“You will be my whore.” His green gaze heated, and his lips tugged up at the corner before he added, “Until the end of our engagement.”
The fact I wasn’t offended by the idea, making me a complete dumbass, wasn’t lost on me.
Desire pooled between my folds as the throbbing in my core grew to an almost unbearable ache, and the longing to press my thighs together intensified to the point where I had to force myself to stay still.
“This is extortion.”
“Technically, it’s blackmail.”
“Blackmail,” I echoed.
“Yes, that’s the lie you can tell yourself every time I fuck you senseless.” He leaned forward, bringing his mouth a hairsbreadth from mine. “And not because your body is dying for my touch, or because you’re so desperate for me to make you come over and over again that you’re going insane, or because you can’t imagine going into your future vanilla life of freedom without a man like me dominating every inch of you. Inside. And. Out.”
I couldn’t breathe. Oh God, I couldn’t breathe.
How the fuck could he know all of these things about me?
What was happening to me?
“You assume too much about me.”
“Is that what you believe or what you want to believe?” He grazed his stubble-covered jaw along the sensitive curve of my neck, forcing my nipples to pebble into hard, unbearably aching peaks.
“You know nothing about me.”
“Are you sure about that? All it will take is the slide of my fingers between the slick folds of your pussy lips to make a liar out of you.”
As if hearing his words, my core contracted, and desire flooded my underwear.
“Tell me I have no effect on you. Tell me I’m just like any other man.” He pressed his hard body to mine, his thick, steely cock a hot brand between us.
“It doesn’t change anything,” I whispered through an unsteady breath. “I don’t want you, and you don’t want me.”
Well, maybe my body did, but hell if I’d voice that.
“What is so wrong with fucking each other to quench the need and then going our separate ways?”
“I won’t let you trap me into a marriage. If anyone finds out we slept together, you have everything to gain.”
“Haven’t you figured it out yet, Goddess?”
“Figured what out?”
“You don’t have a choice but to go through with this.” He glided his mouth back and forth across mine.
It took all my effort not to moan.
“For your freedom, for your family’s portion of the trust. You belong to me for the next year.” He bit my lower lip, giving it a wickedly delicious sting that I felt deep down to the center of my being. “And to the matter of trapping you. If you kept your clubs a secret, I’m sure we can manage an affair without anyone being the wiser.”
Fuck. I had to get away from him. He was too damn potent for me to think clearly.
I jerked my arms, trying to pull away, but his hold tightened and he lifted his head, that penetrating focus of his trained on me, telling me he saw way too much.
“You can always say no and chance the consequences. I’ll lose the port, but think of all that you and your family will risk. Are you willing to put all of it on the line?”
“I hate you.”
“I told you it wouldn’t be the last time you’d say it to me.”