“Why?” Lisa whispered, not sure she would like his response, not even sure she wanted to hear it.

“I told you before, krastoka. You are wholly mine, and mine alone. The mere thought of anyone else seeing your neck exposed before them, or the way your eyes change shade when you are horny as fuck, or the little birthmark on your butt, makes me see only red. I have been trying to distract myself all day by working with Dmitri so I wouldn’t walk back out there and kill the men who have been loyal to me all their lives. So, Lisa, this is the last time this will happen.”

The atmosphere in the room increased a notch, and Lisa felt sweat trickle down her skin. She swallowed impulsively, and her lips parted on their own accord. She was utterly at the mercy of Nikolai’s gaze, and it was doing things to her body. She could feel wetness pool in the middle of her panties, and she repressed the urge to bring her legs together. Nikolai wouldn’t miss it.

“Okay.” Lisa nodded, bobbing her head like a child. “I won’t do that again.”

“Do what?” He needed to hear her say it.

“I will cover up when the men are inside the mansion.”

Nikolai was stunned that Lisa had not argued with him on that ground. She usually had something to say no matter how angry he was or how much he showed it. But today, she just agreed with him.

It made the Russian Bear think of good girls and how best to reward them.

“Can I ask you something?” Lisa gushed out spontaneously, making good use of the opportunity. She doubted she would be able to summon up enough courage to ask him the moment she left this office.

Or not.

It was really dependent on the way the night would end.

“In a minute,” Nikolai drawled, and suddenly Lisa’s feet were off the ground as he lifted her easily and dropped her on the table after clearing its contents with a hand. Papers and books fell to the ground in soft whispers, but Nikolai barely gave that any attention as he shoved a knee in between her legs, pressing hard against her core through the sheer baby-pink nightgown she had on.

“Was this what you wanted when you walked into that room?” His hands gripped her waist, and he slammed her hard to him. “For everyone’s eyes and minds to be on you, and for their arms to roam around your body searching for a goddamn gold that isn’t theirs?”

Lisa shook her head, but the movement only made her more conscious of Nikolai’s knee in between her thighs. “I just… I wanted to… I have something to ask you. I was thinking of it.”

“You’ve said that before, krastoka. Yet, I can’t hear you ask me anything.” Lisa’s soft scent made Nikolai heady, and his cock hardened in response. Lifting a hand to her head, he tugged down the band, holding her bun in place, and the mass of silky strands cascaded all over her back and face, giving her an ethereal look. She looked fucking beautiful under the night light, and her eyes were droopy and heavy with need like she couldn’t wait to have his dick in her body.

Lisa’s stomach quivered from the intensity of Nikolai’s tone. Her nipples felt hard and perked underneath her nightgown, visible through the sheer fabric, and Nikolai’s eyes were on them. But he didn’t reach out to stroke them with his thumb, punishing her instead with the idea of how great it would feel to have his hands taunting her there right now. Lisa found it hard to breathe, so she reached out for a hand to pull him closer, but Nikolai shook his head. “Tell me what you wanted to ask first.”

Fuck him!

“Can I get a job?” she blurted out breathlessly, thinking Nikolai would stiffen and act all out since he could barely let her walk around the house dressed in whatever she wanted. Instead, he brushed a tongue on her hard nipple through the silk of the nightdress, obsessed with how it sprung back in his face as if daring him to take another go at it. The fabric around the nipple was damp with his saliva, and he made the same mark on her second nipple.

Lisa buried her hand in his head and pulled him closer, arching her back in the process. “You aren’t giving me a response, are you?” It took a lot of effort to get those words out.

“You said it yourself.” Nikolai removed his knee from between her thighs. He wanted to take off her pants as gentlemanly as he could, but that was gone out of the window with how his dick demanded to be paid attention to. It was everything about Lisa - from how her waist fit perfectly in his arms to how she sighed and gasped each time he touched her. Her body opened up to him like a fucking flower, but the difference was that Nikolai knew he couldn’t squash her.

At least not yet.

He had never been one to hold on to things forever, unless it had something to do with the mafia. So that meant all of this would have to come to an end someday. It left a sour taste in his mouth, but Nikolai pushed the thought to the back of his head. He looked into her gray eyes, reading the need and hunger in them. She looked like sex, with her tousled hair all over the place, her nightwear bunched on her waist, and her full lips begging to be kissed.

Nikolai’s senses were heightened as he ripped off her pants in one quick movement, his hands grazing her damp core. “You’re such a little whore, you know, right?” he whispered as he discarded the ruined lace. “You walked into a meeting to seduce my men a few hours ago. You are fucking dripping for me right now, so much that I want to soak in that scent, yet you want to get a job out there, with men around, touching you just the way I do. That’s what you want, right?”

Nikolai’s cock glided over her pulsing core without thrusting in. Instead, he teased her over and over again with his dick, moving up and down her folds until she thought her seams were going to burst wide open. Lisa knew she should be appalled by how he wanted to dominate every area of her life, yet she found herself thinking of something else entirely - wanting something else entirely.

“Nikolai,” she gasped, rubbing her core against his stretched dick, still teasing her. “Please…”

“Answer the fucking question, Lisa.”

She couldn’t even remember what he had asked, and her brain was too foggy right now to pay attention to anything else apart from the dire need to have his cock inside of her. But Lisa knew Nikolai wasn’t going to give her what she unashamedly wanted, so she tried to remember.

What had she asked him?

The job!

“No,” she moaned, her eyes fluttering close as Nikolai increased the speed, sliding through her damp core in an insane fashion, leaving her on the verge of shuddering into tiny pieces, yet never really getting to that point. A smirk spread on his face but didn’t exactly reach his eyes. He was angry about everything, and Lisa just kept making it worse.