I didn’t move. My pulse was a frantic drumbeat, my body still trembling from everything he’d already taken from me.

His gaze swept over me, lazy and lethal all at once. "Bella." My name left his lips like an order, a rough, dark velvet sound that wrapped around me. "You heard me."

“I… can’t,” I whispered, my voice shaking.

The corner of his mouth curved, slow and knowing. “Then I guess we use the time we have.”

Before I could catch my breath, he had me on my back again, my knees hooked over his arms as he lowered himself between my legs. The mattress dipped under his weight, and...