The Pearl at the Gate (6 page)
Once a servant…now the master.
Take a Stranger No More
© 2008 Beth Kery
Kit Chevalier has a serious problem. She’s loved Max St. Clair, her sinfully handsome guardian, since she was a child of six and he a young man of nineteen. But now he stubbornly refuses to notice that she’s grown into a woman. Armed with a few shocking secrets from Max’s servant, Kit sets out to persuade him she is no longer a child.
Long ago, Max was a servant himself, indentured like all St. Clair princelings to a noble family in order to teach them humility…and how to best pleasure their masters in bed. Once indentured to Kit’s parents, he is now pledged to protect Kit-and her virtue-until he can honorably hand her off to a suitable husband.
And hand her off he will. Quickly, before he loses his weakening resolve to keep his own hands off her. The last thing he wants to do is expose the fragile beauty to the carnal appetites of his ancient line.
But Max underestimates Kit’s resolve-and the passionate fire that burns within her-which is every bit a match for his own.
The Adventures of the St. Claire Servants — Book 1
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Take a Stranger No More
Audie turned around slowly and pinned her with a wary stare. “What the bloody hell do you want with this?” he asked slowly as he held up a long wooden spoon. The caution on his face segued to incredulity. “Don’t tell me you fancy being spanked!”
“No, I…” Kit paused in mixed confusion and piqued interest. She hardened her resolve and forced herself back to the point. “No, I thought we could use the spoon as a compromise.” She glanced down meaningfully between her legs. “You said that you couldn’t touch me but you wouldn’t have to if—”
“
You’ve lost your mind
,” Audie grated out as he rapidly walked toward her, eyes blazing.
“And how exactly would you be acting Audie Sinclair, if you’d just sat within ten feet of two beautiful young men loving each other?” Kit hissed, rising to Audie’s challenge.
Audie opened his mouth to protest, seemed to see her point and then clamped it shut again with a click of his back teeth. “You are
such
a spoiled brat,” he accused instead.
Kit smiled slowly, hearing her victory in his tone. She eyed Audie curiously as he held up the long wooden spoon and glanced at her pussy as though he were trying to work out the mechanics of the maneuver in his mind. He knelt before her. He put up a hand as if he wanted to part her thighs wider but abruptly dropped it to his side.
“I…I don’t think I should touch you, Kit. To be honest I don’t think that I
can
touch you and still remain loyal to Max. As it is…” he swallowed thickly, “…I’m skating on very thin ice.”
Kit just nodded, made speechless by the experience of having Audie’s face less than a foot away from her pussy.
“Open your thighs further and scoot your bottom to the edge of the table. There,” he said after a moment. She halted with her pussy right at the edge, her thighs spread wide. Audie licked his perspiration-damp upper lip as he raised the spoon. “You
were
suffering, weren’t you? I can see how wet you are. God, you’re lovely.”
“And you,” she whispered. “You looked so beautiful loving that boy, Audie. Ohhh!” Kit gasped and trembled when he placed the flat end of the wooden spoon directly over her outer lips, pressed and moved the spoon in small, tight circles.
Audie’s eyes flickered up to her face. “I’m not claiming this is the ideal way to go about all of this, mind you.”
“I’m not complaining,” Kit replied between pants. She shifted her hips to increase the indirect pressure on her clit. After a moment she moaned in rising pleasure.
“I don’t think I should part your lips,” Audie muttered distractedly as he studied her pussy with a tight focus. “Your clit is a tender piece of flesh. The spoon may be too rough for you.”
“Just don’t stop what you’re doing,” Kit begged. She wasn’t really sure what Audie was talking about, but the friction he built between her thighs felt wonderful.
Audie glanced up and smiled at her tenderly. Kit’s eyes widened. He’d never looked at her remotely like that in the past. But she had no leisure to think about this new emotion in Audie’s eyes because he began rotating the spoon rapidly on her pussy in a manner that made her groan disbelievingly in pleasure.
“I think I might be getting the hang of this,” he murmured.
“I think you might be,” Kit agreed wholeheartedly. She bucked her hips more enthusiastically against Audie’s wicked stirring of her pussy.
His grin widened. “Leave it to you, Kitty—a virgin and you teach me how to find a sex toy in a nearly barren kitchen storeroom.” His nostrils flared. “Your pussy smells delicious.”
“Oh…Audie,” she moaned. “You’re making me
burn
.”
“Then we’re doing everything just right. Ah-ah,” he cautioned her when she pushed with her hands on the table and began to buck her hips wildly against the spoon. Kit gasped loudly in disbelief when he gently swatted the fat, juicy lips of her labia with the spoon several times, as if she’d just been a bad girl. Her body tightened unbearably at his unexpected action. He chuckled when she gaped at him in shock.
“Just because you started this show doesn’t mean you run it, Kitty,” he said softly. He lifted the spoon, his hot stare on her making the fire in her pussy rage higher. “You’re so juicy, Kit. God what I wouldn’t give to bury my tongue in all that sweetness…”
“
Audie,”
Kit begged, tottering right on the sharp edge of unbearable tension and blissful release. “Put that damn spoon back on me or I’ll kill you.”
“Put that spoon back on her and I
will
kill you. I may one way or the other, come to think of it.”
Audie made a choking noise. Kit yelped in surprise when her friend was suddenly hauled up roughly by his collar to a standing position.
“Max!” Audie rasped.
“Max!” Kit squawked almost simultaneously.
Oh no
, Kit thought in rising misery. It appeared that her guardian was about to explode with fury. He looked impossibly tall and intimidating in the low-ceilinged storage room. Max’s face darkened another shade of red. Even though Kit knew how fit and strong he was, the wild thought struck her that he was about to have a heart attack and she would be solely responsible for his death.
“It’s nice to know the two of you recall who I am,” Max muttered between tense lips. His gaze pinned Audie like two nails. “You seem to have forgotten a great deal else.
Pull down your skirts, Kit!
”
Kit jumped in alarm at the abrupt order. To her knowledge, he hadn’t even glanced at her since he’d spoken just a moment ago.
Oh God
…how long had he been standing there in the entryway of the storage room observing them?
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