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“I’m sorry. I hate crying.”
I narrow my eyes. “Why?”
“It used to m-make him super m-mad…” She sucks in a huge breath. “He hated it. He said it was me m-manipulating him.”
Anger rolls in my gut, and I wish that piece of shit wasn’t already dead. “Crying is a perfectly safe and natural way to release emotion and tension, Mia.”
“Hmm.” She blinks, staring at the ceiling. Then she rolls onto her side and faces me. “Thank you.”
“For what?”
“For understanding what I needed. For not getting mad.”
I cup her cheek in my hand. “For that, you never have to thank me, sunshine.”
She sinks her teeth into her lush bottom lip, and I have to remind my still-aching cock that this isn’t the time. “I just know that you wanted to…in your office… I guess I’m not very good at this submissive thing.”
A sigh heaves from my chest. I forgot how exhausting and complex training a new sub can be. “Listen to me, Mia. We have a power exchange in our relationship, but that doesn’t mean there’s a power imbalance. Do you understand the difference?”
Her cheeks flush pink. “Yes.”
“There is no circumstance where my needs outweigh yours. There will never be a time when I’ll be angry at you for feeling something you have no control over, for not wanting sex, for using your safe word. Never.”
Confusion pinches that spot between her brows.
“Using your safe word when you need to is a good thing.”
“It is?”
“That’s what they’re for.”
“I guess. I just… I feel like I keep failing.”
I press my forehead against hers. “No, tesoro, I failed you. I forgot about the belt. That’s what happened, right?”
“Yes.” She breathes the word like a sigh of relief. “I knew you weren’t going to use it, I just…the sound…it made me…”
“I know.”
“His belt was his favorite thing to hit me with. It had this huge buckle. When I’d hear him opening it…” She starts to cry again, and I wrap her in my arms, pissed at myself for not realizing that taking off my belt like that might spook her.
“We’re going to fix your fear of belts, sunshine.”
She looks up at me, eyes so full of trust that my heart beats faster. “How?”
“You’ll see,” I tell her with a wink.
My phone vibrates in my jacket pocket, interrupting the moment. Fishing it out, I glance at the screen and see it’s a call I need to take, but I have no intention of leaving her right now.
ChapterForty-Six
MIA
Lorenzo’s call didn’t last very long and now he’s scrolling through his cell phone while I read a scene in my book in which the main character gets railed by three vampires.
A deep ache builds in my core, and I clench my thighs together, jealous of Ophelia Hart and the fact that she’s full of dick right now. Why the hell am I reading about this when I have my very own hot, brooding alpha-hole beside me?
I nestle closer and breathe in his scent—so masculine and fresh and intoxicating. He brushes a stray hair from my forehead. “You getting to a good part, sunshine?” he asks with a low growl.
