Master of the Dark Side: A Novella (11 page)

With his back to the door, Virgil faced MaryAnn in the otherwise empty kitchen.

“Oooh, it’s the big dom,” MaryAnn cooed.

“Find someone else, girl.” The cold, rough voice should have sent any submissive fleeing.

Not MaryAnn. The brunette ran her fingers down Virgil’s chest.

He gave a grunt of exasperation and brushed her hands away. “You trying to get in trouble?”

“I like trouble.” MaryAnn actually moved closer and rubbed his crotch.

Summer scowled at the bite of jealousy.
That’s mine.

With an irritated snort, Virgil pulled handcuffs from his pocket, spun MaryAnn around, and cuffed her wrists behind her back. Oh yeah, the man was definitely a cop.

He fisted MaryAnn’s braids tightly enough to make her squeak and frowned down at her.

Summer crammed her hand into her mouth. What if he hit her? She pushed at Simon. “Go help.”

Simon shook his head and gripped the back of her neck. “Stay put, pet.”

She hesitated.

Before Summer could decide what to do, Virgil pushed the handcuff key between MaryAnn’s lips. “Ask Simon or Logan to free you and return my cuffs.” As if the sub no longer existed in his universe, he pulled the refrigerator door open.

Simon chuckled. “Rona said you needed to see to believe. Now get back to the couch.”

Summer stared at him. Had Simon told MaryAnn to deliberately provoke Virgil?

MaryAnn appeared in the door, snickering under her breath.

“You sneaks,” Summer whispered, and the two conspirators grinned.

Simon jerked his head, and Summer ran for the couch.

She dropped onto it, and a second later, Virgil reentered the room. His gaze found her with palpable warmth, before he walked over to where Simon was uncuffing MaryAnn.

As she waited, Summer curled into a corner of the couch to think. MaryAnn had made Virgil mad, and he’d merely sent her to Simon. He could easily have lost his temper and gotten very rough. Some doms would have.

“Earth to Summer.” Virgil’s amused voice came from a foot away.

“Oh!” Her head jerked up, and she put her hand over her heart to make sure it hadn’t stopped. “Sorry.”

He tore off the plastic seal and opened the water bottle with that ingrained courtesy of his. Well, when he wasn’t holding her immobile and driving her into an uncontrollable orgasm. In the center of the room.

After handing her the water, he picked her up and sat down on the couch with her in his lap. She shifted to get settled, felt his thick, very hard cock, and squirmed more, until he growled and held her hips still.

“Oh sorry.” She couldn’t suppress her giggle.

“Evil girl.” He drank some of her water and then leaned back with a sigh.

His arm around her was firm, holding her against his big chest, making her feel safe…and…and
wanted
. But she hadn’t given him anything in return except doubts and fears. And he didn’t know if he even liked being a dom. Another twinge of guilt assaulted her. “Does it bother you to…to make me do things?”

“Some.” From the underlying grimness in his voice, he definitely felt uncomfortable. “How about you? Does it bother you when I force you into something?”

“Well, I didn’t want to stand on a coffee table. But you made me, and that turned me on even more.” She took a breath. How could she explain? “Sometimes there’s an empty place inside me. Cold. When you take charge, it seems to fill that up. Warms me—even if what we’re doing has nothing to do with sex.”

His arms tightened, pulling her so close his heartbeat thudded through his ribs to hers. “Well. That’s a bit of how I feel when I know I’ve satisfied you and know you’re happy because of me.”

Thank God
. If he hadn’t liked being in control, she couldn’t have gone on. She had a thought. “You started because of your cousin, but before—did you ever think about bondage or domination?”

“Oh yeah.” The corner of his mouth turned up. “When I tied you up during the calf roping, you definitely fulfilled a fantasy. And we knocked off a few more later.”

That felt good. “Uh, would it help to know I’ve always wanted this?” She ran her hand over his strong jaw and saw, as usual, he was giving her all his attention.

“Always?”

“Pretty much. My Ken doll used to tie Barbie up and spank her for being bad.”

He choked.

She grinned and whispered, “I had a Bondage Barbie.”

When his growling laughter burst out, she snuggled closer in perfect contentment.

*

“Bondage Barbie.”
Virgil
would never look at the damn doll the same way again.

He made Summer finish her water, although when she sat up, he’d swear she intentionally squirmed her ass on his cock.

If she kept teasing him, he’d fuck her here on the couch, privacy or not.

But during their tour of the room, he’d spotted a likely place. “Up you go.” After rising, he curved his fingers over her nape, his hand big enough to get a good grip. Not a bad technique, although he’d noticed a collar like Rebecca wore gave even more control.

He guided his pretty little sub to the back corner. Two overstuffed chairs faced a tall couch that screened the area. He stopped Summer in front of one chair. “Kneel here.”

She gave him a startled look, and then gracefully sank to her knees. She assumed the eyes-down, knees-apart, hands-on-thighs position he’d seen other subs use.

She hadn’t knelt like that in the club, he realized. A dark satisfaction filled him, the knowledge she wanted to please him even more now than then. “Sweet Summer,” he murmured.

Although her gaze stayed on the floor, a happy smile flickered over her lips.

By unscrewing the light bulb in a wall sconce, he plunged the area into shadowy darkness.
Much better
. In the center of the room, Logan frowned and turned to look. When Virgil raised his hand, the lodge owner nodded acknowledgement.

Virgil returned to Summer and noted the difference the change of lighting had accomplished. She was quivering with excitement and nerves. He knew just how to up the tension some more. “Strip, please.”

“Yes, Sir,” she whispered. When she rose and started to unhook her corset, his cock felt as if someone had closed a hot fist around it. He dropped into the chair and watched silently as her mouth-watering breasts came into view, then her softly rounded stomach. Fuck, she was beautiful.

All too soon, she set her clothing on a chair and stood before him, eyes cast down, shifting her weight from one foot to another. Adorably uncertain.

The small amount of light glinted off her blonde hair and brushed over her smooth skin. It shadowed beneath her full breasts and created a tempting darkness between her thighs. “Present yourself. Feet shoulder-width apart, hands behind your back.”

Unfortunately, the dim lighting meant he couldn’t see the flush rising into her face, although he could almost feel it. The position opened her legs nicely and raised her breasts—no wonder doms liked it so much. Her nipples had peaked into tiny spears. He pulled her forward until her toes touched his. “Bend and hold on to my shoulders.”

Her small hands closed on his shoulders, sending a punch of lust straight to his crotch. As he’d figured, her position dangled her breasts in front of him like hanging fruit. He took one nipple in his mouth, teased the point to even greater hardness, and sucked strongly. Her breath caught.

When he gently closed his teeth on the tender tip, a shudder ran through her. Yes, she liked that. Not releasing her breast, he grasped her arms and kept her in place, then laved the peak and bit down again. Carefully. Firmly.

She moaned, her eyes half-closed, her skin hot under his hands.

He blew air over the wet nipple. “You have beautiful breasts, honey. I remember how they look when they’re swollen and red.” His voice came out rough with his need.

Her whisper was only hint of sound. “Yes, Sir.”

“I’m not going to tie you down. I expect you to stand perfectly, completely still…no matter what I do.” He released his grip on her arms and took her left nipple in his mouth. So velvety soft with tantalizing bumps surrounding the slightly rough tip. He teased and sucked, and it swelled under his attention. With his fingers, he played with her other breast, teeth on the left, lightly pinching the right.

Her grip tightened on his shoulders. When he bit down, he heard a whimper of mingled pain and need. Her whole body shook, but she didn’t move, didn’t try to pull away. “You’re such a good little sub,” he murmured. “Open your legs for me.”

The helpless sound she made increased the hum in his veins and the pressure in his already rock-hard cock. As she moved her feet apart, he inhaled the scent of aroused female. He brushed his knuckles down her soft stomach to her mound, then ran one finger over her bare pussy. Very, very smooth. “Did you think of me when you shaved today?”

A hesitation. “Yes, Sir.”

Why did her whispered answer remind him of the last shoplifter he’d arrested? She sounded…guilty. He took a guess. “Did you come?”

She swallowed audibly. “Yes, Sir.”

He smothered a laugh. His dom brain said
bad sub
; his guy brain gloated that she’d gotten off thinking of him. “I see. While you’re here, Summer, I’ll take charge of those orgasms.”

‡

S
ummer heard the
amusement overlaying the steel in his voice, and relief ran through her. “Yes, Sir.” Summer concentrated on not moving. Her pussy throbbed with the need to be touched, and all her senses focused on his finger resting on her outer folds.

“I have big hands, Summer, so open your legs until your feet are wider than the chair.”

Heat seared her skin as she imagined those big hands on her. Touching her intimately. She put more weight on her arms and edged her feet out.

“Now bend your knees a little.”

As she complied, her pussy opened wider, the puffy, wet folds peeling apart, exposing her core.

“That’s right, honey.” Virgil slid his hands between her legs, curved his palms under her ass cheeks, and lifted her. Leaning back, he lowered her until the backs of her thighs rested on the chair arms, and her feet dangled on the outside.

Her bottom bounced a few inches above his thighs, and she tightened her grip on his shoulders. He’d spread her so widely that she had no leverage to move. In fact, she probably couldn’t get out of this position without help.

“That’ll do,” he said. Tilting his head, he licked one breast, then the other, starting the current sizzling up her center. He rested his thumbs in the creases between her hips and pelvis. So close to where she wanted him.
Oh God
. She quivered, needing his touch.

She closed her eyes and tried to regain her senses. To be fair. “It’s your turn. You don’t need to…to play with me or anything.”

“You think?” A crease appeared in his cheek. Damn, when he looked at her like that, so amused and hot, she purely melted. “Summer. Whether I play or not is totally up to me. You don’t get a vote.”

He ran a finger around her slick entrance and pushed inside. His finger felt huge, wonderfully thick as he slid it slowly between her swollen tissues. “You’re nice and wet for me, I see.”

When he moved his hand away, she gritted her teeth.
Don’t move, don’t move.

He unzipped his jeans. Commando.
Oh my
. She’d forgotten his size until his erection bobbed up and bounced against her pussy. Pleasure zinged up her spine.

She really, really wanted him inside her. Even more than getting off, her body cried out to be possessed. Filled. What would it feel like to be taken anally? As the thought shivered across her nerves, the muscles back there clenched.

After pulling a condom from his pocket, Virgil unpackaged something else—a pink circle with four nubby things around the sides.

“What is that?”

He gave her a narrow look. “Did I give you permission to speak?”

Oops.

He sheathed himself with the condom, then touched a side of the toy, and she heard buzzing. Another side. Increased buzzing. He worked the circle over his shaft. A cock ring
and
a vibrator?