Wicked, sensual, knowing, his lips curled seductively. “It makes you pass out, does it?”
“Every time,” she said, though not in anger. She couldn’t hold the edge of anger, but she couldn’t dull the sharp edge of hunger either.
“Oh, Kia, you are such a naughty little liar.” He chuckled as though in delight.
She held back her own smile, but she felt her lips pout as her lashes swept over her eyes. She arched against him then, rubbed the silk and lace of her panties against the engorged head of his cock.
“When you jack off, do you think of me?” she asked him then. “When your fingers are tight around your cock, Chase, and your cum is spilling from your flesh, is my name on your lips?”
“Every time.”
Her lips parted in shock. She couldn’t breathe. She was fighting for oxygen, fighting to clear her head enough to think when he had stolen her breath with those two words.
“I imagine those pretty lips first.” He nipped at her lower lip. “Parting, sucking me in. I close my eyes and I see you there, but it’s never as good, Kia. Are you sure it’s as good with that vibrator?”
She swallowed tightly. “It’s all I have.”
“Is it as good as the feel of my dick working inside you?” he asked her again. “Stretching and burning you. I know I do, Kia, because you’re so tight around me, so hot and rippling with the effort to take me. I know how I stretch you. I feel it. I see it in your face, hear it in your cries.”
Her juices were wet and hot, saturating her panties, and she knew he had to feel it.
“Ah, pretty Kia.” His smile was one of erotic satisfaction. “I feel it, baby. Come on now, tell me, does that vibrator really feel as good as I do?”
She would have lied to him then. She assured herself, she really and truly would have. But he chose that moment to lower his head and catch a hard nipple between his teeth. He took the silk of her camisole and the tender flesh into his mouth and sucked her. With hunger. And he watched her, staring back at her as the head of his cock pressed against the too-sensitive folds of flesh beneath her panties.
“Answer me.” His voice hardened just enough to send a shiver down her spine. “Does it feel as good, Kia?”
“Better.”
Oh God, she had lost her mind. She watched that smile tip his lips and she knew she was in trouble.
“Ah, baby” He caught both wrists in one of his hands, lifted them over her head and allowed the other hand to slide down her side. “That was really the wrong little fib to tell.”
His eyes. Kia stared up at his eyes, watching the light green flicker with dark highlights as that wicked, wicked smile curled his lips.
A dark overnight growth of beard darkened his jaw and chin, giving him a rakish appearance. She wondered if she should be so damned turned on, or if she should be terrified out of her mind.
Her body was making the decision for her. It was arching against him as she felt something around her wrists. Her head turned and she stared up at the slender leather straps he had pulled from the back of the headboard.
“You wouldn’t!”
He did. Before she could struggle her wrists were bound with two velvet-lined leather cords.
“Perfect.” He grinned, leaning back to stare down at her as her head turned back and her eyes widened at the sight of his cock straining out from his body. “I wouldn’t want you to hurt yourself when you start thrashing around.”
“Thrashing around?” she almost squeaked.
“From the pleasure, Kia.” His brows lowered, his look darkening. “Do you think I’d hurt you?”
She shook her head, albeit slowly. “What are you going to do?”
He gripped the front of her camisole. “It’s a good thing Ian pays well.” He ripped it open, pushing the edges past her breasts as she arched to him, involuntarily, because this really shouldn’t be turning her on.
“Damn. That’s so pretty.” His hands cupped her breasts, his thumbs flicking over her nipples. Pinpoints of electricity began to sizzle across her nerve endings.
She had never been restrained in her life. She had never wanted to be restrained. Until now. Until she strained at the velvet-lined cords securing her wrists and Chase knelt between her thighs.
“This is insane,” she gasped as he gripped her nipples with thumbs and forefingers and applied just enough pressure to make her twist beneath him. The sensations raced past pleasure and bordered on an edge of pain that had her reaching for more.
“Look how hard your nipples are.” He lifted his fingers from them, only to lower his head and lick one, then the other. “I love your nipples. So sweet and tight, and hot. They flush that pretty bright pink and make me hungry to taste them.”
“Let me go. I want to touch you.” She needed to touch him, to feel his flesh beneath her hands, to hold him.
She stared up at him as he straightened once again, his glaze flickering over her nearly naked body.
“No.”
Her lips parted as some dark, erotic challenge flickered in his face.
“No?”
“Not until I make you pass out from the pleasure. Are we making bets on whether or not I can manage it?”
Kia narrowed her eyes back at him. Surely such a thing wasn’t even possible.
“If you lose, you get to trade places.” He was going to lose. She had known the pinnacles of pleasure with him already. She had never heard of anyone passing out because the orgasm had been so good, and she was hoping Chase was all bluff.
His grin was daring. “I’ve never been tied down in my life, Kia.”
“First time for everything,” she warned him, allowing a hint of smugness to show. “Come on, Chase, pleasure alone?” She stretched beneath him, lifted to him, and watched his eyes narrow. “You’re bluffing.”
He was silent. His expression went still, tense.
“Don’t do that, Kia.” There was a warning growl in his voice. “Don’t dare me.”
“You won’t hurt me.” She tugged at the bonds. “We both know you won’t, Chase.”
“There are some things women don’t want to know about themselves,” he told her then. “You’re strong, resilient. But do you really want to touch the places I could take you? The places I will take you if you continue to dare me.”
Her chin lifted. “And a dare’s all it takes? Are you certain you can do it without help?”
She was crazy. She had accused him of being insane, but as she watched the dark lust flash through his eyes again, she wondered if she wasn’t the one who had lost her mind.
“Oh how brave,” he whispered, part playful, part dark eroticism.
“Baby, anything you’ve known while taking both Khalid and me is nothing compared to what you’ll know now.”
“Holding back on me then?” She arched as his fingers grazed the silken crotch of her panties. “Shame on you, Chase.”
Her voice was rough, her confidence not really everything it should have been as she felt her excitement growing.
He clicked his tongue at her. “Shame on you, sweetheart, because you just bought yourself the edge.”
18
Kia had no idea what the edge was, but she had a feeling it was going to go way beyond mere pleasure. Touching Chase, being touched by him, was an adventure each time. The adventure she had craved all her life, the challenge and the daring wild ride into sensations she had only fantasized about.
She tugged at the bonds that held her wrists. She was helpless; she felt helpless, sensually and erotically helpless.
She should have been frightened, she was sure. She should have been hesitant about allowing him to control her sensuality in this way. But her sensuality reveled in it. She reveled in it.
“You can pull back at any time, sugar.” His smile was pure, erotic demand. “If you pull back, you lose your bet.”
The challenge was clear.
Kia let her own laughter whisper past her lips, though it was strained, filled with nervous anticipation.