Page 40 of Taming Scarlet

Why was the anger in his eyes making my belly feel liquid?

His hands went to my waistband next, pushing the button free, then the zip, before pushing the material down.

I stood there, frozen, as he suddenly leaned forward, pulling off each of my heels, then lifting each of my legs to remove my pants fully, before standing again, his gaze once again on my face.

That was the strangest part, wasn’t it?

I was standing there in a bra and thong.

And he wasn’t even looking.

I thought he was done, he’d paused for so long.

But then he was moving around my body, his fingers grabbing the band of my bra, and unclasping it.

The material loosened and fell forward, then slipped to the floor completely.

A shiver coursed through me.

I wanted to believe it was a chill.

But I felt like I was suddenly on fire.

Julian was still behind me when his fingers slid across my lower back, tracing the thin material of my thong, before grabbing it at the apex of my ass, and dragging it down until it freely fell to my feet.

“Get on your knees, Scarlet,” he demanded, voice low, but commanding, his breath tickling the shell of my ear.

And I just… did it.

Again.

After talking to myself all day about how it was a fluke, that it was never going to happen again.

“Good,” he murmured as he moved around me and my chin went up as my gaze moved down.

I don’t know how long I sat like that.

But it felt like forever.

“Come,” he demanded as he turned away and walked toward the couch, and some part of me wanted to mouth off, to do anything but what he demanded. “Don’t make me tell you again,” he said, that growl back in his voice.

Then I… I did it.

I went to him.

On myhands and knees.

Bare ass naked.

As soon as I was near him, back in the position I knew he liked, he reached for something I couldn’t see, then moved behind me.

I had no idea what he was planning.

Until I felt something close around one wrist.

Then the other.

Then something close around each ankle.

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