Ready or Not (Aspen Ridge Holiday Novellas)

13. Wes

Chapter Thirteen

WES

“ R eady or not, here I come.”

I walk through the throngs of people, taking my time. The hunt is just as good as the prize. With my hands in my pockets, I stroll up the stairs and follow the turn I watched Lilith make. Her dark floral and sage scent lightly hits my nose like the sweetest nectar. Addictive. The steady bass of the music thumps throughout the building, the perfect noise to muffle her screams from everyone partying downstairs. I reach a rec room and look around for any sign of my prey. It’s quiet, not even a rustling of paper.

“Lilith . . . you can run but you can’t hide,” I taunt as I walk through the crumbling room and into a long hallway. Each step of my boots echoes off the quiet hallway and I hope she hears it, I hope she feels me closing in on her. I can picture her, trembling, fear dripping off her in waves, mixed with the pheromones of her arousal. My mouth salivates at the thought.

“Little girl, I know you’re here somewhere. I can smell you. Practically taste you on my tongue. Come out, come out wherever you are.”

Opening the first door to my right, my eyes roam the empty room, seeing nothing but a metal tray on the ground. I pull the door closed and turn to my left. A door half-hangs off the hinges, left partially open. My heart rate picks up in anticipation of catching her. She’s in there. I take a step across the hallway, coming to a stop in front of the door. I close my eyes and listen, inhaling deeply as that dark incense fills my lungs.

“You know you’re trapped, Lilith. I’ve found you,” I say as I push open the door just enough to step inside. Her scream echoes loudly off the cement walls of the small room. “And now I get my prize.”

I take a step into the room and don’t see her, but just as I spin to turn around to face the door, she’s standing and pulling the door open with force. I grab her around the waist, hauling her off her feet and into my chest.

“Oh no you don’t. I’ve come to collect. You wanted to play and you can’t get out now.”

She screams and wiggles in my arms, trembling with the war of emotions going on inside her. I kick the door closed and it creaks and whines on its last hinge. Placing her back down, I spin her in my arms and kick out her feet, laying her down on a dirty mattress under me. I push her legs open and drop my hips into her, grinding my hard cock into her soft center. Gathering her wrists in my hand, I hold them above her head, spreading her out below me, at my mercy. She whimpers and my cock jerks in response.

“I want my prize, Lilith. Are you going to tell me no?”