Izzy
“Izzy, please. Be reasonable.”
I loved when James begged. “Say it again,” I taunted him.
What the fuck with the be reasonable comment? I’m always reasonable. Okay, maybe that isn’t entirely true. I usually shoot from the hip and save the apologies for later. My big mouth has gotten me into more trouble over the years, and much of it I try to forget, especially when it comes to James.
He arched an eyebrow, and the same shitty smirk I’d grown accustomed to flashed across his lips. “I could make you say yes.”
“Doubtful.” I glared at him, feeling supercocky even though I was in no position to be.
James, my loving husband of over ten years, decided that tonight was a good time to tie me to the bed. I should’ve known he was up to no good because it’d been more than a little bit since he’d used restraints during sex. I figured we were just getting our kink on and that he wanted to try something new, but nope, the bastard knew I wouldn’t like what he was asking and made sure I didn’t have an out.
“Baby,” he whispered, running his thumbs across my bottom lip and trying to seduce me. “You know you can’t say no to me. Never have and never will.”
There were very few people in this world that could make me do anything, but James had a power over me since the first night I met him. Saying no to him had always been damn near impossible, and I almost hated myself because of it.
I never wanted to be that girl—the one who caved to anything her husband asked. Never in my life had I wanted to be her, an easy mark and a carpet for her husband to walk all over, but things don’t always turn out the way we plan. I learned that the hard way.
James wasn’t even on my radar until the night of Joe and Suzy’s wedding when he sauntered in with his good looks and charm. The arrogant bastard seemed to work me like he’d known me my entire life, and I fell for it.
I thought I’d won when I snuck out. I figured I’d never see him again, so what did it matter. Boy, was I wrong.
“I’ve said no to you plenty of times.” I refused to let him use his sexual prowess, which I’d done in the past, but sometimes I had to dig my heels in and find my inner bitch.
I pulled at the restraints and tried to break free, but it was useless. The man could tie the most wicked knots, and it had been years since I’d been able to wiggle out of them. Every time I escaped, he’d learn a new technique until he found just the right one to render me helpless.
His lips scorched a path down my neck, and my back arched as if begging for his touch. “Say yes, Izzy.”
I stifled the moan that formed low in my throat, but I squeaked instead when he sucked my nipple into his mouth. My body rocked on its own, moving toward him instinctively, wanting the bite of his teeth. His hand slid down my front, cupping my pussy, not hard enough to give me pleasure, only the sweet torment that he reveled in.
“Say yes, and I’ll give you what you want.”
He was playing with me. James was a master manipulator. I didn’t know if it was his background with the DEA or just something he was born with, but he used it perfectly when it suited his purpose.
I clenched my jaw, grinding my teeth together. “No.”
He wanted me to go to Miami to help gather information on a case and spend a few days with his parents. I loved them. I had every intention of saying yes, but saying no made everything more interesting.
He pulled my panties to the side before dipping two fingers inside me with the most sinful smile. “Last chance, baby,” he warned.
What was he going to do to me if I didn’t give in?The thought passed through my mind, but I pushed it away. I was lost in the feel of his hands on my skin and the ache between my legs, but my resistance held. “No,” I bit out.
He peered up, my nipple still in his mouth, smiling around the tip. The goddamn smile. I knew it so well, and we’d been together so long, I knew I was in for something I wasn’t going to like.
He thrust his fingers through my wetness and curled them, pressing against my G-spot. The sensation made me almost breathless and made me want to say yes to him without a second thought, but then he bit down on my nipple, and I was shocked back to reality and the knowledge that this was just a game to him.
Involuntarily, my back arched off the bed, offering my breast to him. My body had always betrayed me when it came to him. It was like he had the power to short-circuit my wiring and reprogram me, and there wasn’t a damn thing I could do to change it.
He added a third finger, filling me so completely that I moaned my pleasure and cried out his name. As if he’d achieved his goal, he pulled his fingers out and rubbed the wetness over my clit, taunting me. Slowly, his fingertips circled my supersensitive bud, driving me closer to the edge. It hit me. The bastard was going to torture me, denying me the orgasm I so badly wanted and now needed until I said yes and gave him what he wanted. This wasn’t about sex or connection. It was about getting what James wanted, and this was the only way he knew how.
I wiggled my bottom, trying to stop him before it was too late… But I’d already passed the point of no return, and he damn well knew it. His fingers were skilled, his mind sharp and cunning, and he was the master of my body.
My toes curled, the orgasm just within reach as his teeth clamped down harder against my nipple, pushing me closer to the edge. Just as my body tensed, losing myself in oblivion, James’s touch vanished.
“Fucking asshole,” I hissed and glared down my body at my sadistic husband.
He smiled, licking my wetness from his fingers with the deepest, sexiest moan I’d ever heard. I yanked at the restraints, again trying to break free because I wanted to launch myself across the bed and wrap my hands around his neck. Who the hell was I kidding? I’d rather knock his ass down and sit on his face, letting him slowly suffocate while getting the orgasm he was so intent on denying me.
