While Audrey was taking a shower, I ate the food she had brought for me and then added another lock to the chain connected to the metal rod. I might have the keys to the handcuffs, but that wouldn’t stop her from just slipping away with Lance regardless. And we were so close to the end of this mission. If she was going to betray me, she would do it soon.
But at least with this extra lock on, neither of us would be able to get Lance out of that room without the other person’s key. Well, unless I used my force magic to cut through the metal rod. But that, she would surely hear. I had no idea where she had hidden her key while I showered, but it didn’t matter. I was exhausted and I needed this day of sleep before we started our war again.
After I closed the door to Lance’s small room again, I drifted back to the bathroom. I wasn’t sure why I did it, but I pushed the door open. Crossing my arms, I leaned against the doorjamb and watched as Audrey finished taking a shower. I knew that she had heard me come in because she had cast a glance over her shoulder when I opened the door. But she just continued showering anyway.
Maybe she wanted to steal one last moment from our temporary truce too before it was over.
Her long black hair was tied up in a bun, leaving her entire body on full display. I ran my eyes over the curves of her hips and ass. My cock swelled in response.
Audrey Sable.
Working with her had turned out a bit different than I expected. I had come to understand why she had been able to survive this long as a dark mage. She was clever. And ruthless. And incredibly skilled with her poison magic. She also had an uncanny way of getting under my skin.
“Enjoying the view?” she said as she turned off the shower and spun around to smirk at me.
“Yes.”
Surprise flickered across her face. Apparently, that was not the response she had been expecting. But she recovered quickly, and that smug smile curled her lips again as she raked her gaze across my bare chest before dropping down to my pants. Too late, I realized that she saw my cock straining against the fabric there.
A satisfied laugh rolled from her tongue as she twisted and grabbed a towel from the rack instead. After wrapping it around her body, she sauntered towards me.
I watched her. While leaning against the doorjamb like that, I blocked the way out of the bathroom, so when she reached me, she was forced to stop.
“You’re blocking the door,” she announced.
“Yeah. Wanna do something about that?”
Her hand shot out and she palmed my cock through my pants. “Want to do something about this?”
Blood rushed down to it, making it swell even more, but I kept my arms crossed over my chest as I stared her down. “Do you?”
“It’s been an intense day.” She lifted one shoulder in a casual shrug. “I could do with some stress release.”
A thrill rushed through me, but all I said was, “Same.”
I stepped aside, finally letting her move into the bedroom. My heart started beating faster. Irritation shot through me in response to it. When had I become this addicted to watching the expression on Audrey’s face as I made her come? To her naked body beneath mine? To the feeling of burying my cock deep inside her? It was ridiculous, and a sign of weakness.
Shoving the confused emotions aside, I tried to force my heart to return to its normal rhythm as I turned to face Audrey.
For a moment, we only watched each other from a few steps away.
“I’m still going to kill you once this is over,” she announced.
“And I’m still going to take back my lands and then make you beg me for the sweet release of death.”
“Good.” A battle seemed to be taking place behind her eyes. Then she blew out a short laugh and straightened her spine as if she had made a decision. “Then I’m giving you a free pass.” She spread her arms wide in a cocky gesture. “This time, and this time only, I will allow you to give me orders.”
I blinked at her in surprise. It was followed by a rush of excitement that made my blood crackle like lightning. She liked it. Based on her actions last time we fucked, I had guessed that it was true, but this as good as confirmed it. Audrey Sable actually liked it when I dominated her in the bedroom.
“Then I intend to make the most of it.” A sharp smile spread across my lips as I nodded towards the towel. “Take it off.”
She moved her hands back and slowly undid the top of the towel that she had rolled up. The thick white fabric brushed her skin as it fell towards the floor. For a while, I just left her standing like that, completely naked before me, while I ran my gaze over her perfect body.
Her chest was rising and falling at a quick pace and there was a dark hunger in her eyes.
I twitched two fingers at her. “Come here.”
Another bout of indecision flashed in her eyes, as if she still couldn’t really reconcile her sexual desires with her default setting, which was to stubbornly disregard anything that came out of my mouth.
Then she blew out a long breath. Oh what I would have given to know exactly what she was thinking in that moment. But she hid the rest of her feelings as she sauntered up to me and looked up with a cocky tilt to her chin. It just made me want to subjugate her even more.
“Get on your knees,” I commanded.
Her mouth dropped open ever so slightly.
I raised my eyebrows in silent challenge.
Flames burned in her eyes, but she lowered herself to her knees before me. I had to suppress a sharp breath as blood pounded inside me, making my cock throb at the sight of her. By all hell, I wanted her like that every minute of every day.
“Take off my pants,” I ordered.
She drew her hands up my thighs before grabbing my belt. While keeping eye contact with me, she slowly unbuckled it and slid it out of the belt loops. It produced a soft thud as she dropped it on the wooden floorboards.
Her fingers slid across the skin right above my pants. My heart stuttered before beating twice as hard when she started on the buttons. I drew in a deep breath as she curled her fingers around the dark fabric and drew both my pants and my underwear down my legs. What was it about her damn hands on my skin that made my heart want to shatter my ribs?
My hard length sprang free as she slid the clothes down. I stepped out of them and kicked them to the side when they bunched around my ankles.
Reaching out, I drew my hand along Audrey’s jaw before placing my fingers under her chin and tilting her head back. “Good girl.”
A small shudder coursed through her body.
“Now, show me how talented you are with that tongue.”
She held my gaze until I removed my hand from her chin. Then she slid her hands up my legs again. Her fingers dug into my skin as she took a firm grip around my thighs and then leaned forward.
A low moan tore from my throat as her lips brushed against my cock. She took the tip into her mouth while she swirled her tongue around it, and I damn near came right then.
My hand shot out. Threading my fingers through her hair, I gripped it tightly as she teased my tip with her tongue yet again. She let out a smug chuckle that made me want to shove the entire length of my cock down her throat. Hell damn it, why did she manage to affect me like this?
She pushed her head forward, taking me deeper into her mouth. My chest heaved as she spent quite some time working her lips and tongue in a way that made white lights flicker in my brain. Tightening my grip on her hair, I blew out a steadying breath as she drew back before swallowing more of my cock again.
Pleasure built inside me like an explosion trapped in a glass jar.
Drawing back, she flicked my tip with her tongue and then immediately took me into her mouth. Her teeth grazed my skin.
My control snapped. Fisting her hair, I held her pretty little mouth where it was as I came down her throat. She swallowed it all.
I sucked in a shuddering breath as I finally released her hair, allowing her to draw back again. Shit. I was the one who was supposed to be dominating her. But here I was, falling apart at her touch.
While trying to piece my shattered mind back together, I jerked my chin towards the bed next to us. “Get on the bed.”
She flashed me a victorious smile before wiping her lips and rising to her feet. Her hips swayed with cocky arrogance as she sauntered over to the bed and climbed up on the mattress. Oh, I would draw some really nice pleas from those pretty lips soon.
Grabbing the belt from the floor, I followed her to the bed while she sat down in the middle of it. The mattress creaked faintly as I moved onto it and then sat down so that I straddled her thighs. She raised her eyebrows at me.
A lethal smile played over my lips as I wound the leather belt around my fist a couple of times. Her eyes flicked between it and my face. I let the silence stretch, allowing her mind to run wild with the possibilities. Then she licked her lips and I just couldn’t let her sit like that any longer.
After unwinding the belt again, I positioned it over her eyes and then yanked it tight behind her head. She let out a small noise of surprise. Putting my palm against her chest, I shoved her down against the mattress.
“Move your hands above your head and keep them there,” I commanded.
“You’re not tying me to anything this time.”
That had been an order and not a question. But I had already expected that because it would have made it far too easy for me to just leave her tied up like that while I double-crossed her and disappeared with Lance. And Audrey wasn’t stupid.
“I know.” Leaning forward, I took her chin in a firm grip and slanted my lips over hers. “So move your hands above your head and keep them there, and stop trying to give me orders.”
Her hot breath caressed my skin as she let out a dark laugh, but she raised her arms and placed her hands against the pillow above her head.
Once I was sure that she would keep them there, I released her chin and climbed off her, leaving her lying there naked and blindfolded on the bed. She turned her head slightly as if trying to hear what I was doing.
I just knelt next to her and watched her for a while because I knew that the wait and the uncertainty would just make her body more sensitive to my next touch.
When she started to squirm her hips, I reached out and flicked her nipple.
She sucked in a gasp.
I swung my leg over her body so that I was straddling her again and then braced my palms on the mattress on either side of her. My cock brushed against her entrance as I shifted my hips. She let out a dark moan.
Leaning down, I planted a kiss on her ribs.
Her body jerked slightly and she turned her head again as if trying to see through the leather belt blocking her vision. I kissed my way up her chest, making her squirm underneath me again. When I reached her tit, I drew my tongue along the curve of it.
A low groan tore from deep within her chest.
While still bracing my hand against the mattress, I traced the tip of my tongue over her sensitive skin and towards her nipple. Her chest heaved, and she clenched and unclenched her hands where they rested on the pillow.
I swirled my tongue around her stiff nipple before taking it into my mouth. A tremor coursed through her body as I ran my tongue around it again. I nipped at it with my teeth.
She sucked in a sharp breath and then let it out in a long shuddering exhale. Another moan dripped from her mouth as I continued my slow torture. Her breath was coming in fits and starts. While I rolled her nipple between my lips, I reached out with my other hand and positioned it right above her other tit. Just when a shudder of pleasure rolled through her, I gave her other nipple a hard flick.
A gasp tore from her lips. She wriggled her body underneath me, which only made my cock brush against her pussy again.
Her hands shot down. Since she was still blindfolded, she couldn’t see what she was doing, and her hands slammed into my shoulders before she raked them down my back. A needy moan came from her throat as she tried to pull me harder against her.
I straightened abruptly and touched my palms together. While vibrating force magic appeared around the fingers of my left hand, I flashed forward and locked my right around her throat.
Since she couldn’t see it coming, she drew in another startled gasp. I tightened my hold on her throat. Keeping my grip hard enough that she was forced to draw strained shallow breaths, I made it clear to her that she was only able to still breathe because I allowed it.
“What did I say about moving your hands?” I demanded.
“I—” Her words were cut off as I traced my fingers over her soaked pussy, letting her feel the vibrations.
“It’s almost as if you want me to make you beg for mercy again.”
“You—”
Shifting my hand, I pressed my fingers straight against her clit. The pulsing magic around them made her buck her hips and drag her hands down my ribs. I adjusted my position so that the tip of my cock was resting against her entrance while I continued sending low vibrations into her clit.
A pleading moan spilled from her lips. Arching her back, she tried to wiggle farther down. I tightened my grip on her throat again.
While keeping the vibrations just low enough to tease her but not intense enough to make her come, I dragged my cock through her wetness before positioning it against her entrance again. She sucked in quick shallow breaths. I leaned down over her.
“I’ll settle for some light groveling this time,” I whispered against her mouth.
She tried to push harder against me again but I only shifted back. A small groan filled with desperation ripped from her throat. I traced my tip over her pussy again.
“Please,” she gasped out in surrender. “Please, I’m begging you.”
The breath from those intoxicating pleas danced over my lips. Her pulse fluttered under my fingers as I kept my hand locked around her throat, restricting her breathing to only strained breaths. Holding her life in my hands like that was mind-blowingly addictive.
“Callan,” she begged in a voice trembling with need. “Please, I—”
I stole her next gasp from her lungs as I claimed her lips while shoving my cock inside her. She moaned into my mouth as she tangled her tongue with mine while I drew back and then thrust into her again.
Fuck, she felt so good. None of the other people I had used for stress relief had ever felt this good. This perfect. I wanted to feel her, taste her, claim her, take all of her and give her all of me. What was so special about this damn poisoner that she made me feel such a desperate need for her? Something that I had never felt for anyone else.
A groan of pleasure tore from her chest as I rammed my cock into her all the way to the hilt. I increased the strength of the vibrations.
As a shudder racked her body in response to it, I realized that I wanted to see her eyes when she came for me. Releasing her throat, I reached up and yanked off the blindfold. Audrey sucked in a deep breath while I threw the belt aside.
While still trying to blink her eyes back into focus, she locked her hands behind my neck and yanked my mouth back to hers. I kissed her savagely while I continued pounding into her. Then I increased the force of my magic again.
She gasped into my mouth and pleasure suddenly pulsed in her beautiful green eyes. Her inner walls clamped down around my cock. I kept sending vibrations against her clit while I thrust in and out of her tight trembling pussy.
Release exploded through me.
A dark groan tore from my chest as I came while she was still riding the wave of her orgasm. She slid her hands down to my arms, digging her fingers into my biceps.
Her cheeks were flushed and there was a slightly dazed and incredulous look on her face as her chest heaved while the final tremors of pleasure racked her body. And damn it all to hell, but I found myself wanting to see that expression again.
But instead, I pulled out and collapsed to the mattress beside her.
My chest was heaving too.
Tilting my head to the side, I studied Audrey’s face and tried to commit it all to memory. Because this was it.
This was the last day before everything changed.
