Page 71 of Sovereign


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This is heaven.

If only I had some wine.

I clamber from the tub and scurry back into the game room. In the kitchenette I find a bottle of chardonnay in the wine rack and a stack of fluffy towels. I gather both and sink back into the tub, leaving the porch door wide open.

The view from over the railing is breathtaking, but I can’t think of anything but how he told me to be naked and waiting and I’m disobeying him. He’s on his way home…maybe he’s already downstairs. I’ve never seen him angry before—I wonder if this will make his stone exterior crack.

Why do I want it to anyway?

Maybe because he makes me feel everything, but shows me nothing of himself. I’ve laughed in front of him, I’ve sobbed in his arms. He’s seen me stripped naked, in every vulnerable position I can think of. Yet he’s offered me little more than a flash or two of vulnerability in return.

I want to feel what’s behind those pensive eyes. He’s full of secrets, I can tell. And I want to pry open his walls.

Faintly, I hear his truck pull up the drive. My stomach twists and I freeze. The door slams and it snaps me out of my panic. I might be his submissive, but I’m not a doormat.

He can take a little pushback.

I pull myself from the hot tub and move to the railing. Down below I see him lock the truck. He pauses in the driveway and checks for his keys. My stomach clenches and my eyes eat the sight of him hungrily. He’s taken off his suit jacket and his sleeves are rolled to his elbow. His tousled dark hair is brushed back, but a few strands hang over his forehead.

Brashly, I lean over the railing. My two fingers find my mouth and I whistle. Loud enough for him to hear, but not loud enough to wake the horses.

He pivots and his head jerks up.

I know I have to be a sight. I’m completely naked, except my wet hair hanging down my back, and my tits are hard against the cold. His brow jerks, but his face stays the same. Then his mouth thins, he fits his hat back on his head, and strides up onto the porch and out of sight.

A thrill of terror moves down my spine.

My ass tingles at the memory of how much his maintenance spankings hurt. My toes curl against the cold porch. Maybe I made a miscalculation.

I freeze at the railing and then I snap into action and burst through the game room and into the empty hallway.

Naked and soaking wet, I tear down the hall and head for the bedroom. Maybe if I get on my knees, into the submissive position, he’ll forgive me.

I round the corner and he’s right there. Over two hundred pounds of solid muscle. His eyes are dark and his jaw is set.

Suddenly I remember that my husband died on his land.

And I never really found out how.

A bolt of real fear moves through my body. Maybe he’s been shielding me from himself for a reason. He takes a quick step towards me and I gasp, stumbling back against the wall. From the soles of my feet comes the most delicious shudder that moves all the way up my thighs to my core. It’s quickly followed by shame.

I’m wet from fear.

And maybe…a little part of me likes the thought that he’s that dangerous. The feral, animal part of my brain that hasn’t evolved in thousands of years wants him. He’s the biggest, baddest motherfucker in our corner of the world. I’m completely ashamed to admit it, but some, unevolved part of me wants to roll over and open my legs at that thought.

Quick, like a snake striking, he pins me to the wall with his hand on my throat. My mouth pops open in shock and he kisses it, hard and long. Filling my senses with the taste of his mouth. My head spins and I can’t breathe. His fingertips press harder and harder, trapping blood to my brain.

He’s panting slightly. His pupils are blown. Black against ice blue.

“You are a dangerous woman,” he says from between his teeth.

I’m dangerous? Has he looked in a mirror?

I gasp, a strangled sound coming from my throat. He eases up and I inhale, coughing.

“I’m sorry,” I manage.

He’s so close I can feel the heat rising from his fully clothed body. Kissing over my naked, wet breasts and thighs. His mouth parts, flashing his bottom teeth.

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