Total pages in book: 82
Estimated words: 78598 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 393(@200wpm)___ 314(@250wpm)___ 262(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 78598 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 393(@200wpm)___ 314(@250wpm)___ 262(@300wpm)
She got me all those weeks ago as we played her little game of “ask me anything.” Ivy slipped in my head, and then into my pants. Cairo walking in was both welcome and unwelcome.
Rainey burrowed into my head without me realizing, then was ripped out. Catching me off guard once was a statistical probability, but the same woman winding me around her finger twice were the actions of the lovesick pathetic fool I just swore I wasn’t.
I will not do this with her again.
My belt slipped its buckle.
She will never have that power over me.
It slipped its loops, leaving my waistband to slide an inch down. I unbuttoned and it went the rest of the way.
There was nothing more illogical than the concept of love. It was nothing more than a rush of chemicals in the brain—as real as the trick Ivy’s mind played to make her believe she was her sister.
The bed dipped beneath my knee. Drawing my shirt over my head, it joined the rest of our clothes on the floor.
What I felt wasn’t real. It didn’t exist to be lost again. It didn’t make sense to say it never truly went away.
I pressed her flat, palm warm on the small of her back. As warm as the legs wrapping around me.
My love was nothing more than a delusion that had taken hold of me, and experience said there was no controlling when those released you.
I tightened around the leather.
So why fight it?
Thwap!
“Uh,” Ivy half cried, half moaned. My balls squeezed in time to her pale cheeks. “Again.”
My jaw clenched, penning in a hiss. Her alter ego didn’t demand more. She’d offer herself up to me in total submission, even if she didn’t pretend she wasn’t enjoying it.
But I was dealing with Ivy now. She wasn’t shy about taking what she wanted, and that did nothing good to the dominant, alpha beast that logic, reason, and genius was never able to tame.
Thwap!
Her back arched against the sheets, bending like a finely crafted bow. I ran my fingers up the curve of her spine. “Ah, yes, Jacques. Don’t—” I closed over her mouth, muffling the rest of her order beneath my palm.
Much better.
Thwap!
Ivy vibrated beneath me, pain and pleasure rippling through her body. It had been so long. Too long.
My erection honed in on her like a heat-seeking missile. Precum gathered on the tip, unashamedly giving away this woman’s power over me. Half-naked and three spankings in, and I was so hard there was a chance all of me would explode when I came. So much for the genius who was always in control. Always—
Pain sprouted from my palm. Ivy scraped her teeth along my bitten palm and closed over my finger.
“Ugh.” My cock twitched violently as she sucked me into her mouth. Head bobbing, she found something else to do with her mouth and I pictured all the other uses I could put it to. Where the fuck was that handcuff key?
“Where’s the key?”
“Can’t recall,” she sang.
My lips peeled back from my teeth. “Where is it?”
“You’ll just have to find it.”
Thwap!
“Ahh,” she moaned, tightening around me.
“You don’t want to play games with me.”
“Oh, but I do. I really, really do.” Ivy tossed a smirk over her shoulder. “Everything comes easy for you, Jacques Stone, the self-controlled genius. Even the woman of your dreams walked right into your house and got ensnared in Cairo’s web.”
My reply was immediate. “Actually, she framed me for murder and accepted she was better off serving her sentence under the Bedlam Boys.”
Her smirk widened. At that second I realized I just confirmed she was the woman of my dreams.
I glared at my cock. Fucking hell, so much for the self-controlled genius.
“I’m going to make you work for it when it comes to me.” She wiggled her red ass. “Just a little bit. So the next time you get it into your head that it’ll be easy to throw me away, you’ll remember how hard you fought for me in the first place.”
The vein under my left brow twitched. Irritation like I’d never felt before swelled in my chest. I raised my belt... and tossed it over my shoulder. Ivy’s eyes widened as I prowled over her.
“Is that so? You think you’re going to teach me a lesson.” Eyes locked, I bit her shoulder, enjoying the soft exhalation of breath. “Train me? Make me the pet at the end of your leash?”
I felt her toes caress my backside. “That wasn’t exactly what I was going for. I was thinking something more like equals.”
I laughed, lips trailing along her shoulder. “There’s no such thing as an equal relationship. Someone always holds the power.” I kissed just under her ear. “Whether it’s the partner that makes more money. Or the one that’s out of their league and knows it. Or loves just a little bit less. The balance of power can only swing one way.”