Page 54 of Dominate Me

“I can give you a massage to help your sore muscles or you can take a bath while I prepare dinner, but I can’t have you cramping up on me.” I brushed my lips against her hair., loving the weight of her against my chest. “Which would you prefer?”

“If I get into the tub I might fall asleep.”

“Then a massage it is.” I slid my hand down to her backside and tapped her gently. “Climb off me and lay down on the floor. I’ll get oil for your back and ass. I still need to take care of you or your butt’s going to be incredibly sore.”

She licked her lips, her gaze flickered to mine hesitantly before looking away. “Yes, sir.”

I shifted, released her from my grip while she carefully, slowly, moved off the couch. I grimaced at her sheltered movements, as if she was already growing sore, and she probably was. Once the adrenaline left her and she stabilized more, everything would be tense again.

I splayed out the blanket on the floor and reached for my boxers, sliding them on.

“Get comfortable,” I told her and then I went to my room to grab the oil along with one of my T-shirts and a pair of boxers for her to slip into. When I’d told her not to bring clothes, I’d planned on her being naked this weekend.

Now, knowing what I wanted to say to her, I figured she’d be more comfortable covered.

And I wanted her covered in me.

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“This smells good,” she mumbled from the floor where my hands pressed into her shoulders. I’d already rubbed the oil mixture onto the globes of her marked and red backside and the backs of her thighs.

“Sage and lavender,” I told her. “They’ll both help with inflammation in your muscles and relax you, too.”

“If I was any more relaxed, I’d be asleep.”

I laughed softly. Better a relaxed, sated sub than a tense one.

I finished her massage with long, relaxing sweeps of my hands along her back and shoulders. Tonight hadn’t gone as I’d planned. Last night, in my frustration with her saying she didn’t want anything more from me than be to just be her Dom, I had pulled out of her driveway angry.

This weekend was going to be about showing her that what she thought she wanted, she didn’t. I was going to show her exactly how a relationship as just a Dom-sub, and nothing else, would go. But I liked her too much.

I wanted her too much. Last night, laughing and hanging out at the bar with Dylan, and Gabby when she could join us, even with Anya and Lance, had shown me a different side of Haley.

It had reminded me what being in a real relationship could be like. Something I hadn’t wanted even with Courtney, not really. But it didn’t mean that at one point in my life, I hadn’t wanted it...someday.

I just never thought someday would come in a beautiful, porcelain-skinned, green-eyed package, a woman who lit up for me like a fireworks extravaganza.

“Roll to your side carefully and then to your knees.” She stretched her limbs like a cat waking from a long nap. When she had obeyed, I held out my hand and helped her to her feet. “I brought you some clothes to put on. Would you like a drink?”

She blinked, looked at the clothes I’d set on the spanking bench and then at me, confusion twisting her brow.

“Wine?”

“Will do. Get dressed and meet me in the kitchen.” I walked away, giving her a moment to collect her thoughts even though I had the undeniable urge to pull her into my arms. She looked sleepy and sexy, bashful and cute. A combination I never thought would be attractive to me. “I ordered dinner earlier and it should be here any moment,” I called from the kitchen.

She joined me in the kitchen moments after I’d poured us each a glass of wine.

I handed her a chilled glass, watched her slow reactions. “You okay?”

She blinked at the glass, gingerly holding the stem between her fingertips.

“You, um...you said something earlier.” Her stammer was as endearing as the rest of her. Holding a glass of wine like it was made of diamonds, standing in my kitchen, wearing my clothes, I knew exactly what I wanted Haley to be to me.

Mine.

Not a sub. Not someone I trained. Not someone I fucked.

I just wanted her to be mine.

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