Her hand on me.
Her name, next to mine.
Everything.
"Please," I said again. “Burn my cock next.”
She brought the flame to my stomach.
A long, slow pass. The heat bloomed and raced toward my hips. She stopped just above the silk. So close to my cock I could feel the warmth radiating through the fabric. So close I thought I might come from the anticipation alone.
She pulled the flame away.
Moved to my thighs.
I groaned.
Frustration.
Ecstasy.
Surrender.
All the same sound.
I am going to marry this woman. I am going to put the biggest ring Tokyo has ever seen on her finger. I am going to get on my knees and ask her to be mine forever. And if she says no, I'm going to bomb cities until she says yes because she can never say no.
The thoughts came fast now.
Unstoppable.
I loved her.
I wanted to keep her.
I wanted her to burn me every night for the rest of my life and I would thank her each time.
I reached for Nyomi in the garden but my hands found her standing over the slab. The petals in her hair were sparks from the wand. The children's laughter was my own breathing. The garden and the tea house were the same place now and she was the center, theaxis of my will and desire. And I was just her slave, broken, kneeling, lost in scorching surrender—
“Nyomi, that’s enough.” Hiroko stepped forward.
My Tiger was about to run a flame across my chest “I still want to—”
"Our time here is done."
My Tiger frowned. “It’s not done untilIsay it is.”
Hiroko quirked her brows. “We’re done. He is in subspace and you are most definitely at a heightened level of domspace. This is when you put the fire wand down.”
Nyomi looked at her with the fire wand still burning in her hand.
Her chest heaved.
Sweat gleamed on her brown skin—in the hollow of her throat, between her breasts, along the flat plane of her stomach.
Her eyes were glazed. Drunk on power. The dom high had her completely—I could see it in the way she stood, the set of her jaw, the steadiness of her hand holding fire like she'd been born to it. “Fine. . .”
Hiroko let out a long breath as if she had been nervous that she was going to have to fight my Tiger for the fire wand.
