“Where were you?” I asked, and she shivered in my hands.
That was all she was going to give me for free. I just knew it. I knew her.
“Taking a walk,” she said with a coolness that made me want to put her over my knee.
“With whom?”
“Oh, is that the question?” She smirked in challenge. “Are you trying to find out if I was with someone?”
I growl rose in my chest. “Don’t say his name.”
But she didn’t listen. “With Joe, perhaps?”
My temper snapped, and I pushed my body against hers, slamming her into the nearest wall. I took her mouth in my anger. I clutched her waist and she whimpered. My cock was instantly hard, and aching to be inside her.
I broke our kiss and she laughed, her tongue darting out to where my teeth cut her lower lip.
“So what if I was with him?” She was egging me on.
“Then he’s a dead man,” I whispered over her lips, biting her lip and tasting the blood from her cut. “Don’t test me.”
She placed her hand on my chest. With one big shove, she pushed me away. “I’ll test you if I want.”
I felt the heat of my blood coursing through my veins. Her defiance. Her fight. It all made me want her more. I wanted to be a savage. To throw her on the bed like a conquering hero and have my way with her sweet body. I wanted her to resist, and fight only to give in when my cock slipped inside her, soothing the wild bitch that she was.
“Don’t defy me.” I quietly warned her. A warning I knew she’d ignore. “Tell me where you were.”
Her coquettish, sly grin was designed to break my control. She put a finger at the center of my chest, and smiled.
“Maybe I was meeting someone.”
“Who?”
“A man …” she bit her lower lip, looking up at me from beneath her lashes. She was inviting my jealousy. It was a bold move, but I adored it. We both knew there was no man. There had better not be. If there was, then she’d see the true depth of my growing obsession.
“Then I will slit his throat before your eyes.” I bared my teeth and leaned into that angry little finger poking at my chest. “And fuck you in his blood.”
Her mouth hung open. She took a loud breath, her chest heaving up, her sweet little breasts pressing against her halter. I could see her nipples hardening under her shirt as her pupils dilated in those dark orbs. She liked this just as much as I did.
“You’re playing with fire, darling.” I warned her. “Tell me your safe word.”
“Did you forget it?” Her tongue darting out to run along the bottom of her top teeth. She was teasing me. She’d pay for that.
“Say it now.” I clenched and unclenched my fists at my side. “No games. Say it.”
Her face turned serious. Her eyes darted up to mine, and she whispered, “Gemini.”
I grabbed her around the waist, lifting her off her feet. Her eyes went wide in shock, and fear. I threw her onto the bed and she bounced until she almost hit the headboard. I lunged at her, grabbing her shoes and pulling them off. She kicked, her hands swinging wildly as I pulled her towards me by the ankles.
I grabbed her jeans and ripped them open, the button skittering on the floor as I pulled them off her hips and down her arse. She tried to keep them up, her hands tugging on a belt loop to keep them at her waist. The loops snapped in our tussle and she winced as the denim cut into her fingers.
She turned in our struggle until her belly was down. She crawled away from me, grasping at the perfectly tucked sheets until they came undone.
Her panties stayed on, pulled down on one side, exposing one rounded, lean ass cheek. I couldn’t resist. I brought my hand down hard, and the loud slap echoed around the room. She looked over her shoulder at me, fire in her eyes, and I chuckled.
I reached for those panties to pull them down and her hand whipped around, back handing me across the cheek.
It stung. The heated flesh on my face just increased the heat in my blood, the pain adding to my need to subdue this fucking woman.