Page 51 of Forged in the Fire
“No.”
The second she said it, I surged back onto my knees, releasing her.
In that same second, she was on her feet and hurtling toward the fence.
Motherfucker.
Here we went again.
I jumped to mine, catching up to her the second those little hands were fisting in the metal to propel herself up.
I grabbed her and yanked her down.
In a flash, I had her spun around, and I took her hands and pinned them to the fence above her head.
Heat blistered in the space between us.
A fine line between loathing and desire.
Autumn eyes flashed. Sparking gold flames.
“Wildfire,” I gritted through clenched teeth. “You want to play with me? Test me?”
Brinley lifted that chin.
Fuck, she was stunning.
Every gorgeous angle of her face carved in fiery desperation.
“I won’t let you do this. I won’t.”
“And what exactly is it you think I’m going to do?”
My stomach soured when I asked it. Wishing I could sift around in her pretty little brain and discover what she was thinking and exactly what she’d overheard.
What would she think if she uncovered what her cum stain brother had her in?
Doubted she’d go running the way she was trying to do if she had even a dash of the details.
Her throat rolled and her chest heaved as something that looked a whole lot like vulnerability rushed up to the surface before that rage was swallowing it again.
I was fully aware that I was asking for all kinds of trouble of my own, but when she didn’t say anything, there was nothing I could do but lean in closer.
It was on the bare flecks remaining of my conscience to make her understand.
Probably didn’t need my lips grazing up her flushed cheek as I inclined toward her ear, but I couldn’t resist that, either.
“You go over that fence, you get dead.”
Figured the warning would hit her like blunt force trauma. That she’d realize what was at stake here.
What I didn’t expect was her sudden assault.
Brinley whipped up her knee and hit me full in the junk.
Pain blacked out my sight.
“Motherfuck.” It was a straight howl, and there was nothing I could do but double over in agony.
