Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse Duet Book 1)

by H. D. Carlton

  “Ah!” I shout, my hands seconds from flying to his chest so I can push off of him. He’s too much, stretching me wider than I’ve ever been.

  My eyes are rounded into giant saucers as I whimper from the assault. I feel his girth slide between my fingers as he works himself inside deeper. “Stop! It doesn’t fit,” I gasp.

  “What a poor little mouse,” he coos mockingly, his tone husky and tight. “Maybe one day you’ll let me treat this cunt like glass and show it all my love, but you’ve been a bad girl, haven’t you?”

  When I don’t answer, he jerks me down on him harder, earning another pained whimper. “Haven’t you?” he barks.

  “Yes!” I shout breathlessly, squeezing my eyes shut against the invasion.

  “Are you going to be a good little girl now?”

  “Yes,” I mewl desperately. The pain is morphing into something far more intense and breathtaking. He slides out and pushes back in, gentler this time, but no less angry.

  It feels like my body is on the cusp of bursting. This isn’t natural to be so goddamn full.

  He pulls out to the tip, and then he slams his entire length inside of me, so deep, I swear I feel him coming up my throat. I cry out, my voice breaking from the swell of emotion building inside my chest.

  Not fucking natural.

  “Goddamn, Addie, I can barely fucking fit.”

  Must be why it feels like he’s tearing me in half.

  He starts out slow and forceful. Harsh thrusts, then dragging himself out at a torturous pace, before slamming inside me again. I feel my body beginning to relax, sucking him in greedily as he damns my soul with every stroke.

  Widening his stance, he braces himself against the mirror, and my stomach tightens, sensing the oncoming damage he’s about to inflict on my organs.

  Shockwaves scatter throughout my nerve endings as he quickens his pace, roughly fucking me against the mirror while loud noises I’ve never made in my life fall from my lips. The pleasure is blinding, and the feel of him sliding in and out between my fingers only heightens the potent lust stirring in the pit of my stomach.

  “Look at us in the mirrors,” he demands roughly. It takes immense effort, but I pry my eyes open and sweep them over the dozens of mirrors. Every angle imaginable is staring back at me.

  It’s too much—watching him drive himself inside me. His ass is clenched from the force of his thrusts, while a red flush is spread up to my rosy cheeks. My eyes are at half-mast, and my face is twisted into undeniable bliss.

  He turns his head and our eyes clash in one of the mirrors. My heart drops as I tear my eyes away to look around and see his eyes pinned on me from several directions, it’s the most intense feeling I’ve ever experienced.

  Like that gut feeling when you know someone is watching you but multiplied by a dozen.

  My eyes lock back onto his, and a slow smile takes over his face. He leans in close, his lips skating across mine as he watches me slowly come apart at the seams, all the while grinning at me.

  “Tell me, little mouse, have you ever been fucked by a man like me?”

  I bite my lip and shake my head, fighting the urge to roll my eyes to the back of my head. He readjusts our position, sliding each arm under my knees and hiking them up high. An embarrassing scream escapes as he changes the angle of his hips and hits a spot that instantly makes my legs violently shake.

  “Oh my God,” I moan. And this time, I can’t stop my head from dropping back to the mirror behind me and my eyes from rolling backwards.

  “That's right, baby. I am your fucking God,” he growls before I feel his teeth sink into my neck.

  My stomach is tightening and I can feel an orgasm building dangerously fast. It feels like an angry Poseidon is in my stomach, forming a devastating tsunami that will surely kill me.

  The mirror begins to violently shudder from how hard he’s fucking me. It feels like it’s going to shatter any second now, but I can’t bring myself to care.

  Just as I reach that peak, he pulls completely out. I whimper, the sudden emptiness almost painful.

  “What—" he drops me to my feet and steps back, pointing to the floor. My knees wobble, my balance screwed from the sharp pleasure pulsating between my thighs.

  “Get on your hands and knees.”

  I don’t argue, mainly because the loss of the orgasm is painful and my legs are incapable of supporting my weight much longer.

  Angry tears line the edges of my eyelids, but I bite back my snarky comment. He'll only make my punishment worse.

  I expect him to slide back inside of me from behind, but his hands dart between my legs and grab me from the underside of my hips, lifting me up until my knees are no longer on the ground and forcing me to catch myself from face planting. I feel his hot breath fan across my pussy a second before his teeth latch onto my clit.

  I yelp, jerking from the bite of pain. But he doesn’t torture me like last time. Immediately he suctions my clit in his mouth and laps at my dripping cunt.

  He hums, sending delicious vibrations radiating throughout my core. “You taste so fucking good,” he murmurs, before flicking his tongue against my clit.

  I look up and shamelessly watch him feast on me from behind. I turn my head until I get the best view of him on his knees behind me, eating my pussy like a starved man.

  The impending orgasm is renewed and more looming than before. I’m incapable of grinding back into his face like I want, so I’m helpless against his lashing tongue.

  “Zade, please,” I beg, my eyes crossing from the pleasure.

  “Does my little mouse want to come?” he asks, his own voice breathless and uneven.

  I would call him a liar if he ever tried to deny his desire for me, but that’s the thing about Zade—he's never tried to hide how much he wants me. He’s never sugarcoated or denied the fact that he desperately craves me.

  “Yes,” I plead on a groan.

  He pulls away, and I scream at him in frustration, pounding my fist against the floor. Fury from being denied a second time overwhelms me, and I thrash against his hold.

  He laughs at my attempt.

  “You motherfucking ass—”

  He interrupts my tirade by seating himself inside me, his balls slapping against the sensitive nub. I choke on my words, this angle allowing him in far deeper than before.

  I arch my back and dig my nails into the floor, clawing at the dirty tile as he relentlessly pounds into me.

  He grabs my hair and snaps my head back roughly, forcing me to look in the mirrors directly in front of me and watch him fuck me.

  “You want to come all over my cock, baby?”

  I nod my head frantically. He smiles in response. “Have you been my good little girl?” Another wobbly nod. “Then fucking say it, Adeline.”

  I clench around him when I hear my full name spoken in his gravelly tenor. “I’m your good little girl,” I breathe, too far gone to feel anything but blinding lust.

  He molds his front to my back, spearing through my tightening pussy. The hand in my hair travels down around my throat and squeezes tight while his other palm splays across my flat stomach. “Tonight is just practice but I promise you, little mouse, this body will be carrying all my babies one day,” he snarls, teeth gnashing.

  His image blurs as my eyes roll and the tsunami wave finally crashes through me. I scream so loud, the noise nearly rattles the mirrors. Zade's name spills from my lips on a neurotic chant as my entire world combusts into tiny pieces.

  “Fuck! That’s it, baby. Your pussy is so fucking tight, milk my fucking cock,” Zade grinds out. He ends his sentence on a roar, his hips shuddering as he slams into me one last time, filling me with his seed until I can no longer fit anymore inside of me.

  I feel our combined juices pour down my thighs, as I’m left panting and breathless on the floor. My body convulses from the aftershocks, even after I come down from the biggest orgasm I’ve ever had.

  I can’t fucking breathe, let alone mo
ve or think coherent thoughts.

  None of that was natural. Absolutely none of it.

  “I hope you know,” I pant. “I’m on birth control.”

  He chuckles breathlessly. “For now.”

  Before I can respond, a loud buzz disturbs the heavy atmosphere. My eyes snap towards the direction, locating the source immediately. My phone is lit up in my discarded jeans, buzzing wildly.

  Fuck. Daya.

  I scramble up and towards the phone, clenching my teeth from the feel of him sliding out of me. My thumb trembles violently as I click the green button on my screen.

  “Hello?” I answer, wincing when I hear how shaky and hoarse my voice is.

  “Where the fuck are you?” she shouts through her receiver, her own voice trembling and full of anger.

  “I got lost, and my cell reception has been spotty,” I lie sheepishly, not willing to admit what really happened. Ignoring Zade's presence, I scramble to pull my clothes on. Cringing both from the yelling in my ear and the slickness trailing down my thighs.

  “The park is closed, Addie! I got kicked out already, and they said that the House of Mirrors had already been cleared out. The stupid asshole security guard didn’t believe me when I said you didn’t come out. I’ve been worried fucking sick.”

  Just as I slip on my shoes, a muttered, “shit,” sounds from behind me, drawing my attention.

  Zade is staring at his phone, his face is cast in a severe expression.

  He's wearing nothing but his black boots and undone jeans slung low, giving a mouthwatering view of the defined V disappearing beneath the fabric.

  Daya's ranting fades to the background as my attention snags.

  The light from his phone accentuates the muscles straining against his smooth flesh, the scars and the black, intricate tattoos only adding to his savagery.

  The veins threading throughout his hands and arms are bulging and goddamn, if I wasn’t already leaning against a mirror, I’d collapse from how devastating he looks right now.

  That masterpiece of jagged scars and rough edges fucked me into oblivion and vowed that I’d have his babies one day. I can’t breathe.

  “Addie, I swear to fu—"

  “I… I’ll be right out, Daya. I’m so sorry,” I respond, forcing my gaze away back to my surroundings, trying to gather my bearings.

  Which is really hard to do in a house of a million mirrors.

  She takes a deep, calming breath. “Okay, I'm sorry. I’ve just been really scared, Addie.”

  I flinch as a different kind of tsunami overwhelms me. This one is filled with every negative emotion imaginable. Guilt. Shame. Regret.

  "I'm really sorry, Daya. I'll see you in a few."

  I hang up the phone and immediately start walking off in the direction I think I’m supposed to be going in.

  “Wrong way, little mouse. Follow me,” Zade says, his deep tenor causing me to tense, my shoulders rocketing to my ears. He’s finished dressing and is heading in the opposite direction.

  Stiffly, I turn and follow after him. Not asking or caring how he knows where to go, as long as he gets me out of here.

  After fifteen tense minutes, we find the exit door and I rush out, the cold air a balm to my heated face.

  The fair is a stark difference to when I came in. The field is completely devoid of life. Not a single soul on the grounds nor any lights.

  How long were we in there for? I check the time, and my eyes bug when I note that it’s twelve-thirty in the morning.

  Two hours! I’ve been in there for two fucking hours. Sure, half of that was getting through the mirrors but still. Normal people don’t fuck for that long, do they?

  Zade is somewhere behind me, so I glance over my shoulder and say, “Don’t follow me out. Daya is waiting for me, and I don’t want her to see you.” Even I can detect the coldness in my voice.

  The entire fifteen minutes it took to find our way out, all I could think about is how I want to fuck him again.

  And that scares the absolute shit out of me.

  It was the reality check I needed—a very stark reminder that I just had sex with my stalker. I shouldn't have let any of that happen.

  I feel his hand clamp around my wrist a second before he whips me around. I stumble into him, but he catches me quickly, wrapping a hand tightly around the back of my neck.

  “I’m late for a date with a psycho girl anyways,” he says easily. My eyes round and he smiles when he detects the anger in my eyes. “Don’t be jealous, little mouse. It’s not a real date. She’s not my type of crazy. Despite the fact that she’s not you.”

  I scoff. “I’m not jealous. Let me go,” I snap, attempting to pull away from him.

  He pulls me in close, his lips brushing across mine as he stares deeply into my eyes.

  “That will never happen, Adeline. I will never let you go.” I stiffen, thrown off by the severity in his tone. He’s actually serious.

  He crushes his lips to mine before I can respond. And because this will be the last time I will ever allow this man to touch me, I respond in kind. I claw at him, tugging at the collar of his hoodie roughly, and clenching his bottom lip between my teeth, biting down hard until I taste his blood on my tongue.

  He growls and devours me whole, his mouth still tasting of my pussy. And then he rips away from me, breathing hard.

  “Go,” he demands roughly.

  I don’t hesitate. I stumble out of the field and to my waiting car, the only one left in the parking lot. A fidgeting Daya sits behind the wheel, her stare boring into me.

  I sigh, readying myself for a tough conversation I don’t know how to have. I’ll stick to my story. I got lost. That’s it.

  I open the car door and nearly collapse in. When I meet her stare, she's glaring at me with the heat of a thousand suns.

  “Why the fuck do you look and smell like you just got fucked?”

  Chapter 31

  The Shadow

  “W

  hat took you so long?” the psycho girl snaps, her dull brown eyes alight with fire. The same inferno in her eyes is what’s still residing in my chest.

  My heart hasn’t stopped pounding, and I’m plagued with the unbending need to fuck her again. My brain feels like it's been tossed into a skillet and pan-seared to a crisp. I need to focus, but it’s nearly impossible when the taste of Addie lingers on my tongue, and I’m still gripped by the feel of her tightly wrapped around me.

  I don’t know how I’m supposed to concentrate when I just found God. Or rather, I think I just became one.

  But how can I feel like a god, yet be completely stripped of power when it comes to her?

  I don’t know.

  All I know is I fucking love haunted fairs now.

  "I got caught up with something," I murmur, sweeping the room for lingering employees. Or any deadly surprises if the murderous look in the psycho girl's eyes is anything to go by. She's still planning on killing me, and the notion is laughable.

  If it were so fucking easy to kill me, I would've been dead long ago. These scars are proof of that.

  After our confrontation, the broken doll and I decided to team up for the time being. Since Mark decided to take matters into his own hands and try to kidnap and enslave my girl, I decided he was no longer worth keeping alive. The two seconds it took for him to conspire against Addie was the equivalent to writing his name in a Death Note.

  There’s no chance of his survival.

  So, we knocked out the four of them. The doll said she’d take them somewhere where the guests wouldn’t find them and meet up at midnight to get my answers and finish them off for good.

  Claire, of course, witnessed the entire thing, and the doll sent her running. I couldn’t do anything at the moment when I had four men to handle, but the second I walked out of that haunted house, I had one of my men find her and take her somewhere safe.

  Plain and simple, Claire is an abused woman who deserves to live a life in peace. But she also bore witness t
o a crime, and I can’t allow her the opportunity to tell someone.

  Afterwards, I immediately went and found Addie and tracked her the entire time. I let her have her fun, visiting all the haunted houses and creepy carnival tents, and ride the thrill rides, all while I stayed quietly behind her, just out of sight. Making sure no one even looked at her funny without consequences.

  "Where are they?" I ask, pinning my eyes back on the strange girl. Blood is already splattered across her white nightgown. I arch a brow but don’t say anything.

  She nods towards the stairs. "Up in my playroom."

  She begins to lead me up the stairs but stops short and looks off into the foyer, seemingly staring at something. But I see nothing.

  "Stay down here until I call you guys up," she says, still staring off into space. My brow lowers as I try to figure out who the hell she's talking to. She pauses for a moment before she says, "I can handle myself," and continues up the stairs.

  Well, this is fucking awkward. I've gotten myself into a lot of interesting situations over the years. Real interesting situations. But this one hits the top of the list.

  Clearing my throat, I ask, "So, uh, what's your deal?"

  “What do you mean, my deal?” she snaps.

  “Those people you were talking to—do they not like me?” I ask, amusement prominent in my tone. I'm still not entirely sure what's going on with her. Maybe she's high off drugs, maybe she's mentally ill, or maybe she can see spirits or some shit.

  “My henchmen? No. Nor do they trust you.”

  Her henchmen? The fuck is this girl actually seeing? And are they supposed to be her helpers or something?

  “You uh, told them to stay down there and that you can handle yourself?” I ask. “They’re not coming up too?”

  She pauses on the steps, whips towards me, and throws her arm out to point behind me. "Do you see them walking behind you?"

  I don't even turn to look. No one will be there. Aside from the two of us and the four men upstairs, no one else is inside this house.

  I smirk. "No."

  “Then there’s your answer! I don’t need my henchmen to protect me from you. And since you’re here, I figured they could sit this one out,” she explains impatiently.