Lord help her get with the program. Business. That’s it. Do the deed, done.
She laid back on the bed and drew her knees up a little, one leg staggered next to the other in a sensual pose, a timid seduction.
He climbed on the bed, looking like an angry panther that had chased his meal too long. She slipped into her numb zone and opened her legs becoming another woman. One that didn’t care about anything but finishing. And the way to do that was to pretend she loved it. She began purring and mmming and before she knew it he stole her breath with a quick entrance. She tried not to think about the feeling, only the purpose. Finish. She went through the moaning motions and vocal cries keeping her eyes closed and her head turned. Okay, she didn’t have to pretend a whole lot. He was very absolute in his thrusts and they were hard not to experience.
In less than two minutes she felt him there at the edge, his breaths filling with those tell-tale grunts that accompanied a climax. She picked up her own pace, allowing her cries to grow. She even allowed herself to touch him in a feeling kind of way. She traced the ridges of warm muscle along his back until she reached his pumping buttocks. Hard. Like him. Skylar got lost in the entire sensation, gave herself to the power of his body, let it take her away from that platform she normally remained glued to while she played the fucking game. It was surprisingly easy to do.
Just when she began to wonder how far he could take her, he froze up for a split second and pulled out, gasping through his orgasm. Maybe she should have told him she was on birth control and didn’t need to worry. She sort of resented that he’d disconnected at that perfect moment. Seemed like a violation in so many ways.
He put his forehead on her shoulder, his gasps slowing. Skylar couldn’t resist turning her face into his, while feeling his perfect body in the embrace of her thighs. He rolled off until he sat at the edge of the bed with his back to her.
“Done.”
The one muttered word speared through her chest and stole her breath.
Done.
She flew off the bed and got her clothes on, fury bubbling in her veins. She hated men. All of them. All races, colors, creeds, they were all bastards.
“What’s wrong with you?”
Of course he said it like there shouldn’t be anything wrong, like using women was as common and natural as plowing a goddamn field.
“Fuck you soldier.”
She stormed off and caught his sarcastic you just did before she slammed the door and went sit on the couch like a good little whore.
He came out the room and Toren and Samantha entered from another door. Ezekiel sauntered over like a piece of shit and had the nerve to sit on the same sofa as her. She got up and went sat on the single chair next to the far window of the suite wanting nothing more than to jump out of it and stop existing.
“What the fuck did you do?”
All eyes turned to Toren’s harshly whispered words. Skylar was relieved to see them directed at Ezekiel. She couldn’t deal with a scolding of any kind at that point.
“We did as you wanted,” Ezekiel said like the cocky bastard he was.
God she’d never come to loathe a man so quickly.
Skylar jumped when the angel seemed to become a streak of metal that ended on top of the human scum, neck pinned under one hand. “I will rip out your tongue if you ever use it to lie to me. You did not do what I wanted, you did what you wanted!” The yelled words shook with a metallic sound as a squirming Ezekiel struggled beneath the furious angel.
Skylar’s heart pounded as she gripped her seat, watching the bastard thrash for air beneath Toren. He deserved it. He… Skylar came off her seat. “Stop it! You’re killing him.”
The angel jerked a bright liquid gaze to her. “What he did is deserving of death.”
What? “He…he didn’t—”
“He didn’t once consider you.” The angel looked back down at Ezekiel. “He only cared about himself. And worse than that, he uses God to justify it.” Toren jerked him off the floor and held him by the throat in the air before him. “How dare you put his Holy name on your filthy ideals. Zealots like you disgust me. She is more precious to God than all the men on this earth like you put together. And do you know why?”
Ezekiel could only grunt as he flailed his legs and gripped the angel's arm with both hands.
“Because she is a woman!” Tears came to Skylar’s eyes at how he said that one word. With such awe. Such immaculate reverence. For the first time in her life, all her pain and sorrow had a voice, echoed in his words. “She is a gift! To be protected! Nurtured! Cherished! Not used like an animal, you disgusting human!”
The vicious animosity faded. "You think you're strong. That all men are stronger than women. Don't you understand? She submitted. She took you inside her. She endured you. You ruined it. You took what she gave like the ungrateful lout you are and gave nothing in return. You were willing to protect her from the demons, but…" His voice trailed off. "Never mind." He dropped Ezekiel to the floor where he gasped and choked.