39. Obi
OBI
M ax Volpe had gotten everything he’d wanted with that meeting, and so had we. We were temporary allies. We knew we held the power in this dynamic. We had a much broader understanding of how to contest the Albanians.
Yet still, I barely controlled my emotions as we rode the elevator back to the penthouse and disarmed ourselves in the weapons room.
There was certainly no way I would expose any more weakness to Volpe while at his home. However, now that we were back at the penthouse, my anger was about to burst forth.
I tamped it down.
Leona joked with Ryuji and Ciel, flirting in our kitchen. She’d made a poor choice this evening, and it needed to be addressed.
“Leona Vero.”
Laughing, she looked over her shoulder at me. When she noticed the look on my face, she lifted her chin defiantly. I almost smirked. She knew what she had done. Her defiant edge had always drawn me in…and now she was about to find out exactly what that did to me .
“What?” she asked.
I moved to the living room while all eyes watched. I sat on the couch and gestured to the floor in front of me. “Come here.”
She hesitated.
“I will not ask again. Come here.”
The air was thick with tension. I would allow my brothers to watch, but there would be no interference. This was between her and me.
Reluctantly, she did as I asked. My palms rested on my thighs. She shifted from foot to foot.
“What’s going on?” Caspian asked. While I had bitten back most of my anger, my displeasure was obvious. “Obi, what’s wrong?”
Leona’s cheeks bloomed with red, and she stared at her feet.
Ryu crossed his arms over his chest. “You’re punishing her? For what?”
Leona swallowed. I gestured for her to speak.
“Because I fucked Cas in Max’s bathroom.”
My hand tensed on my thighs. I’d given her five minutes to speak with Chiara, which she had disregarded. On top of that, she allowed herself to be vulnerable, unsafe, inside our enemy’s home.
I’d gone upstairs after Caspian. I’d heard them in the bathroom.
And I’d been hard ever since.
Ryu straightened, his eyes narrowing at the prominent marks on her neck. “Well. Can’t say you don’t deserve this, then.”
“Hey, I don’t?—”
“Sit down, Caspian,” I demanded. “You’ll get your punishment next.”
A vastly different punishment, but he was not blameless in this, and he would take responsibility for his role in putting us at risk. Ryuji and I would take him down to the gym while Ciel and Wynn looked after Leona .
Leona’s lips pressed together, and she looked to each of my brothers in a silent plea to save her.
“Look at me.”
Her eyes snapped to mine. “Obi, it wasn’t?—”
I held up a hand, and she stopped. “Strip.”
Her eyes glinted, and her jaw clenched.
“Now, Leona.”
“Is this humiliation?”
My voice softened. “No, ifunanya’m .”
“Then…”
Not for the first time, being around Leona made complicated and difficult emotions surge within me. I couldn’t explain; I could barely think . I only knew that she had been exposed, and it triggered this desperate need. My heart raced, and my fingers flexed.
I took a breath, trying to slow myself down. “Before we do this, we will have boundaries. You will understand what’s happening. Then you will agree, and we will continue, or you won’t, and this will stop.”
Her blush trailed all the way down her neck to disappear under her shirt, but her gaze locked on mine. “Okay.”
“I’m going to spank you.”
Her eyes widened. “Spank me?”
“Ten times,” I continued. “While you think about your behavior tonight.”
“What behavior?” Her chin lifted in defiance again. It sparked that need inside me. “I did nothing wrong.”
She knew exactly what she had done wrong. “You have earned this punishment for two reasons.”
“Which are?”
“One, you lost control over yourself with our enemy. You lashed out at Volpe multiple times, giving him the emotional upper hand. We may have left with a deal that benefited us, but you were distracted. Reckless. ”
“So this is about Max?” she countered.
“No, that is precisely my point. You need to face the consequences of your own actions. It has nothing to do with him, and everything to do with your lack of control. Queens cultivate control. Over themselves and others. You belong to us. You are ours. I will remind you of that.”
“And the second reason?”
“You put yourself in a vulnerable position and exposed yourself to risk. It doesn’t matter if you fucked Caspian, or any of us, it is unacceptable. If Volpe would have seen or heard you?—”
Ryu grunted. “I’d fucking kill him.”
I would have fucking killed him .
“Poor choices result in poor consequences.”
She regarded me cooly for a moment before she pulled her shirt over her head. My eyes trailed over her black lacy bra, and my heartbeat pulsed in my neck. I shifted forward on the couch, feeling my erection bite into the seam of my trousers.
“You seem like the one lacking control,” she shot back.
“Yes,” I whispered. She was entirely right. I was fraying at the edges, strung out like an addict denied a fix. “I’m calling this a punishment, but it’s for you, and it’s for me. We both need this.”
After a moment of quiet, her thumbs looped into her waistband, and she slowly, torturously, dragged down her pants before she stepped out of them. Then she exhaled through her nose. “Fine.”
“There will be rules.”
“Okay.”
“Ten times, Leona. You cannot move, you cannot touch me. If you wish to stop, say you want to stop. Do you agree?”
Her lips pressed together while her breath went short. “Yes.”
The rest of the world faded away except for this. Except for her. “Take off the rest.”
She obeyed, unhooking her bra and letting it drop to the ground before she drew her underwear down her legs. My nostrils flared with need as I took her in.
“You are so beautiful. A delicacy, only for our consumption. No one else will ever share your body, nor your sounds, nor your soul, besides us. Do you understand?”
“I didn’t?—”
“You did . ”
She looked to the ground. “Okay.”
“Bend over my knee.”
Her entire body flushed, but she did as I asked. Hesitantly, she laid across my thighs, presenting her plump ass to the ceiling. Her breasts pillowed over my thighs. With the tip of my finger, I traced the blush from her cheek, down the side of her neck, all the way down her back to her ass.
My cock twitched. She was a goddess .
“Obi—ow!” she cried as my palm flattened against her skin. The sound cracked through the living room. Silence followed while all of my brothers watched a red mark bloom on her skin. Caspian’s mouth hung open while Ryuji crossed his arms over his chest and smirked.
My hand pressed against the mark, rubbing over it, massaging it. Leona’s breaths were heavy, but she wasn’t in any genuine pain—more shock.
“Continue?” I murmured. My heart rioted inside my chest. Electricity crackled through my limbs. I felt coiled and ready to snap at any moment.
She nodded, breathless.
My hand cracked again, but this time she whimpered. The sound was laced with pleasure. The corner of my mouth pulled up. I knew she’d enjoy this based on how her pupils had dilated at the dinner table yesterday when I’d mentioned punishment.
Smack .
Her back arched, and her stomach pressed against my cock. Her hands braced on legs, while one slid up my thigh .
“I said, do not touch.”
Smack . She whimpered, eyes fluttering closed. “You need to feel in charge,” she rasped. My fingers dragged up her inner thighs, swirling in the moisture I already found there. She pushed herself against them, and I withdrew. “I need you to be in control, because I can’t be. Obi, please.”
Smack . I sucked in a ragged breath while my hand rubbed her ass cheek. She could see right through me. Everything about this evening had unmoored me. I was desperate to regain my composure.
“Yes,” I murmured. Smack.
I paused, in case she wanted to stop, but she only glanced over her shoulder with a parted mouth and eyes that burned with lust.
Smack .
I had lost control as much as she had.
Smack .
She shared a connection with Volpe that none of us understood—at least not yet. He looked at her like he couldn’t decide whether to kiss her or fight her. It left me so on edge that I could think of nothing else but putting myself back in charge.
I needed control. She needed me to take control.
Smack .
I knew it. She knew it.
“One more,” I whispered.
Smack. The sound that came out of her mouth had all of us sucking in a breath. My cock was painfully hard, and it took everything in me not to drive into her.
Gently, I rubbed the skin of her completely red ass. She relaxed at my touch, allowing her body to let go of some of its tension.
“Is she wet, Obi?” Ryu asked. “Tell us. I’m fucking dying over here.”
“Is—is she?” Ciel echoed.
I used two fingers to part her entrance before plunging one of my fingers inside her. She cried out, not in pain but in delicious, consuming pleasure. “I can feel Caspian’s cum leaking down your thighs,” I said with a groan. “You’re completely drenched.”
“Fuck,” Caspian grunted.
“Goddamn,” Ryu said. “We’re all getting punished now.”
Yes, we were.
“Obi,” she whined. She moved her hips against my hand, begging for release. “Please. I need this.”
Her voice had taken on a different tone of desperation. She wasn’t just asking for an orgasm. She was asking me to take control of her. To control her pleasure. To bring her back into balance.
I pushed another finger inside her. She couldn’t ride my hand the same way I’d done before, so I withdrew and repositioned her until she was straddling my legs.
She grabbed my hand, shoving it back between her legs.
I pushed back inside her and used my thumb to rub friction on her clit.
Her head threw back while her hands braced on my shoulders.
My lips clamped down on her nipple, swirling my tongue around it until it became a stiff peak.
“I want to come on your cock, Obi.”
A vein pulsed in my neck. “No. This is a punishment.”
Her thighs quivered. “ Please . I need it. I’m so close. You need it the same as me. We both need to feel the control snap back into place.”
She didn’t need my cock. She needed me to be in charge. To take away the thoughts that plagued her by making her submit.
I shook my head, pressing my cheek to hers so I could whisper in her ear. “This is as much punishment for me as it is for you. Now, come on my fingers, and let us all see your pleasure. It is the sweetest thing.”
Her orgasm tore through her, her sounds reverberating through each of us. It was pain and pleasure, control and release.
It sent calmness through my every nerve .
When she came down from her ecstasy, her chest and cheeks were splotched with red. She sucked in heavy breaths, collapsing against my chest.
“Better?” she whispered.
“Mmm,” I answered. “Better?”
She nodded.
“Good.” Pulling her head back by her hair, I kissed her fiercely, dragging my tongue through her mouth, claiming her once again as mine.
Ours.
After a few more minutes of calming breaths, I gestured for Wynn to gather her from my arms. “You and Ciel will give her a bath and take care of her. Then feed her and let her sleep.”
She deserved aftercare. Pampering. Spoiling and worshipping, like the queen she was. In the future, I would give that to her. But something else required my attention now.
Wynn nodded, carrying her tightly against his chest. She nestled into his neck and pressed his cheek to her hair. “Ciel?”
“Yeah,” he said breathlessly. “We’ll use your room.”
They took her away. My sweet brothers would tuck her into bed.
I turned to Caspian and Ryuji. “Gym. We have a grievance to work out.”
Caspian followed without question or complaint. He met me on the mat with a clear head and careful eyes. Once he was fully healed, he might be a true match for me and Ryuji. His raw strength was almost on the same level as me, and if he regained the agility he lost, he could match Ryuji’s speed.
But as it was, the first match ended in Ryuji’s favor, then the second in mine.
Caspian understood the risk he’d put her in tonight, and with his blood and sweat, he swore it would never happen again.