A rush of adrenaline stiffens my limbs and an urgent need pulses through my veins.
Run.
Hide.
Run and hide.
But I’m frozen in place.
Not one muscle moves as I stare at the belt in Adrian’s hand. He loops it around his masculine fingers twice, making a show of what he has in store for me.
My legs lock in place and his handprints on my ass from last night start throbbing, tingling, burning.
I realize now that I shouldn’t have provoked him, shouldn’t have felt confident enough to think I’d win this and come out of it unscathed. We’re on different sides of the chessboard, he and I, and there’s no room for us to play the same game.
After what Luca told me, I should’ve been on my best behavior, should’ve flown under the radar to watch Adrian, but my frustrations got the better of me.
Because even though he’s owned me every night and has taken care of my every need, come morning, I’ve been nothing short of a slut he’s spent his nights with.
That’s why I defied him, and that’s why I will now pay.
It’s then that I realize I’m slowly shaking my head, still focused on his belt.
He looks larger than life, dressed in a white shirt and dark gray pants that match the color of his unforgiving eyes. Adrian has always been a force to be reckoned with, a beautiful master of manipulation. It’s like he was born with a handsome face to help him lower people’s guards before he attacks.
I’m currently one of those people.
Because I have no doubt that he’s coming after me and that I’m completely trapped with no way out.
“Get on your knees facing the sofa, Lia.” The firm tenor of his voice sends a rippling shock down my rigid spine.
I continue shaking my head, a tinge of terror sparking through my chest. If his hand brought immeasurable agony by only spanking me, his belt is going to be pure torture.
“You can take your punishment now or…” he trails off, his gaze roaming down my naked thighs. I’m wearing a cotton shirt that stops below my ass, barely hiding my panties. The top buttons are undone, and the material of the neckline matches the fluffy socks covering my feet.
“Or what?” I murmur, squirming under his intense scrutiny.
His gaze slides back to my face. “Or you can take it later, after the count goes up.”
“You really think that’s a choice?”
“It is since you have two options. It’s up to you to pick the less painful one.”
“They’re both painful.”
“Correct, but one is definitely more merciful than the other.”
“You’re anything but merciful, Adrian. You’re sick.”
“And your labels are getting boring and repetitive, Lenochka.” He grabs a fistful of my hair and I yelp when he turns me around and shoves me down on my knees. They sink into the carpet as he yanks the shirt over my head in one go.
I gasp as goosebumps break out on my skin. My nipples peak into sensitive buds, throbbing and pulsing in a rhythm that matches the one in my core.
Adrian throws the shirt aside and pushes me down against the sofa so my aching nipples meet the surface. I stifle a moan at the torturous sensation. It doesn’t matter how much I fight myself or him, the moment he touches me like he owns me, sick pleasure courses through my veins.
He reaches a hand between me and the sofa, then pinches a painfully hard nipple, twisting it between his thumb and forefinger until I release a broken moan.
“Always sensitive and responsive, my Lenochka. Do you like it when I torture your pink nipples until you’re soaking wet?”
“Mmmm…”
“Do you like the preparation for what’s to come and the anticipation it creates in your little cunt?” He twists my nipple again and the motion, coupled with his crude words, nearly sends me over the edge.
“Oh…God…Adrian…”
“Yes, me. Only me.” His voice lowers as he grabs a fistful of my hair and yanks me back by it. I’m suspended in mid-air, both of my hands gripping the sofa while he peers down on me, still pinching my nipple. “Say it.”
“Say…w-what?”
“That I’m the only one you get wet for. The only one you allow to torture your nipples and fuck your tight cunt until you’re spent.”
My thighs clench together at the effect of his words, but I couldn’t speak even if I tried.
His fingers dig into my scalp and his hold becomes merciless, non-negotiable, as his darkened eyes hold mine in an intimate cage. “Say, it’s only you, Adrian.”
“It’s…only…you…Adrian…”
“I’m the only one who gets to touch you, aren’t I, Lenochka?”
“Yes…”
“The only one you completely let go with?”
“Yes.”
“The only one who punishes you?”
“Yes…” I briefly close my eyes, horrified with how true my words are.
How…liberating.
Adrian pushes me down by the hair so my cheek meets the sofa’s warm surface, then releases me. But he doesn’t disappear, standing behind me like both a threat and a promise.
He wraps a hand around my panties, and I yelp when he rips them away in one savage tug that coats my inner thighs with arousal.
“Would you stop ruining my underwear?” I breathe out.
“I’ll ruin anything that gets in my way.” His calmly spoken words send a sharp sting down my back, the unspoken intent tying me in knots.
I’m well aware of the fact that Adrian is dangerous, a killer, and a ruthless one at that. So I have no doubt he’ll ruin even me if I get in his way.
That thought wraps ghostly fingers around my neck. If Adrian finds out I’m spying on him, he won’t hesitate to strangle me, tear me apart.
Kill me.
His fist tightens on my hair again, pulling my attention to the present. “What are you thinking about?”
“I have very few panties left,” I blurt.
“You can buy new ones.” His voice lowers as he whispers near my ear, “Now, count.”
A swish echoes in the air before the first strike comes down on my ass. I cry out, my scream bouncing off the walls.
Holy shit.
That hurts like nothing I’ve ever felt. It’s like my skin is breaking, but it’s not. The pain is trapped between the air and his belt.
“We’ll start over, Lia.”
“B-but why?”
“I told you to count.”
His belt comes down on my ass again and it’s even worse than the first one, burning my skin and carving himself a place beneath it.
“Should I start over again?” His voice is nonchalant, but it couldn’t be any crueler.
“One…” I whimper.
Swish. Slap.
“Two!” I scream, tears gathering in the corners of my eyes and my ragged breath bouncing off the sofa.
Slap.
“Ahhh…three…” My voice breaks as my legs shake and my stomach flips.
That’s when I feel it.
The deep contraction in my belly and a harsh finger forcing its way through my folds.
“Mmm. I knew you needed pain with your pleasure, Lia.”
“No…no…” I want to erase the evidence he’s gliding his fingers through, the arousal, the deep tingling I’ve felt only a few times before this started when he shoved me facedown on the table and took me without holding back.
Only, now, it seems to have intensified, reaching a new height I never thought existed.
Oh, God.
Is there really something wrong with me? Is that why I’m reacting to his perverse punishment and sadistic dominance this way?
“Deny it all you like, Lia, but your cunt knows what it wants.”
Swish. Slap.
Swish. Slap.
My ass throbs and my arousal keeps coating his fingers. Shamelessly. Relentlessly.
“Four…five…” My voice finishes on a throaty cry when he whips me again. “Six!”
I’m a sobbing mess right now. My tears wet the sofa and seep into my mouth, making me taste salt. A sheen of sweat covers my skin and my burning ass.
I wish that was all there was to it.
I wish I was sobbing only because of the pain, but my pussy pulses with a need as violent as the flames exploding on my ass. The need for release claws to be set free.
The sound of the belt in the air adds more torment and anticipation to the upcoming hit. When it meets my flesh, I sob, “Seven…”
I want to sigh in relief that it’s over, but the ache in my pussy forbids me to. If the whipping managed anything, it definitely got me hot, tingly, and damn fidgety.
The belt hits the ground and Adrian releases my hair. I think he’s finally done, but I feel him sinking to his knees on the carpet behind me.
Before I can watch what he’s doing, his hands grab my aching ass cheeks and he parts them. I moan because of the pain, relief, and something else.
“Adrian…” I sob. “I…please.”
“Please what, Lia?”
“I…don’t know.”
“Of course you do. You just don’t want to admit it.”
“Please…”
“Please make you come?”
I purse my lips, tasting my tears.
“Say it, Lia.”
I shake my head slightly.
“The more you defy me, the harder I deny you.”
“I can’t say it.”
“Yes, you can. You need to own up to your pleasure with me or you won’t get any of it.”
I peek at him behind me. He’s so broad compared to my tiny body, it’s both frightening and a turn-on.
That man will take from me as if he were always meant to, he’ll own me just because he wants to, but he’s also willing to give back just as hard.
However, he has a steep price for that—my complete submission.
“Should I make you come or leave you hot and bothered?”
I swallow.
“I’ll tie you up so you won’t touch yourself all night long, Lia.”
My lips tremble. “Don’t…”
“Say the fucking words.”
I suck in a shaky intake of air. “Please…”
“Please what?”
“M-make me come,” I whisper.
“I didn’t hear that.”
“I want to come.”
His face creases with a beautifully cruel smile that slams straight into my throbbing chest. “There. Good girl, Lenochka.”
And with that, he dives between my legs, his hot tongue sliding from my folds to my swollen clit.
Holy…
“Adrian…ohhh…” My voice is robbed from me when he thrusts his tongue in and out of my opening. His big hands knead my ass, adding a sharp tang of pain to the pleasure he’s eliciting from my core.
He tongue-fucks me like it’s an extension of his punishment, but at the same time, it’s the most erotic thing I’ve ever experienced.
The assault of his tongue in and out of me, licking, biting, sucking, coupled with the burn in my ass is too raw, too hot.
Just too much.
When he nibbles down on my clit, I scream out my orgasm, coming all over Adrian’s tongue. It’s the strongest I’ve had. The most damning, too. I feel like I’m never coming down, that everything is whirring and buzzing and my poor heart will stop, unable to take it all in.
I want to collapse here and now, but I’m more tempted to look at him, to cement this moment by getting a read on his expression.
Still gripping my ass, Adrian unzips his pants and releases his raging hard-on. I swallow at the size of him. His cock is just like the rest of him, beautiful and scary.
He gives it a single violent stroke that leaves me breathless. I love it when he touches himself with that sure masculinity. A drip of precum travels down his length and I find myself wanting to lick my lips and him.
Still gripping his cock with one hand, he cups my jaw, gliding his thumb over my tear-streaked face. “I love it when you cry because your tiny body can’t contain the pleasure I give you. It makes me rock fucking hard to see your arousal tears. Did you cry during sex for other bastards?”
“No,” I whisper, strangely turned on by his words. Am I sick that I’m happy he likes my pleasure tears?
His gray eyes darken with raw possessiveness as he presses down on my cheeks. “These tears are only mine, aren’t they, Lenochka?”
“Yes…”
“And they always will be.”
“Yes…”
He leans over so the warmth of his chest is an inch away from my back and his hot breaths tickle the side of my face. “I’m going to fuck you and you’re going to cry for me.”
My spine tingles, and the orgasm that still didn’t release me yet rushes back in with wrecking force.
Adrian slams inside me in one ruthless go that knocks the breath out of my lungs and the thoughts out of my head.
“Fuck,” he groans when he’s sheathed deep inside me, and I meet it with a moan, because no matter how many times he does it, being this tangled with him always feels new. Like this is our first time, or worse, like we both get more addicted with each touch, each fuck, each joining of our bodies.
Adrian grabs a fistful of my hair and my assaulted ass as he thrusts deep inside me, hitting that sensitive spot over and over.
I’m so close to the edge that I’m sobbing again. Tears stream down my cheeks and my moans echo in the air.
He releases my hair and glides his strong, lean fingers across my cheek, taking the tears away before pressing his middle and index fingers against my lips. I open, letting him slide them inside.
“These tears and moans are fucking mine, Lenochka.”
I suck on his fingers as a reply while he slides them in and out of my mouth, matching the rhythm of his cock inside me.
The moment he slaps my burning ass, I’m coming again, clenching around him with a wordless cry.
Adrian joins me soon after, his body going rigid before the familiar warmth of his seed fills me.
Then, in the midst of the carnal pleasure, everything turns black.
