handcuffed to anything, beautiful. Step away anytime you like. We
haven’t even established a safe word, though you can call a red on me anytime you
need. Is that what you’re doing?”
“No!” She countered it with a huff. “I mean—I don’t know.” Dammit. Giving up on anything in her life hadn’t been an option since hitting double digit
birthdays. She didn’t accept the loser card very gracefully. But was it giving up if Shane placed the safe word in her control,
gave her the choice to stop everything? Fully acknowledged her power as well as his?
“It’s okay not to know.” He gave her a break. While twirling her tips with his thumb
and forefinger, he grazed his other fingertips along the undersides of her breasts.
The new sensations, mixed with the zings left behind from his pinches, were amazing.
“Ssshhh. Breathe.”
“I—I’m confused.” Understatement of the century .
His reply was tinged in anger. “Let me guess. It wasn’t like this with the Dom behind
Door Number One?”
She closed her eyes. Like that helped against the memories of that first awful night
with Bryce. And the second. And the third. Her sexy cop boyfriend had transformed into a different person as a Dom,
like Walter White donning the damn Heisenberg Hat. He’d always kept his face shrouded
in darkness, concealed by the dungeon’s deep shadows—though he sure as hell made sure
she could see his cock. Right after he strapped her down to a spanking bench by her
ankles, knees, elbows, and wrists, he shoved the swollen thing at her lips. Take the whole thing down your throat, or I’ll flog you until you scream. Service
me well, you slutty little submissive.
“ Sí .” She finally found her way back to the present, forcing a nod for Shane. “But—but
it’s okay. I’m here now.”
“Oh, yeah.” He rumbled the word through his whole body, along with hers, while suckling
her neck. His fingers drifted toward her nipples again. “You really are.”
Zoe released a long breath. “And I’ll try to stay.”
“Mmmm. That’s my good girl.”
His praise made her tingle. Even so, she charged, “But I can step free any moment
I want?”
“Affirmative,” Shane murmured. “But dear God, I hope you don’t.” He tightened his
touch, tugging at her sensitive nodes, again twisting harder at the erect points.
“Stunning, amazing Zoe…I could look at you all night. Play with these magnificent
tits for hours.”
She fought to pull in breath. “I—I almost want you to.” As far as hiding the astonishment
in her voice? Forget about it. “But how is that possible? Even though…you’re hurting
me…”
“Only a little.”
“Only a little ?”
He spread warm breath along her neck as he slowly pulled on her taut areolas. “Only
because it feels so good to have this effect on you.”
“Ahhh.” The breathy syllable was all she could manage. Mierda , what an “effect” the man had. Every new pinch brought a jump to her pulse and a
jolt to the depths of her tender folds. She pulsed for him now. Ached . Because of the pain he’d brought her—and the expertise he delivered every moment
of it with.
“You like it, too, don’t you, baby girl?” He rubbed with the pads of his thumbs again,
mixing his low growl with her extended moan. “You like the way I touch you. And yes,
you like the pain, too. You like it because every time you take more of either, part
of your spirit becomes mine. And you like that, too. You long to know how I’m going
to return that gift to you, converted into something new by my passion…my power.”
His words sounded like they’d been tossed through a filter of shale. Joined with the
pressure of his erection against her ass, Zoe was helpless to fight the demolition
of his seduction.
“ Vaya . Yes.” She lilted the words with hope. Maybe she really could do this. Perhaps it
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