Page 55 of How to Seduce a Slender

“We agreed upon ten.” His instruction grounded her while the rest of the world slipped away. Her eyes fell closed. Then two smokey tendrils slithered under the elastic of her panties and tugged them down. A gloved palm caressed her shivering flesh. Melody inhaled sharply through her nose, letting it out steadily.

His glove ripped away from her before it landed sharply against her backside. Melody cried out, the duvet muffling some of the sound.

“Say one, sweet girl.”

“One!” she mewled, toes curling.

The glove ripped away and struck across her other cheek. Melody didn’t hesitate, yelping, “Two!”

“That’s my girl, how many are we doing?”

“Ten.” Her mouth hung open. Warmth spread immediately through her cheeks on both ends. He sweetly rubbed the stinging flesh he’s struck before pulling back. The next one came back to her left side. Melody groaned, “Three.”

“Very good.” His teasing praise made her thighs clench, which unfortunately made the fourth strike twice as powerful. She cried out into the bed. He rubbed her warm skin tenderly,

“Four!” She finally found the air to speak.

And on they went. He wasn’t fast or slow; just steady. He would wait for her to count out the strike before pulling his hand away. Melody was goo. No bones, no thoughts, nothing but goo. And when he struck across her cheek for the tenth strike, Melody would have collapsed to the floor if it hadn’t been for smokey tendrils holding her rigid.

Smith’s palm brushed down her skin before tugging her panties up. They left a stinging kiss in their wake as he settled the elastic back around her waist. Her cheeks were raw but so was she.

Melody was a puppet with loose strings as Smith eased her up off the bed. His tendrils, long and whipping, pulled back the comforter that he helped her climb into. She lay in a crumpled pile of her own parts, watching him warmly as he took off his vest, then his shoes, draping them over a nearby chair. Her heartbeat slowed to a sluggish thump as he rounded the bed. He pulled back his own side, slithering under the blanket.

Her head flopped to the side. “I’ve never let anyone do that before.”

He slid up beside her, pulling her into him. Unlike the night before, he threw an arm around her, her back curled against his chest. Melody was given a free show of him tugging off his gloves and dropping them into the awaiting shadow hand.

“Mmm, and what does that say about me? Or does that merely say you only misbehave for me?” He chuckled in her ear. Melody reveled in the feel of his lips as they brushed her jaw, then what sliver of her throat he could catch.

“It says I’ve never trusted someone like I do you…I’ve never felt safe enough with someone to suggest it, let alone go through with it.” She wiggled as deep into his body as she could get before entangling her hands in his.

A dreamy sigh escaped him. “Oh, my sweet girl, I cherished being able to do that for you.”

“Thank you,” she murmured.

“Before you go to sleep,” he brushed his lips against the shell of her ear, “we should discuss boundaries.”

“Once again, just like a lawyer to discuss limits and boundaries,” she snorted, rolling her eyes.

“This is for you, sweet girl. Don’t get smart with me because the things I want to do to you…it would behoove you to set your boundaries now. Lest I cross them in my depravity.” He nipped her ear lobe, tugging on it.

Melody’s heart fluttered. She shifted lightly in hope of catching his face, but she stopped when he kissed her cheek hard. The words finally formed. “What kinds of things?”

He rumbled, returning his teeth to her ear lobe. “What are your boundaries when it comes to your body while you’re sleeping?”

“What do you mean? Like-like touching me?”

One of his hands slithered up her arm then down her side. Melody swallowed over her tongue as he firmly cupped her cunt over her nightgown. His low growl left her speechless. “If we were to engage in activities in the Endless Woods, and you awoke to find me here? My fingers, my tongue…other parts of me? How comfortable are you with waking to find me playing with you, for starters?”

Melody sat perfectly still, the wires in her brain already crossed. The horny, needy side of her mind was screaming to agree. To take him up on the offer. There was a more reasonable side of her that urged caution. “And what would happen, if we went further than touching?”

“Oh, sweet girl, all in due time. The first time I sink into you will be while you are very alert. If I had my way it would be just shortly after I caught you. You’d be less inclined to run from me in a graveyard if you knew when I snatched you, you’d be ass up, face down in grave soil, wouldn’t you?”

Melody snorted, “You would be surprised.”

“Don’t make threats you can’t keep, my wicked little wolf. For all the naughty little things in your mind, I can assure you, I’ve thought worse.”

“I doubt that.” The voice in her throat was caught as a spare hand shot out from his chest, wrapping around her neck. Melody audibly gulped.

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