“Then it’s a deal,” she said quickly before she could second-guess herself. Zeph was right. She would’ve said yes anyway despite how much time he gave her to think it over. Why not woman up and do it now? Though it didn’t stop her heart from sinking to the pit of her stomach.
Zeph stared at her for a time, scrutinizing her. Janet hugged her arms tighter against herself. The glow of his irises brightened and dimmed repeatedly upon her, making her eager for the moment to end.
What if he doesn’t accept?Heat bloomed on her cheeks at the thought. There wasn’t supposed to be a deal, after all.
What if this is just another game?
I can’t keep playing without knowing the rules.Janet frowned.
“Come here,” he ordered, startling her.
“Why?”
“You have a job to do.”
11
The weight of the receiver in her jacket pocket became heavier with every word of their exchange. Janet forced herself to step forward between his parted legs. Then she stopped, her fingers twitching at her sides.
“Well?” he asked. “Are you backing out already?”
She narrowed her eyes and lowered the shield of her arms. “No,” she said through her teeth and pulled off her jacket, letting it fall to the ground.
He sat up.
Her pounding heart was the only noise she could hear. She reached down and lowered her pants.
Zeph stretched his hand out to touch her but hesitated before putting it back down. “What are you doing?”
“Distracting you,” she snapped, stepping out of her pants and kicking them away with her heel. She lowered herself over him until she straddled his legs, pushing his arms off the armrests so she could straighten herself out. Janet sat back onto his thighs. The pounding in her ears heightened and she desperately wished for a shot of liquid courage. The Cyborg’s hands remained at his sides. If this was what he wanted, then this was what he would get.
But it will be on my terms.
She reached for the buckle of his pants.
He caught her hands. “Stop.”
“No.”
“Do you want me to pin you? It won’t feel good.”
Janet tore her hands free and grabbed his head, slamming her mouth against his. Zeph’s arms went around her in the next second, sliding up under her shirt and over her spine, pulling her toward him. He wasn’t stopping her and it empowered her to take a little more control. She scooted up as far as her knees would let her and pressed her core into the side of his growing bulge.
A shiver of pleasure passed through her, the insanity of the past few days righting itself in a strange sort of way. She pushed herself into him harder, drowning in the endorphins, in the sensations spreading through her. If they had nothing else between them, at least they had this.
Lust. Frenzied and splintering. It was in every biting word they said to each other, in the way their eyes met, and in every touch. She wanted to pound her fists against his chest as much as she wanted to lay down and submit to him.
Zeph had been inside her once, hard and fast, and it’d been delicious in the late-night dark. A tussle that had been so satisfying yet so exploitative at the same time. She wanted that again, but this time, she wanted tousehim.
She was going to do what she did best—dominate a man until she could walk all over him.
Janet bit down on his lip as hard as she could, drawing blood.
A low growl filled her ears, unlike any sound she’d ever heard before. She tugged his lip away and met his eyes. The hair framing his face was jet black and curling around his ears. Janet released her prisoner with a moan and lowered her hand to the buckle of his pants. With a quick jerk on his part and a tug on hers, it was pushed down just enough to release his cock.
She pressed her forehead to the steel wall of his chest and looked down. A thick, dripping cock head pointed at her with a shaft that bulged out around the sides. The thickness around his length wasn’t smooth but slightly ribbed, like corded muscle. The smell of hot metal and rust filled her nostrils as she stared down at it, seeing it for the first time. No wonder it seemed to rub in all the right places the last time.
His hands slipped into her hair and massaged the back of her head as she stared.
