Maya reached for something at the end of the bed, and only then did Harper notice it wasn’tjusther belt Maya had thrown on the mattress.
“Why don’t you hold this?” Maya said, handing her a wand vibrator. “Since I’m being so sweet?”
That statement hid a trap of some sort. Obviously so, from Maya’s innocent tone and knowing smile.
But how many teeth could that trapreallyhave?
“Feels like you’re going easy on me.” Harper switched on the toy. But she kept it on a low setting. “I’m pretty tough, you know. I can take it.”
“Don’t know if I believe that.” Maya grabbed Harper’s wrist, leading her hand down so the head of the wand rested against her clit.
Then Maya pressed the button on the side of the vibrator, dialing up the intensity. Her smile widened as Harper gasped.
“You may think this is easy now.” She ran her hands down Harper’s waist, pausing at her hips. “We’ll see if it lasts. I’d love to hear your thoughts in an hour or so.”
Harper had been working on getting her smirk to a particularly provoking stage, but that comment undid all her progress. Her brows knitted together.
“Wait. What do you mean an hou—oh.”
Whatever question was about to leave her tongue transformed into a moan as Maya grabbed her by the hips, pulled her to the edge of the mattress, andslowlypushed the strap all the way inside.
Fuck, that felt good.Horriblygood, and after the earlier treatment, the strap went in with no resistance at all. She let out a sighing moan as Maya started rolling her hips.
She cocked her head, grinning. “Is it too much already? You’re shaking a little.”
Harper clenched her jaw. “Am not. I can… I can take it just fine.”
“Really?” Maya placed a hand on Harper’s stomach. “Then you wouldn’t mind if I made things a little harder for you.”
Maya pressed down on her lower abdomen, and the ragged groan Harper made would have been embarrassing in any other context. The light pressure on her stomach caused the strap to hit infinitely better, turning the bursts of pleasure into goddamn explosions.
Of course Maya knew that fucking trick.
“Close already?” Maya asked as Harper’s thighs tensed up. Harper managed a quick nod. “Good. Stay close. I want to see you squirm a bit more. You’re not allowed to come until I say.”
Oh, for fuck’s sake.While she knew that kind of control was achievable, Harper had never understood how. If she was close to coming and someone told her to wait—or worse,notcome—that threw her over the edge immediately.
It wasn’t even her being willfully disobedient. She literally couldn’t help it. Couldn’t pull the brakes on something she was already falling headfirst into.
Pressing the vibrator against herself, Harper arched off the mattress, a sharp moan accompanying the sudden orgasm. It hit with rapid speed, brief andloud, making her body twitch.
Her quick moans transitioned into gasps. The muscles in her thighs felt oddly stiff, and her clit was now so sensitive that she had to pull the vibrator away.
Maya leaned over her, moving so fast it happened in a blink. Her face was right by Harper’s, and her touch didn’t bother beingcarefulthis time. Her fingers closed around her throat, gripping tight.
“Put. It.Back.”
The order was almost a snarl. Because itwasan order. One that would have serious consequences if disobeyed.
But Harper couldn’t do it. It would be too much. Too sensitive.
When Harper didn’t move, Maya yanked the vibrator from her hand. She dialed it to a higher setting, turned it over in her palm, and pressed it against Harper’s clit so hard that she fucking screamed.
She tried twisting away, but it was pointless. Maya’s hand was like a shackle around her throat, her fingers pressing in on the sides and adding sudden dizziness to the fuzzy cloud slowly replacing parts of her brain.
“I think you just figured out how this is going to work,” Maya said. “There are only two rules here. I get to do what I want. And you get to do what you’re told.”
Maya stepped back, offering gasp-inducing relief as she removed the vibrator. But with how brief it was, it served more as cruel context than actual respite, as Maya flipped Harper over on her stomach and lowered her mouth to her ear.
