Page 163 of Bound By Her

She wasn’t a crime lord. She was a CEO.

Cold metal pressed against his throat.

“You sure about that, Brysey?”

His breath quickened. She stood over him.

Her free hand snaking into his hair, fingers twisting, gripping, pulling. His scalp prickled as she jerked his head upward. He didn’t resist.

He just stared up at her.

Her eyes—cold, unwavering. In this moment, she was the enemy. His entire body reacted to the threat, a rush of goosebumps rising along his skin.

Stay calm. Don’t flinch.

“You still want to say you trust me?” she asked.

The blade pressing deeper into his neck, a sharp bite against his pulse. He swallowed, and the steel followed the motion.

He held her gaze. “Yes, Mistress.”

He closed his eyes as he said it.

If he was wrong, if she killed him right here, right now, he didn’t want to see her do it.

He wanted to remember her before.

Before the blade. Before the coldness.

When she had rescued Kaydon. When she had lovingly and painfully brought him to orgasm in front of their enemies.

When she had kissed him.

She had been feral. Free. And that was the Adria he wanted to see.

The blade moved away.

And Bryson blinked his eyes open.

She threw a pair of handcuffs at him, and he caught them instinctively.

“Put those on. We will see how much you trust me.”

She hadn’t killed him yet, so he decided to go along. Ratcheting the first handcuff around his wrist, he maneuvered to get the second.

“Behind your back,” she said.

He opened his mouth to retort. How the hell was he supposed to do that? But he closed it and gave it a try. Behind his back he was able to secure the second. She checked the cuffs, squeezing each of them a few clicks tighter. The metal digging into his skin.

“Stand up.”

With a little difficulty, he managed to stand. Seeing her, he took in a broken breath.

She was wearing an oversized T-shirt, the curves of her breasts filling the fabric, and pink underwear peeked out from under the hem.

She looked radiant.

The fire he was hoping to quell by coming here roared to life.

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