Page 19 of Captive Wilderness
Thwack.
Alert energy made my body still. He was cutting wood again. My stomach twinged.
Thwack.
Dammit. All I wanted to do now was watch, and that would gear me up, not down. Even as I told myself to stay put, I pushed my way to the edge of the bed and stood. When I was next to the window, I moved the curtain aside.
He wasn’t wearing a shirt this time, and the muscles of his back rippled with movement. The tingle in my stomach spread outward, wrapping around my middle to shoot down between my legs. My mouth dried. He had so many muscles it was like his muscles had muscles.
Holding an ax in one hand, he positioned a log on the stump with the other. Once balanced, he stepped back, aimed, and brought the ax down in one sure movement.
Thwack.
The sound hit me right between the legs, making me jerk. His jeans rode low on his hips, his biceps bulged and shifted with every movement. I couldn’t pull my eyes away from his ass, his thighs, imagining how strong he’d be if he took me.
Thwack.
We could do it right there on the rock. He could bend me over the stump and press into me, and it would ease the ache that pulsed between my thighs.
Oh, God.My need was so bad already. What would happen when it peaked?
As I watched him pick up another log, my hand slid inside my sweatpants. I needed relief, even if it was for a moment. My fingers encountered the slick wetness between my lips. I rubbed my clit, gently, because it was already so swollen.
Keeping my eyes on the moving muscles in Kane’s back, I rotated pleasing circles. Already being so primed, it didn’t take me long to climax.
My orgasm rocked through me, and I closed my eyes, pressing my forehead against the window frame. Some of the itch on my skin abated, and the swelling of my tongue went down. God, that was good but short-lived. It might have taken some of the edge off, but now I ached deeper inside. I needed a man or a dildo to ease the throbbing hurt. I needed to be fucked. Bad.
I opened my eyes, then stiffened when I realized Kane was no longer on the rock. Where had he gone? Footsteps on the landing made me spin away from the window, yanking my hand out of my pants.
Oh shit.The whole cabin smelled like my orgasm, and I had nowhere to hide.
The door opened. Kane took two steps into the cabin, then stopped like he hit a brick wall. The logs in his arms crashed to the ground. His nostrils flared.
A whimper escaped me. Everything inside me was telling me to go to him, to ease the pressure and pain building in my body. My skin crawled with need. “Can you help me?”
He slashed a hand through the air, negating my request.
Desperation made me tremble. “You don’t want me?”
A tortured expression crossed his face, a nod turning into a shake of his head.
“Youwon’thelp me.” I knew my voice contained defeat and mortification, but I couldn’t stop either from coming through.
He made another movement with his hands, then turned to the whiteboard, writingI can’tbeneath his shopping list. With one last apologetic grimace thrown at me over his shoulder, he left.
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KANE
Holy hell,I needed to get out of there. If I’d thought her scent intoxicating before, now it cracked over my skull like a sledgehammer. It was everywhere, infused with the need to breed. The edges of my vision hazed with color.
I couldn’t focus where I was going, just stumbled away from the cabin, away from the desire to take her. I wanted to, God how I wanted to. My erection was painful, but I couldn’t let the beast inside me take over, couldn’t put her in danger like that. Iwouldn’tallow the animal to take control.
The red haze continued to climb over my vision, and I tried to suppress it. Even away from her, the scent of her heat clawed through my body. The desperate expression on her face wouldn’t leave my mind.
The farther away I traveled from her, the more insistent the need to return and take her pumped through my veins. I forced one foot in front of the other, increasing the distance between us. Safe. I needed to keep her safe from me.
I’d been away from people, from women, so long that my biological need to mate buzzed through me like an angry swarm. I couldn’t shake it. The only thing I could do was stay far, far away. I couldn’t go back there, not like this.
