Page 188 of Vampire's Choice

During a spirited chase and sparring match, she’d called him some creative names. He’d decided to take offense, holding her over his lap while she struggled and snarled. She’d nearly climaxed from the stinging blows on her ass.

Ruth lifted her hands from him and stepped back. “Did you tell me that I could put my hands on myself?” She slid them along her throat, down to cup her breasts. Even lower, while he dropped to his heels, wings half spread as he watched her with heavy-lidded, heated eyes. “Because I do that quite often, thinking of your hands there instead. Wanting them there. You’re away too much.”

Which she didn’t begrudge him, at all. They both had things they had to do. But she had no trouble using it to tease him like this.

“Perhaps I’ll punish you by telling you that every time I take your body for the next few days, the only contact you’ll have is my cock driving into your cunt. I will not touch you otherwise. Will not kiss you. I will tell you to touch yourself, command it. Teach you that you can have your hands or mine. You cannot have both.”

Her hands stilled, and slowly she removed them, held them out to either side of herself. “I need your touch,” she said, her voice throaty. “More than I need pleasure itself.”

Merc rose and came to her, sliding his hands to her hips, her backside, lifting her up as she wrapped her legs around him. When she grimaced at the bruising grip of his fingers on her buttocks, he bared his fangs at her. “There are advantages to having a vampire who doesn’t heal as fast. You remember your lessons far better.”

She would have stuck her tongue out at him now, defying him to do it again, but he captured her mouth, played his tongue around her own, creating more pleasure. She gripped his shoulders, the firm flesh, the heat of him. She needed more of him than she thought anyone could give.

I will prove you wrong, Ruth. As many times as needed for you to learn that lesson, too. Even if we have to fight about it.

Feeling that wicked smile inside him, she responded in kind.

Or want to do so.

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