Page 60 of Redeem Me

Chapter Twenty-Seven

IVY

The second I wake, I know something is wrong. The duvet weighs a tonne. I can’t move. I’m spread out like a starfish and there’s something tight around my wrists, securing them above my head. My legs are tied wide open.

What the actual…? I blink hard as a ball of panic forms in my stomach.

I wiggle my feet and yank my ankles, but they don’t budge. Whatever is restraining me isn’t sharp. It’s soft like silk, but strong like steel.

I try to rock up on my back, but the restraints are too tight.

Am I dreaming? Is this some sort of nightmare?

Then I hear a low, rasping chuckle.

Caelon.

‘Hello, beautiful,’ he sings through the darkness. The balcony door is open, and a crescent moon hangs low in the sky, nestled amongst a hundred stars.

The panic that stirred inside me is replaced by a depraved, electric anticipation. ‘What are you doing here?’

‘You invited me,’ he purrs. His shadow prowls towards thebed ominously. ‘“Make me”, I believe were your exact words. If that isn’t an open invitation, I’m not sure what is.’

‘Is that why I’m tied to the bed and spread out like a starfish?’ Blood pounds through my ears like a war drum, but arousal pools in my stomach and lower.

‘Spread out like a banquet, you mean?’ Bright eyes glint dangerously from the bottom of the bed. Through the shadows, I make out those damn grey sweats hanging low on his waist, but his top half is naked. I squint, my eyes eating up the smooth contours of his chest and the hard planes of muscles. He is perfection personified. Is it any wonder I touch myself thinking about him?

‘You broke the rules, and now there are consequences. I told you no one touches what is mine and now you must pay the price.’

‘And that is what, exactly?’ My teeth sink into my bottom lip. ‘You’ve tied me up to what? Tease me til the brink and then take it all away?’

His devilish laughter seeps into the air as he rips the duvet from my body with a sharp, swift wrench. I’m completely naked. With no one else in the house tonight, there was no need for pyjamas.

He drops to his knees between my legs and the mattress dips. ‘Maybe. But I will make you come so many times you’ll be begging me for a break.’

‘That doesn’t sound like much of a punishment to me.’ I glance upward at the headboard and realise my restraints are actually two of his work ties.

‘We’ll see.’ He shrugs, running his tongue up my inner thigh, sending shivers in its wake.

‘How did you get home so fast?’ I yank against the tie, but it doesn’t budge.

‘That’s what you care about right now?’ He quirks a brow. ‘I have a private jet at my disposal. The second yourfingers touched what was mine, I decided to commandeer it.’

‘What about your meetings?’ I pant, unsure whether to be flattered or frightened.

‘A more important one came up.’ His hand reaches for his bulging crotch. ‘By the time I’ve finished with you, you’re going to understand exactly how it feels to be able to look, but not touch. How it feels to be a slave to someone else’s urges. To want something so badly but know it’s out of your reach.’

My stomach flips and fire spreads through my body at an alarming rate. My nipples are like twin peaks on my rapidly rising and falling breasts.

He halts his tongue, then licks the crease of my groin languidly. I buck and squirm, begging him to move with my body.

The hot breath from his laughter only adds fuel to the already scorching fire. ‘I said I was going to make you come so many times you wouldn’t be able to take anymore,’ rough stubble skims the sensitive skin on my inner thigh, ‘but I didn’t say I’d be quick about it. In fact,’ he makes a show of checking his watch, ‘I’m free for the next thirty-six hours and I plan on using them wisely.’

His lips are so close to where I need them, yet so far.

‘I’m sorry,’ I pant, lifting my pelvis.

‘I’m not,’ he laughs. ‘I’ve been praying for an excuse to tie you to these bedposts.’ He peppers a trail of tiny kisses down my thigh, his lips a soft contrast to the stubble dotting his square jawline. When he reaches my knee, he switches to the other leg and works his way back up, pausing occasionally to suck hard enough to mark me.

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