“Will it feel good?” She tilted her head to the other side. “As good as what you just did to me? Because sex has never been good before.”
More silence.
She studied his body. He was beautiful there. Could a penis be beautiful? Well, Gunner’s was. “I know I sound like an idiot. I mean, I’ve touched a male’s…cock before, I’m not completely innocent about what goes on between males and females, but I’ve never enjoyed being…penetrated by one.”
Even more silence.
“Gunner?” She looked up at him again…and jolted when she took in the look on his face. “What’s wrong?”
His jaw worked and his nostrils flared as he dragged in breath after breath. “I don’t…I don’t like…” He hissed, yanked up his jeans, and all but flew off the bed, pacing from one end of the room to the other.
“Gunner, you’re starting to freak me out,” she whispered.
“Sorry.” He gripped the back of his head. Every muscle and tendon on display was in stark relief. He breathed heavily and his face was contorted, the scar through his lip making it look like he was mid snarl. “I want to kill Azel, tear him into tiny pieces after I’ve tortured him for hours and made him fucking scream for what he did to you,” he said in a deadly voice she didn’t recognize.
She shot to her feet. She’d never seen Gunner this angry before, didn’t think he could be this filled with rage. “I didn’t think…I shouldn’t have said…”
“No, Luna. You haven’t said or done any fucking thing wrong.” He strode to her, his fingers curling around her upper arms, and leaned in. “I feel so fucking helpless. I want the threat to you gone, I want that piece of shit wiped off the face of the earth.”
“I won’t talk about it…him, anymore, I promise…”
He dipped lower, catching her gaze. “What you went through with him, I don’t want you to hold back. You’re so damn precious to me, Luna. I don’t think you understand how much, not yet. And yeah, knowing how badly you were treated by him, it makes me want to tear down walls, but you lived it, the least I can do is hear it.”
Again, his words rocked her to her core. “Thank you, for being so…wonderful. But I don’t like seeing you this upset. No good can come from talking about any of it.”
He tugged her into his body. “I’m sorry for the way I reacted. I don’t want you to hold back or measure your words around me. I’ll do better, love, I promise I’ll do better.”
With every word that came out of his mouth, her dead, lifeless heart grew warmer, bigger.
His phone beeped, and he cursed when he pulled it from his pocket and read what was there.
“What’s wrong?”
“Something’s come up. I have to go.” He kissed her, soft and sweet. “Will you stay here? Will you sleep in my bed with me tonight? I just, I need to hold you. Will you do that for me?”
Luna nodded, wanting to give him whatever he needed from her, and yeah, she wanted that as well. She wanted to stay close to him. Needed to.
He kissed her again. “I have to go to the city, but I’ll be back soon, okay?”
“Okay,” she said as he strode from the room.
Her male.
Her mate.
Chapter 22
There were demons everywhere.
Gunner growled and swung his sword, taking off a demon’s arm before the fucker could let his blade fly.
There had been no hiding this time. These demons had made themselves known as soon as Gunner and his brothers had arrived on the scene.
They’d wanted the knights to find them. Why? He had no clue but got the feeling they’d learn fucking soon enough.
The parking lot behind an unused warehouse on the outskirts of Roxburgh was now a full-blown battleground.
Gunner grunted and hacked at the demons in front of him, Rocco at his back. Zenon and Kryos were doing the same a couple of yards away, and Lazarus was near the warehouse fighting beside Brent, Zenon’s “brother-in-law” and friend of the knights, while Silas, a gun in one hand and sword in the other, demonstrated that, yes, he was in fact ambidextrous.
Chaos was close to Grace, fighting alongside her crew, while his mate fired bolt after bolt into the demons coming at them relentlessly. James was fighting with the other demi, close enough to Grace that he could use his telepathic ability to send out her orders if needed