𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬

chapter 25

TWENTY • FIVE:
a broken soul
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"As she laid there, she could not help but feel the mixed emotions flowing through her body. She knew that he was a broken man but she never took a second to ask herself why, and now she was more curious than ever..."

ellie

Blaze smirked to himself as he, once again, managed to get Ellie pinned to the floor, her hands pinned behind her back while her body was squashed under his larger one. She groaned in frustration, her cheek pressing to the floor in defeat.

"This is hopeless," she grumbled to herself, hissing when Blaze tightened his grip on her wrists. "I give up, Blaze. I only managed to beat you because you let me."

"I've also been doing this for twenty years, love," Blaze reminded her, pressing a kiss to her shoulder. "You're learning fast, El. Don't give up."

"Too late," Ellie sighed. "Can't we just do this tomorrow?"

Blaze raised an eyebrow. She was right; the two of them had been in the home gym for at least four hours and the two have done enough for one day (as well as a heated round in the change room after Blaze "accidentally" walked in while she was pants-less).

"C'mon, Ellie," Blaze said, getting off of her. She stood up and turned around, glaring at him while moving her hands to her hips. "Don't give me that look, I'm trying to help you."

"I don't want your help anymore," Ellie muttered.

"Keep this attitude up and I'll make sure you're punished once we go to bed," he warned, narrowing his eyes at her. "This is for your own good, Ellie, you know this. We need to make sure that you know how to defend yourself if something like what happened last night happens again."

Ellie pursed her lips, then sighed. "I know, I know."

Blaze watched her, then made his way across the room to stand in front of her; her immediate reaction was to move backwards until she met the cool surface of the wall. Ellie craned her neck back to meet his intimidating eyes, her cheeks warming up when one of his hands moved around her neck, gently squeezing it. Her eyes widened when both of her hands were suddenly pinned above her head tightly, leaving her defenceless.

"Someone has you in this sort of position," Blaze said, smirking when Ellie licked her lips. "Ellie, stop looking at me like that and focus."

"I-it's kind of hard when you have me in this position," Ellie breathed back.

"Then pretend I'm just some creep."

"You already are 'some creep'."

"Elenor." Ellie chuckled, then her face fell into a neutral look as she tried to concentrate. "Alright, your arms are pinned and you're losing breath by the second, what do you do?"

Ellie pursed her lips. Glancing down at his body's position, then testing to see if she could get control of her arms again, she did the only things she could think of.

She kneed him in the groin.

"Fuck!" Blaze cried, falling to the ground immediately and cupping the area between his legs. "Jesus, Ellie, you didn't have to do it that hard!"