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Asha looked up at him, startled. Kade’s voice was radiating jealousy, and his jaw muscles were twitching. In spite of those facts, he looked vulnerable.
“I like him as a friend. He was nice to me. He joked around with me. I haven’t ever really had that before with a friend.” She sighed. “But he’s not you and he never will be.” Asha slid off the bed and went to stand in front of Kade, never breaking eye contact. “When I thought I was going to die, the only thing I really regretted is that I never told you how I felt about you. Maybe I shouldn’t tell you now, but I don’t ever want to feel that way again. I want you to know exactly how I feel with no regrets.”
“Tell me,” Kade said huskily.
“I love you,” Asha said in a low whisper, barely able to get the words out over the lump in her throat. “I know you didn’t ask for it and you probably don’t want it, but it’s there, and I’m tired of trying to bury it. You’re the one I was longing for in that picture I drew of myself, the hunger that I thought would never be satisfied. I think I’ve longed for you my whole life. I just didn’t know it.”
“Tell me you really mean it,” Kade demanded. “But I’m warning you, I’m never fucking letting you go if you do. Oh hell, I’m never letting you go, anyway. But I want you to tell me.”
“I mean it. But I don’t want you to feel obligated because—”
Her words were effectively stopped by his mouth seizing hers, his hands on both sides of her head to keep her still as he devoured her. His kiss was alternately carnal and adoring, demanding and giving, his tongue and lips owning her, yet also giving himself to her. He grasped her ass, picking her up, his lips never breaking contact.
Asha found herself on the bed, Kade having hastily removed her tray of food, making his way to his closet, and returning with several of his ties. He dropped the ties on the bed and began unbuttoning his pajama shirt, baring her breasts as he came to the last button. “You look sexy as hell in my shirt, but I need you naked,” he rasped, his expression serious and eerily calm.
She watched him, confused, as he looped a tie around her wrist and secured it over her head, repeating it with the other wrist. Too shocked to react when he was binding her, she finally asked in a perplexed voice, “What are you doing?”
“Tying you to the bed,” Kade remarked absently, testing the ties to make sure they were secure.
Asha knew she should be mortified, but the feeling of being naked and at Kade’s mercy made her pussy flood with heat. His solid, muscular body leaned over her and slipped her panties down her legs sensually, letting them glide along her legs until he pulled them completely off.
Kade had barely said a word since she’d blurted out her feelings for him, and his silence was becoming uncomfortable to her psyche, but his actions were heating her body to dangerous temperatures. “I can see that. Are you going to tell me why?” she questioned nervously. She’d literally put her life in Kade’s hands, but she’d never seen him quite like this.
“I told you. I’m never letting you go.” He stroked errant strands of hair from her face, and nipped at the side of her neck, his mouth finally nuzzling against her ear. “I plan to pleasure you until you’re out of your mind and agree to marry me. I figure that’s the only way I’ll get you to agree.”
Asha trembled as his husky, low whisper vibrated against her ear, his voice a silky, low purr that reminded her of a cat.
“I can’t marry you, Kade,” she informed him sadly.
I’m barren. I can’t marry him. It wouldn’t be fair to him.
“Figured you’d say that. So I guess it’s my job to change your mind. You’ll eventually understand that all I need is you, sweetheart. Because I love you, too. More than anything or anyone on this planet. And you’re going to be mine,” he warned dangerously. “So after I taste you until you’re screaming my name, and fuck you into the most incredible climax you’ve ever had, maybe you’ll agree. If not, I’ll try again.”
Tears trickled down her cheeks, tears of pure joy that Kade loved her, too. “Kade,” she moaned, pulling against the ties that were binding her. “These are your good ties.” She noticed the feeling of silk against her palms.
“Baby, they are very good ties right now,” Kade answered in a wicked voice. “I have a feeling every time I wear one of them from now on my cock will be hard all day. All I’ll be able to think about is the way you look right now, spread out on my bed, mine to love and satisfy. And so fucking beautiful that I can’t believe you really love me.”
He was barely touching her, the tips of his fingers still stroking her hair, but his naughty words were driving her insane. She could imagine exactly how she looked…wanton, needy, and ready to be fucked. It was exactly how she felt, and her core clenched almost painfully. “Believe it. I love you.” She repeated the words she’d said earlier. “But I won’t marry you.”
“Ah…you will, sweetheart,” Kade answered confidently.
Asha gripped the ties as Kade began his assault on her senses, one finger tracing her pebbled nipples languorously. Being restrained was alternately frustrating and erotic. Asha longed to touch Kade’s hot, muscular body, but the bindings set her free to just feel.
“I never want to be inside another woman again. Not after being inside you,” Kade told her right before his tongue followed the trail of his finger, the heated warmth on her sensitive nipple making Asha lift her hips in need. Then he bit gently, sending waves of erotic pulsation straight to her pussy.
She was desperate to feel his cock fill her, pound inside her until she felt claimed. “Please,” she pleaded, unable to tolerate Kade’s teasing.
“Marry me?” Kade asked roughly, his hand moving down her stomach and between her thighs, parting her wet folds.
“No,” she moaned, shifting her hips up, pleading for friction on her clit.
Kade didn’t give her anything near what she wanted. He teased the tiny bundle of nerves lightly, barely flicking her clit with his finger, ramping up her desperation until she was whimpering. “More,” she panted.
Kade parted her thighs wide, leaving her open and exposed. Grabbing a pillow, he stuffed it under her ass, making her even more vulnerable to him. Asha closed her eyes as she felt his warm breath caress her glistening flesh, quivering with anticipation.
All teasing ended as Kade buried his mouth into her pussy, groaning as his tongue, lips, and teeth consumed her like a starving man. Every stroke of his tongue was deadly serious, intent on making her come. The pleasure was so intense that Asha reflexively tried to close her legs, but Kade pushed them wider, feasting greedily on the cream he was creating with his erotic touch.
“Oh, God. Kade. I can’t take this,” Asha moaned, her head thrashing on the pillow, her hands tearing at the restraints.