Chapter 24

The Prey

There was simply no word to explain it.

His midnight-dark hair swept across his sweaty forehead, his sharp pale blue eyes hooded and half-open reflecting a primal almost savage pleasure.

I watched in terrorising reluctance.

His hand wrapped tightly around the woman’s throat from behind her mouth open in a desperate attempt to draw in breath. But he gave her no scope of escape, no mercy.

I could see the tension in her body, the urgent breaths she tried to gulp down, and the way her naked chest heaved with each futile attempt. Yet, what unnerved me most was the way she seemed to enjoy the brutality. Her eyes were covered with white lace underwear and I forgot how to breathe.

Her body arched into him meeting his brutal thrusts with an eagerness that bordered on madness.

The sounds of their skin slapping together the occasional guttural moans and the ragged breathing pulled me out of my haze. And I stumbled back on my u