e couldn’t help but grin.
“And if I get it wrong?”
“You don’t get another bite,” he said, shrugging. “You’ll have to take a consequence, and we’ll continue.”
“A consequence,” she repeated dryly.
“You could take a spanking. Five swats for each time you’re wrong.”
“A spanking? Using your hand, you mean?” she asked, straining to keep her voice even.
He nodded. “My hand against your bare ass.”
She swallowed thickly. Her heartbeat pounded in her ears and pulsed erotically in her sex. How hard could it be, really? How many types of fruit were there? Surely she wouldn’t miss, and if she did . . . well, five swats wouldn’t be that bad . . .
. . . and they might be very good.
“Well? Do you want to play?” he asked quietly, the glint of a challenge in his eyes.
“Yes,” she replied honestly. “Just tell me one thing first.”
He nodded.
“Have you played this game before?”
He blinked and she knew she’d taken him by surprise with her question. His grin slowly faded. She held her breath. He shook his head slowly.
“It’s not a game. Not really. It’s just playing, something to ease your anxiety. I’m making it up as I go along, because I don’t usually play in the bedroom. Not until you, and only for you. Do you understand?” She nodded, though stunned by his admission. “Then come here,” he said, holding out his hand.
He spread his thighs and she walked between them.
* * *
Vanni held up the vibrator that had buzzed her with such wicked precision this afternoon.
“I’m going to put this in, but first I’m going to touch you, just to see if you need some lubrication on the vibrator before I insert it.”
She stared at him, shocked a little, but also strangely aroused by his matter-of-fact language. Holding her stare, he slipped his finger beneath the top band of her panties. Heat flooded her sex and her face. Oh God, how embarrassing.
“Spread your thighs,” he urged as his long finger slid deeper. She did what he instructed, holding her breath. It escaped on a little gasp when his fingertip touched her entrance, then penetrated her just a half an inch or so. He grunted softly, and her cheeks turned from hot to scalding.
“Why are you blushing?” he murmured, studying her face as he slowly pushed a finger into her another half an inch. “It’s a wonderful thing, to find you so warm and slick.”
Her lips fell open as he gently sawed the top of his finger in and out of her for a moment. She still was embarrassed at being found wet even without any prior prolonged stimulation. He had kissed her several times this evening, but never for longer than a fraction of a minute or so. It’d been the experience of just being with him all night that had so well prepared her for this moment.
He withdrew his hand, and her underwear slipped back into place. Despite her embarrassment, she missed his touch. He picked up the vibrator from the bed. “Now this,” he said simply before he pushed down the elastic band of her underwear again. Holding one end of the U-shaped, slender vibrator, he pushed it between her thighs. Again, he watched her face as he inserted the tip into her channel, penetrating her several inches until the bottom of the U was pressed flush against her sex, the other tip lodged next to her clit. The vibrator remained in place.
“Okay?” he asked.
“Yes,” she said, feeling sweat pop out against her upper lip.
“Good.” He picked up his discarded tie. “Put your hands in front of you. I’m going to bind them.”
She followed his instructions, her heart chugging away in her chest. He looped the silk tie around her wrists and bound her with quick, expert precision. How many times had he bound a woman before? Was she crazy, for allowing this? Her anxious thoughts evaporated when he picked up the black scarf.
“Just lower your head a little, and I’ll blindfold you,” he said gently.
Even though he sat, and she stood, he was so tall that their heights weren’t that disparate. The last vision she had before the placed the silk scarf over her eyes, blinding her, was of his hot, gleaming eyes. Even though she could no longer see them a moment later as she straightened, the vision of them was burned into her mind’s eye.