We’d confirmed the validity of the Kensington-Constantine merger. It wasn’t public information, but she had her sources, and I had mine. When she’d called her mother, Caroline didn’t deny it. Tinsley was expected to marry Tucker, and I was ready to commit mass murder over it.
On the fifth day, after the final bell rang and my classroom cleared out, she sat in the front row and stared at nothing across the room.
“Ask me what your correction will be today.” I stood from my desk.
“More Bible readings.” She growled her displeasure.
“No.”
“What?”
“Ask me.”
“I don’t care.” She held my gaze, and her chest hitched with a resigned breath. “Fine. What cruel and unusual punishment will I be enduring today, Father Magnus?”
“I’m glad you asked.” I paced to the door and angled my head so that I could watch her as I turned the lock.
Click.
She stiffened.
My skin heated. “You’re going to scrub the floors.”
The sound of her sharp inhale surged blood to my cock.
“We’ve been here before,” she murmured. “We can’t do it again.”
“No, Tinsley. We definitely have not been where we’re going today.”
“What do you mean?”
“On your feet.” I prowled toward her, relishing her beautifully flushed cheeks.
Arousal looked so fucking delicious on her.
She pushed to stand and faced me with her shoulders squared. I expected nothing less from this sublime woman.
“We should skip this.” Her eyes watched me, sharp and unflinching. “We can just imagine it. Pretend that I make my usual sexy, intelligent retorts. You make your unintelligent gorilla sounds. I roll my eyes. You spank me, and we both go back to our sad little rooms in physical pain, bereft and aching, because let’s face it…” She lowered her voice, frustration written in her features. “Three months of foreplay isn’t fun, Magnus. It’s agony.”
“Remove your underwear.”
“Where’s the bloody pair that you never returned?”
“Clean and safely stored in its new home beneath my pillow.”
She floated into my space, her hands and chest sliding up my torso, her toes stretching, mouth reaching, hunting for mine. “You’re such a creeper.”
“Only for you.” I angled my lips away, denying her. I brushed my nose against hers once, twice, teasing her. Then I stepped back and held out my hand, mastering her. “I gave you an order.”
Her shoulders lowered, and her gaze hooded. Acceptance. Surrender. Desire.
Everything about Tinsley was a tantalizing, kinky, forbidden slow burn. I didn’t even need to touch her, and I felt like I was having the best sex of my life.
This was no longer about keeping my vows. Those had been razed to the ground the night I’d met her. The night she’d ravaged my mind, consumed my prayers, and made a home inside my cold, dead heart.
“I’m only doing this because I’m bored.” She slowly reached beneath her skirt and slipped the pink satin underwear down her legs, staring into my eyes the whole damn time. “Also, every girl knows that when a well-proportioned, powerfully built, humanlike creature—who could possibly be mistaken as a man—asks for her panties, she should just hand them over. Resistance is futile.”
Her pouty lip whitened beneath the press of her teeth as she flung the underwear at me.
I caught the scrap of satin and tucked it into my pocket.
“I’m still on my period.” She arched a brow.
“Remove the tampon.” I held out my hand again, palm up.
“You’re serious.”
“Deadly.”
“We can’t…” She sneaked a look at the door, her voice an urgent hush. “We can’t have sex. Especially not here.”
“What we can and cannot do is my concern. Your only responsibility is following my order and giving me access to your pussy.”
She could refuse me. There was always that possibility, and I would accept her rejection without retaliation. I’d been very clear with her on that point.
I was nothing like her mother. I would never force her into something for my own personal gain. But it didn’t hurt to remind her.
“Say no, and nothing changes.” I kept my hand extended between us. “You mean more to me than all the money and sex in the world.”
“Magnus…”
“You hold all the power between us. You always have.”
“I know.” She rested her small hand on my larger one. “There’s no tampon. I’m not bleeding anymore. Does that disappoint you?”
My heart thudded heavily as I closed my fingers around hers and yanked her against my chest.
“There are other ways to make you leak.” Slowly, sensually, I reached beneath her skirt and teased the soft flesh between her legs.
Fighting the impulse to bury my fingers, I played with the entrance of her cunt, circled it, stroked it, and within seconds, felt the slick gush of her arousal soaking my hand.
To sink my cock inside this glorious, sacred part of her would be the honor of a lifetime. It was the one line I refused to let myself cross. I’d already taken too many liberties with her, broken too many laws. But I shouldn’t take her virginity. I didn’t deserve it.