Page 42 of Just One More Night

“Quiet,” he said now, his voice low. “Today will be a day of silent reflection.”

Indy laughed, and not in the genuine way he loved. “I don’t think that it will.”

“If you are not quiet,” he continued in the same tone, feeling the anticipation in him surge, “I will find a way to encourage you. You do like it when I spank you, don’t you?”

“You can do whatever you want,” she said. “But first—”

“No,” he said, cutting her off. “Nofirst. On your knees, foolish girl. There’s much to do today.”

Indy looked a little surly, but she obeyed him. Because she knew by now that when it came to naked days and power exchanges, he meant what he said.

And she loved that he did. She told him so, but even if she hadn’t, the way she melted in his hands would have done the trick.

“You might want to do something about the insolence in that gaze of yours,” he murmured as she sucked him in deep. “Or you can be sure I will.”

She lowered her lashes immediately, but he knew full well that he would have the opportunity to express himself as the day wore on.

Because Indy loved to play sex games, but she was only submissive when she thought it was hot. It wasn’t a lifestyle.

Too bad, he thought, because if it were, he would simply order her to stay with him and that would be the end of it.

But that wasn’t who he was, either.

He came with a roar, his hands deep in her hair. And he watched, feeling himself heat up all over again as she swallowed him down, then smiled as if she was the one in control.

Sometimes he couldn’t tell either.

And this was the last day, so he knew this was going to go, didn’t he? The only mystery was how she would leave. He didn’t think she would creep away in the night. He thought she would put on one of her performances. A lot of laughter, probably some sweetness, and then she would dance away into what was left of the summer, leaving him here with whatever was left of him.

He would have to find a way to accept that.

Because this was the tyranny of wanting things he couldn’t simply take. This was the problem with the intensity he demanded from her. For the first time in his life, he had something to lose. He would have to live without her, knowing what it was like to have her.

He hated it.

And he took it out on her delectable body.

They both liked toys, so he fitted her with one of her favorites, then made her walk down the stairs with it in. He made her keep it in, so that even the act of standing with him in the kitchen while he calmly made coffee made her blush and shift from foot to foot, moaning a little.

“Do not come without my permission,” he said as he poured the Turkish coffee into two cups and then carried them outside. Where he had her sit in the sun, letting the light dance all over her skin while she squirmed in her seat and looked at him like he was the best kind of monster. “Or you will regret it.”

“I already regret it,” Indy retorted, her voice rough and greedy, just the way he liked it. “It’s torture.”

“It is not. But it could be. Is that what you would like?”

“I would like to talk—”

“A spanking it is, then.”

Stefan pushed back his chair and patted his lap, lifting one brow.

Indy stared back at him, naked but for the way her hair tumbled down over her shoulders. And oh, he loved to watch the expressions that moved over her lovely face. At first she looked mutinous. He saw the distinct flash of her temper. And then, almost despite herself, the heated awareness that became a flush. Her nipples hardened. Her lips fell open.

She muttered something beneath her breath but she got up, crossed to him, and draped her naked body over his lap. Deliberately making it awkward when he knew how graceful she was, as yet another level of protest.

“I’m not really into this, you know,” she told him as he widened his legs to keep her where he wanted her. But could feel the way she melted into him, no matter what she said. “Not when you seem mad. Which, by the way, you do.”

“Yes, I can see how not into it you are,” Stefan murmured, his hands playing between her thighs. He gripped the base of the toy and fucked her with it until goosebumps broke out all over her back and the sweet curve of her ass.