Unattainable (Undeniable, #3)(26)

But he didn’t want her to want him. He didn’t want her to touch him. He just wanted to f*ck, wipe out these f*cking thoughts inside of him after a week-long buildup of jerking off…about things no man in their right mind would ever jerk off to.

But he wasn’t in his right mind, had never been. He’d been brutalized at such a young age he didn’t even know what it felt like not to feel f*cked-up. Fucked-up was all he’d ever known.

Clenching his teeth, feeling the acidic rise of bile in the back of his throat, Dirty slid inside the whore. His first tear fell along with his first thrust, and then his second, and his third, and then he was silently yet openly crying, his tears landing on the tattooed back of the woman beneath him.

He didn’t care about her; she was just a whore and he didn’t care. Squeezing his eyes shut, he f*cked her harder, envisioning his foster mother, envisioning what she had done to him and then…

Fuuuuuck. There it was, what he’d needed. The image, the memory that would send him over the edge.

Years later, after he’d finally gotten his shit somewhat together, he’d gone back to New York City and turned the tables on her.

His rich, bored, f*cked-in-the head, piece-of-shit foster mother.

She hadn’t even recognized him. He’d been twenty-three years old, standing on her doorstep, and she’d looked down on him like he wasn’t of importance, like he was garbage. No, like he was worse than garbage, like he was nothing.

“What do you want?” she’d asked, frowning as she looked him up and down.

He hadn’t answered, he couldn’t. His head was spinning, his thoughts were clouding up, and his eyes began to water. Directly behind her, the wallpaper, the carpeting, the smell wafting into his nostrils, bourbon and Lysol, everything was exactly the same. Even her. She was still beautiful, still so regal, so put together.

And as she went to close the door in his face, his leg had shot out, his boot had slammed into the door, effectively throwing it wide open and catching the bitch off balance, sending her stumbling backward and sprawling on her backside. He’d stormed inside that house of horrors and the pain those four walls still held within them radiated out and triggered something he hadn’t felt in a very long time, something from deep down, from his childhood. Helplessness. Confusion. Fright. Anger.

All of those emotions, they had pulsed, roared, screamed, and shouted; pushing, punching, clawing, and digging their way out.

Before she could get to her feet, he was on her, and she screamed as he straddled her, forced her legs apart, and then pulled his piece and held his gun to her head.

“Shut up!” he roared and her mouth snapped closed as she trembled beneath him.

“Please,” she begged, her voice wavering. “Please, I have money.”

He stroked her cheek with the cool metal as he fumbled with the hem of her silky dress. “It’s okay,” he whispered, unzipping himself. “You’re going to like it, I promise you, I’m going to make you feel good.”

Her pretty hazel eyes went wide and her glossy lips parted. “Michael,” she breathed.

“Not anymore,” he hissed. “You made sure of that.”

Feeling dizzy with adrenaline, drunk on power, combined with the overwhelming need to make her hurt, he shoved the barrel of his gun in her mouth and a mere heartbeat later, his cock inside her.

And when he was done, he blew her f*cking brains out.

Now he was attempting to feed Ellie and failing, when he heard her laughing. He stared at her, watched her pretty face alight with humor, and something shifted inside of him. It was such a pleasant sound, so light, so feminine, something he’d heard before but never directed toward him, never because of him. And…he liked it. It turned him on.

Being attracted to women for something other than physical traits was something completely foreign to him. He grew flustered and uncomfortable, his heart started pounding, and he broke out into a cold sweat.

The bag of popcorn fell from his hand and then he quickly crossed the living room, his jaw locked, his fists clenched, refusing to look at Ellie, refusing to breathe until he’d slammed the bathroom door behind him, locked it, and sank down to the floor, his hands already fumbling with his jeans, releasing himself.

With one arm slung across the closed toilet lid, he bent his head down, resting it on his forearm as he began to stroke himself. He focused on Ellie’s torn, bloodstained clothing lying in a small pile in the corner of the bathroom, and his cock surged forward.

Ellie’s sweet laughter echoed in his head, even as he pictured her half-naked, bleeding in the alleyway, and later, bruised and battered, standing naked before him, vulnerable, helpless, looking to him for things he could never offer her. Then he pictured her fully clothed, giggling over burnt popcorn.

And then pictured himself knocking her out, taking away her control, hurting her, listening to her scream, making her cry, f*cking her.

His hand squeezed around his cock as he increased the speed of his strokes.

The dual images, the sounds of screams and laughter, continued to assault him. He tried to focus on just one thing, the pain or the…

He didn’t know…

In the end it was the sound of her screaming, crying, the look of fear on her beautiful face that finished him off.

Breathing hard, shaking, Dirty lifted his head and looked down at his lap. And promptly threw up.