He smiled as he brought his teeth down against her nipple. “I’m gonna suck bruises across your sweet tits until you’re panting, writhing—begging me to hurt you just a little bit longer.”
“Do it, then,” Riley grunted, thighs clenching from the image alone.
He could have her body. It wasn’t like it was her heart.
Clark pushed her breasts up and together, kissing across the tops of the soft swells almost reverently. His nose was cold where it brushed against the seam of her cleavage.
“Can still smell the rain on you,” he said, surprisingly tender.
And oh no. None of that.
Riley arched her hips up, trying to grind against his knee again, but he dropped his hands to her waist, keeping her back flat to the bed as he rubbed his stubbled cheek against the underside of her breast, over her ribs. Watching as she pinked up from abrasion.
“Hurry up,” she made herself complain. And it was true at least that for all his dark promises he’d barely even bitten her yet.
Until, oh.
His teeth closed against the thin skin behind her ear. Then high on her breast. Then over the hollow of her throat.
Unsurprisingly, Clark was methodical in his approach, mapping his marks across her chest, down her belly, removing her pants to canvas each of her thighs until the pleasure and pain blended in her nerve endings. Until he’d left a blistering trail across her body. Until he had her trembling below him.
She’d never been edged like this. To the brink. Over and over. Tears leaked from the corners of her eyelids.
Clark rubbed at them gently with his sleeve, placing featherlight kisses over their tracks down her cheeks and chin.
He sat back on his heels, giving her space. A moment to breathe.
“Is it too much?” he said, soft, serious. “Do you want to stop?”
Riley shook her head, panting against his pillow. “I’ll fucking kill you.”
Clark smiled, brushing a tendril from his half-undone braid away from her sweaty temple. “You’ve really got a perfect face, huh?”
Riley held her breath. She could handle herself, barely, when he was being crass or cruel. But he shouldn’t be allowed to pretend to care about her when he didn’t, not really.
It was fucked up that back in the castle earlier, while she’d been up on a ladder plotting to destroy him, Clark had been making sure she didn’t fall.
“Well.” He pulled his hand back, looking at the comforter for a moment like maybe he’d thought of something fucked up too.
But then he made a show of clapping his hands, loud enough to snap them both out of it.
When he spoke next his accent was stronger, rougher. “Are you finally ready to come, then? Been waiting on you ages.”
Riley let out a choked laugh-sob.
“You’re awful,” she said softly, eyes closed tight, body strung like a bow.
“Most of the time,” Clark whispered as he finally, finally slid his hand between her legs, his touch light, appraising.
He whistled at what he found. “Riley, you dirty girl.”
If he hadn’t given her two thick fingers at that moment, she might have smothered him with a pillow.
Clark was exactly the same person in bed as he was out of it: cocky and controlling, mocking and self-congratulatory. The difference was, here Riley liked it.
“Your whole body’s blushing.” He remarked casually as his fingers pumped inside her.
Riley reached for her clit, flicking hard and fast, desperate to end this.
“Impatient?” Clark bent his neck to watch their hands working together. “That’s cute.” He brushed his ring finger against where she was already stretched. “You want another?”
Her toes curled, she was close, so close. “I want you to stop talking.”
He chuckled darkly—“Liar.”—and curled three fingers inside her as Riley worked her own hand, fast, unrelenting.
She’d set out to make him her enemy this morning and come up short, but Riley could hate him for this—for how good he made her hurt, the way he drew pleas from her bitten-red lips.
“I hate you,” she told him, low and fervent, as it all crashed down. As she came longer and harder than she ever had in her life. “God, Clark. I hate you so fucking much.” Riley savored the words along with release.
When she finally stopped shaking, Clark groaned, sliding his fingers slowly out of her, bringing all three to his mouth and sucking them clean. With his other hand, he palmed the obscene bulge in his jeans.
He stared down at the sweaty, tumbled mess of her, lingering on the marks he’d made with his mouth. “God, look at you.”
She slid one palm against his tensed abdomen, under the rugby shirt, to trace the lines of muscle that pointed toward his pelvis. “Why are you still wearing all of your clothes?”
When he didn’t seem inclined to stop looking at her long enough to disrobe, Riley pushed his shirt up as far as she could in this position, trying to reveal his bare stomach, his chest. Dark strands dusted from his collarbone to below his naval. Riley wanted to run her mouth all over him until his eyes rolled back in his head.
“Happy now?” His breath came in harsh gasps as he worked himself over his jeans.
“No,” Riley said, tugging at his waistband. “Take your pants off.”
“I’m close,” he warned her as he shoved down his jeans and, with a groan, wrapped his hand around himself.
Because there was no justice in the world, his cock was as gorgeous as the rest of him. Riley blinked, dazed, as he pumped himself over her.
He reached out with his opposite hand to circle one of the sets of teeth marks on her breast with his fingertips. “Let me come on your tits.”
“Yeah, yes,” she sputtered, trying to sit up a little on her elbows. God, she wanted him to. What had he said earlier? Let’s see exactly how much of a mess I can make of you. She’d do anything to make him lose control the way she had.
Riley gorged herself on the way he looked—teeth clenched, neck straining, thrusting into his fist like he couldn’t wait to bring himself off. Had she ever seen anything as sexy as this man?
When he caught her looking at him, Clark sped up his thrusts.
“Oh,” she said, a Cheshire-cat grin spreading across her mouth. “You like being watched.”
His abs tensed as he blushed all the way down his chest.
Riley had just come. Her body was still wrung out, flushed, but, well, wasn’t that interesting. I wonder if . . .
“Who knew”—she held his gaze—“that you were such a slut.”
Clark swore as he splashed come across her chest, already running his hand through it, painting over her nipples and her steadily blooming bruises.
Riley pressed her knees together and struggled to catch her breath. She looked down at her own body. The sight was so deliciously obscene, she already knew she’d come again later thinking about this.
“I’ll, uh, get you a new towel.” Clark hauled himself up, looking a little flustered in the aftermath of his orgasm.
Right. God, she was in a camper, in the middle of a thunderstorm.
She let herself fall back on his sheets, wallowing in the disaster of it all.