Total pages in book: 158
Estimated words: 149641 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 748(@200wpm)___ 599(@250wpm)___ 499(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 149641 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 748(@200wpm)___ 599(@250wpm)___ 499(@300wpm)
He put his hands on her shoulders. Soft, warm skin. He loved touching her. He felt better when he had a hand on her. “Can’t I do both? Can’t I want you and want justice?”
She leaned back against him. “You can, but I worry if you’re put in a position where you have to make a choice, it won’t be me. But I suppose every woman has to take that chance. Not having sex with you won’t make me happier, and it won’t increase the chance that you might be able to love me. So I’m going to go with it for now, but I know you didn’t just come here for me.”
He wrapped an arm around her waist. “Then pretend. Pretend the only thing I think about is you.” He breathed her in, loving the way she smelled, how she fit into his arms. “Pretend we met some other way. Pretend I saw you and couldn’t stand the thought of not having you. You know I thought you were gorgeous, but what you don’t know is I came onto you…your sister that first night in Sydney because I was worried Dare would get distracted by her.”
Kenzie chuckled. “Well, he got distracted all right, but not by Kala. She wouldn’t have gone for him, by the way. Kala never does the close work.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“Flirting. Working a target who’s male. It’s all me, so even if we had been targeting Dare that night, he would have been safe.”
He gently gripped her elbow and turned her around. “Your father sends you out on honey pot ops?”
Her lips curled up slightly, like she knew he was being a jealous ass and kind of liked it. “Not at all. He’s against it, but you know how our business goes. Why fight for intel when I can seduce it out of a man?”
Yep. Volcanic rage. “I’m having a long talk with your father tomorrow.”
“That should be interesting. Tell me something, Ben. Have you ever slept with a target for information? Or is it different because you’re a man?”
He had, of course. He’d worked a target, but the idea of another man’s hands on her…
This woman could drive him insane if he let her. He turned her around again and started unlacing the corset. “Well, I won’t be doing it again. I can assure you of that. This isn’t casual sex, Kenzie.”
Her palms found the door, the position so submissive it nearly made him lose it. “My dad has sent my mom in to work a target before. I mean he’s always watching so he can step in if she gets in trouble. She only flirts, but she says the sex afterward is incredible. Apparently my dad is better in bed when he’s super jealous.”
He managed to unlace the corset and get it over her head. She turned around and leaned back against the door. If she was concerned with the fact that she was half undressed and he was completely clothed, she didn’t show it. This woman was comfortable with herself and her sexuality. “I am deeply disturbed that you know so much about your parents’ sex life. Take off the skirt. I’m putting ‘no fucking around even if it’s for national security’ in our contract. Am I going to have to run our contract by him?”
“Why, Benjamin, I had no idea you were in the lifestyle,” she said as she slid the skirt off her hips and his jaw nearly dropped.
“You’re not wearing underwear.” Her gorgeous pussy was right there. He hadn’t had a chance to really look at her before. They’d been far too emotional and hurried. He was taking his time now.
“Well, I was hoping to get lucky tonight. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride, so I find ways to ease my loneliness.” There was a sparkle in her eyes. No one ever teased him the way she did. “I go to a lot of weddings these days.”
“You are an incorrigible brat.” She was going to be such a handful, but she’d given him a roadmap on how to handle her. D/s. “Is that how you greet me? As for being in the lifestyle, I wasn’t until some gorgeous girl tied my unconscious body to a spanking bench.”
She winced slightly. “That was actually Zach.”
He shook his head. “I’m rewriting that particular history. It was all you. Kenzie, no matter what else you think I’m doing, know that I joined a club so I could learn how to give you what you need. No other reason. I’ve been studying for a while now, but I have never had sex with a sub. I’ve never touched one past what it took to teach me because you’re the only sub I’ll ever want, ever take. I was telling you a story before you poked the jealous ass who lives inside me. I didn’t connect with you that first night. I thought you were gorgeous but cold. I wouldn’t have slept with Kara that night even if she’d offered. But then we met again at the conference. That was you.”