She wasn’t the most obedient of subs. Not even close. And he couldn’t imagine her ever changing much. Had her previous Dom followed up with discipline when she’d disobeyed? Or had she always been obedient for him? The woman was a bit of a mystery. And he did love a mystery.
He also enjoyed having rules. And enforcing them. Mostly, he played with subs who happily obeyed him. Not with brats with a bit of an attitude. But had they ever excited him like this? Got his blood pumping? Had his cock hard just by glimpsing them across the room?
Besides, Ria wasn’t a bad person. If anything, she thought about others too much, putting them before herself. If he had the time, he’d work on that too. Teach her that she had worth.
“Sir? Is something wrong?” She looked over her shoulder at him in concern.
“Did I say you could move?”
Her eyes widened slightly at his stern tone then she snapped back around. “No, Sir. Sorry, Sir.”
“That’s five more, little subbie.” Couldn’t have her thinking she could get away with whatever she liked just because he wanted to fuck her. Badly.
What the hell had he been thinking when he said there would be no sex tonight?
“Yes, Sir.”
He ran his hand over her ass. She jumped slightly.
“Your old Dom spank you when you disobeyed him?”
She stiffened slightly. “No, Sir.”
“What did he do?”
“I, um, didn’t really disobey him.”
That was interesting. He wasn’t quite certain how to feel about that. She didn’t disobey because she wanted to please her old Dom so much? Because she felt more for him than she did for Connor?
Okay, calm down. She hasn’t known you long. You don’t know how involved she was with this other guy. Maybe she loved him.
The words soured his gut.
“You didn’t? I find that hard to believe.”
“People change,” she said quietly.
“Not that much.” He rubbed his hand over her other ass cheek. Damn it was a mighty fine ass. How could she think any part of her body wasn’t perfection?
“He didn’t like to spank as a punishment.”
“No? What did he like to do?”
“Withhold affection.”
He paused. Uh. No wonder she’d obeyed him then. The prick. Lots of subs couldn’t deal with that as a punishment. And many Doms didn’t like it either. Withholding affection could hurt them as much as the sub. It didn’t say much, he thought, about the feelings this Dom had for Ria.
“You agreed to that?”
She stiffened. “I had a choice?”
What the fuck?
“Of course you had a choice.” He had to take a deep breath in and let it out slowly. “You signed a contract?”
“Yes, but I . . . fuck, of course I had a choice. Damn it. I just . . . I was a different person back then.”
Yeah, she kept saying that. Didn’t mean that jerk hadn’t taken advantage of her.