“A safe word?”
“Yeah. It’s a tool dominants and submissives use. It’s a word that means ‘stop.’”
“Why not just use the word ‘stop?’”
I let out a laugh. “Because sometimes people like to act out fantasies of being assaulted or attacked, and yelling ‘stop’ is part of the fantasy.”
“I can assure you I don’t have any fantasies like that.”
“All right, then. We’ll use stop as your safe word.”
“Works for me.”
“So why didn’t you tell me to stop tonight?”
“Because.” She hedged. “Talon, I want to please you. I want to please you more than anything in the world. And clearly you needed this tonight. You needed to spank me for whatever reason. You were angry, and I wanted to help.”
“Hurting you is never what I require, blue eyes.”
“I know that. If it had gotten to the point where I absolutely hadn’t been able to take it, I would’ve told you to stop. But I can take a lot, Talon, and I want you to take what you need from me.”
Had there ever been a more wonderful woman in the world? A woman made just for me? For that’s what I believed Jade to be. I was determined to become worthy of her and her love. And of her trust.
“There’s something I want to tell you, blue eyes.”
She caressed my cheek. “What’s that?”
“I don’t want you to see this as a weakness.”
“Talon, you’re about the strongest person I know.”
“How can you say that? You’ve seen me crazy, angry, almost delusional.”
“And you come out of it every time.”
I paused a moment. Then, I heaved a sigh. “I’ve been seeing a therapist.”
She didn’t bat an eye. “Oh?”
“Yes. I have a lot of stuff I have to work out.”
“You mean from what happened overseas? Or is there more? There must be more.”
She knew me too well. Most people assumed I had post-traumatic stress disorder from my time overseas. Truthfully, my time overseas had been less horrific than the in
cident in my childhood. “Yes, some other things.”
“Can you tell me about it?”
“Not yet, blue eyes. But I will. I promise I will.”
God love her, she didn’t push. But she did continue speaking. “Can I tell everyone that I’m in a relationship with you now? I mean, that’s kind of where this whole thing started.”
Everything at me screamed to tell her no, that I wasn’t ready for that. But I had to trudge uphill. I had to step out of my comfort zone. This would be a good start.
“Yes, blue eyes. I would be proud and honored to have everyone know I’m in a relationship with you.”
She smiled a gorgeous smile and climbed on top of me, searing my lips with hers. We kissed hungrily until I began to harden underneath her again. She didn’t miss a beat. She sank her cunt down on my cock and rode me, slowly this time—slow, sweet love.