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“Great.” I throw my arms over my eyes. “Now, you’ve wounded my bodyandmy pride.”
Anya grabs my hand and yanks me up to standing. I wobble, but she holds me steady. “You are truly pathetic when you’re tired.”
“And hungry,” I add.
She chuckles and then slaps my butt. “Go shower and rest up. I’ll meet you here tomorrow, same time.”
With that torture lying ahead, I practically crawl down the hall to my bedroom and then shuffle into the bathroom. I’m so sore that I think I black out at some point after starting the shower and peeling off my sweaty clothes, because the next thing I know, I’m standing in the steaming hot shower spray, moaning out a litany of curse words.
“Does that feel good?” A deep voice asks from the doorway.
I’m too exhausted to be startled or self-conscious. I just nod and whimper. “This is the best and worst moment of my entire life.”
Ivan laughs. That deep, growly sound would start a fire low in my belly if my body wasn’t currently using all of its reserves of energy to keep me upright.
He leaves his clothes in a pile on the floor and slides into the shower behind me. When his arms wrap around my middle, I give myself over to him.
“I’m so tired,” I whimper. “You Pushkins are going to break me.”
“No. We’re going to make it so no one can break you. It just takes time.”
I groan, but the sound quickly shifts to a moan as Ivan works his hands down the aching muscles of my arms.
“Oh my God, Ivan.” I almost sink to the shower floor, but he presses one hand flat to my stomach to pin me against him. “I’m… You’re… Good God.”
Another laugh rumbles through him as he keeps coaxing his massage lower and lower. Over my stomach and lower still, until his fingertips graze over my center.
I thought I was on the verge of death—but as soon as he teases at my pussy, I’m burning. Aching. Yearning.
Funny how that works.
He comes and goes. Teases and retreats. “What are you doing?” I whimper the fourth time he gets so close to the promised land before disappearing again.
“Pelvic massage.” The words shouldn’t send a shiver down my spine, but with that voice, he could read a phone book to me and I’d have no choice but to straddle him.
“Feels more like you’re taunting me because you know I can’t fight back.”
“I don’t want to hurt you,” he explains. “Over-massaging the muscles can be just as bad as overworking them.”
I shake my head and lean back against him. His body is warm and sticky from the steam in the shower. “No, no. Over-massage. Overwork. Do your worst. Especially rightthere.”
He chuckles again. A few minutes ago, all I wanted was to shower and sleep, but I have very different plans now. Ivan presses a kiss to the side of my neck… and then slips away.
I blink my eyes open and watch him climb out of the shower. “Where are you going?”
“You need to be ready for tomorrow. I don’t want to tire you out.”
I start to argue, but then I see the mischief shining in his amber eyes. He knows exactly what he’s doing. And he’s doing it on purpose.
“Is this my punishment for asking Yasha to train me before coming to you?” I groan pitifully. “Are you trying to torture me?”
He smiles and leans into the shower. “If you thinkthiswas punishment, you aren’t going to know what hit you when I finally claim my payment.”
With that, Ivan walks his toned, naked ass out of the bathroom.
Even when I’m this mad at him, I can’t help but watch.
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