Page 70 of Tribute
His heart rate bumped up. “Yeah?”
Price looked around the sparsely furnished bedroom. “Bring that chair into the center of the room.”
“You going to brain me with it?”
“No, I’m going to tie you to it.”
He fought down a shiver of anticipation. “With what?”
“While you were in the shower, I had a look in your closet, and I found something I remembered from the Tribute facility. Your box of tricks.”
“So?”
“That’s how I’m going to tie you up. Then I’m going to make you wish you’d never been born.”
“By fucking me?” Kai managed a disdainful shrug. “I’ve survived Palk and theUngrichtwice. You don’t scare me.”
His gaze fastened on Price’s hand as his ex-trainee opened the box and drew out several cords.
“If I don’t scare you, you won’t mind kneeling down and letting me do my worst then, will you?”
For a moment, he hesitated. He was fairly certain Price was just doing this for revenge. In which case it wouldn’t do either of them any harm if he submitted and helped Price move on from hisUngrichexperience. He’d been used hard before. He’d survived—and Price was an amateur compared to Palk and theUngrich, probably even to Rehz, who was as unsentimental a lover as Kai ever begged for. But could he take that from Price? A male who had earned his respect and his unwilling desire? Palk gave him no choice. Rehz was a friend. How would it feel with Price, who would be gone within a few weeks, maybe less? Assuming Price didn’t choose to stay longer. But even thinking that was ridiculous. What would Price ever want from him other than a hard fuck? What did he even have to give?
He went over to the chair and raised an eyebrow at Price. “How do you want me, soldier boy?”
“Wait.” Aled grabbed two pillows from Kai’s bed and placed them on the seat of the chair. “Now sit down.”
Kai obliged and settled against the back of the chair as if he was quite willing to humor Aled. His cock was already jutting out and ready to fuck. The Tribute program had given them both the ability to get hard and stay hard for hours.
Aled took the cords out of the box and considered how best to restrain his trainer. It would be much easier to make him face the back of the chair so that Aled could get at his ass, but he wanted to see Kai’s face.
He knelt down and wrapped the first cord around Kai’s ankle, securing it to the chair leg, and then did the second. As he stood up again, he licked Kai’s cock from root to tip, making the other man shiver. He tasted so much better than theUngrich.
“Did they talk to you?”
“Who?” Kai asked.
“TheUngrich.”
“The second time I went in, yeah, I got the sense that they could read my thoughts and that sometimes they replied to me.”
Aled took Kai’s right hand and crossed it over his left before wrapping a lighter-weight cord around both wrists and tying them to the highest rung of the ladder-back chair. He stood back to survey the curve of Kai’s chest and the way his abs bunched beneath his skin.
“They talked to me.”
“About what?” Kai sounded hoarse.
“Male and female, human and Mitan.” He pinched Kai’s nipples hard between his finger and thumb. “I don’t think they understood that we need a male and a female pairing to procreate. They thought it was a primitive notion.”
“Oh, fuck.” Kai briefly closed his eyes. “I wonder why they’re interested in that? For the past few years they’ve been milking us for sperm and . . .greez, what did they do to Anna Lee?”
“Who is Anna Lee?”
“She’s anUngrichsurvivor like you.” Kai frowned. “I need to talk to Rehz.” He pulled at his bonds. “Let me out.”
“No.”
“Price . . .”
