I snorted—giggles bursting from my lips. “That was a good one,” I said, laughing. “I didn’t know you were funny.”
There was no response to that as I moved around the tub and got started scrubbing his legs. Thighs like tree trunks crowded the sides of the tub, leaving his legs wide open for an unobstructed view of the third tree trunk between his legs. I was trying so hard not to look at the massive cock staring me down in judgement, that it wasn’t until my final streak of the loofah took me up his inner thigh, that I saw he was hard.
I froze—locking two eyes on one. Ronin’s lazy drawl almost knocked me down.
“Staring at it won’t make it go down.”
“Oh, right, yes!” I shot up, dropping the loofah with a splash. “I’ll leave you to it. While you finish up, I’ll turn down the bed and lay out your clothes—”
“Where are you going? Didn’t you hear what I said?” Ronin stopped me in my tracks. “It won’t go down by itself. So take care of it.”
Schooling my expression, I slowly turned and faced him. We stared at each other for so long—him smirking, me not blinking—that you’d figure it would’ve gone down. But that damn erection stood tall and proud waiting for its moment.
“I’m sure you don’t want me for the job,” I finally said. “There’s no possible way you’re attracted to me, and watching this gnarled, green, warty hand strangling your business will just give you nightmares.” I smiled sweetly. “And it is my deepest wish for you to have sweet dreams.”
Soft, tickling laughter floated into my ears. “Kind of you, but you woke him up, so you’ll put him down.” He raised his hand, poising two fingers ready to snap. “Or is that a problem?”
You decided to go head-to-head with a guy who doesn’t back down, and takes pleasure in kneecapping his opponent. These kinds of challenges are to be expected...
...just like he’s expecting me to back down.
“Of course, it’s not a problem.” I plopped down right back where I was. “It’d be my pleasure, sir.” I grasped his cock, and looked him dead in the eye.
But it won’t be yours.
I started slow—stroking the base and then working my way up to the tip. The whole time, I locked on to his glittering twin rubies, maintaining the most awkward eye contact known to man with an even more awkward insane grin to go along with it.
Ronin squinted at me at first, allowing the slightest bit of confusion to show on his face. That is until those squinted eyes narrowed—bringing a curl to his lips. Just that quickly he realized what I was doing.
My psycho-killer smile only widened as I pressed down on the tip, enticing a hiss from his lips.
The soapy, oily water clung to us both, aiding me in gliding up and down his hardening shaft. Under normal circumstances, I might’ve been into this. Ronin was crazy hot and packing serious heat between his legs. I was also the kind of person who liked giving pleasure as much as I loved receiving it. Seeing my partner slowly losing their minds under my ministrations was as erotic as erotic could be.
But at that moment, my lady parts were bone dry and my nipples were hella at ease without even a thought of standing to attention. Because this wasn’t sex—
Furious eyes locked on determined eyes as I picked up the pace and the pressure, jerking him off like I wanted to tear his dick free and take it home with me.
—this is war.
Ronin grunted, his pale cheeks darkening in the way only someone with black blood could. His eyes begged to close but he refused them, staring me down just as hard. He wasn’t going to be the first one to blink, look away, or give any sign of discomfort.
But just the fact that I chased that disinterested look off his face was proof I was getting to him.
Leaning over the rim, I got both hands in the mix—stroking the base of his cock harder and faster while my other hand rolled and stroked his head with my thumb.
Ronin’s eyes bulged out of his head. Veins broke out in his neck and forehead. His deceptively thin body hardened all over as every muscle tensed and begged me to skate my glance down his lickable form.
It seemed not only was he determined not to let me see that I was annoying him, he was also not going to let me see that he was enjoying my hands just as much.
Okay. You want to be stubborn, demon? Then how about this for a guaranteed boner killer?
“I love you, Ro-Ro!”
He jerked like I stabbed him. “What did you just—? Ro-Ro?!”
“You’re the handsomest, smartest, sexiest boss in the whole world!” I blew up my eyelids and brows, and gave him the widest, most unhinged grin I could muster. “When I’m with you, the birds sing and my heart dances. I want us to be together until the end of all time! I love you, sir. I truly do. I love love love love love”—I tugged him hard to the tune of everylove—“love love love—”
Ronin snapped his fingers.
