31. Rook
She hadno idea what she was asking for.
Squeezing the steering wheel, I barreled up the driveway, my phone pinging—an alert for the back door.
This woman.She’d defied me for long enough.
She needed to be taught a lesson, one permanently seared into her mind.
Slamming the car door behind me, I raced around the house and into the backyard, bellowing out, “Summer!”
A squeak came from the path that led to the beach.
The wolf inside me thrilled at the sound. Heart picking up. Senses alert. My beast fighting to be unleashed.
Growling, I chased after her, racing through the trees. Jumping over a fallen tree. The briny smell from the water filling my nose. The ocean breeze ruffling my hair as I drew closer.
The sand crunched under my shoes—she was racing down the shoreline. Hair flying, white dress whipping.
Adrenaline made my instincts flare. My hunger roar. She could run, but she would never escape me.
“Summer,” I thundered. “You don’t want to play this game. Because I willmake you beg.”
Drawing closer. The feel of my feet pounding the sand. The taste of salt on my tongue. The predator inside me clamoring to possess her. Pursue her relentlessly.
Could sense her excitement.
Imagined I could smell her fear and arousal.
Triumph shooting through me as I grabbed her hips, hefting her into the air.
“No!” She squealed, squirming in my hold.
“I’m going to make you wish you never—” I didn’t finish as she wriggled out of my hold. She fell to the ground, scrambling backwards and away from me.
”Come here.” My voice was a dark storm of possessiveness. The need to claim.
”Rook, I can explain--”
”Come,” I ground my molars, pointing to the sand, “here.” I suppressed the desire to grab her, bend her over my knee, and really show her who owned her.
”Look,” she tried again, ”I promise, I have a good reason.”
”I”m not asking for excuses,” I said, ”I”m asking for obedience.” I jut my finger at the ground again and she, reluctantly, edged forward. “Get on your knees and do as you’re told.”
”Huh?”
”It”s ‘excuse me’,” I corrected her, ”And I want you to crawl on your hands and knees. Then kneel at my feet.”
She shot me an, are you kidding me look, but when I only gave her a serious stare, she began to move.
Cautiously, she climbed onto her hands and knees and began to crawl…and fuck me, I wanted to beg. She was so damn sensual. The feisty little creature, crawling on hands and knees, to me.
I had to hold in my groan, and my dick thickened in my pants. I clenched my hands into fists, breathing in and out, watching her lithe body sway towards me.
She kneeled at my feet, right where I was pointing, staring at the ground.
”Your defiance is going to cost you, and trust me, you”ll enjoy paying the price. Now, eyes on me,” I demanded. She blinked up at me. Those bright blue, fucking innocent eyes. “I’ve done nothing but protect you since your father died, and this is how you repay me?” My voice was a low growl of barely restrained anger.
”I know, and I”m sorry--”
”Again,” I interrupted her, ”I”m not asking for excuses. And I”m not done speaking.”
”Yes, sir,” she stated, eyes back on the ground.
Leaning over, I gripped her chin, pulling her face upwards towards me. ”I said, eyes on me, doll.”
She blinked, her throat bobbing, but kept her gaze on me.
”Now, let”s make one thing clear, right here and now. The control the Magnolia has over you is over. From here on out, you do what I say, exactly how I say it, and when I tell you. I own you, Summer Duvall, contract signed and completed.”
She opened her mouth to interrupt me again, the little minx, but I jerked my hands upwards, clamping her lips shut, and continued, ”I don”t care what kind of twisted games the Magnolia’s played, what they”ve promised you,” my voice lowered, ”or what they threatened you with. I”m in charge now. And you will do exactly as I demand, is that clear?”
She nodded, her teeth biting down on her lower lip, clamping. Her eyes shined with unshed tears.
Softening, I swiped a thumb along her lower lip, causing her lips to part. ”Now, I”m going to ask you to speak, and I want you to tell me exactly what I want to hear. No excuses. Is that clear?”
She nodded. ”Yes.”
”Yes, what?”
”Yes, sir.”
”Good girl,” I rubbed her lower lip again, and she glanced down at my thickening cock. ”Eyes up here, darlin’, unless you want to have a completely different discussion.” She hesitated, her tongue flicking outward, and it took everything inside me not to rip her lips apart and shove my cock down her throat.
”Focus,” I demanded. ”I need you to tell me exactly what the Magnolia instructed you to do.”
”They wanted me to find out your secrets. They threatened Callie, that’s why I…”
“I will protect Callie.”
“You swear?” She said fiercely.
“I swear to take care of her. But you have to be honest with me. What else did they want?”
She shook her head, ”Nothing.”
I tightened my hold on her chin in warning, and her eyes darted upwards again, ”I”m warning you, Summer. If you lie to me, you”re not going to like your punishment.”
”I swear,” she met my gaze, her look bold and daring. ”They said I needed to find out anything I could on you.”
”Who asked you to do that?”
“Saul. Olivia was there. And Grace.”
I inhaled a breath, absorbing this information. Saul was directly involved. Maybe he was on to me. Or maybe Maxon betrayed me.
”Grace?”
”Tucker”s assistant?”
”I know who Grace is. What did she have to do with anything?”
”I don”t know. I think Saul has some kind of hold over her, he said...” she hesitated, ”he said he was going to punish her, instead of me.”
”Because you”re a Duvall,” I answered for her. The sick bastard.
”I guess,” her face paling. ”Will he hurt her? Because of me?”
”Maybe.” I answered honestly.
She exhaled a breath, her shoulders slumping.
”What did you do?” I asked her.
”I tried to get out of the contract.”
Of course.Honestly I was surprised she”d caught on so quickly. It usually took longer for most of the girls. “That’s why they burned down your house.”
She nodded and I released my hold over her, straightening. ”I have one more question for you, and I need you to answer honestly. Don”t hold anything back. If you do, I can”t help you. Do you promise you won”t lie to me?”
She hesitated, then nodded. ”Yes, sir.”
”Tell me,” I stared deep in her eyes, ”why did you sign the contract with the Magnolia in the first place?”
She blinked, a soft pinkening of her cheeks. ”Someone threatened me.”
”With what?” I growled.
”With Callie,” her throat bobbed. ”They said they were going to take me to court. Sue for custody.”
There was a roaring sound in my head, a rage overcoming me. Gritting my teeth, I held it all in, forcing control over myself. ”Who? Who threatened you?”
”I don”t know. It was anonymous, but they sent court documents from some company I’d never heard of.”
I ground my molars, my mind racing as I began to pace. Finally, I stopped before her.
”First of all, know that now that I”ve taken you in, I will protect both you and Callie. No matter what. Is that clear?”
”But I...” she straightened her back, ”You said you didn”t fuck virgins.”
”I don”t.”
”Then why? How can I trust that you”ll protect us? If we’re not going to…to do things.”
”I may not fuck virgins, but that doesn”t mean there aren”t other things we can”t do.”
”But--” she stalled out, not sure where to go next. It took her a minute, ”And, you want to? Do other things with me?”
”Fuck,” I cursed under my breath, then, grabbing her hand, I brought it to my dick.
Showing her exactly how much I wanted her.
The past week had been torture.
I’d been hard since this woman had entered my house. ”Does this feel like I want to do other things with you?”
She paled, but nodded, her voice small and meek, ”Yes.”
”Woman,” Growling in frustration, I lowered to my knees to meet her eyes, ”Never feel small about making a man want you. Use it like a weapon. That is your strongest tool. You understand me?”
She nodded, ”Even against you?”
”Especially against me.”
”Fine,” She said then, shyly at first, she took my hand and brought it to her neck, wrapping my fingers around it. ”I want you to teach me how.”
I chuckled darkly, tightening my hold over her. ”Oh I plan to, darlin’. You thought I was going to forget what you just did?”
Her eyes widened. ”But I thought--”
”You thought you could betray me, and not be punished?” Tightening my hold over her, I pushed her onto her back. ”Now, pull up your dress.”
Her eyes widened as she glanced around, her cheeks pinkening when she saw an elderly couple standing at the edge of their lawn, gawking at us with matching looks of disbelief. “Rook, they’re watching us.”
“You made the decision to run. Now you must pay the consequences.”
“But—”
“I want them to see—everyone needs to know who owns you now.”
Her lips parted in surprise but her chest expanded outwards—was my little bunny excited?
Throat bobbing, she obeyed. Slowly, torturing me, revealing tan thighs. White satin panties.
I felt the burn of the couple still watching in my back.
I ignored it. They could watch.
“Take the dress off,” I grit out, barely in control of myself. I’d been dying to see her breasts again, to taste them. To see the expression on her face when I put the clamps on them.
Now that I knew she liked that little bit of pain, I was eager to see what else she liked. I had bought what I’d needed just today, the temptation too strong.
Chest still expanding and contracting, her breath coming out in nervous spurts, she pulled it up over her head, throwing it to the side.
Goddamn, she was so beautiful.
Her body was curved in the right places, her tits like a freshly plucked peach—she wasn’t wearing a bra—the nipples pebbled in the cold air. The tips of her fingers dug into the sand as she squirmed under my inspection. Her white hair was pillowed out behind her, like angel wings.
Except she was my own personal demon, come to tempt me with what I wanted the most.
But now, it was too late. And I was determined to have both.
My little vixen, and my revenge over Saul.
”Now your underwear.”
She hesitated, eyes darting around us. They caught behind me. “Forget them,” I demanded.
I understood her reluctance, so I waited patiently until she finally dragged them down her legs, clutching them in one hand.
I took them from her and shoved them in my pocket. “Now spread your legs.”
She didn”t meet my gaze as she, reluctantly, obeyed.
I wanted to beg.
”Eyes on me,” I demanded again, forcing her to see as I worshiped her body with my gaze. I didn”t hold anything back, letting it burn for her. My breath tightened in my chest, my dick painfully tight in my pants. Need driving cracks through my control.
Fuck. My best friend’s virgin daughter was going to be my undoing.
Dark, bitter laughter spilled from me, and I shook my head. Not believing it myself.
“You’re a beautiful storm, Summer. Wild. Unruly. And I’m addicted to the chaos. You understand me?”
Her throat bobbed, then she shook her head. “No.”
“You’re about to learn. You have no idea what you’ve gotten yourself into, but it”s too late to turn back now.” I ran my palms over her skin, feeling a heady buzzing sensation, need becoming replaced with obsession. “Such a temptation for an evil man like me.” I traced the small butterfly tattoo over her hip. ”What”s that for?”
”My mom,” she replied, her voice thick, and I nodded, continuing to touch her. Reveling in the feel of her, splayed out before me. From the soft pillow at her belly, to her perfect peach shaped breasts. The graceful swanlike curve of her neck, then down, down, my fingers clasping her thighs to open her even more before me.
”You have the most beautiful pussy I’ve ever seen.” I admitted, my voice thick with honesty and arousal.
”Really?” her voice squeaked.
”Really.” I parted her swollen lips to stare at the dew drop of arousal. ”You like this? Being looked at?”
She hesitated, then nodded, her voice breathy. ”I like it when you do it.”
”Then I”ll do it every day, for the rest of your time with me.” I slowly rubbed her clit, and she exhaled a breath at the touch. ”I”ll worship your body, bit by bit, showing you just how much power you have, my little bunny. I”ll teach you how lovely and beautiful you are, how to use your body to get exactly what you want.”
Her back arched, a red blush of arousal flooding her chest and cheeks. A little mewl poured from her lips.
”Teach you how to control every single man you wish.” Gripping her hips, I yanked her closer, wrapping her legs around my waist. ”That even with you like this, naked and vulnerable, and me, fully clothed, you have all the power.”
She clenched her fingers in the sand, her hips canting. Lips parting in a breath, “…Rook.”
When I paused, her eyes blinked open, a hazy, dreamy look on her face. Then concern, ”What are you doing?”
”Teaching you a lesson. Pushing you to the edge of your desires, then pulling back—to watch you beg for more.” I traced my fingers up her belly, over her ribs, flicking my fingers over her nipples. Then, taking the clamps from my pocket, ”Watch me as I teach you not to betray me.” I clamped one nipple, then the other, ”You will not come until I tell you to. Is that understood, little bunny?”
She nodded, her voice a squeak of impatience, ”Yes, sir.”
They looked so beautiful, little diamonds dangling from sensual tits.
“Do you like how they feel?”
“Yes.”
I tightened one, and she inhaled a sharp breath.
“Like that?”
“Yes?” she squeaked, her ribs expanding as I tightened them again until they were both hard buds. “I’m going to… I might come, it feels so…”
“You won’t come yet, Summer. Say you understand.”
“But it feels so…I don’t know if I can stop it.”
“You will,” I demanded, and she nodded, tongue brushing across gorgeous full upper lips.
“Okay,” she breathed, writhing under me.
”Good,” I soothed, running my fingers over her skin again, feeling every nook and cranny over her chest, her belly, her hips. She was a stunning creature. So beautiful. So special. Then, grabbing her hips, I jerked her pussy up to my face, inhaling a deep breath, ”Delicious,” I groaned, licking her, and she moaned.
”Rook…”
”Don”t you dare come,” I reminded her, then began to tongue her, mumbling my pleasure as I tasted her. She writhed as I licked her cream, spearing her cunt, then moving to apply pressure to her clit. “Watch me as I eat this delicious cunt.”
Her eyes locked on mine as I ate my pussy.
It was only until my tongue made its way to her asshole that she jerked in surprise. But I held her tight, forcing her to take it as I licked and suckled, appreciating every single taste of her. After a moment, she was moaning, her eyes fluttering closed.
She was so lost in her pleasure that it took her a moment to realize that I”d settled her back on the sand. Her eyes widened at the sight of what I”d pulled out. Her lips parted, the beginning of a protest on her lips, but I stilled her with a slap on her thigh.
”You will take what I give you, you understand me, Summer? You betrayed me today, and you must be punished.”
Teeth clamping down on her lower lip, she nodded, her voice shaking, ”Yes, sir.”
I squeezed the lube on her asshole, making sure she was nice and slick, then, ”Take in a deep breath.”
Nodding as she did as I instructed.
”Now breathe out slowly, through your lips, like you”re blowing through a straw.” As she obeyed, I slowly inserted the small anal plug, watching her face to make sure I wasn”t hurting her.
”Oh God,” she moaned, her head falling back, forcing her sexy tits outward—diamonds dangling from them—as I worked past the resistant barrier.
”Do you like this, Summer?”
She nodded, barely mumbling a coherent, ”Yes sir.”
“Look at that couple watching us,” I hummed, and her eyes blinked, her head turning towards the elderly couple still gawking. “What do you think they’re thinking?”
“I… I don’t know….”
“Do you think they’re judging you?”
“Yes,” she groaned.
“Look at the man. Did you see?”
“See what?”
“Him adjusting himself. He wishes he was me.” I didn’t need to see him to know what he was thinking. He was a man, after all.
“But the woman. She looks so shocked.”
“Her opinion doesn’t matter,” I sneered. “She probably hasn’t had a single orgasm her whole life—her vagina is clamped together so tight.”
Summer belted out a laugh that quickly turned into a shriek. ”Rook, no!”
I’d pulled out a vibrator and held it to her clit, watching in pleasure as her whole body seized, the scent of her honeyed cream filling the air. ”You didn”t come did you, Summer?”
She shook her head, unable to barely squeak out, ”N-n-n-nooooo.”
”No coming until I say, you understand?”
She nodded.
”I can”t hear you.”
”Oh God!” her chest heaved, her nipples so gloriously pebbled, as she strained to obey.
”What do you say, Summer?” I demanded, increasing the pressure on her clit.
”Yes, sir,” she screamed, and I smiled, my eyes roaming her body, parting her swollen pussy lips to truly appreciate her.
She was so stunning, writhing and trembling before me.
It was too bad I would never be able to fully appreciate her like my cock was begging me to do.
I couldn”t.
She was still too young. Douglass” daughter.
And even though I may have given in to my baser desires, I would never truly give in to what I really wanted.
She was too pure for me, and I didn”t deserve her.
I held the vibrator to her for as long as I thought she could take it, circling it, then pulling away, then circling it again until she was a blubbering mess, begging me with her soft, “please, please, please…”
I gradually reduced the speed until it was only a slow buzz, then finally, turned it off.
“Nooo,” she moaned, turning onto her side, crying, ”Why, Rook? Why did you stop?”
Standing, I gathered her in my arms, holding her to my chest. ”Because, dear bunny, it’s too late for both of us. You”re a storm in my soul, tearing down my walls. I”m done asking for your obedience. I”m demanding your surrender. Only I can give you what you need. I will protect you, and save you from them. But only me, is that clear?”
She nodded, leaning her head against me limply, whispering. ”Yes, sir.”
I smiled, something deep and dark slowly unfolding inside me—knowing that once Summer was free of the Magnolia, I would control her—heart and soul.