Lust & Lies Box Set-Sexual Awakenings, Excess, Predator & Prey

“Can we please not talk about this here?” I pleaded with her.

“Oh my GOD, you do love her. Rhys, that’s incredible!” My mother leaned back from her kitchen stool to look into the living room at the two of us talking, and I quickly stifled Heidi’s excitement.

“Shut up right now. And anyway, I’m not so sure it’s going to work out,” I said, dismissing the whole conversation.

“Brother, I love you, but this time, I won’t shut up.” She looked at Bryce and then to me. “I never thought you were the type to settle down, but watching you with Bryce, I can’t see you any other way. Honestly, if you have finally found a woman who will put up with your shit, and your son loves her and you love her, I don’t see what the problem is.”

I gave her a warning glare.

“Mom, guess what!” Heidi said, rubbing her belly as she eyed me with nothing but mischief.

“What, honey?” my mother answered from the kitchen.

“Fine,” I gritted out. “What do you want to know?”

“Never mind,” Heidi chimed in reply to my mother, victory in her voice.

I leaned in, ready to strangle her. “What, Heidi?”

“It’s just...I want to see you happy. You’ve been alone for so long.” She looked down at her stomach then back to me. “If you can find someone, it kind of gives me hope, ya know?” Once again, my sister had misplaced her affections for the wrong man and found herself alone, but this time with a constant reminder of the failed relationship.

I understood her need to see a different result for me. She was about to be a single parent, a predicament I was all too familiar with.

“She’s everything I’ve ever wanted,” I admitted. “I hate being without her. She’s smart and so completely beautiful. She’s real and raw and embraces her flaws, when to me she has none. Her vulnerability is refreshing and yet she has no issues calling me out on my shit or putting me in my place. You should see the way she looks at Bryce...She’s not anything like the women before her and she makes me feel...everything.” Heidi’s eyes filled as she nodded. That’s all it took to reduce my very pregnant sister to tears.

I didn’t want to admit to Heidi that I was uncomfortable and felt helpless for the first time in my life when it came to a woman; that my past may have completely screwed up my future. That I had selfishly forced her from being my submissive into a relationship she may not have been ready for, then broken her trust repeatedly because I hadn’t trusted her enough with the truth.

“He doesn’t want anything to do with the baby,” she said, her eyes reflecting her sadness. “I don’t understand that, Rhys.”

I put my hands on her full belly and her smile returned. “Yo

u’ve got everything you need right here,” I said, rubbing her swollen stomach. “And you will always have me, I promise.”

She threw her arms around me and gave me a quick hug. I braved a look at my phone as she went to join the rest of the family in the kitchen.

VIOLET: Merry Christmas.

“Take off your panties and hand them to me.” Rhys had been waiting for me in his bedroom, his black bag on the dresser. The bed was covered in things I’d only read about and I quickly looked at him with wide eyes. I did as I was told as Rhys held out his hand, dressed in his unbuttoned, crisp white shirt that revealed his perfectly etched chest, jeans, and sexy bare feet. He took my hand and put it through one of the leg holes of my panties, twisting them until they were tight then pulled my other hand through, securing them until they were clasped at the wrist.

Bound with my own panties, oh God, yes!

“I still have a lot of work to do with you, Violet, so I need you to do as I say. No questions, or you will be punished. Do you understand?”

“Yes, sir,” I said with a slight hint of sarcasm that he didn’t miss. It was answered with the painful thump of his finger on my hard nipple. I glared at him in response and was graced with a seductive smile.

“Still so ready to defy me. Have you not learned anything by now?” He leaned in close enough that our lips almost touched and I moved in to kiss him, but he pulled away. “That is where you fuck up, sweetheart. You must think I’ve gone soft. What do you say we remedy that right now?” he taunted as he pulled a black ribbon out of his magic black bag and secured it around my eyes. “Do yourself a favor tonight and don’t think, don’t speak, just obey.”

I stood naked before him as I waited for his next order.

“So beautiful and such a sweet pussy,” he growled, turning me away from him and pulling my bound wrists up to hook over the bedpost then sliding them down so I was forced to bend over, completely bared to him.

“Spread them wider, Violet. I want to see it all.” I spread wider as my legs begin to burn under the strain. I waited patiently as my breath quickened with each passing second. I had been ordered all day by text to touch myself to the point of climax but never come. I’d almost given in as I stroked myself in one of the houses I was showing while I thought of him. In the end, I’d kept my part of the bargain, showing up at his house with a swollen and aching center, dying for release. He knew the minute he saw me I had obeyed him and promised me I’d be rewarded.

“I can smell how much you need me.” My body jumped as his breath hit my center. I pushed it toward him in question. “Still giving orders, even without the use of that sassy mouth,” he teased. I felt him set what felt like a stick on my back, balancing it just above my ass.

“If you drop the whip, you don’t come. I really wouldn’t test me this time.”

I groaned in frustration, but it was cut short as I felt a slap on the inside of my thigh. I cried out but remained still and was rewarded with the feeling of the weight of the whip on my back.