CHAPTER FOUR
“Please, Lexi?” Kade asked again, his deep voice laced with desperation.
Stifling a frustrated moan, Lexi’s body begged her to allow him to dip his fingers lower.
It didn’t take long before a familiar, pleasurable ache spread across her taut belly, sending a sharp wave of anticipation straight to her cunt.
It had been weeks since she had felt the bliss of release and her muscles were more than happy to accept her captor’s willing hands.
Her mind, however, wasn’t so enthusiastic.
Stay in control, she reminded herself. Take the power back.
Silently cursing herself, she placed her hand over his, halting his excited touch just as the tip of his middle finger reached the cleft of her apex.
It would be so easy just to give in, to allow him to make her forget about their twisted situation.
Her mind was right though, she needed to take control once again.
“Wait,” she said aloud, her voice echoing in the tiny shower stall.
Thoroughly annoyed that she stopped him when he was on the verge of breaking through her wall, he let out a low growl. He knew she wanted to fuck just as badly as he did, her lewd mewling and swaying hips told him so. How dare she stop him from taking what was rightfully his. How dare she.
“Why?” he bit, pressing his strained cock against her firm ass.
Closing her eyes, she instinctively arched back. A small grin lifted the corners of her lips as she heard her abductor push out a ragged groan. It gave her a small bit of satisfaction to know that his body was just as worked up as hers. At least she wouldn’t be the only one left unsatisfied.
Turning her soaked form in his arms, she raised her eyelids and locked her hungry gaze with his. It was now her turn in their wicked little game.
“I just want our first time together to be special ,” she replied, leaning her tingling body upon his clothed torso. “Don’t you want that, too?”
Surveying her beautiful face, Kade slowly nodded as his brain fully registered her words.
She was right, their first time together sexually needed to be beautiful and memorable.
Not just a quick screw against the fiberglass wall of a dirty shower.
The love of his life deserved much more than that. So much more.
“Yeah...yes, of course I do,” he agreed, raising his hands to cup her flushed cheeks. “I’m sorry I got carried away, my love. I just want you so badly.”
Smiling at her abductor, Lexi placed her open hands on his denim covered thighs. Moving her trembling right hand, she passed her touch over the noticeable bulge wanting so desperately to be freed. He was making things almost too easy. He would be the one caught in her web now.
“I want you, too,” she said, her fingers pressing eagerly against his thick cock in a calculated move. “But...but I know it will be worth the wait. Don’t you think so, too?”
Spitting out an expletive, he pulled his dark eyes away to stop himself from cumming in his soaked pants.
It was taking all his strength not to bend her over and fuck her senseless.
Needing to immediately calm himself down, he dropped his hands from her face and reluctantly pushed her hand away from his protesting dick.
He couldn’t remember the last time he wanted another woman so badly. It was almost too much to bear.
“Yeah. You’re right, Sweetheart. And it will be.” he replied, wiggling his large body away from her. “I...I will...uh...I’ll go get you a towel and some dry clothes. I’ll be right back...don’t leave.”
Smiling innocently at her captor, Lexi watched as he broke free of the dingy shower stall and stumbled from the claustrophobic bathroom.
Waiting until he had fully exited the room, she opened her mouth to expel a silent scream.
Her body was abuzz with a million conflicting emotions, and she didn’t know exactly how to process them all.
What the fuck was wrong with her? She was sick in the head for even entertaining the thought of fucking the man who was holding her against her will.
Turning towards the shower head, she tried to ignore her nagging thoughts.
Taking in a shaky breath, she allowed herself to bask in the warmth of the water as it hit her body.
She hadn’t had a shower since the morning of her abduction and wasn’t sure when her next opportunity to bathe would be.
She might as well enjoy it while she could.
With a small sigh, she stripped the wet sports bra and panties from her body, plopping them unceremoniously onto the stall floor without a second thought.
Glancing around, she found a green bar of soap hanging from a rope attached to the temperature dial.
Lifting the bar from the metal handle, she brought the oddly familiar soap to her nose and gave it a whiff.
Instantly, the smell of fresh pine took her back to her own shower in her modest apartment.
Weeks ago, she had found the exact same soap hanging from her shower head.
At the time she had just assumed it was Leo’s.
Now however, she knew who had really put it there.
Kade wasn’t lying. He really had been in her apartment. It was a sickening realization that made her blood run to ice.
“Son of a bitch,” she spat under her breath, quickly putting the soap back on the temperature dial. “You’re fucked. Absolutely fucked!”
Hearing his heavy footsteps, she turned her green eyes towards the door and plastered on a forced smile.
Reminding herself that it was important that her captor believe she was completely enamored, she posed her body wantonly under the running water.
She couldn’t let him know how truly disgusted she was.
“I’m back, Sweetheart,” Kade announced loudly, newly dried and wearing a pair of low-slung black flannel pants. Carrying a gray fluffy towel and red silk nighty in his arms. “I’m sorry but you need to turn the water off, now. We must conserve it, my lo—”
Stopping himself from completing his sentence, his brown eyes zeroed in on her naked body.
Raking his intense gaze from head to toe, he unabashedly took his fill of her perfect form.
It wasn’t the first time he had seen her naked, but there was something about the way she was standing beneath the shower stream that made his mouth water and his cock spring back to life.
God, how he wanted her.
Following his request, Lexi pressed her hand against the metal lever and turned off the water. “Oh, yeah, sure. Hey, Kade? Do you think I could have another shower tomorrow? Please?”
Walking towards her, he shrugged his broad shoulders.
Urging her out of the stall with a flick of his hand, he fought the urge to drop everything and take her into his arms. He would gladly let her run his water reserve dry.
But she needed to learn the important lesson that her actions had consequences before he agreed to any requests.
“That all depends on you, Sweetheart. Can you behave?”
Stepping from the shower, she took in a deep breath and reached for the terrycloth towel. Taking it in hand, she began the process of methodically drying her cooling skin, all while boring a hole in her abductor’s handsome face with her eyes.
“I’ll be a good girl,” she promised, her voice taking on a tone of thinly veiled innocence.
Biting into the soft flesh of his cheek, Kade mulled over a reply. He wanted to believe her, but this wasn’t the first time he had heard that phrase slipping from her pouty lips. Simply offering a nod, he took the towel away and handed her the skimpy nighty in its place.
“It’s almost time for bed, Sweetheart. You’ll be sleeping with me tonight,” he said, his eyes taking on a lust filled glow. “Let’s see how good you can be, huh?”
Lexi gasped, her mouth falling open in genuine surprise.
Since her escape attempt, she had been forced to sleep on the hard floor of the padded room without the comfort of a pillow or blanket.
For three long nights, she had tossed and turned, her body unable to relax on the cold rubber slab.
Her captor had just dangled the most delicious carrot in front of her nose.
If she had to sleep with a monster in order to enjoy the comfort of a real bed, then so be it.
It was a small price to pay to keep her body in fighting condition.
“I promise,” she said softly before slipping the crimson silk negligee over her head.
With a wicked grin, he waited patiently as she finished putting on the nighty.
Taking her hand, he pulled her flush against his muscular body.
He knew she would look delicious wearing the skimpy lingerie.
None of the others could pull it off, they all looked wrong in the low-cut negligee.
It was just another sign for him that she was perfect for him.
“This is your warning, don’t fight me tonight,” he purred, effortlessly picking her up off the floor like a groom cradling his new bride.
Swallowing hard, she wrapped her arms around her captor’s neck and gave a small smile in return. No, she wouldn’t fight him tonight. She would use this golden opportunity to regain her strength, boost her confidence, and play him like a fucking fiddle.
“I won’t,” she said, snuggling like a kitten in his embrace.
Holding her tightly against his torso, he walked from the bathroom out into the dark hallway.
Keeping his greedy eyes on her sweet face, he couldn’t help but smirk.
There was an excitement dancing over her features that he couldn’t resist staring at.
It was clear that she was just as eager to crawl into bed with him as he was with her.
Finally, things were falling into place.
Just as he knew they would.
Stepping to the second door on the left, Kade crossed over the opened threshold of his room.
Quickly clearing the space to his queen-sized bed tucked into the far corner, he gently placed her down on the mattress.
Bending over her, he pressed a loving kiss upon her damp forehead.
She looked exactly how he imagined she would be lying on his bed.
For a moment, he thought about pinching himself to make sure this wasn’t a dream.
Humming softly as he crawled onto the plush bed beside her, Lexi scooted closer to the beige wall to give his large body some space.
Trying not to look conspicuous, she glanced around the room to gain her bearings.
Turning back at her captor every so often with faux adoration, to not trigger his suspicion.
On her second pass, she noticed a small TV flanking the wall.
Plastered on the flat screen were surveillance images from what she gathered were all the other rooms within the complex.
Three of which she recognized, the fourth she had never seen.
It was filled with wicked looking contraptions, some of which she recognized from a few BDSM websites she had visited once or twice.
She halfway hoped to never be taken there.
Dropping her eyeline beneath the TV, Lexi blinked in confusion.
Catching her attention were six golden hooks nailed into the uneven plastered wall, a single necklace hanging from each.
Above every hook clung a yellow sticky note with a different name scribbled in black ink.
Sensing something sinister to the display, she allowed herself a scant moment to focus on each sloppily written name and necklace.
Nora. A long golden necklace with a shiny, rhinestone studded star.
Elena. A delicate rose gold necklace with an ornamental letter “E.”
Mackenzie. A double tiered chain with a black onyx circle hanging from each.
Veronica. A white gold chain with a diamond heart pendant.
Serena. A silver chain with the word “love” engraved on a rectangle of tarnished metal.
Blythe. A simple necklace with a solid silver cross.
Six names. Six necklaces. Six trophies from women that she could almost guarantee hadn’t made it out of Kade’s obsessive grasp.
“Fuck,” she whispered.
Hearing her mutter something under her breath, Kade moved his eyes from her perky breasts to the point that held her attention.
Razor sharp panic licked up the length of his spine as he realized that she had noticed his small shrine.
Lifting his right hand, he tenderly cupped her now colorless face.
She needed to know how insignificant they were, that they were nothing more than poor imitations unable to satisfy his wicked appetite.
“They didn’t mean anything to me!” he urged. “Please don’t be jealous! I swear to you, they meant nothing!”
Blinking her eyes, she wondered if she had heard her abductor correctly. Jealous? He thought she could be actually jealous of these poor women? He had murdered them; jealousy was the last emotion she was feeling at that moment.
Trying to settle her churning stomach, she let her mind step in once again to smooth over the insane situation. Although the thought of her being jealous was twisted, it was something she could use to pull him deeper into her little web.
A web that would eventually set her free.
“You sure you aren’t lying to me?” she asked, her voice taking on an accusatory tone. “Because it sure looks like they meant an awful lot to you.”
Stammering like an idiot, Kade frantically shook his head. Fully holding her face between both hands, he made her meet his wild eyes. He couldn’t possibly lose her now, not when their happiness was within an arm’s reach. She was the only one that held his heart. He could never love another.
“I’m not lying to you! You are the only woman for me! Can’t you see that I love you with all my heart? Look at everything I’ve done for you! Everything I’ve done so we can be together!” he exclaimed, his voice strained with anxiety.
Pulling her face from his grasp, Lexi narrowed her critical eyes. She almost couldn’t believe what she was about to do, but she would be damned if she allowed herself to be victim number seven. In that moment, self-preservation was the only thing that mattered.
Slinking onto his lap, she leaned her svelte body seductively against him.
Trying her best to use whatever womanly charm she could, she brought her pouting lips to within an inch of his.
Humming a response, she reached up to grab a handful of his raven-colored locks.
This was it, she thought to herself. After tonight, she would hold all the cards.
“Then make love to me,” she breathed, pressing her lower half wantonly over his hips. “And prove to me that you are mine .”
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