I turned the knob to his door, determined to take back my power. Get him out of my system somehow, even if it meant throat-punching him. As I stepped into the dark bedroom, it was silent. At nearly three in the morning, what else had I been expecting apart from a sleeping Kai? He had one arm behind his head, a bare fucking torso, and no blanket. My eyes immediately centered on his dick.
I’d thought about how good of a fuck he’d be more times than I would ever admit to myself.
Three years. Could I really go three years alongside this man without touching him? I knew the answer. We were already dangerously close. And it had only been a week. What would things be like by the end of our contract?
I cursed into the dark with a hushed voice and turned to leave, my hand on the knob.
“If you walk out that door, make sure you’re faster than me.”
“Is that a threat?”
He brought his other arm behind his head, looking every bit like the smug asshole he was. “Take that whichever way you want. But you came here for a reason, didn’t you?”
“Maybe.” I pulled a knife from my waistband. Kai eyed the sharp steel as it glinted under the glow of a nearby window.
“Is that what you’re into? Because I’ve been there, done that. It doesn’t faze me.”
One name suddenly came to mind, and I found myself gripping the hilt of my knife a little tighter.
Helena.
I knew they’d been together for a time. She’d said as much herself. And while she and I weren’t exactly friends, she had my respect. And I hers.
However, at the moment, the thought of Helena and Kai together made my teeth clench.
“I was thinking a bit more drastic.”
“Were you? Why don’t you come here and show me what you have in mind.”
Decisions, decisions.
I twisted the knob, intent on getting the fuck out of there…
“I couldn’t sleep either.” I froze. “And I was probably minutes from coming to you, too.”
Releasing the brass knob, I turned and leaned my back against the door. “And why is that? Too shaken up about what happened today.”
“I was trying to figure out why I was so upset when I didn’t know where you were or if you were okay.”
His admission electrified the air between us, rendering us both silent until my knife hit the floor with a clang, and I stalked forward. Kai sat up when I crawled on his bed and straddled him. In a matter of seconds, his hands were on my waist, gripping my cami and tearing it up over my arms. The shirt hadn’t even hit the floor before his warm mouth was on me.
“We’re not…having sex.” My voice grew ragged as he held my nipple gently between his teeth.
“I need you to sit on my goddamn face.”
With my nails scraping across his scalp and through his long hair, I tugged his head back and grinned. “Straight to it, huh?”
Kai grabbed the back of my neck and slammed his lips against my mouth. But I was never one to be dominated in the bedroom, so I fought for control. And he met my challenge, fingers snaking into my hair, his grip biting and so fucking delicious. I moaned, and my voice vibrated down his throat.
“I haven’t been able to think of anything else besides your sweet cunt. You got me fiending for you, vicious. Like a goddamn addict, and I’ve only had a taste.”
I squeezed my eyes closed and arched into his eager mouth as he licked between the valley of my breasts.
“You want me to feed you my pussy, Cain?” As he tipped me back on the bed, I struggled to keep the taunting smile on my face and in my voice, but when he gripped the edges of my shorts and panties and nearly tore them from my body, my resolve crumbled.
“Like I’m a fucking starving man,” he growled into the wet skin of my inner thigh, the tip of his nose ascending to where I craved him the most.
This wasn’t part of the plan. I’d set boundaries, and he’d scorched the line of every single one.
