The Billionaire Submissive (Billionaires in Bondage) (7 page)

The Mistress will provide only the physical contact agreed to after the questionnaire has been answered completely. SEXUAL CONTACT IN ANY FORM INCLUDING KISSING, TOUCHING OF GENITALS, ORAL SEX, INTERCOURSE, OR PENETRATION OF ANY KIND (INCLUDING TOYS) IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN.

Even though no sexual contact is permitted, the submissive will provide a health screening to certify he’s clean of any communicable diseases including STDs and HIV. Mistress L’s certification is updated every six months and available at any time upon request. She will also provide a new health screening at any time at the client’s cost.

Absolutely no exceptions.

He took a deep, shaking breath and turned his head to the next page, the infamous questionnaire. This was simply a check-box list of various activities where the submissive could indicate interest, strong desire or strong aversion to the various BDSM activities Mistress L was willing to provide, such as various forms of punishment and humiliation. At the bottom, there were yes and no questions like, “I want to be completely nude for our scenes” or “I prefer to be bound for punishment”.

Furious—at himself for leaping to such ridiculous conclusions about the luscious Mistress L—he spun his chair around and stared out the window so he didn’t have to look at her.
And she can’t see my reaction.
“It’s all very neat and tidy, Mistress L.”

“Yes, it is,” she replied simply. “If there are services the submissive’s interested in which aren’t on my contract, then I’m not the appropriate Mistress for him to consider.”

His hand clenched on the pen so hard it leaked ink on his hand.
Idiot. You’re going to destroy your father’s last gift to you, and for what? Your pride? Utter despair? Years and years of emptiness and shallow relationships, meaningless sex that never scratches the bone-deep need I carry.

“Given our discussion last night, I didn’t think this contract would be suitable for our…needs.”

He almost wheeled back around to see her face. Surely she was joking again. Leading him on to get what she wanted. She played to his arrogant conclusions oh so well, leading him on only to shut him down like the fool he was.
I thought she was the One. The one woman who would be able to see that need in me and for the first time in my life, meet it completely. I thought…

Her hand came down on his right shoulder and he flinched so hard he almost fell out of his chair.

“Donovan. Aren’t you even going to look at me?”

He squeezed his eyes shut, even while his body lapped up such an insignificant touch like he’d just stumbled into a private harem of women dedicated to his every secret whim and desire. “I can’t.”

She laughed softly, the sound running over his skin like silk. Her scent filled his nose, something spicy that made his mouth water. Warm and rich and sweet yet not flowery. This was an earthy scent. Raw passion. Sex. Heat. “Why not?”

“Because if I look at you, I might very well drag you into my lap and ravish you.”

When she plopped down into his lap, his eyes flew open with alarm. “You’re welcome to try.”

Donovan swallowed so hard she could see his throat working beneath his tie and shirt. “Isn’t this kind of physical contact forbidden by your contract?”

She had to congratulate him on his forbearance. He managed to keep his hands off her, even though one hand was clenched on the pen and the other gripped the arm of his chair so hard his knuckles were white. “I guess you’ll have to read the new contract and see what’s forbidden and what’s allowed.”

She squirmed deeper in his lap until his erection pressed against her hip. Clenching his teeth, he tossed the pen on his desk and clamped both hands on her shoulders. “What are you doing to me?”

“Tormenting you.” She twisted her upper body toward him so she could prop one elbow on his chest. “Tormenting myself. Isn’t it fun?”

“No.” His breathing was so ragged he sounded like an asthmatic. “Not fun. Not when I can’t…”

“We haven’t come to any agreement yet, Donovan.” She loved the way his eyes dilated and his nostrils flared every time she said his name. It was almost as fun as watching his lips tighten into a firm slant when she punished him by returning to Mr. Morgan. “There aren’t any rules yet. I haven’t—”

As she hoped, he broke every one of the rules he’d just read in her standard contract by pressing his lips to hers. He inhaled her lips, pushing his tongue into her welcoming mouth on a long, deep groan of need. She threaded her fingers in his dark hair and gripped his head firmly, keeping him pinned while she kissed him back. She sucked on his tongue, pressing her teeth into him until he groaned harder. His right hand immediately landed on her thigh and began the slide up beneath her skirt.

Fisting her hand tighter in his hair, she pulled his head back to break the kiss. “Naughty, naughty boy. Let’s see… You’ve failed to answer the Mistress’s questionnaire, you’ve pressed your genitals against her, you’ve kissed her, and now you’re trying to find out what kind of panties she’s wearing.”

“I’m a rule breaker.” His voice was rough and thick, his eyes heavy lidded with desire. Ignoring the pull of his hair, he pushed his hand up the inside of her thigh.

And she let him. Because she wanted to see the way his eyes flared when he felt nothing but wet, hot flesh against his fingers.

Shuddering against her, he buried his face against her chest. “Mistress.”

She pressed her lips against his ear, holding him close. “Do you think I get this wet for my other clients, Donovan? Even if I did, they’d never be allowed to know it. And I promise you, I don’t. I’ve never been sexually attracted to any of my clients. Hence my very strict and clean contract.”

He didn’t try to get his fingers inside her, but merely cupped her flesh with his hand as though treasuring the intimacy and what it meant.

She wanted him. As a man and as a submissive. She was letting him touch her. As a man. With no contract in place.

Nipping his ear, she pulled back and waited for him to look into her face. “Are we clear on what kind of services I’ve offered in the past?”

He nodded, his dark gaze locked to hers. “Are we clear that I’m going to require more from you than punishment and orders?”

Arching her hips into his caress, she let her voice thicken with desire. “Crystal.”

“And you’ll be willing… I mean…” He couldn’t quite unbend his arrogance enough to say it. Yet.

She smiled and disentangled enough to stand and move back to her own chair. She walked slowly, basking in the way he devoured her every move, slowly turning in his chair until he faced her once more. “I assure you that I’m perfectly willing and able to give you exactly what you need, Donovan. In fact, I’d like nothing better than to indulge right this very moment, but I’m afraid Miss Wruthers might faint dead away if she came in and found you stretched out on top of your desk with your pants down around your ankles.”

His eyes fell shut and he dropped his head back against his chair, breathing deeply. She watched the struggle to bring himself back under control. Yet the arrogant rule breaker couldn’t resist pushing back. “Are you punishing me or…”

His words fell off and he cracked open an eye to see her reaction. His face stilled into the more guarded mask of privileged indifference, hiding the fragile glimpse of raw lust trying to burst into life in his eyes.

He’s protecting himself. If he sets his expectations too high, he’ll only be disappointed.

Moved by his vulnerability, even though he’d deny it vehemently if pressed, she busied herself pulling out the rest of the papers. “Some Mistresses don’t believe in giving any pleasure to the submissive. The sub exists for his Mistress’s pleasure, not the other way around. If he’s not on his knees worshiping her with his tongue, then he hasn’t learned his place and must be punished. I’m not that kind of Mistress.”

He accepted the new stack of papers and even dropped his gaze to them, but his eyes didn’t move across the page.
He’s not reading them. Yet.
“I won’t deny there’s a certain appeal to that image.”

“The sub on his knees or me punishing you on your desk?”

He smiled faintly but it didn’t quite reach his eyes and he didn’t meet her gaze. “Both.”

“But…?” When he shrugged and flipped the page, even though he couldn’t have read it yet, she said what he could not yet bring himself to admit. “You’re hoping for a Mistress who’s as eager to give pleasure as receive it.”

She’d never seen such a powerful and obnoxiously gorgeous man blush so prettily. Again, a shrug, without lifting his eyes from the page.

“If I had your pants down around your ankles, I’d have to give you a blow job you wouldn’t soon forget.
While
I punished you.”

There, his eyes met hers, all searing intensity and pulsing with rising desire. “You would do that?”

For me?
He didn’t say the last two words, but she heard it and it broke her heart. She was beginning to believe his arrogant asshole role was just a mask he wore to protect the inside submissive who feared no one would ever be able to love him as he was, no matter how much wealth he possessed. “Absolutely.”

His gaze wandered to the door briefly, as though he was contemplating locking it so he could test her honesty. When he looked back into her face, she didn’t like the shield he wore once more. “How much is it going to cost me?”

It took all her will not to reveal how much it hurt.
He’s only striking out to make sure I don’t hurt him first. It’s his natural survival instinct.

But it still sucked.

Keeping her voice light, she gave a nod to the papers he’d been pretending to read. “You tell me.”

His eyes tightened, narrowing on her face as if he sensed she was hiding something beneath the surface. Then he flipped back to the beginning of the contract where he’d originally offered Mistress L the sum of one hundred thousand dollars a month to be his. “You crossed out this entire clause.”

“Yes.”

He raised his head, suspicion grooved into deep lines between his eyes. “You didn’t write in an alternative amount.”

“No. I didn’t.”

“So what’s it going to cost me?”

She merely arched a brow and sat silently, gazing back at him evenly.

“I don’t understand. This is your profession. I know I misjudged you earlier, but I demanded you give up all your other clients.”

She nodded. “I emailed each of them last night and broke the news. They weren’t happy, to say the least.”

“So even if this doesn’t work out, you might lose some of them. You might hurt your business.”

It was her turn to shrug carelessly. “I’ve turned away business for years. I’ll find new clients if I must.”

“Let me get this straight. You’re going to accept my contract. You’re going to give up your existing clients, your very livelihood. And you’re not going to take a dime of my money?” He laughed, but it was hard and ugly. “Here I was prepared to blackmail you into agreement, and now I’m getting you for free.”

Her patience was unraveling very fast. “How exactly did you intend to blackmail me, Mr. Morgan?”

“I was going to threaten to tell everyone exactly what kind of business you’re running on the side.”

She nodded, her irritation rising. “So you were going to tell people like my parents and friends and professional clients that I’m a whore. Yeah, that’s a sure way to get a woman to agree to get into bed with you.”

He had the grace to squirm uncomfortably beneath her accusing glare. “I thought—”

“Yeah, we’ve already been over what a boneheaded idiot you are.” She stood up and snatched the contract off his desk. Most of it had been crossed out anyway. “This is what I think of you and your worthless contract, Mr. Morgan.” Then she tore the papers in half, threw them on his desk, and stalked toward the door.

“Miss Harrison, wait. Lilly!”

She heard him coming around his desk but she didn’t slow or turn to look at him. She started to open the door but he flung up an arm and slammed it shut, pressing his weight against it to keep her from opening it again.

“Mistress.”

Finally, he got her attention. She looked at him but didn’t soften her face or give him her words.

“I’m sorry. I’m an idiot. I was wrong.”

“Wrong to even thinking about blackmailing me? Or wrong to think I would actually accept money in exchange for having sex with you?”

“Shhh,” he lowered his voice. “I don’t know how soundproof this door is.”

Ha. She could only hope the simpering Miss Wruthers was pressed against the door on the other side listening avidly. It would serve him right. “That’s your problem, Mr. Morgan. Not mine. You’re the idiot who’s bewildered why I’m furious that you keep trying to shove money down my throat along with your cock.”

“Lilly, please!”

“Please what? Please forgive you yet again for trying to make me into your very own prostitute? Maybe you thought I’d charge by the lash. Drop your pants now and give me a grand. I’ll see how many cracks I can get in before your secretary comes charging in to see if I’m killing you.”

“I’m sorry,” he whispered furiously, his face so red it almost made her laugh despite her anger. “Please.”