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Ezra grunts noncommittally, seeing the question in my eyes. “She was missing pants.”
“If she arrived naked, she should be naked.”
Valentina’s jaw unhinges, a flicker of fury in her emerald eyes – fury she has no right to.
I take a calculated step forward, and her fury wanes in the presence of my own.
I’m not sure where my anger stems from. Maybe it’s the humiliation I’ve been harboring for five years. Maybe it’s seeing another man’s clothing on her skin. Maybe it’s the way she waltzes into my city and my home like it’s hers.
She owns nothing.
“Take them off.”
As I continue advancing, she retreats until her back hits the wall and a picture frame clatters to the floor, glass shattering at her feet. She gasps and breaks our gaze to jump away from the debris.
Mistake.
I close in on her, glass shards snapping under the soles of my shoes, and lift her chin. The touch makes me crave more, but I squeeze my fingers along her jaw to keep my hand from wandering. “I gave you an order.”
Our eyes meet, and fuck, I’m transported back in time to when she yearned for my attention, when she craved the simplest of touches.
Her body betrays her now, a pretty pink flush spreading down her neck. Maybe she’s remembering it too.
“I don’t take orders from you.”
I click my tongue. “You will learn obedience. How much it hurts—” with my free hand, I snag the waistline of Ezra’s pants and snap the button free, “—is up to you.”
She starts to struggle, but there’s not much she can do with her hands tied behind her back. Still, I appreciate the effort.
It shows me what she looks like when she tries to fight, and it’s delicious.
I shove my forearm against her collarbone to keep her immobile as I unzip her. “Careful, Valentina. You’re going to hurt yourself.”
“S-screw you,” she says, her voice wavering with her fear.
I pause, my hand hovering over her hip. Fear and...something else? Moving slower than before, I lower my face to her neck and blow gently. Her entire body starts to tremble. I brush my lips across her pebbled skin, eager to taste what I’ve been denied all these years. I press a gentle kiss to her skin and bite back a groan as she instinctually tilts her neck to grant me access. She’s scared, but also. . . tempted.
It’s fucking delicious.
“W-what are you doing?”Her voice shakes, her shallow breaths uneven.
A question. Not asking me to stop. Not telling me to continue.
She doesn’t know what she wants.
“Undressing you,” I answer, removing my arm from her torso to lower both hands to her hips. I pull the fabric over her plump ass, my knuckles skimming over her skin. As I reach her thighs, she sighs, the sound going straight to my cock.
“Step out, Valentina.”
She obeys, sliding her feet out of each pant leg, and I sweep the broken glass away from her feet with my arm.
Dropping Ezra’s fucking pants to the ground, I graze my palms up her calves, then her outer thighs, and hook onto her hips as I stand at my full height.
The flush on her cheeks has darkened, her pupils dilating as our connection zings.
I’ve always wanted her, body and soul. I’ve remained patient for as long as she’s been promised to me, confident that my time with her would come due. . . and even though this isn’t quite like I imagined it, perhaps that time has come.
Perhaps she’s finally going to submit to me completely.
