The feisty vixen dared to tease the beast again, licking my finger as a way of her tart answer. After crawling off the bed, I unfastened my belt and the look in her eyes created quite a stir inside my body. I’d never marked a woman before, had never punished one out of intimacy or necessity. Why did I crave having her experience the combination of pain and pleasure?
And why did I long to have every other man she come in contact with know she belonged to me?
I tugged the thick strap from my pants loop by loop. All the while she watched me intently, her eyes glassed over. Yet I tossed it aside. Perhaps I’d use it on her rounded bottom after I was finished ravaging her.
When I was fully undressed, she opened her eyes wide. Every time she pursed her soft lips, I wanted to devour them. As she allowed her gaze to fall, for the first time, it felt good to be wanted.
Perhaps losing all sense of control wasn’t as detrimental as I’d once believed.
CHAPTER 10
Valencia
Emily had coined an expression the few times we’d managed to enjoy time spent at a bar or restaurant together. She called it the ‘hotness factor.’ It was the first thought thrumming through my mind as soon as Christos had removed his clothing.
Of course I’d run into completely sculpted men nearly every time I’d entered my local fitness club. I’d watched them preen, acting as if their huge muscles made them a real man. I’d had a few come through my office doors, discovering they’d had underlying dangerous heart conditions even though they exercised six days a week.
I’d even been courted by a couple during college, their muscles turning me off. Christos was different. He carried his muscles as if they’d been molded for him by a greater god. While solid as rocks, they appeared formed from brutal work, not spending hours posing in front of mirrors.
The ink covering both arms, with a small section crawling up along the side of his neck, was tasteful in design, althoughdangerous in appearance. Seeing his broad shoulders, narrow waist, and deep V leading to his gorgeous cock, I was truly in awe.
If the scale was one to ten, his hotness factor was a solid twenty. Emily would be jealous. I shuddered from the thought. For right now, at this moment, he was mine.
Now wasn’t I suddenly the possessive one?
Still, part of the intense attraction was the way he carried himself and his ability to laugh. Those were his sexiest attributes. Although I’d give him huge points for the use of his magnificent tongue and fingers. No man had ever pleased me the way he’d done. No man had ever brought me to an orgasm that way either.
My eyes remained on his thick cock. No man had any right to be that well-endowed. My mouth was suddenly dry. I’d missed the opportunity to have the creation of beauty in my mouth.
He knew exactly what I was hungering for, even wrapping his hand around his cock and stroking a few times to torment the hell out of me.
“The lady sees something she craves.”
“Maybe.”
Every time he chuckled, the sound reverberated right through me. I was fraught with the kind of desire that could make a woman go blind.
I was still in a luxurious state of mind, enjoying the foreplay as much as anything else. That had included our fabulous dinner.
When I rose onto my knees, swaying my hips back and forth, his look darkened all over again. “What part about staying put,o ángelós mou, did you not understand?”
The stern look on his face and the gruff sound of his voice sent tremors dancing down my spine. “I am my own woman.”
“Ah. I see.” He moved closer to the side of the bed. “Boró na do óti o élenchos sou eínai zotikís simasías.”
“What did you say?” I tugged on his hair, tangling my fingers in the thick strands while he continued staring out the window.
“I said I can see controlling you is vital.”
“No one can control me.”
He chuckled deeply and before I knew what he had in mind, he dragged me by several inches, tossing me over his lap.
I yelped and instantly tried to scramble off his knees, only managing to come close to slamming my face on the floor.
“None of that.” He jerked me back into position, instantly tossing one leg over both of mine. He wasn’t kidding around, immediately bringing the palm of his hand down on one side of my bottom then the other.
Several times.