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I kiss her before my mouth can run away with me. Maddie kisses me back, her body still hot around me. I kiss her slower until her breathing slows down, too, but Maddie stays where she is instead of getting up.
She runs her fingers through my hair. It’s a soft touch, intimate like we’re actually together, and I let myself indulge in the fantasy for a minute. This is the perfect arrangement.
It doesn’t take long for her climb off, and I help her steady herself.
Her eyes find mine and a question lingers there.
“Tell me,” I say easily. I’m sure she has questions. Fuck, even I have questions racing in the back of my mind.
“When you say all the time…” she asks. “That I’m availableallthe time.”
Yes. All the time. Every second. Every minute. She should be in my office, under my desk, all day until it’s time to go back to the penthouse.
“What about it?”
“There will be times when I just want to be alone or I…”
Her hesitation is clear and the one thing I’m not going to do is lose her before it’s even begun. “Once a week at least.” It’s so much less than I want, but it’s the only thing I can say to her right now. If I told Maddie the truth, it would go badly. It would be too much for her, and she’d run. Or she’d like it too much, and when it crashed and burned we’d both be taken down with it. “And...if you’re in need, I’m the one you’ll come to.”
“If I’m in need,” she repeats quietly.
“If you need to be touched, you call me.” I take a hand off her waist and stroke her hair. “If you need to be fucked, you call me. If you wake up in the middle of the night and can’t sleep, call me, and I’ll make you come until you can.”
“What about...” She tilts her head to the side, thinking. “If another window breaks?”
“Don’t break your windows on purpose.”
“I didn’t do it on purpose last time.”
“I don’t care if it’s a broken window or a needy pussy. You call me. Only me. Nobody else.”
Her eyes come back to mine and her lips part. I can tell she wants to ask me whether this goes both ways. She’ll want to know if I’m fucking anyone else, and if I’m allowed to call in other women wheneverIneed.
“And you will be the only one I see for my needs as well,” I tell her to ease any worries and then kiss her. I keep my eyes open and watch as she closes hers. Good girl.
I don’t want any other woman. I don’t want my hands on anyone else. I don’t want to be inside anyone else. “And if you need anything else. A dress, a dinner out…anything. You’ll let me know.”
Maddie closes her lips, a smile curving the corners of them. I trace her bottom lip with the pad of my thumb. It sends another throb to my cock, though I’ve just fucked her.
That’s how much I want her.
“We have a deal,” she says.
“I like it when you call me Sir,” I tell her.
Her lips form a tempting smile as she looks up at me with a devilish and playful spark in her eyes. “We have a deal, Sir.”
MADDIE
Smiling, a cup of coffee in one hand and the breeze from the bustling city blowing my hair back, I wait at the cross walk and think back on this past week. Showing up at Graham’s office was even better than the ‘good idea’ Suzette suggested, and so was the safe word.
When I walked in, he looked like he’d been starving. Butterflies bat away in my chest at the memory, and my smile widens. There’s no denying it, he’s into me. And I’m into him. It’s hot and I don’t care what anyone else would think…not that I’m shouting it from the rooftops or down the streets of New York City.
It still feels a little scandalous. A little forbidden. I never thought I’d trade my body for rent money. I also never thought I’d like it so much—this power-play thing that’s happening. I freaking love it.
I never thought I’d get addicted to the feeling.
I clear my throat and bury the thoughts away as a work text comes through. I have to pause on the street to answer it.