Nico decide to pull out one of his favorite daggers. The music kept blasting through the speakers, though the energy in the room had noticeably quieted. The crowd seemed to be vibrating with anticipation, wondering what the hell was about to happen. Was this part of the show, or were they about to get more than their money’s worth?
Nico loomed over the server, who was still on his knees. He stared down at him for long, drawn out moments. The Russian looked petrified as he scooted back, away from me. Fists clenching at his sides, Nico looked near to pummeling the stripper’s face with them.
I’d seen Nico in action before.
And if he unleashed on this poor guy’s face, the man would have to quit his job. I couldn’t let Nico take away his career prospects like that.
“That’s my fucking wife,” Nico barked at the server.
Dismissing the other man, Nico wheeled around to me, flaming gaze scorching me from head to toe. With his hand cupping my jaw roughly, he pulled me to my feet and crushed my mouth under his.
The entire place exploded.
My ears were ringing, but not from the piercing whistles or shrill screams. It was from my pulse, which was pounding so loudly that my ear drums were shaking. When our tongues tangled, I felt more than heard his resounding groan against my lips. His trimmed beard scraped my chin, and I wanted to feel that scratch all over me.
I wanted every inch of my body to be covered in Nico’s beard rash.
He lifted me like I weighed nothing. My legs instinctively circled his waist and tightened.
Then he started walking.
He started walking, and I didn’t know where the hell he was going. Didn’t know, didn’t care, because I trusted him. I just banded my arms around his neck and held on for the ride while keeping my mouth sealed over his.
Once we left the stage, the noise receded and the sounds of our ragged breathing filled the void. He took us down a dark hallway with black painted walls and doors on both sides.
He stumbled/shoved me against the wall. “What. The. Fuck, legs,” he growled against my kiss-bruised lips. “Why was some half-naked motherfucker wagging his dick in your face? Why did he touch you?”
He slanted his mouth over mine again, preventing an immediate answer.
“He touched me for five seconds,” I panted after he ripped his mouth away. “Nothing happened. It was part of the show. That’s how they make their money.”
“You think I give a flying fuck how he makes his goddamn money?” he snapped, pinching my chin in his fingers. “All I care about was that he had his hands on you. Another man’s bare skin was touching my wife. Do you have any idea how close I came to killing him? Do you even know how easy it would have been for me to snap that fucker’s neck?”
His face was partially cast in shadow, making him look all the more dangerous. His amber eyes were glowing with lethal rage, his teeth bared in a display of animalistic aggression.
Then he pulled us away from the wall and carried me down another dark hallway. Pushed me up against another black painted wall.
“Your body belongs to me.” His hands ran purposely down my sides, my thighs, then back up to my breasts. “All of this is mine. Even if I didn’t have a damn marriage license that said so, it would still be mine. And do you know why?”
My lungs forgot how to function. “Wh-why?”
He drove his hips into me, thrusting his steel erection against my most sensitive area. My moan was unabashedly loud. Even if anyone could hear us back here over the music from the stage, I didn’t care if we got caught. Didn’t give a bloody rat’s arse if someone stumbled upon us rutting against the wall like beasts in the night.
I was hot for my husband.
So. So. Hot.
And I needed him to fuck me raw and dirty back here, like my pussy was the only one in the whole godforsaken world his cock could ever be satisfied by.
“Because you admitted that you want me,” he answered, hips pumping against my center. “You can’t take those words back. I fucking own you now, legs. And I don’t like seeing my woman in the arms of another man. The next one who even thinks of trying that shit is going to die. You hearing me?”
I barely had time to nod before he planted another bone-melting kiss