Page 54 of Heir

Surprisingly, I did.

I nodded, and his blue eyes glinted in satisfaction.

He lifted me up in his arms. “Wrap your legs around me.”

I wrapped my legs around him, and he carried me away from the window, away from the living room, and to his bedroom.

My heart thudded loudly, so loudly that I wondered if Kai could hear it, but then he pushed the door open with his foot, quickly turning on the light. I briefly noticed his sparsely furnished bedroom. Like his living room, the theme was black and gray, and very little told me about him as a man.

The huge king-sized bed took up most of the space, with black bedding and a dark wood headboard with some sort of hook in the middle.

I looked at it questioningly, but then Kai dropped me softly on the bed. I squealed when I bounced, and he licked his lips as if he was deciding where to start.

He deftly took my Converse off, along with my socks.

His eyes came down to my breasts and darkened.

“Fuck me, but you’re perfect. Play with your nipples for me,” he commanded.

“Kai—”

I took a deep breath. Play with myself in front of him?

Could I do it?

He raised an eyebrow. Climbing into bed, he moved over me. “One thing about me, baby? I fucking love control. In and out of the bedroom. And you’re going to be a good girl for me and give it to me, aren’t you?”

I licked my own dry lips.

He wanted control in andoutof the bedroom?

But this was just for one night.

Kai wasn’t looking for forever with me.

I wasn’t naïve.

I wasn’t thinking about something more, and somewhere in the back of my mind, I was aware there was a possibility of this being just for one night.

But it would be one I cherished for the rest of my life.

We were practically strangers. I didn’t know why he looked like such a lonely prince surrounded by a sea of people, and he didn’t know about my insecurities, about my family issues, or all the terrible thoughts that occupied in my head most days.

That was okay. It had to be okay, but right now, he was asking me to give him the control he needed in the bedroom…

I didn’t want to be that vulnerable with Kai Madden, did I?

He cupped my cheek and waited until I looked at him. “I won’t go past your limits.”

“And how would you know what those are?”

“By reading the signs your body tells me. And by listening to what you tell me. You said you trust me.”

“Yes—”

He cut me off with a kiss.

“Trust me to stop if you tell me something is suddenly too much for you, yeah?” he said once he pulled away. I was still reeling from the kiss.

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