I exploded, pleasure and pain melded together, and then nothing but delicious ecstasy radiated out from my core. I gasped and arched, lost in euphoria as tremors shook my entire being.
Not a second later, Sam called out my name as his orgasm tore through him.
* * *
“Drink this.You know it works. So don’t complain like you always do.” Sam offered me a glass with some awful-tasting herb blend that had some miracle ability to soothe after one of our intense sex sessions.
I downed the contents, winced, then chugged the water next to the disgusting brew. “Thanks.”
He lifted my chin, studying the skin on my neck.
We’d spent the last hour and a half in a sort of quiet, wait-and-see mode, staying silent for the most part. Then, after a quick shower, we’d fallen into our routine of a soak in his oversized tub, followed by him tending to areas where he expected bruises to appear.
Now here we were, at the meal portion of the evening.
It would all go downhill from here. It was inevitable.
Deciding to be the one to start the conversation, I asked, “Do you want the answers that you never got the other night?”
“No.”
“What do you mean, no? You broke into my penthouse for them.”
“I told you. I want all or nothing. I’ve finally accepted what we have. So it doesn’t matter what you do. As long as you’re fucking me, you aren’t fucking anyone else. I don’t share my lovers.”
“What we have isn’t cold like that.”
“It is exactly like that. If I recall, you were the one who set the rules. Keep it casual. We fuck when the need calls to us, then keep going about our daily lives.”
“It never was like that between us.”
“You set the rules that first night, Devani. I’ve decided it’s time to enforce them.”
“I see.”
He shook his head. “You haven’t a clue. When you catch up, find me. Until then, we’ll serve each other’s sexual needs as our schedules fit.”
“Sam, why are you doing this?”
“Because we’re playing with my deck now, Highness. You want my time. You’ll crawl for it. You’ll beg for it, not the other way around. You’re so used to having everyone bow to your command. It’s time to see what it’s like to be at a King’s beck and call.”
“Why are you being such a bastard?”
He gave me a cruel laugh. “Did you forget? I am one.”
“You’ve never been cruel.”
“Wrong. I’ve never been cruel to you. I gave you the best of me and ended up the fool. Those days are over.”
“Sam, this isn’t how I want it between us.”
“Now you’ll see what it feels like to have the precedent you set used on you.”
I lifted my chin, letting everything inside me lock down so I wouldn’t break in front of him. “If that’s how you want it, fine. But sex is off the table. I won’t beg for your time or for you to satisfy me.”
“You’ll beg. I guarantee it.”
“I’m the Queen of Diamonds. I won’t beg for any man.”