And then he lifted her, gripping her by the upper arms and holding her just far enough away from him that he could stare directly into her eyes.
The world outside had disappeared. There was only sensation, Dorian and that intense gleam in his eyes.
“You please me, Erika,” he told her, his voice grave. “You took that well.”
She couldn’t seem to think. Or speak. All she could do was hold his words close, unexpected light that made her heart feel bigger than it had been.
She pleased him.
Maybe that was enough.
And then, all she could focus on was that ache between her legs, made ravenous by the hot red ache he’d given her.
He set her on her feet then, there between his legs. Erika cast her eyes down without being asked, but she could feel the smile in his voice when he spoke.
“Turn around, please. I want to admire my work.”
She shuddered, but obeyed.
“Hold up your skirt, please.”
And she could hear her own breathing again—not quite a sob any longer, not simply a breath—as she stood there, staring at those books again. Pretending she wasn’t holding her skirt up high, her thong still tangled around her knees, baring the ass he’d spanked to his view. And also unable to think of anything else.
She knew he sat forward when he gripped her hips, then moved his hands painfully over her ass cheeks again.
“Stay still,” he ordered her.
And she tried. She really did try.
“Your ass is beautifully red and hot,” he told her after a moment. “I like all those tears on your face, Erika. I’m feeling magnanimous and very well pleased. Ask me for what you want. I might just grant it to you.”
She didn’t even think. She didn’t have to think. She knew exactly what she wanted.
Erika couldn’t have imagined that it would all go down like this, that he would scare her, then spank her and make her purge herself of some ugliness she wasn’t sure she even wanted to look at straight. But she knew what she wanted.
She’d only ever wanted one thing from him, above everything else. It was funny how clear it was now. All the world had seemed to narrow down to just one thing.
“Look at me,” he said, and she did.
She looked back over her shoulder to find his dark eyes blazing with the same intense heat she could feel coiled so tightly inside her.
“Ask me,” he ordered.
“Please, sir,” Erika said softly in a voice that sounded like belonged to someone else, but she couldn’t think about that now. “Please. Fuck me.”
CHAPTER SIX
DORIANHADN’TMEANTto do anything but scare her.
But then she’d stuck her chin in the air, gave him that challenging look, talked about finding herself a different kinky club and... No.
He couldn’t allow it.
And somewhere in there, it had all changed from a lesson he could have imparted to anyone who needed to understand what a firm hand and some discipline could do, to...this.
His cock was so hard he thought he might burst. When he was never, ever out of control. Never with submissives. Never anywhere, for that matter.
She’s different, something in him whispered, but she was Conrad’s little sister, so that was impossible.