Total pages in book: 68
Estimated words: 63970 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 320(@200wpm)___ 256(@250wpm)___ 213(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 63970 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 320(@200wpm)___ 256(@250wpm)___ 213(@300wpm)
He was the one putting her in a corner now. “No one gives you enough credit for being a manipulative bastard.”
He shrugged, his muscular shoulders moving up and down with negligent grace. “It’s the face, my love. No one sees much past this face of mine, but you will. You have one minute to decide.”
He couldn’t expect her to decide now. “I need more time.”
His hands found lean hips and he stared at her. “And yet you only have one minute. Do we hash this out like the D/s couple we want to be?”
They shouldn’t be a couple at all.
But if she wanted any shot at him after this was over, she couldn’t walk away. She had to make him understand.
The truth of the matter was, she didn’t even want to walk away. She wanted him. If this was the last time they had together, she wanted it. He knew how she felt about the situation. “This doesn’t change anything.”
“Oh, I think it’s going to change everything, my love, but if you still feel the same at the end of this, I’ll step back. Not from you. You should understand that unless you get a restraining order, I’ll be with you at the hospital and I’ll visit you every day. I’ll be everything you need.”
She turned and watched him start to walk away. “Then what are you stepping back from?”
He turned and the most decadent grin curled his lips up. “From eating your pussy the first minute I can. From proving to you that you don’t have to have a uterus for me to make you come like you’ve never come before. So you’ll get all the mother hen and none of the cock. Think about that.”
She stood there and watched him walk away. What was she going to do? She wasn’t going to get a restraining order. It would hurt Kai if she kept his brother away. Hell, it seemed like it would hurt Jared, and she didn’t want to do that.
What would she do if he wouldn’t take her good advice and give himself some time?
The lights went out. The hallway went dark, but there was an unearthly glow coming from the stairs that led to the second floor of Sanctum.
“Time’s up. You should enter the maze.” Jared’s voice came over the PA that was normally used to pump low, sexy music through the place. “Unless you don’t want to challenge me at all, and then your spanking can be over very quickly. Well, as quickly as forty hard smacks to that luscious ass of yours will take. I don’t know. I’m not even tired yet. I still have the energy to lube up a nice plug with some ginger. We can start there. Or you could tire me out a bit and force me to chase you through the maze.”
Damn him. He knew she wouldn’t be able to walk away, and she hated the ginger lube. Asshole. Glorious, gorgeous, devious asshole. He had neatly put her in a corner, and she wasn’t willing to do what it took to come out of it.
She could walk away. The door was right there, and maybe she could have done it if she hadn’t spent the morning with women who’d managed to make it despite the odds. Erin had lost Theo, and when she’d gotten him back, he hadn’t remembered her. Had she given up? Eve had gone through hell and found her way back to Alex on the other side. Charlotte had been apart from Ian for years.
Was she really willing to not even try? No one got everything they wanted out of life. No one. The universe demanded sacrifices, and somehow sorrow balanced with joy in the end.
Was she ignoring her joy?
She let her bag drop to the floor because she really, really hated ginger lube and she’d wasted a whole bunch of seconds thinking. She should stop thinking and start running because Jared didn’t tire out easily.
It was a good thing she knew every inch of this club or she might have tripped over her own feet.
“Yes, that’s what I want.” He chuckled, the sound coming from behind her. “Run, little sub. Don’t think you can hide from me. I’m going to catch you. Let’s make a bet. If you can get through this maze before I catch you, the spanking’s off and we’ll do this your way. We’ll talk it out.”
“And if you catch me?”
“Then it’s my way all the way,” he promised.
“You can’t make me marry you.” She had to hold out. It would be a mistake to not give him time.
“I bet I can. You haven’t had me at my best. What you got last night was an appetizer. By the end of the evening you’ll agree to anything I want just to have one more taste of my cock.”