me."
"No," I sobbed. Hot tears spilled over my dark lashes. "Please..."
He didn’t listen. He never listened.
His large hands grabbed the hem of my oversized sweater. He didn’t bother pulling it over my head. He simply ripped it. The brutal sound of tearing fabric echoed sharply in the dead silence of the dark manor.
The cold autumn air hit my bare skin. I violently flinched.
But before I could even shiver, his large, calloused palms flattened against my bare stomach. His touch was scorching. It burned right through my skin, sending a violent shockwave straight to my core.
I squeezed my eyes shut. I tried to pull my mind away. I tried to dissociate, to float above my body like I did when Maxim hit me. I wanted to be an empty shell.
But the mate bond absolutely refused to let me numb out.
Every single place his fingers grazed my skin felt like pure fire. My wolf purred loudly. She pushed my chest forward. She desperately craved his touch. The sickening, undeniable wetness pooled between my thighs. My human mind was completely humiliated, but my biology was entirely enslaved to him.
"Look at me," Nicholas commanded.
I kept my eyes squeezed shut. I frantically shook my head.
His hand shot up. His thick fingers wrapped firmly around my jaw, digging into my fragile skin. He forcefully tilted my head back.
"I said, look at me."
I opened my eyes. Through the blur of my terrified tears, I stared into his pitch-black irises. The forest green was completely gone. He was pure, unhinged obsession.
"You want me to stop?" he breathed heavily, his chest heaving against mine. "Tell me to stop, Irina. Tell me your wolf doesn’t want this."
He was cruel. He knew exactly what he was doing.
He slid his rough hand down my stomach. His fingers hooked into the waistband of my cheap jeans. He yanked them down forcefully, completely stripping me of my last defense.
"Nicholas, please," I choked out, my voice breaking. I didn’t even know what I was begging for anymore. Was I begging him to stop? Or was I begging him to touch me?
He didn’t hesitate.
He grabbed my thighs and roughly hiked my legs up. My body moved entirely on instinct. My legs wrapped tightly around his solid waist. I locked my ankles behind his back.
He unzipped his dark dress pants.
I felt the hard, blistering heat of his massive length pressing against my core. My breath completely hitched. My heart hammered a frantic, sickening rhythm against my ribs.
"You ran from me," he growled. His hot breath ghosted over my trembling lips. "You hid from me. Never again."
He thrust upward.
He buried himself entirely inside me in one brutal, unforgiving motion.
A sharp, breathless scream tore from my throat. It hurt. My body was too small, too tight, completely unaccustomed to his massive size. I threw my head back, my skull lightly hitting the stone wall. I dug my short nails violently into his broad shoulders.
Nicholas froze. He hissed sharply, his jaw clenching tight.
"Fuck," he gritted out. His hands gripped my hips so hard I knew he was leaving dark bruises. "You’re so tight. You’re perfect. So perfect."
The initial pain only lasted a terrifying second.
Then, the bond violently took over.
The pain instantly transformed into a blinding, white-hot fire. It was absolute ecstasy. It was a terrifying, addictive pleasure that completely shattered my sanity.
My wolf went completely feral. She scratched at my chest, demanding more.
Nicholas didn’t give me a single second to adjust. He started moving. frёewebnoѵēl.com
His thrusts were heavy, rapid, and incredibly violent. He slammed into me with the measured, terrifying power of an apex predator. Every single time his hips crashed against mine, the impact sent a violent shudder through my entire body.
*Smack. Smack. Smack.*
The raw, obscene sound of skin slapping against skin echoed loudly in the dark foyer.
"Ah... ah!" I cried out.
I couldn’t hold it in. I tried to bite my lip to stifle my desperate moans, but it was completely useless. The pleasure was too intense. It was too much. It was completely overwhelming my fragile nervous system.
He fucked me with a desperate, destructive rage.
He was punishing me. He was branding me. He was forcefully driving the truth into my very bones—that I belonged to him.
"Say my name," he commanded harshly. He gripped my hips tighter, pulling me down harder onto his thick shaft.
"No..." I sobbed, shaking my head blindly.
He thrust up so deeply I felt it in my chest.
"Say it!" he roared.
"Nicholas!" I shrieked. "Nicholas, please!"
He groaned loudly. The sound was purely animalistic. He crashed his lips down onto my neck.
I violently flinched. The trigger instantly spiked my panic. But his teeth didn’t break my skin. He sucked hard on my sweet spot, right over his old mark. He licked the frantic pulse jumping in my vein.
My body arched off the cold stone wall. I completely surrendered.
I hated him. I hated his power. I hated his mafia empire. But right now, in the freezing dark, he was my entire universe. My inner wolf was absolutely, thoroughly satiated. She was purring in deep, primal satisfaction.
The rhythm accelerated. It turned frantic.
Nicholas was losing control. His breathing was ragged. His massive chest was covered in hot sweat. He slammed into me harder and faster, completely chasing his own release.
"You’re not leaving me," he panted against my collarbone. "You’re my Queen. Mine."
The blinding fire in my core suddenly coiled tight.
It exploded.
I completely shattered. A high, broken scream ripped from my throat. My inner walls violently clamped down around his thick length. I convulsed against him, my entire body trembling in uncontrollable spasms of pure ecstasy.
Nicholas let out a deafening, chest-rattling roar.
He drove into me one final, brutal time. He buried himself as deep as physically possible. I felt the blistering, hot rush of his seed violently flooding my womb. He was filling me with his claim.
We stayed frozen like that.
The silence of the manor slowly returned. The only sounds were our harsh, ragged breathing.
My head fell weakly onto his shoulder. I was completely drained. My legs were numb. If he wasn’t holding me up, I would have collapsed into a pathetic heap on the cold stone floor.
He didn’t let me go.
He kept me pinned tightly against the wall. He buried his face in my pale, messy blonde hair. He inhaled deeply, completely wrapping himself in my scent.
I closed my eyes. Hot, silent tears slipped down my flushed cheeks.
I had fought so hard. I had run so far.
But my wolf had won. She was completely, blissfully satiated. And I was trapped in his arms all over again.