The Bride (The Boss 3)

“Talk to me like that again and you’ll get worse,” he warned, and my body throbbed in response. It was almost worth it to sass him again, just to see what “worse” meant.

He drew another card, and this time it was a diamond. He got to pick the next action, though I had an idea what it would be.

“Lie on your back. Hang your head over the table.”

I smiled to myself and did as he ordered, reversing my position and leaning back so that the base of my skull tipped over the edge of the tabletop. I spread my legs wide and planted my feet on the seats on either side.

Unbuckling his belt, he stepped up close. I suppressed a giggle as he pulled his erection free and tapped the massive head of it against my lips; I’d been right, I had known what he wanted. I opened up and took him in, undulating my tongue against the top of his shaft and relaxing my throat as the head of him passed my gag reflex.

He growled appreciatively, his hands bracketing my stretched neck. “Touch yourself while I’m fucking your throat.”

Well, when my Sir commands…

I had never tried any drug, any drink, any experience that made me feel the way sexual submission to Neil made me feel. Every sight, scent, taste, texture was like gasoline on my already burning body; the hard, cool tabletop against my back was a caress, the familiar smell of his skin a potent aphrodisiac. I wanted to please him, above all else, and I knew that in pleasing him, I would have pleasure, myself. So, even though the flesh between my legs ached and touching my clit was like brushing against an electrical current, I did as he ordered.

Slowly, he withdrew, and a flood of my saliva sputtered out around his cock. He groaned and pushed back in, and I half-gagged, half-moaned as I got closer and closer to the edge of another orgasm. I needed this one. I was miserably turned-on and still disappointed from having my release spoiled before. When I could breathe, I whimpered high-pitched mewls around his cock. The building shock of my anticipation locked my legs rigidly against the table.

“Oh no, Sophie. You won’t like this one.”

My heart dropped to my stomach. I sped my fingers, but he grabbed my wrists. It was his dumb luck that he got my hands away from my body just as I reached the peak, and though I humped frantically at the air, there was nothing—no extra little nudge—that could bring me over the edge. My muscles ached from straining up, straining against his hold, and a tear leaked from the corner of my eye. I tried to beg him, but my words didn’t make it past the thick column of his cock, and I sputtered and gagged.

He pulled out gently and brushed a tear from my cheek. “Where are we, Sophie?”

I sniffled and tried to ignore my aching clit. What he was doing to me was torture…and I loved every demented moment of it. There was no way in hell I was stopping. “We’re still green, Sir.”

He tucked himself away and drew another card. He looked at it, frowned, and flipped it over between his fingers to show me the image on the reverse.

“What does the joker do?” I asked, mesmerized by the ends of my hair brushing the tops of his bare feet.

“We never set a value on the joker,” he said with a note of dismay. “I suppose I’ll have to think of something.”

He gave me a hand to pull me up and held me for a moment while I regained my equilibrium. Then he scooped his arms beneath me and lifted me from the table, setting me on my feet in the aisle.

“Bend at the waist,” he ordered, and I did, gasping when his hand closed on my upper arm, just above my elbow. Bent far over with no way of balancing myself, I had to trust him not to let me fall face forward onto the floor.

The parting of his zipper’s metal teeth seemed incongruously loud in the low hum of recirculating air. It was always like this when I submitted to him. My senses heightened in strange, intoxicating ways.

The tip of him brushed over my opening and I moaned; for the first two years of our relationship, we had used condoms all but once—and the odds had not been in our favor. After I’d had the abortion, we’d been diligent about condoms, but since the high-dose chemotherapy Neil had undergone had most likely killed any chance of us ever conceiving again, we’d decided it would probably be safe just to rely on my newly installed IUD. Though we’d been going bareback for about a month—after my gyno had assured me that the IUD was way more idiot-proof than the pills I’d messed up—I was still reveling the newness of it. Before Neil, I’d never had condomless sex, and it was incredible to me how different it felt. Not necessarily better, just…different.

He pushed into me, all hot and hard and rough, and I gasped; he’s a big guy, and not gentle with me when we played like this. Though I was incredibly wet and my whole body trembled with need, my cunt opened reluctantly around him on that first deep thrust. He gripped my other arm as he withdrew, and the slow glide of his foreskin as it rolled with his motion made my eyes flutter closed. Then, without mercy, he rammed into me again, holding me captive at the point of the greatest pain, and my tortured nerve endings sang out in pure joy. A sob of mingled agony and pleasure tore from my throat. There was nowhere to move, no option but to let him fuck me as he held me immobile.

He released one of my arms, but when I reached back to touch him, he slapped my hand. “If you want to touch anyone, touch yourself.” His fingers sank into my hair, and he jerked my head back, adding a growled, “slut,” to the end of his sentence.

That forbidden word did something to me every time he used it. My pussy contracted along his length as he pounded me, every hard thrust bringing a louder and louder exclamation from me, until he had to let go of my hair to clamp his hand over my mouth.

“Do you like this cock, Sophie?” he asked, and I mumbled my affirmative against his palm as he stilled inside me. “Then I suggest you keep it down, or I’ll take it away. Do you understand?”

I nodded, my eyes squeezing shut. The last thing I wanted was to be punished in that way. Once he was inside me, I lost all sense of reason. I used to really push it with him—I’d thought that when he threatened to stop fucking me, he would eventually have to give in—until he’d stopped during one of our play sessions to teach me a lesson about being a bratty sub. And despite the superb emotional and physical aftercare he’d given me, he hadn’t fucked me again that night. So I knew he was talking serious business.

After our first year together, Neil had gotten more confident of my ability to know my own limits. He took me at my word—or, lack of safeword—that I was okay, and I was discovering that he had a little bit of a sadist in him. While he’d always been slightly amused by the way I got off on pain, nowadays he seemed to get off more on causing it. Like there had been some part of him he’d held back from me until he knew I not only could take it, but that I truly wanted it.

Oh man. I wanted it.

He slammed too deep, and I bit my lips to hold back my cry of pain. He did it again, and again, and I broke, wailing, unable to control my response as the pressure inside me burst. My pussy clenched and gushed, wetness pouring down my thighs. Neil’s hand still clamped over my mouth. His fingers dug into my arm so hard I was sure they would leave a mark, but I couldn’t hold myself up at the moment, anyway, and I needed him to keep me upright. He buried himself in me with a feral growl, his cock jerking in my sopping cunt.

“Fuck,” I panted when he released my mouth. He slipped from me, and I staggered forward, wobbling on my feet. “Okay, I just had a thought.”

“What?” He slumped into one of the seats, his eyes squeezed shut as he struggled to catch his breath.