Page 49 of Solemn Vow

That’s the lesson.

And I’m a fast learner.

I fist the pillowcase just as he thrusts harder into me.

He shows no mercy, taking my body for his own pleasure, plowing harder and faster and harder still until I’m crying out from each movement. My body adjusts to him, accepting him, but he pushes the limits, fucking me with more and more force.

“Tell me,moy sladkiy voin. Tell me you learned your lessons today.” He sounds like he’s holding on by a thread.

When I say nothing, he slaps my ass hard.

“Never try to sneak away from you.” I hold myself up, pushing back at him, taking every inch of him, and enjoying the pain it brings. “And my body belongs to you now.”

He pauses, catches my eye as I look over my shoulder.

“Fuck, yes.” He gives a curt nod. He comes with the roar of a lion. His fingers dig into my hips as his cock fills me.

He kisses my back, sliding from my ass as he trails kisses down to my ass cheeks, kissing each one.

“Stay here.” He touches my back. Then he’s gone.

But only for a moment. He’s back with a wet washcloth, cleaning me, soothing me.

“You are all right.” He looks at me with concern, but his words suggest he’s telling me, not asking.

“I am.” I smile with more contentment than I have a right to as I ease my body down beneath the thick covers of the bed.

He disappears again from my sight, and I close my eyes for just a moment. When he climbs back into the bed, he drapes his heavy arm around my waist and pulls me into him. I burrow into him, accepting the warmth of his body and the comfort of his presence.

“Now. About where you call home.”

“Didhe take the bus with you again?” Izzy sits on the leather couch in Andrei’s office with a glass of wine and pushes her feet beneath her.

“No.” I hug a pillow to my stomach on the other side of the couch. “He did drive me to work though.” I roll my eyes.

“He’s not going to stop doing that,” she warns me. “So just accept it. It’s easier.”

“Oh, like you did?” I shoot a look at her. It’s not like Izzy and Andrei had the easiest courtship, even if everything turned out just like it was supposed to.

“I’m different.”

I laugh. “Yeah, you want all this. A husband, a house, kids maybe one day, that’s what you want. It’s not for me, but I can’t get him to understand that.” I check behind me, making sure the office door is still shut and Viktor isn’t there listening.

Andrei and Viktor had a meeting tonight at Kraze. They’re upstairs in the private suites with whoever they’re meeting with while we sit comfortably tucked away in Andrei’s private office.

Izzy had texted earlier that she’d be here and asked if I could hang with her while Andrei had his meeting. If she was just trying to get me to spend more time with Viktor, she didn’t need to; he showed up at my apartment only minutes after I got home and told me we were going out.

“You really can’t see yourself with him?” Izzy asks with cynicism.

“He’s overprotective,” I point out. “And he’s overbearing. And he’s arrogant.” And stubborn.

While I was changing in my bedroom, he set up the damn TV that he refuses to take back. So now, it’s out of the box and all linked to the internet and everything.

“He’s also kinda sweet. You said he replaced your TV, and he didn’t push you into his car, he took the bus with you.” She laughs. “I still wish I could see him on the bus, he must have been so scary.”

I shrugged. “I didn’t notice.”

She grins like she’s just been handed a book of knowledge.

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