Page 23 of Against the Autumn Pines

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“Well, little flame, did you choose to listen? Or are we going to have it out tonight?” I said into the darkness. I pulled my shirt up and off, setting it on the table I knew wasbeside the door, and kicked off my boots. Suddenly, even more thankful I’d had that tour prior to this evening.

“I guess you’ll have to come inside and figure it out for yourself, Batman,” she replied. Her tone was a bit breathy, and it gave away that she was indeed battling her nerves too. If I were being honest with myself, that did something to my already inflated ego.

“Batman, huh?” I said with a chuckle as I walked towards the middle of the room where the bed sat. I still had my jeans on, the cuffs in my pocket. When my legs came up against the bed, I knelt down onto the plush mattress.

“You’re getting warmer,” she whispered. “And Batman felt fitting for you. Tall, dark, mysterious, with a dash of nerdy to finish it all off. Bruce Wayne was known to be intelligent, wasn’t he?”

I let out a growl. “I don’t want to hear another man’s name on your lips tonight, little flame, fictional or otherwise.” I wouldn’t tell her that it made me uneasy how quickly she seemed to read me. No one but my family knew about my comic book obsession, and while she didn’t say it, she hit closer to home than anyone before her.

She let out a breathy laugh. “You’re getting warmer,” she replied in a sing-song type of voice.

I slowly crawled across the mattress until I found her ankle beneath my fingertips, my fingers instinctively wrapping around it. I smiled, thankful it was dark so she couldn’t see just how eager I was to touch her again. When I’d chased her through the woods a week ago, it had been about the adrenaline, the high of it all. But this? This I could take my time with. I could taste her, worship her, show her whatthiscould be like—whateverthiswas.

I swallowed down the anxiety that erupted when Irealized my brain was instinctively thinking about a future with this woman.

My hand slid up her leg and then along the inside of her inner thigh, my fingertips skating along until I was close to her center, but I forced my hand to run up and along her hip bone instead of where they truly wanted to land. I was determined to have my way with her, and that meant keeping her still so she couldn’t try to get away from me until I was good and ready to let her go.

I heard her breath stutter. “Fuck, you’re hot.”

“Thank you, little flame, I appreciate the compliment,” I said with a smirk. I didn’t even have to lay eyes on her to know she was rolling her own. She meant my body heat, but I was going to run with the fact that she thought I was hot in general.

I moved up between her thighs as my hand ran up the rest of her naked body, over her ribs, along her collarbone, up her neck.

“Hard lines still the same?” I asked as my hand rested at the base of her throat. I felt her nod, but I wanted more. “Words.”

“Yes, lines are the same, asshole.”

I chuckled. “Perfect.”

Reaching into my back pocket with my free hand as my other pushed her arms above her head and towards the headboard, I struck. Without a second thought, I latched the cuffs around her wrists and hooked them to the bed frame. I felt her yank them away from me and let out a groan.

“Fucking seriously? Asshole! As if the lack of light wasn’t enough,” she muttered.

“It wasn’t enough, no. I’m looking forward to tasting every inch of you this evening, and I don’t need you trying to bolt in the midst of me doing so. So lay back and let me hearjust how much you’re enjoying yourself, little flame.” I started kissing down her neck. The more noises that fell from her lips, the more teeth and tongue I used. Part of me knew I should chill the fuck out; she was going to be covered in marks when she walked out of this room and back into the light. However, the deep-seated part of me that wished the lights would miraculously click on so I could look into her eyes for the first time didn’t fucking care.

I wanted her, and I wasn’t even completely clear on why. In our short conversations and interactions, she had shown me a side of myself I didn’t know I possessed, and I liked him. I likedher.

My lips trailed down, and I smiled as my tongue and teeth ran over her breasts. “I didn’t get any time with these last time, I wasn’t even aware of the jewelry you had until you sent me that photo. What a pair we make,” I whispered as I ran my tongue over her nipples and the small metal balls that were pierced through them. I wished I could see them fully right now. The lace from before had obstructed the view, and now the lack of light was cumbersome in my pursuit. I was making it a personal goal to find out, though in my head right now, they were a perfect light pink with rose gold jewelry.

I pulled her nipple into my mouth and sucked, slowly grazing my teeth over the peaked bud. The sound of the cuffs clinking as she tried to pull them made me chuckle, the air against her now wet nipple causing her to jump slightly.

“Somehow I find this to be unfair as fuck,” she said into the darkness.

“I never claimed to give a fuck about fair, little flame. That wasn’t in my bio.”

I kissed between her breasts until my mouth found the other nipple, and I gave it the same treatment. Once she wasthoroughly wiggling against the restraints, I pulled away, kissing down her stomach, stopping only to suck and lick along her hip bones.

“Fuck if you don’t get down there, I’m going to start screaming for help until they bring me a man who will.” She sounded breathless, and I would’ve given almost anything to see her right now.

“Screaming you say? For another man? Huh. I mean, the room is soundproof, baby, so feel free.” I sank my teeth into the spot just above her left hip, only to gently lick when she gasped and arched against me.

“What are you? A fucking vampire?” she asked, the panting clear in her voice. She liked that, good to know.

“Possibly, though I didn’t plan on any knife play this evening. We’ll have to try some vampire role-play another night.” I knew I sounded so sure of myself, but I was determined to see her again. And again. And again.

“Ha, what makes you think there will even be another night?” I was choosing to ignore that question because there would be many nights to come. I wasn’t sure when I’d decided that exactly, but it had been decided.

Thankfully, her thighs were already spread from my legs when I crawled up her body, so it was easy enough for me to sink my shoulders between them and dive into feasting on her sweetness. I didn’t waste time teasing her now though, I licked her from her cunt to clit.