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  My eyes glossed even as I pushed backward, imploring Q to strike again.

  Vibrating with lust, he leaned closer and licked my smarting ass cheek, soothing away the sweet pain.

  With a growl, he plucked the small G-string with his fingertips and pulled. The material tightened around my pussy, pinching my clit, making me burn. Then with a jerk of his head, Q sliced through the lace with his teeth and the G-string existed no more.

  He brought the fabric to his nose and inhaled deep. “Fuck me, you smell incroyable.” With a dark glint in his eye, he balled the scrap of lingerie and shoved it in his pocket. He caught me watching over my shoulder and said, “Now I’ll always have you close, esclave.”

  My cheeks flared, but my heart fluttered just the same. Q wanted a part of me on him at all times. I wanted the same thing. I wanted to wear his scent. To wrap myself up in everything Q.

  Q cocked his head and reached for his fly. Never dropping eye contact, he undid his belt buckle and slid it slowly from the waistband.

  I started to shake. My fingernails clawed into the carpet, expecting another round of belt abuse. It’d only been four days since Q welcomed me home with the aid of his belt and some ice-cold champagne.

  Q bared his teeth, eyes flashing with irritation. “I may be a lot of things, but I’m not such a bastard to hit you on top of bruises that are barely healed.” Deliberately he tossed the leather to the side.

  I didn’t relax, and didn’t know if I suffered regret or relief at his decency.

  “I’m going to punish you in other ways. Face away.” He motioned for me to look down and I unwillingly dropped my head.

  Not seeing him was worse to my oversensitive body. Without knowing what he was doing, my imagination ran overtime.

  The sound of a zipper coming undone sounded loud, even over the whirr of rotor blades. Q’s hot, hard flesh connected with the back of my thighs as he pressed against me and jerked down his boxer-briefs in one swipe.

  I moaned, rocking toward him. I thought his thighs were hot, but they were Antarctica compared to the inferno of his cock. It hung heavy and hard between my open thighs, teasing me to the point of mania.

  He groaned, fisting his erection, dragging the head through my folds. “Fuck. Will I ever get enough of you?” As he spoke, he captured my clit with his thumb and forefinger.

  I jerked and liquefied. My pussy rejoiced at finally having stimulation. Normally I’d need more than a simple touch, but this time just the thought of his hand on me summoned the orgasm that lived behind my eyes, in my blood, and deep in my core.

  “Q…yes, Q.”

  He inserted the tip of his finger inside me before pulling back and replacing it with the thick head of his cock.

  The heavenly bliss of being entered, expanded and stretched, sent my heartbeat whizzing. My head was too heavy to hold up, and I let it dangle, giving in to the overwhelming exquisite anticipation of Q fucking me.

  He sank in another centimetre, his thighs rigid against mine. Another groan wrenched from his chest. “How is it I’m about to fucking come when I exploded in your mouth an hour ago?”

  I bit my lip at the ragged wonderment in his tone. He wasn’t asking me the question. It was rhetorical. He truly didn’t understand the compulsion between us—I knew I didn’t. There weren’t words or rationality to explain our bond.

  Happiness scorched through me like a sunrise. Me, Tess Snow, a woman from no worth or recognition, had a power over a sadistic legend like Q. And fuck, that turned me on.

  Q spanked me again, slicing his large hand right across my ass. The previous belt marks awoke, tingling, searching for relief. Then he caressed me, leeching the heat away.

  He repeated. Spank. Caress. Until my head swam and my pussy contracted around the small fraction of cock he let me have.

  “Q!” I moaned. “Please. No more. I need you so much.”

  His fingers dipped between my legs. I cried out as he smeared wetness around my clit.

  “Shit.” Q’s muffled curse caused sparklers and fireworks to fizz in my blood.

  I pushed back, arching my spine. My lips parted; I didn’t recognise the girl panting as if she’d run a marathon. All I cared about was coming.

  “Merde, esclave, stop. For fuck’s sake, you’re ruining me.” Even with the ferocity of Q’s anger, I thrilled with the knowledge I was winning in some small measure—the former slave training the master. If I’d been a poet, I would’ve written how serendipitous it all was. How fate entwined and cursed us both.

  Q gripped my hips, propping me higher. Pulling out, the heat of his erection nudged my ass; I jolted with urgency.

  Sitting higher on his knees, Q muttered, “This is going to be fast and hard, and I don’t want you to say a word, do you hear me?”

  I nodded, breathless already. “I’ll do anything you want, as long as you let me come.”

  “You can come, but only when I say.” His nails imprinted crescent moons into my skin, digging deep. “But if you come before, I’ll punish you worse. I won’t feel regret or remorse. I’ll find a way to punish you that doesn’t make me suffer, too.”

  He rocked, and his cock eased down my ass, between my spread thighs, nudging my core.

  Words were beyond me. I nodded wildly, scrabbling at the carpet. The strands wrapped around my fingers and I held on for dear life.

  With urgent hands, Q untwisted my coiled ponytail and grabbed a handful.

  With a jerk, he forced my head back. My spine arched as he plunged inside me.

  Deep.

  Hard.

  Excruciating fullness.

  I opened my mouth to scream, but he clamped a hand over me, riding me, containing my cries. “Shush, esclave. Not a sound, remember?”

  The intrusion was pain personified, the rocking endless bliss.

  The way he took me held no remnants of the sometimes sweet man beneath the blackness. This was purely brutal and dark and animalistic.

  I loved it.

  With his cock deep inside, his fist wrapped around my ponytail, and his other hand clasped over my mouth, he fucked me. Bucking so hard, carpet burn incinerated my pantyhose in a matter of seconds.

  But every time he thrust, I pushed back to meet him. I bowed more than I’d ever bowed before, relishing in the burn of my hair being tugged. My lungs strained as Q grunted and rutted, taking me true to his word.

  Little whimpers and mewls sounded low in my throat, but Q captured every one.

  My fingernails ached with how hard I dug into the carpet, and I flinched when Q let go of my hair to dig his nails deep into my hip, wrenching me backward, so his hipbones collided with my ass.

  I groaned as his fingernails suddenly broke the thin barrier of skin, imprinting claw marks. Yet another autograph, another claim of ownership.

  It unravelled me.

  My pussy swelled and welcomed, it sparked and heated and melted. The orgasm started in my heart, working its way over my jaw, scalp, and spine. Every scorching trail it travelled, I trembled.

  Don’t come. Don’t come.

  The mantra was no use when every thrust of Q’s cock overrode my commands. He owned me—it would be his fault I came.

  “Take your punishment, Tess. Fucking take all of me.” My mind screamed that I had taken all of him. His darkness, his worst, but he didn’t mean spiritually. He meant purely physical.

  He tugged on my hair again, pulling me onto my knees. Once upright, his arm latched around my chest while fingers twisted my nipple through the flimsy lace of my bra.

  I reached back to weave my fingers into his hair, loving the silky thickness, the shortness, the manly feel of his scalp.

  The moment he pinched my nipple, the first wave of my long-awaited orgasm swelled deep and strong in my belly. “Oh, God.”

  Q froze.

  His cock twitched inside, throbbing with blood and unshed come, but he held himself dead calm, causing my orgasm to pop and fade.

  I grabbed his ear, wanting to twist
and scream that he finished what he started, but I didn’t dare.

  “Did you come, esclave?” His voice was breathless, sinfully hot on my nape.

  I shook my head. “No, but, please. Let me, Q.”

  “You said those same words when you were chained and whipped in my bedroom. Remember how I fucked you with my tongue? How you rode my mouth with your legs on my shoulders?”

  His voice painted far too vivid pictures in my head. I rocked back, sitting hard on his cock, causing his length to hit the top of my womb.

  He gave a startled curse before his arms banded around me, forcing me to still. “Remember?”

  “I remember. I want to do it again. I want your mouth on me.”

  “You’ll have to earn it,” he whispered, biting my ear, causing me to jolt in his hold.

  He let me go with one arm and fumbled behind him. A moment later a flash of turquoise caught my eye as he captured my wrists, positioning them behind me.

  My centre of gravity shifted as Q bound my wrists with his tie. With him deep inside and my hands restrained behind my back, I toppled forward. But Q caught me, helping steady me while lowering me to the floor. “Put your cheek on the carpet.”

  Letting me angle my head, Q waited before releasing me. Blood rushed to my temples, and my tender neck screamed, but I didn’t make a peep.

  My heart rate ratcheted as the helicopter swooped to the right. How close were we to Paris?

  “Fuck, you look amazing like this. Tied up, impaled, completely at my mercy.” He trailed a fingertip along the crack of my ass, working down until he touched where we joined. Warm wetness smeared both of us. He stole some of it to swirl around my clit.

  My legs flinched, trying to close against the sudden intensity. “Q!”

  “I’m going to fuck you now, Tess. Do not come until I tell you to.”

  True fear rose. I didn’t have control of my body to promise. I’d come on the first thrust. I bit my lip, preparing myself for the hardest obedience yet.

  Q linked his fingers around the tie binding my wrists. Discomfort flared in my shoulders as my back arched, and legs splayed even further. The burn in my knees from the carpet turned my legs to fire.

  The pace Q set was contradictory to what I expected. He started long and deep and slow. Luxuriating, languishing, pulling out almost to the tip, before slowly entering me again.

  The thrice denied orgasm built again, coiling tighter with every stroke.

  “Tonight, I’m going to tie you upside down and force you to drink my come, esclave. Then I’m going to eat you until you forget your own name.”

  Shit, Q’s voice was an aphrodisiac. One more sentence and I’d explode.

  “I’m going to do so many things to you. So many fucking sinful thi—” Q groaned, stopping mid-word as he thrust deep and hard.

  He shattered the gentle rock, increasing the tempo until his balls slapped against my clit. I squeezed my eyes against the brain-warping need to come.

  As Q lost himself in me, I lost myself to him. The sound of the helicopter faded away, and the most important thing in the world was the connection between us. The intrinsic link of male and female.

  Q pinched my clit as he thrust violently, sending us forward a few centimetres. His hip bones bruised my ass as he turned savage. Gone were the long and measured thrusts. These were short and sharp and entirely explosive.

  “Fuck, esclave. Fuck, yes.” He let go of my bound wrists and spanked me once—hard and biting as he rippled inside; jets of hot come set off my own reaction, and I combusted.

  The orgasm thundered into being but then teetered on edge, almost as if it expected to be denied again. The pain of being held in limbo made me cry out.

  I writhed and bucked against Q’s relentless pace.

  “You have my permission. Come. Squeeze around my cock.” Q thrust harder, stroking my clit until I had no choice but to fall.

  I plummeted over the edge.

  I surrendered to the pulsating waves of bliss.

  My entire body contracted, and every part of me supernovaed into tiny particles. The little pieces of my soul collided, before reforming into something new.

  My past no longer existed. My future was uncertain, but one thing was for sure, Q tumbled me headfirst into vulnerability, stripping me bare.

  When the last tremor quaked through me, it ripped me apart, leaving my head swimming, lungs screaming, and my body completely limp. The sensation of being put back together after a world-altering orgasm brought me to tears.

  I’d been reborn.

  Q chuckled, still rock hard inside, but his voice sounded off as if he forced himself to speak. “I could come just from you milking my cock.”

  He pulled out and gently undid the tie from around my wrists. My body refused to move from the face-plant-ass-up position, and I moaned in pleasure as he wiped his come from between my legs with his expensive silk tie.

  What just happened to me?

  Once he finished, he stood and gathered me from the ground. Not meeting my eyes, he quickly secured his trousers and stuffed his tie into the same pocket that held my knickers.

  His body was supple, sated, but his eyes were tight.

  I reached to pull my skirt down, but he stopped me with his large hands. “Let me.”

  When our eyes connected, I stopped breathing. Whatever happened to me, he sensed it. He saw my confusion, my fragility.

  His face danced with confliction along with a trace of self-loathing.

  With aching tenderness, he smoothed down my skirt, frowning at the tear in the fabric he’d caused. We breathed each other as he carefully fastened the delicate buttons on my blouse. His hands were gentle and reverent as he repaired the damage, his knuckles brushing the sensitive flesh of my breasts.

  His lips stayed tight in concentration, and I fell a little more.

  Fell further into lunacy for this man who made me live.

  When the last button was done he paused, not moving away. “Tess…”

  I shook my head. Now was not the time to acknowledge what happened between us. I wanted to savour it. Protect it.

  He nodded, eyes troubled. He guided me into a chair and did up my seat belt. Leaning over me, he gave me the sweetest smile, whispering, “I think we just joined the mile high club.”

  I laughed softly as he sat in his own chair and glanced out the window. He looked pensive, completely wrapped up in his thoughts. The air between us no longer seethed with sexual tension, it hummed with emotional connection.

  I knew why Q looked quiet—it was because something deeper than just sex had happened. My mind felt it, my heart welcomed it—in the moment where Q made me splinter, I let down an unconscious wall. A wall that had been there my entire childhood—a foundation so I could have some sense of happiness, all while being unloved by my parents.

  Q shattered that wall, and he felt it, too.

  Something soft webbed between us, and I hoped it was the beginning of our future.

  I sighed, resonating with bruises and aches.

  High above the world, we were in perfect twisted harmony.

  You crawled into the darkness, set my monster free,

  so scream, bleed, call out to me, but never say stop, never flee…

  I’d done it.

  I did what I was after—what the beast was after.

  I broke her.

  I damaged something deep within Tess, and it fucking butchered me. I wanted to apologise, to slam to my knees and beg for her forgiveness, but she shook her head when I began, shutting me out.

  I didn’t know what the fuck happened. Nothing outwardly changed, but something had crumbled—some barrier between us—some ledge we hadn’t crossed.

  As the helicopter began its descent from clouds to city, I beat myself up for punishing her. For demanding too much, too soon.

  I fucking broke something deep inside her. What if I’ve ruined everything?

  Risking a look at Tess, I flinched at the shadows around her neck
and the fading carpet pattern on her cheek. Her eyes were closed with a tiny smile on her pink, perfect lips.

  She’d removed her pantyhose to get rid of evidence of our in-flight entertainment and her skin was flushed.

  My heart thudded hard, spreading foreign warmth through my body. The longer I stared, the more I wanted to wrap her up and keep her safe, but in the same thought, I wanted to kill and ruin anyone who came near her.

  I wanted to highlight her bruises, mark her skin, so everyone knew she belonged to me. I wanted to brand her, to scar her, to wear her blood as a blatant warning to any man who ever looked in her direction.

  Shit! I’m fucked up to want to hurt her so badly. I was right to send her back to Brax, and wrong to accept her back. She would never be free now. Not now I’d tasted her submission, felt the break in her psyche.

  The delicious snap had sounded like a gong in my heart. I felt her break; I wanted to crawl deep inside her and find out what part of her yielded to me.

  It was a sick addiction, and I wanted more. More. More. More.

  I wouldn’t be satisfied till I broke every barrier, consumed every thought.

  Leaning forward, I put my head in my hands, trying to massage away the rapidly forming headache.

  I’d always thought of myself as steel. Forged in hatred for my own father, sculptured by a will of iron to never bend to my heinous family traits. I’d always believed I was invincible. But I wasn’t.

  Turned out Tess was a furnace—the fucking kiln and smelter who gave no choice but to buckle and melt and turn into liquid.

  Steel didn’t change. It couldn’t change its molecular structure, but liquid metal…it could. Other elements could be added, minerals removed, impurities purged, until an entirely new composite existed.

  That’s how I felt.

  Melting, changing, evolving.

  I just hoped I survived the transition.

  *****

  “Bonjour, Mr. Mercer. Directement au bureau?” Straight to the office?

  I scowled at the chauffeur. In his penguin suit and slicked-back hair, he looked like any other member of my countless staff on call to run me around, do errands, and make sure the fucking scary CEO of Moineau Holdings was happy.