Page 35 of Her Royal Master
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Darius
I’d meant to sit down with Chelsea, to tell her all the things I hadn’t said before.But instead I’d fucked her brains out.Not that I had any regrets.She looked so beautiful post-orgasm, her cheeks flushed, her glossy hair messy.
I ran my thumb over her swollen lips.“Thank you for the article, baby.It was sweet of you.The queen is pleased.”
“Are you?”She lowered her lashes.“Pleased?”
“Look at me,” I murmured, tapping her cheek.When she lifted her eyes, I smiled.“Not yet.”
She blushed.“You need to punish me first?”
My smile grew wider.“Yes, certainly that.More than one punishment, baby.Many, many punishments.But I won’t be pleased until you get on my jet and fly back to my country with me.”
She swallowed and pushed herself up on her elbows, her perky breasts bouncing with the movement.
“The queen wishes you to be the official biographer of the royal family.”
Her pretty lips parted.
“It would mean moving to my country.It might take a while.Years, even.But at least when you found yourself bound to my bed, you would know you didn’t give up your career for a man.”
She gaped, but still didn’t speak.I did my best to hide the tension building in me.I needed her answer.Needed this settled.
“I would have to punish you every night.It might take me a long time to forgive you for leaving me.You fucking broke my heart, Chelsea.”
I hadn’t meant to lay it all out there, but there it was.
Chelsea burst into tears.“I broke mine, too.I’m so stupid and stubborn.I don’t know why I couldn’t trust you and let down my walls.I’ve regretted it a million times these past two months.”
“You chose a story over me.”There it was.I thought I’d reconciled her actions, but her choice still hurt.Even if she did keep my collar on.
“I thought… I thought I was choosing my life over someone else’s.I was wrong.I should have realized that you mightbemy life.”
I stroked her cheek, all my last reservations washed away.
“I always thought I’d lose myself with a man.I was so afraid.”She swallowed the thickness in her throat.“But after I left Ibiza, I realized I was more myself with you than anyone else.Maybe that’s what scared me.You saw—see—the real me.You know the real me.You may not have known my name, but you had my number from the very beginning.So I clung to the one thing I could keep from you—my identity.The one separation.I was so terrified to stay with you and lose myself.Or worse—that you wouldn’t want to keep me after that week.”
“I wanted to keep you from the moment I saw you, baby.You’re this crazy blend of innocence and sophistication, of youth and maturity, intelligence and naiveté.”I cleared my throat, fighting the lump in it.“I’ve been a disappointment to everyone in my life, but you… made me into a hero.”
“You are a hero,” she whispered, bringing her bound hands to my face.
I unwound her bra from her wrists.
“To me, to Kaspar, to Madison, even though she didn’t deserve it.To everyone around you.How many times have you taken the fall for someone else?You’ve probably been doing it your whole life, haven’t you?”
I blinked, shocked by how bright she made my existence appear.
She gripped my face between her two hands.“I’m not going to let you do it anymore.I’m your official biographer and I’m going to show you who you are.”
I went still.“Does that mean you’ll come?”
She nibbled her lower lip.“What will I be to you, if I do?”Her voice was no more than a whisper.
I knew this was serious, but I couldn’t help myself.I pushed her onto her back and straddled her waist, slipping a finger under the cord that served as her collar.“You’ll be my slave, baby.My duchess.Whatever the hell you want to be.”I caressed her cheek, dropping the dominance.“I need you in my life.In my bed.I need you on that jet by morning, Chelsea.Will you come?”
Her smile lit the entire room.“Yes.”She blinked back tears.“I’d love to be your slave.Maybe duchess, too.Can we see how it goes?”
I quirked a wry smile.“We can try.You’ve seen how possessive I am.I’m going to want to push you into every kind of commitment I can get, but I’ll try to give you space.”
She shook her head and reached for me, pulling my mouth down to hers.“No space.Just you.That’s all I need.”
