Taste them.
"Did I do something wrong?" she asked, voice small, threaded with fear.
Fear that she'd perhaps disappointed me?
Dear goddess, the way she asked it hit me straight in my heartandmy cock.
A low noise pushed up my throat before I could stop it. I clenched my jaw so tightly I felt my teeth grind.
"You did nothing wrong, pretty flower," I forced out, unable to leave her worried and tense. "But you can go back to sleep now."
But she ignored me.
Of course she did.
She pushed up until she was resting on her legs, and her eyes glinted in the moonlight with an infuriating curiosity and hunger that made the beast inside me roar.
"What if I don't want to go back to sleep?"
My brows furrowed as I took in her tongue peeking out and wetting her already sodden lips. "Pretty flower, what you want isn't a factor here. I'm done with you. Go to sleep."
She squirmed and her chest rose in rapid breaths as she squared her shoulders.
"Is that an order... Master?"
The pause before my title was way too long. It was almost a taunt. A challenge.
My only response was to growl at her.
"What will you do if I don't obey?" she asked, her eyes wide, her mouth open slightly as she... panted?
I stared at her, unable to form a response. What would I do? What could I do that wouldn't escalate the situation?
"Would you spank me, Master? Would you turn me over your knee and show me who's the master and who's the naughty little slave girl?"
Bloody-fucking-hell.
She was going to be the death of me. My undoing.
And I couldn't find it in me to care anymore.
"Jolie," I said, one last time, my voice low, the tone a warning.
She shivered.
And itwasn'tin fear.
"Master," she whispered back.
That was when I knew I was lost.
My hand hovered again, inches above her jaw.
Her breath caught, and she leaned ever so slightly toward my touch without going all the way.
It was as if sheknew. Knew that it wasn't her place to make that first move.
I closed my eyes, just for a heartbeat, trying to steady myself. Trying to pretend I still had a choice, even though we both knew I probably lost my choice the moment she set foot into the house.
