Page 484 of Hate Mates

Well,nothing is going to do that. I focus on the meal he places in front of me, picking lightly at the fare of scallops with crème and asparagus. If he’s going to the trouble of trying to seduce me for the next three weeks, playing along with the game is only fair. “This is very good. Incredibly good really,” I tell him, watching his expression as his eyes track my movements.

A slight smileplays over his lips. “And we haven’t even finished the best part, dessert.”

My center clenchesas his eyes gaze openly at my breasts while my cheeks heat with embarrassment and a healthy dose of angst. “The straps on your gown showcase your creamy neck beautifully, kitten.”

He standsand removes our plates from the table, putting them on a long side table underneath the draped window. When he folds himself back into his seat, he crooks a finger. “Come kitten, it’s time for my dessert. Then we’ll see if you can resist my charms.”

The arrogant bastard.I’ll play along and I will resist his charms, no matter that my nipples ache and my center feels slick with need. He takes my hand over the table. “Come, sit on my lap.”

I swallowthrough the lump which has formed in the back of my throat. I can stop this, I can say no, but then I have no chance of winning the bet. Let him do his best, enjoy what he has to offer, but under no circumstances say the bastard’s name. “Fine.”

His eyebrow cocks with challenge.“Straddle my lap and face me.”

I inhale a deep breath,gathering the long folds of my dress as I place one leg on either side of him. He doesn’t make it awkward, sliding a hand around my hip to steady me as I do,bringing me down on his lap as he watches, intrigued with my seemingly easy submission, but the devil is not fooled for a moment, and I did not expect him to be. “You are brave, and determined to pay this debt, even at a cost to yourself, yet you shrug off your loyalty to your family as though it were a sin.”

“My family,no, they are my everything, but the business? I have no use for it, it’s just not in my future. My sister will be the one that carries that burden.”

Massimo strokesa finger down the length of my neck, sending a shiver down my spine as his fingers trail, lowering the glitzy silver strap of my gown to expose the tips of my nipples, traitorously straining for the heat of his touch. He does not make me wait, caressing first one, and then baring the other to do the same, stroking them while my center heats as his cock hardens beneath me. “This attraction between us, there is no denying the chemistry, kitten,” he whispers before lowering his mouth to my breast.

His hands cradle my hips,moving me against the rigidity of his cock while sucking first one and then the other nipple, teasing and nipping at the tender and sensitive flesh, and then pausing to kiss the length of my neck and whisper in my ear. “Your clit is on fire, isn’t it, Sophia? Tell me you want me to touch you there,” he says, his lips trailing down the sensitive column to kiss my tips again. It’s a game I knew we were going to play, and there is no denying the attraction. Besides, as long as I do not say his name, I will continue to win. “Yes, I want you to touch me there.”

His dark eyesflare with need as he lifts me onto the table in front of him and lays me back, placing my heels on his thighs. The silky material parts as my body shivers with undeniable desire and anticipation of what’s to come. The flat of his tongue slides over the sensitive nub of my clit, causing me to gasp, clenching my hands at my side to stem the wave of pleasure as he does it again, and then again. His hands reach beneath me, lifting me, allowing him undeterred access to lick me from opening to clit, and then back again, teasing me unmercifully with every stroke. “It’s time for my cream now, kitten. Give me permission, tell me you want me to lick every bit of your cream.”

I swallow through the pleasure,while his hand moves from my hips to rub my nipples, squeezing them with more pressure, just like when spanking my ass. I should be mortified, embarrassed, but it’s far too late for that. “Please.”

He licks just off center,causing me to internally groan. So close, but so far away. “Please, lick.”

“Lick what, kitten?”he asks, sliding first one finger and then two into my wet pussy.

It’shard to concentrate on anything except that velvety tongue. “My cream, please.”

The tipof his tongue slides over my clit, while his fingers rub the sensitive walls, driving me into a frenzy inside. “Please?”

He lifts me up,his eyes glazed with passion. He uses a finger to wipe his lips and rubs it over the tips of my nipples beforeunbuckling his belt. The jangling sound should scare the hell out of me, but instead it causes my insides to clench with heated need.

This game may besordid and sinful but it’s one I want to play.

The devil knows exactlywhat he’s doing, making me wait, not letting me come, but the moment he places me on his lap his hands wrap around my hips pulling me down atop his massive rod, driving deep and giving me exactly what I want. Driving deep, time and time again.

But still,even in the throes of passion as we both explode, I refuse to say his name. I’m not planning to admit defeat when surely this offer could be such a victorious win.

But the littlevoice inside is already warning … at what cost to me?

Chapter Nine

MASSIMO ROSELLI

Three weeks ago, it was just a bet, one that admittedly would help me in many different ways, but caring about that has long since fled the recesses of my mind. All I can think about from the time I wake until the time I fall asleep with my kitten curled in my arms is making her mine.

Three long weeks of agony,making love in every way, every position has only brought me to one conclusion. Tonight is different though, I can feel it in the air between us, in the very way she breathes as she sits atop my cock, ready for what I have to give.

No matter what,I am going to make her mine. Sophia will be my wife to love for eternity, no matter that our families forbid it. She knows it, I know it, and she knows I know it, whether she will say my name or not.

I slide up on the bed, adjusting her body as my hips drive into her heat, enthralled with the way her body glides atop of mine, taking me in deep in her sexy little dance.

The feelof her cunt wrapped around me, squeezing on every upstroke causes my balls to draw up in anticipation of losing myself in her velvety heat.

But Sophia is notin charge of her pleasure, no matter what she thinks. I quickly roll her beneath me, caging her to the bed and splaying her arms apart, causing her to wrap those silver-heeled ankles around my waist even tighter.

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