Taboo: A Dark Romance Boxset (Stud Ranch 1)

I can’t stop the groan at how good it feels. I spent the past few days crouched in such awkward positions. The first day I stood a lot, not wanting to sit on the smelly hay. I eventually gave in, but still. My body, however, is used to nice ergonomic furniture, not concrete floors and sitting on hay bales.

Even thinking about that should have me mad as hell again. But when Xavier flips my body around in the bath so he has better access to massage up and down each thigh with both of his strong hands, again I let myself put off other concerns for a later date.

Like tomorrow.

Or the day after.

You know… soonish… after my body recovers from the blissful pile of goo he’s currently turning me into.

He continues working down to my calves and all the way to my toes where he proceeds to give a foot massage that—and I can’t even believe I’m saying this—rivals his hand massage.

My head drops against the curved side of the tub with one of the jets at my back, further working any and all tension out of my body. I watch Xavier through half-lidded eyes. My eyes have fully adjusted to the dim light. His face looks almost fierce with concentration as he lifts my other foot into his lap, soaps it, and starts rubbing his thumb deep into my arches.

At my contented moan, his eyes flash up to mine. One edge of his mouth quirks upward but then his focus goes back to my foot. If he’s self-conscious about his face, he doesn’t show it. Maybe a little that first day when I initially reacted to it, but never since then. He always seems so assured of his mastery over me. Master. Pet. Ugh. I really will get back to being upset about that soon.

He squeezes the pad of my foot between his palms and my eyes drop shut again. I’ve all but drifted back off to sleep again when his hands shift me in the water.

“Hmm?” I ask drowsily.

“Wake up, little kitten.” He sounds amused. I blink and look around. The jets are off and the water laps lazily around us.

“Lean your forearms on the lip of the tub, flank in the air.” He indicates the wide surface at the edge of the tub opposite the faucet where a folded towel has been laid. Then he lifts me so that my elbows are braced on the soft towel. My knees on the bottom of the tub, ass just out of the water. Aimed right toward him.

My mouth drops open as soon as he’s got me positioned just the way he wants. But then I close it.

All right. Here we go again. I really can’t even fault him—okay yes, I can sure as hell fault him for the whole locking me up like an animal thing. But apart from that, from all I hear from my girlfriends, this whole bath time seduction scenario is far more than they usually get in the way of foreplay.

He rubs up and down my ass, or flank as he referred to it. The action feels like it’s one he’s performed a million times. I’m slippery from the water and he splashes more water up with every pass he takes, squeezing both my ass cheeks. He separates and kneads them in his large hands like he has every right to manhandle me so intimately without even knowing me a full week.

All the sleepiness flees under his touch. While before his caresses felt clearly meant to clean away the grime and relax me, now there’s an intent to the way his fingers flex and stretch my flesh.

Still, I’m shocked when his palm lands on my ass. I yelp and swing my head around to look at him. His gaze is locked on my ass, which he’s gone back to rubbing and kneading.

“Count,” he says calmly, his thumbs circling closer toward… toward… that place, “and ask Please, Sir, may I have another?”

A rush of air expels from my lungs, all the relaxation from minutes ago officially gone. My stomach clenching in rebellion. I can’t believe he’s back to this BS. I gave into the food thing, can’t he give it a break for a while?

He smacks my other ass cheek. “Count,” he orders.

He spanks me again.

Then he massages the sting away. His thumbs have abandoned circling around my back passage, thank God, but his fingers now tease at my pussy amid the spanking. He lands another smack.

“One!” I finally shout, enraged. The single word echoes off the bathroom walls.

He spanks me yet again. “What else?” he immediately demands, sounding completely calm.

My whole body clenches up. Damn him. Goddamn him.

“You know what I want. Start over and do it like Master requires.”

He smacks my already sore ass mercilessly. My body jerks with the blow and then his hand reaches between my spread legs. He teases my clit while inserting a long finger inside me.