Free Unafraid by Cat Miller Page B

to lose it. She said nothing and that seemed to anger him
further. His rage still hadn’t cooled. The room vibrated with
it.
    “Did you hear me?” he asked and gripped her
ass to hoist her up high on the door.
    “Griffin, I don’t know what you want from me.
I’ve told you I don’t want anyone else and you still completely
exclude me from your life. I know nothing about you or where you
come from. And I’m not even talking about the vampire stuff. I
don’t know what you do for a living. Do you have siblings? I don’t
know why it took you so long to bring me to your home.” He blinked
and an odd emotion that could have been guilt crossed his face but
quickly disappeared.
    “I only know your last name because Sal said
it in front of me just now. You give me nothing to work with at
all. You can’t give me nothing and expect everything in return. I
love you, Griffin, but I won’t bow to the wishes of a man because
he demands it. You have to learn how to love me back.”
    There. She’d said it out loud. She told him
she loved him. He may think it was too soon for love but there was
no taking the words back now. If she wanted him to give himself
completely, she had to do the same. The ball was in his court now.
He looked surprised to hear the truth of her feelings for him put
so bluntly.
    “I do love you.” He kissed her while he
shoved his pants down his thighs. “And you will learn to obey my
wishes.” Tessa was pressed tightly to door when he positioned
himself at her entrance and parted her heat with one long, forceful
stroke.
    Tessa wanted to argue his ridiculous dictate,
but he had stolen her breath and every thought from her head that
didn’t involve intense pleasure coursing through her body. She
clutched his broad shoulders and held on while he took her hard
against the door. She couldn’t move at all. She could only take
what he gave her and hold on for the ride. His thick arousal filled
her to near pain that quickly transformed into blinding
pleasure.
    “Tell me you belong to me, Tessa,” he
demanded, and their first night together came rushing back to her.
She had given him what he wanted that night with limits. From now
on Griffin would only get what he was willing to give.
    “I love you,” she confessed again. He pumped
harder and scraped his fangs across her neck. Tessa cried out his
name.
    “Are you mine, Tessa?”
    “My heart is yours, Griffin. I love you.” She
hoped he would understand that she wouldn’t be his until he
belonged to her. Griffin roared in frustration and lifted her
higher, changing the angle of his penetration and hitting that
perfect spot over and over. She was so close when he sank his fangs
into her. It surprised her and the shock of adrenaline followed by
the intense ecstasy his bite always brought made her scream her
release to the ceiling. A few more short digs and Griffin followed
her into the blinding pleasure of climax.
    They collapsed to the floor and he held her
to his chest, her legs still wrapped around his waist. He kissed
her neck where he had bitten her and told her again.
    “I will show you, Tessa. You belong only to
me.”
     
    SIX
    Tessa tried to go home every night but
Griffin always found a way that usually involved the most
interesting parts of his anatomy to get her to stay. She’d given up
the thought of putting some space between them days ago. She felt
uncomfortable in his home, especially during the day when he went
to work and she had nothing to do, but she didn’t really want to
leave him. What she wanted was to feel like a real part of his
life. It was obvious he was keeping his relationship with her a
secret but he wouldn’t admit it.
    He had shortly answered her questions about
his family by explaining that he had a sister but she died some
years ago, making him an only child. The loss of his sister had
changed his parents. They were in politics so they buried
themselves in their work after her death instead of dealing with
the pain