Under His Rule

“Quite the opposite, actually. I’m amazed the people accept this.”

“That’s how this community works,” he explains, smiling. “But you figured that out already.”

I smile back. “I’m smarter than I look.”

“I know. I’ve known for a long time.”

I narrow my eyes. Why do I get the feeling everything he says has a double meaning to it?

“Just as I knew you would come here,” he says, spreading out his muscular arms above the edge of the Jacuzzi.

Of course he knew which choice I’d make.

“The choice was yours nonetheless,” he says, looking up at me with those same sultry eyes that manage to weaken my every defense. “But you know that too.”

I suck in a breath and think about the note. The choice I have to make is clear, but not at all simple. Get fucked by an unknown man or get fucked … by him.

There is no choice, only the lesser evil of two.

But if I’m going to have to fuck, one way or another, then it’ll be by a man of my choosing. This place has already taken so much away from me. I won’t let it take away this choice from me.

So I slide underneath the water until it covers my mouth and swim two strokes until I’m right in front of him. Naked. Ready.

Chapter 15

Noah

I’ve been waiting for this moment for so long. Finally, she’s here, in the flesh … naked.

From the very first moment I laid my eyes on her, I’ve wanted to take her, but it needed to be her choice and hers alone. I wanted her to decide between me or someone she doesn’t know. And she picked right.

I’m the only one she should want, and she’ll find out soon enough just how hard that can be … after I’ve ravaged her pussy. I’ll fuck with her mind and her body in ways she can’t imagine. She’ll be left hanging on my lips, wishing she could have another taste.

She’s already right in front of me, eyeing me down as if she’s waiting for me to pounce. But I want her to make the first step. I’m not interested in taking what isn’t mine. I want her to be wholly submitted to me before I make my move.

So I wait, with ease but also with eagerness, leaning in to tempt her just enough to make that final move. That one kiss that’ll push her over that dark line where nothing is right and nothing is wrong as long as it feels good.

Her lips pucker as she leans in, and she places a kiss ever so gently on the side of my lips.

“That’s what you wanted all along,” she mumbles.

I grin. She doesn’t even know half of what I have in store for her.

“You have no idea,” I reply.

“Oh, do I?” She raises a brow.

Not a chance.

Grabbing her face with both hands, I smash my lips onto hers, claiming what’s meant for me and only me. She doesn’t fight me, but I can tell she’s holding back. I know she’s letting me have my way with her, but I want her to give it her all.

“Give me everything,” I whisper against her lips.

I know she wants to; I could taste it on her lips and feel it on her body as she inches closer and closer to mine.

She pauses for a second, our lips red and heavy, desperate to collide again. “I want something in return.”

I lean back and grab her chin with my index finger and thumb. “You don’t get to make demands, Natalie. It’s my way or the highway.”

“So this is my only choice?” she says.

I nod, and her nostrils flare as she shakes her head. “You play a dark game, Noah.”

“Oh, this is anything but a game to me,” I reply. “I want every single inch of you. No-holds-barred. Every look, every breath, every moan.”

Her cheeks turn the same shade of red they had when she first entered the room. I quite like how it looks on her. So innocent and sweet and not at all how I know she is deep down inside. A devilish enchantress ready to steal your heart … or break it into a million pieces.

And I cup her face in my hand, and say, “Tonight, you’re mine.”

She doesn’t resist, doesn’t pull away as I lean in and kiss her lips. Instead, she closes her eyes and lets me persuade her to stay and give her what she needs for tonight.

I plant a million tiny kisses on her lips until she’s overcome with need and opens her mouth, allowing my tongue to enter. I kiss her hard and deep, circling my tongue around hers, claiming it, owning it. I want her to know what I could do to her if she’d only let me, if I was the one to own her completely.