A Savage Debt (The Beholden Duet #1) - Zoey Ellis Page 0,36

my book?” She wasn’t sure if she was more surprised that he’d read it or that he could, in fact, read.

He didn’t answer, simply stared at her with those soulless eyes.

“What is that.” She gestured to the book in his hands, and he threw it on the bed.

Ana picked it up and examined it. The Lox Empire. She certainly hadn’t read this book before. It didn’t even look familiar. “Where did you get this?”

Maddoc didn’t answer.

She flipped through it slowly. “Is this a story or a report?”

She glanced up at Maddoc but he didn’t reply, that harsh and intrusive gaze remaining on her, unrelenting.

With a sigh, Ana threw the book back on the bed. He was already being an annoying ass. Whatever point he was trying to make made no difference to her. All that mattered was that she stuck to the two things she was withholding for the night.

“Take off your dress,” Maddoc said slowly, his gritty voice heavy with obvious desire.

So many retorts sprung to Ana’s mouth, but she held her tongue, and annoyingly had to ignore the swirl of arousal in her stomach.

Maddoc tilted his head toward the window. It was almost dusk. “If you don’t want your dress torn, I suggest you start taking it off now.”

His eyes were making her nervous again, so she shifted her gaze to the window. Today seemed less bright than yesterday.

A low harsh growl erupted in the room, drawing her attention back to Maddoc. His whole body was tense as he looked at her, the fierceness of his gaze blended with either annoyance or anger. Ana almost whimpered at the sound, but she bit her tongue and watched him, trying to divorce herself with the apprehension and overwhelming need that rose with his growl. Her slick was already abundant between her legs, but she firmly ignored it. Her body wasn’t within her control around him, and she refused to allow her emotions to get involved again.

She kept her eyes on the sky as it darkened further, ignoring the bitterness seeping into the air from Maddoc’s anger.

As soon as the day shifted to dusk, Maddoc shot forward, grabbed her around the waist and slammed her back against the wall; his face was close to hers.

“Are you trying to provoke me, Analisa?” he growled as he tore at her dress. “I told you to take this fucking thing off.”

Ana was forced to cling to him. “Now that it is dusk, I will do whatever you ask of me until dawn.”

Maddoc glared down at her. “You think you can decide when you listen to me and when you don’t?”

Ana shook her head. “You have me for three nights,” she said evenly. “I did not choose that.”

Maddoc pulled her from the wall and threw her onto the bed, scowling. “That doesn’t answer my question!”

Ana curled herself in protectively as he advanced toward her, but he flipped her onto her stomach and grabbed the back of the neckline of her dress. A harsh ripping and cool air signified he tore away the back of the dress again, but Ana was prepared for it this time. At the sound, her nipples hardened until they were painful, and her slick gushed from between her legs. It annoyed her to admit that she liked the aggression.

Maddoc wasted no time in pulling her hips up so she was positioned on her knees, then he climbed onto the bed behind her. Grabbing her neck and her hip, his thick tip bumped into her slit, eager to enter, and Ana arched her back and spread her knees wider to welcome him in, desire bounding through every inch of her body.

When he slammed in, hard and rough, she squealed in both delight and surprise. She’d almost forgotten how big he was, how that tang of pain, tempered by a glut of potent pleasure shot up her when she was being split apart. He drove right into the hilt, making her twitch slightly. The burn between her legs, the depth at which he reached, how full she was when he was inside her, all contributed to the raw sensations that pushed every thought from her mind. She tilted her hips, rotating them and clenching down on him, moaning at the pleasure the action bought. The Alpha didn’t make her wait long. He drove into her again and again, slamming his hips hard against her ass as he took her, as if he had been waiting to fuck her for years and not only