He’s irresistible like this, tousled and sexy. I can’t stand it. People who wake up looking gorgeous are annoying. “What are you doing here?”
“Sleeping.” He rolls and settles a heavy leg over mine, trapping me, and something huge and heavy pokes my thigh. I refuse to follow his prompt to look down at his morning wood.
“You own the hotel.” I squirm a little, testing to see if I can wriggle free. The movement makes his dick swell to outrageous proportions, and I give up. “You couldn’t get another room?”
“I like this one.” He slides a hand under the covers to caress my bare belly.
His touch awakens my body. My pussy pulses with painful need. I get a flashback of last night, his naked body on full display, as he jacked himself to completion over me.
“I carried you here last night. And you clung to me. The bed looked so big and cold, so I stayed.”
You clung to me.Of course I did. My unconscious would like nothing more to curl up in his arms forever.
“I like watching you sleep.”
I want to roll my eyes and call him creepy, but a part of me loves that he stayed and held me. I’ve never felt safer.
I take a deep breath to collect myself, and it only makes me more aware of his hand on me.
“And now that you’re awake, I want to finish what I started.”Don’t come,he ordered, and I obeyed. His fingers brush my lower belly and set my core throbbing. Tears prick my eyes at the ache.
No wonder I had horny, crazy dreams.
I grab his wrist. “You think you can just come here and seduce me?”
“No, little bird.” His deep voice does things to me. This is how he drags me down to the depths with him. “Iknowit.”
It takes a huge force of my will to drag his hand away. “I need to get to work. You know, my job? The reason I’m in this city?”
“I’m the reason you’re in this city. I studied your work out West and told Jordan. I put pressure on the brass to create your position, and the Roy Foundation funded it.”
He thinks he’s dropping a bombshell, revealing all the ways he owns me, but I’m used to it. I suspected something like this when he revealed he owned the townhouse. The job offer from NRPD had come out of the blue, and they worked hard to recruit me.
“Yes, you’re the god of the entire universe,” I say with all the sarcasm I can muster. “Got it.”
He leans back and laughs. His chuckle is a mini earthquake that sends aftershocks through me. I grip the blankets, ignoring the delicious happiness and the pride I feel because I made him laugh. It shouldn’t feel so good to be with him.
I talk over his laughter. “But now that I’m here oh lord and master, I’m going to solve crimes. There’s a serial killer out there, and I’m going to get him.”
“You already have him. Right here.” He throws off the blanket, and I can’t escape the sight of him. “I need you, Inara.”
I can’t hide the tremor that runs through me when he says my name. I let myself look my fill at his awesome body, then turn my face away. “I need to get going.”
His legs have moved enough that I can slide out from underneath him. I make it as far as the foot of the bed before he grabs me and pulls me to him.
I end up on my back in the middle of the king bed with Rex draped over me, holding his upper body up so he doesn’t crush me.
“Say it again.” I must look confused, distracted by his cock dripping precum onto my thigh because he clarifies. “Call me Master.”
“No.” It’s so hard to focus with his weight on my pussy. I could rock my hips a few times and steal the orgasm my body was screaming for. But I have to be strong. I can’t look at him as I say, “You’re not. . . that.”
He settles a hand at my throat and wraps his long fingers around my neck, collaring me. “I could be. You’d look so good in my collar.”
My pulse is wild under his palm. “You talk like it’s a foregone conclusion.”
“I know you want it. You want me to take over.”
I go to shake my head, and he clamps down on my throat, forcing me to look at him. I’m reminded of our time in the pool. For a moment, I’m back there with the water closing over my head, staring up at him while he controlled whether I lived or died. He is my anchor and my god. My only resort was to surrender to him.
