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Leaning up, she pressed her mouth against his. A split second later, he took over. Eventually, they stumbled to the bar where he’d set up their meal, and they ploughed through the grilled swordfish and salad he’d prepared. He’d rescued the chocolate fondant from the restaurant delivery, and she gorged and licked her spoon clean.
“Wow, that’s some mad cooking skills there, King. I may just keep you.”
He grinned, drained the last of his wine and prowled towards her. “You better. Because I intend to keep you.” He took her glass and set it down. Electrifying blue eyes hooked into hers, one hand around her throat, caressing her pulse. “Now, Leia.”
Her breath caught and she stood. “What do you want me to do?”
“Pick a toy and put it on the bed. Take off my shirt and kneel on the bed, legs apart.”
The force of his need and the power of his arousal followed her all the way up the stairs. Even as she crossed the carpet to his closet, Leia knew which item she would choose.
She took it off the hook and curved her fingers around the thick handle. Returning to the bedroom, she undressed and crawled onto the high king-sized bed.
He entered five minutes later, his slow predatory footfalls escalating her helpless exhilaration.
“Fuck, sweetheart, you’re wet and swollen. Did seeing my toys make you like this?” he groaned.
“No, it’s you. All you. I need you so much.”
His breath hissed roughly. She heard a rustle of clothes then the bed dipped behind her. Her stomach clenched on a rush of desperate anticipation.
“For the next hour, when I ask you a direct question, you can answer. Otherwise, the only words I want to hear from you arepleaseandNoah. I don’t care in which order. Just vocalize those two words. You got it?”
“Yes, Noah.”
He picked up the toy and trailed it along the top of her thigh. “I suspected you would choose this, but I want you to tell me why you chose it.”
“I need to be punished for making the monsters win for a while.”
“You know how that made me feel?”
“No.”
“Angry. Disappointed. Fucking terrified that the real world had taken you from me.”
The first hard lash of the leather whip against her pussy made her scream. She fell forward onto hands that trembled beneath the ecstasy roaring through her. The second hit her ass, fanned pain and pleasure in an outward flare that sent another scream roaring through her.
He took turns lashing her pussy and her ass until she was poised on the brink of cataclysmic release. Then he stopped.
“Please, Noah.Please… please…”she sobbed.
He dropped the whip and reared up behind her, one hand cupping her breast, the other her hot, aching sex. “Are you sorry?”
“Yes!”
He shuddered deep. “Kiss me, Leia. Show me how much you want me.”
She twisted and kissed him, dirty and deep, just the way he liked it. With her tongue, she told him how much she was enjoying what he was doing to her body, how much she needed him.
With a groan torn from his soul, Noah poised his cock at her entrance and surged into her.
Her teeth clamped on his lower lip and she screamed. Tasting his blood against her mouth was like a drug shooting through his veins. Desperate to keep control, he tore his mouth away. “Sweet heaven, what are you doing to me?” His voice was raw, much rougher than he’d ever heard it.
“Take me, Noah. Make me yours.”
He didn’t bother to tell her she’d flouted the rules.
He fucked her with everything he had, every desperate emotion he’d lived through today. He made her scream until the sound saturated his blood.