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“I’m sorry, Paul. Please forgive me?” I whispered in a scratchy voice.
“I’ve already forgiven you, Nadia, but perhaps bringing you here with me was too soon. I’ll have the housekeeper bring you dinner.”
“I’m not hungry.”
“Then go to bed.” His voice was dismissive. He hadn’t touched me since I returned. I felt cut off from him and alone after he’d been so attentive and affectionate.
I swallowed hard against the lump blocking my throat.Paul may end our arrangement tomorrow.
I hugged my arms. “If you’ve forgiven me, you’d touch me.”
“I’m not touching you while I’m angry. Take a shower and go to sleep. If you’re hungry, eat, but I need you away from me right now.”
I stood, trembling. “Sending me away alone is cruel. I’d rather you punish me. I made a mistake; I’m not perfect, but I can’t handle you shutting me out and turning me away like a child. I hadn’t meant to upset you, but you’re right. Perhaps this was too soon.”Or I’m simply not cut out for this gig as his paid escort.My mom was absolutely right. My heart was too soft to endure his rejection, which kept coming in different ways.
I wiped the tears off my cheek and walked up the stairs in defeat.
Stripping out of my clothes in the bathroom, I turned on the shower to full blast. I thought about Paul, his stricken expression when he hadn’t seen me yet. Sure, he was angry, but he was also relieved.It didn’t mean he had to treat me like a child.But then it clicked. Why he was so terrified that something had happened to me.
He’d lost Aubrey in Prague.
Did he have similar fears when he couldn’t find me?
I couldn’t concentrate. I thought you were hurt.Then again, I could be reading more into what happened.Paul doesn’t care that much about me.
I dried off and put on a robe. My throat closed when I saw the empty room.
“Take off your robe and stand by the left side of the bed,” Paul ordered as he breezed through the door. He still had on the black button-down shirt and gray slacks from downstairs. However, in his hands, he held the thigh and wrists cuffs.
“What are you going to do?”
“Whatever I want with you,” he answered in a sultry voice.
A trickle of fear went down my spine. I fidgeted with the tie on the robe before I took it off and went to stand by the side of the bed as he had instructed.
Paul kept his expression blank, giving away nothing. However, I did hear him mutter,
“Good choice.”
There was only one option I’d choose when it came to Paul. The one that included him touching me again. I could feel my clitoris pulsing. I shifted my legs, restless, needy.
He came to stand in front of me. His lascivious stare bounced between my breasts and pussy. My body heated, my nipples tightened to pinched points, and wetness filled my cunt. I was throbbing, and he hadn’t even touched me yet.
“Give me a safe word to stop, Nadia.”
I jutted my chin. “You’d never hurt me.”
“Give me one anyway.”
“Fine, my safe word is red.”
“Brave woman.”
Had Paul said those words to throw me off balance? I wasn’t sure. However, he had warned me that there were things he’d do that I wouldn’t necessarily enjoy.
Paul wasted no time fastening the wrist cuffs. The suede was soft and comfortable against my skin. “How does it feel?” He checked in with me when he tightened the restraints.
I shuddered at the touch of his hand on my inner thigh as he put on the thigh cuffs, belting them in place. He added a belt around my waist and connected it to the thigh and wrist cuffs. I couldn’t lift my arms.
