Page 33 of After Effect

“Lilly, I… I can’t…” If I crossed this line, there would be no going back. Not for our relationship, not for our work, and not for… for me.

She squeezed her eyes shut, while her grip tightened between my fingers. I knew I needed to stop this, but why was that so hard to vocalize? Would it really be so wrong if we didn’t stop? Just this once?No, there’s no way it’ll be just this once. I’m not that naïve.

She closed the gap, lightly brushing over my lips in a calculated dare for me to chase her. Every bit of contact coaxed me closer to the edge. I forced myself to hold back. She bit her lip and looked away.

“I know.” She let go and took a step back. “Fuck! I know. It was a stupid gamble.”

Those words made me feel far worse. It wasn’t. You weren’t wrong.

But this relationship would be. By every logical synapse in my brain, I needed to shut this down now. But by every beat of my heart, I knew I would regret it for the rest of my life if I did.

“I owe you one.” I heard myself speak. “Tell me that I owe you one.”

“What?”

“It’s a favor. Pay back for picking me up and letting me ride your bike.” I need a reason so I can’t say no. All you have to do is give me one. Any one at all. Please don’t let me walk away right now. “I’ll do anything you want, remember?”

“I don’t want this as a favor. This isn’t just a ‘favor’ for me.”

Goddammit, Lilly. “Subtlety isn’t your strong suit, is it?” My attempt to give up any ownership of what I was about to do didn’t work. Fuck it. Who am I trying to kid? “If you aren’t going to be the one to cash in a request, then I guess I’m about to be in your debt even deeper.” I grabbed her by the collar and took her lips myself this time. My other hand gripped her hips and pressed my hardness against her, in case my actions weren’t clear on their own. Why can’t I? Because she’s my client? Why can’t I have what I want for once?

Rationale went out the window. Professionalism went out the window. I didn’t even care.

“That’s what I thought.” She smiled into our kiss, while her fingers were feeling their way down my body, over my clothes, around my belt, then sliding over the fly of my pants. She gripped me firmly, running her hand up my length, causing me to buckle against her. A moan slid into her mouth. I gripped her shoulder for support, and I pressed my back into the door. Even fully clothed, she knew exactly how to play with me to rob me of control. I bit my lip and turned away to try to get a hold on my senses, but Lilly was having none of it.

“You should see your face right now.” She whispered in my ear, before she traced the lobe with her tongue. “I’ve been dying to do this to you since the first time we shared an indirect kiss through the filter of your cigarette. I let you get away with it while you were drunk, but if you can kiss me like that sober, then you can’t be mad if I don’t hold back.”

When I was... “Wait, you didn’t tell me I-”

Her lips silenced me again, and I had no control over the intensity of the heat pulsing through my blood anymore. I kissed her after the club? So she knew how I felt about her the whole time. All those songs we wrote together… That song about being tortured by stolen kisses…

“Shhhhh” She used her thumb to release my belt buckle. “I won’t let you forget this time.”

I would never forget this. “People will hear us if we do this here,” my rational mind begged through a cloud of lust.

“Oh? Are you a screamer?” Her kisses made their way down my neck, while her fingers were now inching down my zipper. She returned to my ear and gave it a nibble. “I can gag you first if you want.”

The pressure of her hand wrapping around my cock wasn’t helping my resolve. I dug my fingers deeper into her shoulder as she gave me a firm stroke. “G-gag me.”

“That’s my favorite thing you’ve ever said to me.” Her grin was wide and devious as she dragged me back to her dressing room couch. She pushed me onto the cushion, then she went to her closet. A quick shuffle, and she came back with a handful of scarves. My eyes widened.

“Any last words?” She winked, wearing that playful smile.

I leaned back into the couch and cocked back my head in an attempt to maintain some semblance of my air of authority in this relationship. “Don’t disappoint me.”

“Ha!” Lilly straddled my lap and placed a soft kiss on my lips. “You sound so confident now, but how many women have you actually been with, Finch Corbin?”

I rolled my eyes, but that only goaded her on firther. I’d been with plenty of women at this point. Sex was sex, right? How different could she be?

Lilly’s expression drank in my doubt like an eager swig. She moved closer to whisper in my ear. “This gag alone isn’t going to save you, Finchy. Let me make it easier for you.”

With that, she stretched the scarf across my lips and tied it on tight. She took hold of my wrists next, and I leaned forward in compliance as she grabbed another scarf to tie them behind my back. I thought that would be all, until she came up with a third scarf. She wrapped it around my neck, making it snug enough to nearly cut off my air supply. It would take the slightest tug of her wrist to take it all away completely. I don’t know why that was making my cock even harder, but Lilly seemed pleased. Despite her playful demeanor, I was beginning to realize there was nothing at all innocent about the woman on top of me.

That realization didn’t change the fact that I was straining against her now. The pressure of the silk on my skin, and the desperate throbbing between my legs was all my mind could focus on. My eyes squeezed shut to force my concentration on my stifled breathing, while I fidgeted under her weight, my hands trying to free themselves in an instinctual need to loosen the tie around my neck. It was no use. The silk scarves had me beat.

Breath in. Breath out.

The sensation of her weight on top of me was replaced by her warm, wet lips covering the head of my cock after she took position between my legs. My body jerked back into the couch cushions in surprise, but her throat had already compensated for my retreat. Lilly wasted no time taking me into her deeper.

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