Incipient A Dark Paranormal Romance - Bianca Scardoni Page 0,85

Jumping up onto shaky feet, I made another run for it, though this time, making sure to head in the opposite direction in order to get as close to the main road as I could.

Unfortunately, I made it all but seven steps before Dominic grabbed me by my hair and jerked me backward. In one swift move he had whirled me around and then tackled me to the ground, knocking the air out of my lungs yet again. Laughter bubbled out of him as he sat on my waist and straddled my hips, his eyes flaring with vicious excitement.

My stomach churned as I realized that this was fun for him.

I was making it goddamn fun for him. “Get the hell off me, Dominic!” I yelled, anger pushing itself to the forefront of my emotions as I tried to shove him away.

“Aw. Don’t play hard to get now,” he cooed as he caught my wrist and slammed them onto the ground above my head. “We both remember how easy it was to get you the first time around,” he said and then dropped his voice to a deriding snarl. “If memory serves me, Romeo was barely in the ground before I was inside you, wasn’t he?”

Another strangled cry escaped me as I tried to buck against him. His concrete body barely budged.

“You’re hurting me,” I growled as I continued to fight against his hold.

Lowering his face to mine, he smiled. “Isn’t that the way you like it, angel?”

My cheeks burned hot with shame and resentment.

Bringing my wrists together, he clamped his long fingers around both my hands, mashing them together in a vice-grip, and then brought his other hand to my face. I winced as he ran the back of his knuckles against my cheek.

“Don’t touch me!” I gritted out, thrusting my hips upward in a pathetic attempt to throw him off me.

“What’s the matter, angel lips?” He slipped his hand under my shirt, his thumb grazing against my abdomen as he climbed up to my bra. “Don’t you like it rough anymore?” he asked and then painfully squeezed my breast.

Seething, I ripped one of my hands free and slapped him across the face. A rush of vindication surged into me as a small plume of blood blossomed on his bottom lip.

Blinking at me, he swiped his thumb across his bloodied lip and then licked the blood off his finger. “Well, that wasn’t very nice, was it?” Winding his arm back, he cracked me across the cheek so hard I thought my jaw had dislocated.

My hand rushed up to my stinging cheek and my vision bled red. With my one free hand, I balled a fist and started wailing on him, hammering down hit after hit like a possessed machine gun that had zero aim. I wasn’t even sure if I was landing any of the hits, but that didn’t stop me from pounding my fist against his body.

“Fuck you!” I bellowed, my anger and disgust for this empty monster in front of me broiling to the surface. This wasn’t the Dominic I knew. I didn’t know who this person was anymore, but I hated him with everything inside me.

He grabbed my wrist again and slammed it back onto the ground beside my ear. “Fuck me?” he asked, his eyes darkening into coal as he loomed over me. “I bet that’s precisely what you want to do, isn’t it?”

Frenzied laughter burst out of me as though I’d completely lost touch with reality. “You think I want you?” I scoffed, refusing to let him know that the pain he was causing me was anything more than skin deep. “You think I spend even a second of the day thinking about you?”

“Has Romeo managed to fuck me out of you already?” He clicked his tongue in disappointment.

“You make me sick,” I said and then spit in his face.

Stone-cold eyes pierced my soul. “Well, that’s unfortunate,” he purred and then licked my spit from around his mouth, slow and deliberate, like he was enjoying the taste. “I suppose we’ll just have to see what we can do about fixing that then, won’t we?” he said and then released my hands.

For a second, I was confused thinking that maybe he was going to let me go; that maybe he’d had enough fun for the night. Instead, he brought his hands to my chest, grabbed the seam of my blouse and then ripped it wide open.

Ice-cold realization hit me as I watched the buttons scatter all