Cole. There are things I evidently like, that you enjoy doing. I don’t
want to talk about them. Just do them.”
She stared up at him, narrowing her eyes, warning him that she too had her limits.
He propped his head on his hand, regarding her with a curious expression.
“I expected more of a fight,” he said, a vague question in his voice.
Tess sighed, sitting up staring into the fire as she ran the fingers of one hand
through her hair.
“How extreme do you intend to get?” she finally asked him, glancing at him as he
still reclined beside her.
He reached over, his fingers trailing down her hair. “How extreme do you want me
to get, Tess?” he asked instead. “I can give you whatever you want, anything you want.
But I have my own needs, and they will have to be satisfied as well.”
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“Such as?” she asked him, keeping her voice low, stilling the tremor that threatened
to shake it.
“I like the toys, Tess. I like using them, and I’m dying to use them on you. I like
spanking you. I like watching your pretty pussy and the rounded cheeks of your ass
turning red. I like hearing you scream because you don’t know if it hurts or if it’s the
pleasure killing you. I want to see your eyes filled with dazed pleasure as I push your
limits.” He laid it out for her pretty well, she thought with an edge of silent mockery,
and still didn’t answer a damned thing.
“How far will you go?” she asked him.
“How far will you let me go?” he countered her.
Tess had a feeling she would have few limits, but she wasn’t willing to tell him that.
“You evidently have plans. I’d like to know what they are.”
Cole sighed. “Some things are better left up to the pleasure of the moment. Let’s
wait and see what happens.”
Tess licked her lips in nervousness. Evidently her father had told him about the
debacle with the books her mother had found. He wouldn’t have known about them
otherwise. She took a deep, hard breath.
“Does it concern other men?” she finally asked.
His eyes lit up in arousal. Tess lowered her head to her knees. God, she didn’t know
if she could.
“You want it, Tess.” He moved behind her, sitting up to pull her against him as he
whispered the words in her ear. “You’ve wanted it for a long time, baby, everything I
have planned. Just settle down, and we’ll take it step by step.”
Tess was fighting to control her breathing, her heart rate. She was terrified of him,
and of herself.
“I can’t, if Father found out—”
“Tess, your father knows,” he said gently. “Why do you think your mother
divorced him? She didn’t want sex, let alone what he needed. Your father knew when
those books were found what you needed. Just as he knows what I need.”
Embarrassment coursed through her body. She remembered coming home from
college, her mother raging at her, the humiliation of the accusations she had thrown at
Tess. It was one of the few times her father had put his foot down. Then he had pulled
her into his study and uncomfortably informed her that sexuality was a personal thing,
and none of his or her mother’s business.
“Your sister—?” She left the question hanging.
“Knows what he wants and enjoys it. That’s the key point, Tess. You have to enjoy
it, otherwise, it brings me no pleasure. Your pleasure is most important, Tess. What you
want, what you need.”
His hands were at her abdomen, softly stroking the nervous muscles there. His lips
brushed over her shoulder, her neck.
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“I don’t want a toy, Tess,” he promised her. “Or a woman who doesn’t know her
mind and speak up accordingly. But in the bedroom, that is where I want the woman I
know you are. If you want to fight me, then fight. If you want to submit, then do so. If
you want to be tied down and raped, let me know. All of it, I can give you and enjoy.
But if you ever reach a limit, you have to tell me. If I
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