Chapter Twelve #2
“Now, then.” He licks his bottom lip slowly. “You’re biting that lip, Anastasia. You know the effect it has on me.” He places his long index finger over my mouth, a warning.
Oh my. I can barely contain myself, lying helpless, watching him move gracefully around my room. It’s a heady aphrodisiac. Slowly, almost leisurely, he removes his shoes and socks, undoes his pants, and lifts his shirt off over his head.
“I think you’ve seen too much.” He chuckles slyly.
He sits astride me again, pulls my T-shirt up, and I think he’s going to take it off me, but he rolls it up to my neck and then pulls it up over my head so he can see my mouth and my nose, but it covers my eyes.
And because it’s folded over, I cannot see a thing through it.
“Mmm,” he breathes appreciatively. “This just gets better and better. I’m going to get a drink.”
Leaning down, he kisses me, his lips tender against mine, and his weight shifts off the bed.
I hear the quiet creak of the bedroom door.
Get a drink. Where? Here? Portland? Seattle?
I strain to hear him. I can make out low rumblings, and I know he’s talking to Kate.
Oh no, he’s practically naked. What’s she going to say?
I hear a faint popping sound. What’s that?
He returns, the door creaking once more, his feet padding across the bedroom floor, and ice tinkling against glass as it swirls in liquid.
What kind of drink? He shuts the door and shuffles around and unzips his pants.
There’s a thud on a floor, and he steps out of them, and I know he’s naked.
He sits astride me again. “Are you thirsty, Anastasia?” he asks, his voice teasing.
“Yes,” I breathe, because my mouth is suddenly parched. The ice clinks against the glass, and he leans down and kisses me, pouring a delicious, crisp liquid into my mouth. It’s white wine. It’s so unexpected, so hot, though it’s chilled and Christian’s lips are cool.
“More?” he whispers.
I nod. It tastes all the more divine because it’s been in his mouth. He leans down, and I drink another mouthful from his lips… Holy crap.
“Let’s not go too far; we know your capacity for alcohol is limited, Anastasia.”
I can’t help it. I grin at his teasing, and he leans down to deliver another delicious mouthful. He shifts so he’s lying beside me, his erection at my hip. Oh, I want him inside me.
“Is this nice?” he asks, but I hear the edge in his voice.
I tense. He moves the glass again and leans down, kissing me and depositing a small shard of ice in my mouth with a little wine.
He slowly and leisurely skims chilled kisses down the center of my body, from the base of my throat to between my breasts, down my torso to my belly.
He pops a fragment of ice in my navel in a pool of cool, cold wine.
It burns all the way down to the depths of my belly. Wow.
“Now you have to keep still,” he whispers. “If you move, Anastasia, you’ll get wine all over the bed.”
My hips flex automatically.
“Oh no. If you spill the wine, I will punish you, Miss Steele.”
I groan and desperately fight the urge to tilt my hips, pulling on my restraint. Oh no…please.
With one finger, he pulls down my bra cups in turn, my breasts pushed up, exposed and vulnerable. Leaning down, he kisses and tugs at each of my nipples in turn with cool, skilled lips. I fight my body as it tries to arch in response.
“How nice is this?” he breathes, blowing on one of my nipples.
I hear another clink of ice, then I feel it around my right nipple as he tugs the left one with his lips. I moan, struggling not to move. It’s sweet, agonizing torture.
“If you spill the wine, I won’t let you come.”
“Oh…please…Christian… Sir… Please.” He’s driving me insane. I hear him smile.
The ice in my navel is melting. I’m beyond warm—warm and chilled and wanting. Wanting him, inside me. Now.
His cool fingers trail languidly across my belly. My skin is oversensitive, my hips flex automatically, and the now-warmer liquid from my navel seeps over my belly. Christian moves quickly, lapping it up with his tongue, kissing, biting me softly, sucking.
“Oh dear, Anastasia, you moved. What am I going to do to you?”
I’m panting loudly. All I can concentrate on is his voice and his touch. Nothing else is real. Nothing else matters, nothing else registers on my radar. His fingers slip into my panties, and I’m rewarded with his unguarded sharp intake of air.
“Oh, baby,” he murmurs, and he pushes two fingers inside me.
I moan.
“Ready for me so soon,” he says, moving his fingers tantalizingly slowly, in, out. And I push against him, tilting my hips up.
“You are a greedy girl,” he scolds softly, and his thumb circles my clitoris and then presses down.
I groan loudly as my body bucks beneath his expert fingers. He reaches up and pushes the T-shirt over my head so I can see him. I blink in the soft light.
“I want to touch you,” I plead.
“I know.” He leans down and kisses me, his fingers still moving rhythmically inside me, his thumb circling and pressing.
His other hand scoops my hair off my head and holds my head in place.
His tongue mirrors the actions of his fingers, claiming me.
My legs begin to stiffen as I push against his hand.
He gentles his hand, so I’m brought back from the brink.
He does this again and again. It’s so frustrating…
Oh, please, Christian, I scream in my head.
“This is your punishment, so close and yet so far. Is this nice?” he breathes in my ear.
I whimper, exhausted, pulling against my restraint. I’m helpless, lost in an erotic torment. “Please,” I beg, and he finally takes pity on me.
“How shall I fuck you, Anastasia?”
Oh…my body starts to quiver. He stills again.
“Please.”
“What do you want, Anastasia?”
“You…now,” I cry.
“Shall I fuck you this way, or this way, or this way? There’s an endless choice,” he breathes against my lips.
He withdraws his hand and reaches over to the bedside table for a foil packet.
He kneels up between my legs, and very slowly he pulls my panties off, staring down at me, his eyes gleaming.
He puts on the condom. I watch fascinated, mesmerized.
“How nice is this?” he says as he strokes himself.
“I meant it as a joke,” I whimper. Please fuck me, Christian.
He raises his eyebrows as his hand moves up and down his impressive length. “A joke?” His voice is menacingly soft.
“Yes. Please, Christian,” I beseech him.
“Are you laughing now?”
“No,” I mewl.
I’m a ball of tense sexual desire. He stares down at me, measuring my need, then he grabs me suddenly and flips me over.
It takes me by surprise, and because my hands are tied, I have to support myself on my elbows.
He pushes both my knees up the bed so my behind is in the air, and he slaps me hard.
Before I can react, he plunges inside me.
I cry out—from the slap and from his sudden assault, and I come instantly, again and again, falling apart beneath him as he continues to slam deliciously into me.
He doesn’t stop. I’m spent. I can’t take this…
and he pounds on and on and on…then I’m building again… Surely not…no…
“Come on, Anastasia, again,” he growls through clenched teeth, and unbelievably, my body responds, convulsing around him as I climax anew, calling out his name.
I shatter again into tiny fragments, and Christian stills, finally letting go, silently finding his release.
He collapses on top of me, breathing hard.
“How nice was that?” he asks through his gritted teeth.
Holy Hell.
I lie panting and spent on the bed, eyes closed as he slowly pulls out of me.
He rises immediately and dresses. When he’s fully clothed, he climbs back on the bed and gently undoes my binding and pulls my T-shirt off.
I flex my fingers and rub my wrists, smiling at the woven pattern imprinted on my wrists from the tie.
I readjust my bra as he pulls the duvet and quilt over me.
I stare up at him completely dazed, and he smirks down at me.
“That was really nice,” I whisper, smiling coyly.
“There’s that word again.”
“You don’t like that word?”
“No. It doesn’t do it for me at all.”
“Oh—I don’t know…it seems to have a very beneficial effect on you.”
“I’m a beneficial effect, now am I? Could you wound my ego any further, Miss Steele?”
“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with your ego.” But even as I say it, I don’t feel the conviction of my words—something elusive crosses my mind, a fleeting thought, but it’s lost before I can grasp it.
“You think?” His voice is soft. He’s lying beside me, fully clothed, propped up on his elbow, and I’m only wearing my bra.
“Why don’t you like to be touched?”
“I just don’t.” He reaches over and plants a soft kiss on my forehead. “So, that email was your idea of a joke?”
I smile apologetically at him and shrug.
“I see. So you are still considering my proposition?”
“Your indecent proposal…yes, I am. I have issues though.”
He grins as if relieved. “I’d be disappointed if you didn’t.”
“I was going to email them to you, but you kind of interrupted me.”
“Coitus interruptus.”
“See? I knew you had a sense of humor somewhere in there.” I smile.
“Only certain things are funny, Anastasia. I thought you were saying no—no discussion at all.” His voice drops.
“I don’t know yet. I haven’t made up my mind. Will you collar me?”
He raises his eyebrows. “You have been doing your research. I don’t know, Anastasia. I’ve never collared anyone.”
Oh… Should I be surprised by this? I know so little about the scene… I don’t know.
“Were you collared?” I whisper.
“Yes.”
“By Mrs. Robinson?”
“Mrs. Robinson?” He laughs loudly, freely, and he looks so young and carefree, his head thrown back, his laughter infectious.
I grin back at him.
“I’ll tell her you said that; she’ll love it.”