Crack the Whip (9 page)

Oh, shit,
was her last thought before everything disappeared except the two of them on the blanket. Reece’s control thrilled her, made her breasts ache, her nipples harden and liquid soak the crotch of her pants. She squeezed her thighs together, trying to contain the thudding of her pulse inside her cunt.

“Don’t move,” he said again, breathing the words into her mouth. “If you disobey I might have to spank you.”

Yes, yes! Spank me! Spank me!

Ohmigod! What’s happening here?

“This is what I wanted all those years ago, Katydid.” His voice was rough with need. “All the things you see in the club.

That you saw in Atlanta. I tried them with others, but it’s never been enough.”

“May I speak freely?” She was well into sub mode and couldn’t pull herself out of it, mostly because she wanted all the things she knew he could do to her.

She felt his lips turn up into a grin. “Of course.”

The truth. That’s what she needed to tell him. The real reason why everything he wanted had scared her so very, very much, despite how she loved him. “Two things I need to get out here.” She swallowed. “You scare me, Reece. You’re such a strong personality, I was afraid I’d lose myself in you.

It was enough of a battle just to maintain my individuality without adding anything else to the situation.” Her voice dropped to a whisper. “I was afraid I wouldn’t be me anymore.”

Reece stilled, his lips barely touching hers now, one hand still wrapped around both wrists, the other flat on her stomach. His face was completely unreadable, but something sad lurked in his eyes.

“That would never happen, Katie. Never. Didn’t you know that? Didn’t you trust me?”

Frustration scored his face. He looked as if he didn’t know whether to be angry with himself or her.

“I didn’t know what to think, Reece. All of a sudden you wanted to change things. You were always such a dominant personality, right from the beginning. I didn’t know how much of me you wanted.”

“All of you. Every last bit. But only as long you as you kept on being yourself. A really good D/s relationship is a lot of give and take, compromise, each one finding out what the other can and will tolerate. What works for them. What makes them feel good. What makes them connect.”

They stared at each other for a long time.

“I know that. I do.” She exhaled, only then realizing she’d barely been breathing. “I’ve learned a lot since that…episode, Reece. A whole lot.”

“About?”

“About the D/s life. About relationships. About what’s real and what isn’t.”

“And what’s your conclusion?”

Reece waited, tense, on edge, to see what her answer would be. When he told her to lie still, she hadn’t argued with him, hadn’t given him the guff she would have years ago.

He’d agonized over this visit for the past two days, wondering if he should play it casual. Or be more aggressive. If so, how aggressive? Last night, he’d barely slept a wink. But from Katie’s responses to him today when he gave her the first command, used his Dom voice, he had a sense she’d moved at once into submissive head space. How far could he push this?

“Katie?” he prompted. “I’m waiting for an answer. Now.”

“This is hard for me,” she told him, her gaze still locked with his. “I don’t know if what I want is good for either of us.

Or if it will work.” She sighed. “You heard what I said earlier.

But I will tell you how much it shocked me to learn I apparently was born to be the perfect sub. It…That is…I mean…”

“It arouses you,” he finished for her. “Enhances the sexual experience.”

She nodded and inside him something eased.

“You like being dominated. Told how to behave sexually.”

Again she nodded.

“Did you hear what I said before, Katydid? I don’t want a sub who needs the lifestyle twenty/four seven. I want some grit and sass. Interacting as equals in many things. And you have a streak of independence a mile wide that I always loved. But…”

“But?”

“But I’d damn sure give anything to have you be my submissive in the bedroom.” He licked the edges of her lips again. “To be your Sir, to have you willing to do whatever I command. You don’t know how badly I wanted it all those years ago, sugar. And the hunger hasn’t eased in all this time.”

“Surely you’ve found pleasure with the subs you’ve played with. You don’t need me.” Katie had to know if she was just a game to him, unfinished business that he could cross off his to-do list.

He studied her face, his eyes seeming to look right through her.

“None of them were you. And since you came back into my life, it’s your face I see when I’m in that room. Your body I want.”

Her pussy throbbed and her breasts ached at his words.

She was almost frightened at how badly she wanted him.

Maybe even craved him.

He nipped the soft lobe of her ear and traced the shell so lightly a shiver skated over her.

“What about you?” he whispered. “Did you ever think about me when you were with others?”

All the time.

She wet her lips. “Y-yes. I did. But here’s the other thing.

If we’re going to make this work, no more subs for you. No one but me. Surely you don’t think I could stand to have someone else topping me after we’ve been together.”

His smile was slow and sexy. “You took the words right out of my mouth. I don’t want anyone but you again. Ever. We have the real thing now, Katie. We don’t have to pretend. Are you willing to take it further? See if we can make it work?”

Was she? It almost seemed as if the moment he agreed there’d be no one else for either of them, the decision had already been made. She nodded, so consumed by sudden lust she was unable to form words.

“All right, then.”

Reece licked her ear again.

“I’m going to take my hand off your wrists,” he told her.

“But in your mind I want you to pretend they’re still bound together, staked to the ground behind your head. You’re still unable to move them.” His smile was slow and hungry. “If you disobey me and move them, I’ll have to punish you.”

And lord, how he hoped she would disobey him. He couldn’t wait to spank that ass, turn it bright red. See the heat streak down to her sweet, little cunt. Feel it sopping with her juices.

Control yourself, Halliday.

And he certainly needed to. His cock was already so swollen and painfully hard he had to shift his position to keep from doing damage to himself.

“I’m going to pull up your top,” he told her. Describing what he was doing to her had always been a turn-on for both of them. “Then I’m going to open your bra and pay a lot of attention to your gorgeous nipples. Feel the fabric slide up your skin, Katie? Oh, lord, you still wear those skimpy little lace bras I always loved.”

He took one nipple in his mouth through the fabric and grazed it with his teeth. Answering heat flared in her eyes.

“You always liked that, Katydid. And I loved doing it.” With one hand, he deftly opened the front clasp of her bra and brushed the lace aside. There were those perfect nipples, staring at him, tempting him. “You know what I’m going to do? I’m going to buy you a pair of nipple clamps. Thin bars that squeeze these little berries real tight. Then I’m going to suck on them and bite them until they swell to twice their size and turn that dark shade of red I love so much. But for now this will have to do.”

He pinched one nipple between his thumb and forefinger, squeezing its hardness, and flicked his tongue back and forth against the tip. Katie moaned with each pass of his tongue and rocked back and forth slightly.

Reece raised his head. “Don’t move,” he ordered. “No matter what I do, I do not want you to move. Not one part of your body. You may nod if you understand.”

When she indicated her understanding, electricity sizzled through him. She had no idea how much he wished he had her in his private room, wrists manacled and arms stretched to the ceiling, forbidding her to move while he tormented her breasts. He realized with a fleeting thought that if this thing between them worked, he’d have to make a lot of modifications to his bedroom. He had no intention of taking Katie to Rawhide to play unless it was a Sunday when they would be alone.

Drawing himself back to the moment, he used his teeth and tongue on her compressed nipple until it darkened and plumped even more. Sweet, little sounds rolled from her throat, and he felt the tension in her body as she struggled to keep herself still. He turned to the other nipple, giving it the same treatment, loving her small moans and whimpers. His problem would be maintaining enough control over his own body to do all the things he wanted with her. To her.

And it hit him with the force of an explosion that he’d never stopped loving this woman. Never stopped wanting her or needing her. If anything, he loved her even more today than he had ten years ago. Now it was a mature love, one that had much more depth to it.

Did she feel the same way?

Moving his mouth down her body, he paused at her navel to rim the whorl of flesh with the tip of his tongue, drawing circles and then licking the spot over and over. Katie quivered as his mouth traveled over her skin, and he could tell the tremendous effort she was exerting not to move. Reece grinned to himself. He was about to ramp that up.

With one hand, he flicked open the button at the top of her jeans and slowly drew the zipper down. Two things hit him so hard he almost came in his jeans. Katie was wearing the tiniest scrap of see-through green silk over her mound, and her cunt was completely bare. Shit! How was he supposed to hold himself in check when he saw that?

“Lift up,” he ordered, kneeling to take off her boots, then her jeans and what passed for her panties.

He nudged her legs apart and stared at the very naked pussy exposed to him.

“Bend your knees,” he ordered. “Spread your legs as wide as you can and plant your feet. After that stay absolutely still, no matter what I do.”

He shifted so he was between her outspread thighs, staring at that beautiful cunt with absolutely nothing to shield itself from his gaze.

“Still just as pink and pretty as ever,” he said. “Only now there’s nothing to hide it from my sight. I’m guessing you wax. It’s so completely clean.” He looked up. “Did you just have it done?”

Katie nodded.

Reece smiled. “Did you wax for me, darlin’? I can think of a lot of other things to do with wax on your sensitive places.”

He touched the very tip of her clit with a finger. “Like right…here.”

Her body twitched in automatic reflex. Reece shifted his gaze to lock with hers. “I said don’t move, remember? We’ll let this one little hitch go, but the next time…” He smoothed his open palm down her thigh. “The next time your ass is mine.”

Reece slid one finger into her open cunt, pulling it back out covered with her liquid. Again, holding her gaze with his, he moved his finger slowly back and forth over the tip of her clit.

Katie was always big on clitoral stimulation. How long could she hold out with his teasing?

“I know you love this, sugar. And this little bundle of flesh is so pink, so swollen, so responsive to my touch.”

He teased it again, deliberately pressing just a little harder, knowing what would happen. Sure enough, despite the muscles straining in her body, Katie reacted automatically, her body jumping at the contact. He pinched the little bundle of nerves, watching her face.

“Well, that does it, darlin’. I think I need to show you who’s in charge here.”

With movements so fast he even impressed himself, he lifted her, turned her, and draped her over his thighs, her nicely rounded ass staring up at him. Jesus. He didn’t know if he wanted to spank her, probe her with his fingers, or just shove his cock into her and ride her over the mountain.

Pressing one arm across her back to hold her in place, he slid a hand over the upturned globes, stroking, teasing, making her wait for it. He could feel her hold her breath in anticipation.

One fingertip traced the crease where her ass met her thigh, back and forth, a whisper of a touch, ramping up the expectation even more. Only, as his erection became more demanding, he wondered just who he was teasing here.

Smack!

The palm of his hand landed on Katie’s flesh with a satisfying contact. Warmth blazed along his arm. Shit. This was better than he’d ever dreamed.

“Oh!” The word burst from her mouth.

For a moment he thought she might try to pull away, but she wriggled her hips at him, inviting further punishment.

Damn.

Smack!

The sound, an aphrodisiac itself, echoed in the air. Reece nudged her thighs apart and plunged two fingers into her cunt. Soaked. Oh, yeah, she was definitely getting off on this.

Submission was the key to Katie’s sexual satisfaction, and he was just the one to satisfy her.

He spanked her again and again, alternating between her ass and the drenched lips of her pussy, aroused by the flush of red that spread over her skin. Katie wiggled more as the slaps got harder and hot little moans burst from her mouth, exciting him even more. He counted until he reached fifteen, making a mental note to have her count next time, he trailed his fingers through the wetness of her folds, dragging her juices up into the cleft of her buttocks, and using them to moisten the tempting tight hole of her anus.

“I’m going to fuck you here, Katydid,” he told her in a husky voice. “I’m going to tie you up and spread plenty of lube inside and then I’m going to give you the most intense orgasm you’ve ever had.” He rubbed his hand over her skin again. “But first I’m going to get a brand new butt plug and slide it in here and make you wear it for a week. Stretch you out good so you’ll be ready for me. And you’ll take it.”

He flipped her over, stunned by the intense look of desire in her eyes and the flush on her face. And at her next words.

“Yes, Sir. Whatever you wish.”

She was still in subspace, totally there for him. He cursed his bad planning that they were out in the middle of nowhere with no toys, no restraints, nothing to give them additional pleasure. He lifted her to him and ravaged her mouth, sliding his tongue everywhere, pulling her small one into his own mouth. Stopping only when they were both breathless.