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“I know that. But I built everything I am around controlling situations. My life. My career. My entire personality. It’s the way I make sure the right people survive and the people who deserve it suffer. Without that ability…”
I swiveled around to plant myself firmly on his lap so I could meet his gaze more fully. “Without that ability, you’re still just as skilled and smart as you’ve always been,” I insisted, resting my hands on the planes of his chest.
Julius’s gaze held mine, his hands moving to circle my waist instinctively. Heat tickled through my body with a sharper awareness of the position I’d put myself in, of how closely our bodies were aligned now.
He’d taught me a lot since I’d crossed paths with the Chaos Crew. Maybe there were a few things I could teach him too. Like how to relax into the idea of not being fully in control.
I shoved him backward, abruptly enough that he fell back onto the bed at my push. “What are you doing, Dess?” he asked, but his gaze had flared with desire. His fingers curled into my shirt, no doubt ready to tug me after him, but that wasn’t what I had planned here.
I braced my hands against his abdomen and smirked down at him. “I’m going to show you just how fun it can be when you let go of that obsessive need for control. For now, I’m the one giving the orders, and you’re going to follow them.”
Julius’s grasp on my shirt tightened. His internal struggle, the desire to claim me with his usual authority warring with his willingness to accept my declaration, played out on his face. Before he seemed to quite resolve it, I put my hands over his and took charge.
“Take my shirt off,” I demanded.
He was only too happy to obligethatcommand. Julius tipped forward to yank my shirt over my head and immediately reached to palm my breasts through my bra. I swatted his hands away.
“Oh, no. I’m calling the shots, remember. Next I wantyourshirt off.”
Julius glowered at me, but a lustful light had come into his eyes at the same time. The air of defeat that’d hung over him was fading, replaced by a growing enthusiasm.
He undid the top buttons on his Henley and all but tore it off. In its wake, I smoothed my hands over his bare chest and ground my hips against his groin. My sex pressed into the hardening erection beneath the fly of his jeans, and a gasp escaped my lips in time with his half-swallowed groan.
I pinched one of his nipples and grinned at the sound he made in response. “Nowyou can remove my bra,” I instructed him, rocking against him again. My own arousal was building between my thighs at the thrill of having this powerful man responding to my bidding. A flush warmed my cheeks.
Julius must have noticed it. He stroked quick fingers over the side of my face before unclasping my bra and tossing it aside. “What can I do for you now, seductress?” he asked, his voice even lower than usual with unspoken hunger. Maybe it turned him on seeing how much this switch in roles turnedmeon.
I dipped lower, letting my swaying breasts graze his chest. My nipples pebbled at the contact. “You stay right there,” I murmured. My lips brushed the side of his neck, the crook of his shoulder, marking increasingly emphatic kisses over his scorching skin.
Julius let out another groan, gripping the bed covers on either side of us as if he needed to hold on to them to stop himself from grabbing me and taking over. “Fuck, Dess,” he muttered when I flicked my tongue across his throat.
“Yes, that’s the general idea.” I eased up and lifted myself enough to tug down my leggings. The muscles in Julius’s arms flexed as he held himself back from caressing my thighs. I stroked my fingers along the path I suspected he wished he could follow and traced the line of my panties. “Do you think you can handle helping me remove these without doing anything else until I say so?”
“Whatever you wish,” he said in a tone so wry and heated that it sent the flush straight down to my core.
I edged closer, and he dragged the panties down my legs, his gaze fixed on the aching place he’d uncovered. I sank down over him again, opening the fly of his jeans. Julius let his hands come to rest on my hips. When he started to pull me closer against him, I shook my head with a tsking sound and pushed them back onto the covers.
“I’m in charge here,” I reminded him, and rubbed my sex against his cock where it strained against the fabric of his boxers.
“God, Dess, let me touch you,” Julius said, his composure unraveling.
“I think I can handle that for both of us to start with,” I teased, and dipped my hand between my legs. Julius’s eyes grew heavy-lidded as he watched me curl a finger right inside my molten core. His breath came out ragged.
Feeling his eyes on me while I stroked my own hand over the most sensitive parts of me where I’d let him go soon enough, I was ready to spontaneously combust. A whimper spilled out of my lungs. Every time I ground into Julius’s rigid cock, pumping my hand in time, he bucked upward to meet me. I couldn’t help but imagine how it would feel when I finally allowed him to thrust inside me. The utter pleasure of being filled completely…
At the thump of my bedroom door opening, I withdrew my hand and jerked around.
“I got a text from Steffie,” Garrison was saying. “It’s not urgent, but she wanted to check—”
When he looked up from his phone, he froze on the threshold, taking in our pose, my bare body poised atop Julius. His throat worked.
“Fuck,” he whispered with a rasp. “I didn’t realize—I can—"
“Stay,” I said before he could retreat. His gaze had set off a fresh flare of heat through my body. And why shouldn’t he join in? “The more the merrier.”
His gaze darted from me to Julius as if he needed the other man’s permission as well. I guessed that wasn’t surprising. I knew Garrison had insecurities about being the youngest and least established member of the crew, as deep as he liked to bury any vulnerability. He might talk a good game, but he wasn’t going to intrude on his boss if he thought it was a situation where he might cause real offense.
To my relief, Julius just smiled. “Get in here and close the door. She’s been driving me crazy. Maybe you can pay her back for me.”
