The Alpha's Gamble - Chapter 59: Chapter 59

A long silence followed, but I could feel her body relaxing against me.
“Please move away,” she whispered softly. She knew what was happening, and so did I.
“No.” I moved closer, pressed her body back using my own, and held her in place while I softened my grip and let my fingers rest on her neck. A soft breath left her lips in a heavy exhale as her chest sank. Maddie was adamant about keeping her work a secret. Whatever she had caused had repercussions that she knew nothing about. It wasn’t just fighting and being the best; it was about being willing to take another’s life for the sole purpose of keeping your own. You never know what the other has done, what their reason for being in the Ring is. You just have to trust that it is bad enough to die and kill for, and then choose to kill.
“You can’t keep doing this,” she said under her breath.
“Keep doing what?” I leaned in, and all I could see was the spreading of her lips when she drew a breath.
“Toying with me like this, acting like you don’t know when I know that you do.”
“What is it that I know?” She paused for a beat, and her throat bobbed. Her shoulders relaxed and sank against the wall. Fuck, I couldn’t stop staring at her mouth. Her quick breaths were starting to mellow, and our chests pressed against each other, spreading a heat between our bodies that circled my spine and shot up my neck. I wanted to touch her, to drag my finger over the curve of her lips and taste her tongue again. I wanted to rip her clothes off and fuck her against the door to make sure that everyone heard. There were so many things I wanted to do, all of them beyond my reach. As long as Olivia lurked around the mansion, Maddie was a target, and I knew the bitch could play nasty.
“You know what your touch does to me, don’t you?” For the first time in a good minute, I lifted my gaze and looked into her eyes.
Control yourself, Noah.
“Let the control go,” Onyx growled.
“No, she doesn’t deserve it.”
“But she deserved to be played?”
“I’m not playing her right now.”
“No, but you did, and you loved it. You waited for it. You were obsessed with it for days until it happened. You can feel it, I know you can. Just. Let. Go.”
“Maddie—”
“Tell me the truth, it’s your turn. How do you know?” I felt my eyes harden on her rounded gaze and watched as the heat spread across her face and tinted her cheeks. There were a million emotions swimming in her gaze, a few of them I could pin down, but others floated carelessly until they faded away. A shiver shot through her body when I grabbed her waist and moved my fingers under her shirt and over her skin.
“Because your body tells me,” I leaned down and ignored the voice of logic trying to reason with me. It faded, died down more and more until nothing was left other than hushed whispers that sounded like a breeze.
“Because when I touch you, you tremble, you relax, you sink into it.”
I traced my lips down her jawline and over her neck, letting out soft puffs of air to tease her skin and feel her body melt against me. It was getting harder to ignore my erection pressing against my jeans, but I couldn’t do that to her. Fuck, I hoped I couldn’t do that to her.
“I see it in your eyes,” I said and placed a kiss on that special spot where one day a mark would be.
“Our mark.”
“Quiet.” I pressed Onyx back, forced him into a corner, and shut his voice out.
“When I touch you, they look less haunted. Like you’re finally allowed to experience peace.”
I dug my fingers into her waist and tried to remain in control. But all I could think about was her soft skin against mine, and all I could hear was her breathing getting harder. I traced a path of kisses and looked at the glistening spots of saliva from where I’d dragged my tongue down her neck. Maddie shivered once again when I moved my hand up her front, and when I felt the lace on her bra, I stopped for a second. A moment of hesitation passed through me, but something had changed, and I hated that I couldn’t care about the repercussions. Not anymore. Not when she’s this close. Not when I know how her body answers to me. A “fuck it” moment blasted all my other thoughts to dust, and I cupped her breast and dragged my lips up her jaw until they locked with Maddie’s. Her eyes were already closed, her lips ready to be taken, and she pushed her tongue out and tangled it with mine. I cupped her face and deepened the kiss, letting the pleasure and passion consume my body and soul while everything else fell off me like water.
“Noah, please,” she said against my lips, but kept her hands on my chest. She didn’t move them like she had the first time. Telling her to stop last time we did this was the hardest fucking thing I’d ever done, and it broke me to see how shielded she became. My rejection wasn’t against her; I just couldn’t stop thinking about… no, fuck that. Not again. Not now.
Grabbing her waist, I lifted her up, and she locked her feet behind my back.
I walked us over to the bed and lay her down on her back, making sure to never break apart from her lips. Holy fuck, it was like kissing the ground of a holy entity. I felt fucking immortal, licking and biting and kissing those goddamn lips. There wasn’t any restraint left in me, no control, only feral lust that had been unleashed, and I’m not going back. Neither was Maddie.
She dragged my shirt over my head and arched her back for me to remove hers, but fuck that. I fisted her shirt and ripped it apart, revealing her soft skin glistening under the light. I pinched her bra and snapped it off, lifting her upper body off the bed to remove the shreds.
“I hope you’re rested, ‘cause I’m not holding back.” I dropped her neck, and her lustful gaze swallowed me fucking whole.