Page 10 of Cinderella (Once Upon a Happy Ever After 1)

“You’re right,” Kase said. “Our fathers were friends and that crazy Tremaine lady made it very clear that she didn’t want my father in her house. So we stopped.”

I leaned into Kase’s shoulder and watched as the streetlights whirred by as we sped down the highway. “Hey, where are we going anyway?”

“The airport,” Kase said simply, with a smirk so broad I could hear it in his tone.

Chapter Ten

Kase

Strange how such a tiny creature could make me feel so many things simply by resting her head on my arm.

“The airport! Where are we going?”

I laughed as Ella’s excitement turned her voice into a squeak. “To a ball, princess.”

“I’d gathered that much on my own,” she said sweetly, gesturing to the gown. James did a hell of a job picking it. Ella looked like royalty, like the goddess she truly was. But it wasn’t quite complete.

“Here,” I said, handing her a box I’d pulled from beneath the front seat. “The finishing touches, so to speak.” Ella opened the box carefully, her gaze darting from me to the lid at least a dozen times before she lifted it.

“Oh my,” she said. “Kase these are exquisite.”

“And yet they still don’t do you justice.” I reached over and placed the tiara atop Ella beautiful fiery hair. I pointed to the pale blue opera gloves still in the box. “Do you know where we’re going yet?” She shook her head. “We’re en route to the Waldorf-Astoria hotel for the Viennese Opera Ball.” Ella looked excited but also like she didn’t have the slightest idea what I was talking about. “Ella, it’s the biggest debutante ball in New York. How do you not know about it?”

She smiled at me. “When my father remarried, Agnes Tremaine stopped all my cotillion lessons. She said it was ‘an old fashion tradition rooted in treating women as commodities’. Which, well, she’s not wrong, but she didn’t care about women’s issues. She just wanted the money spent on my lessons put to her own use. I never got much passed the beginner stuff.”

I nodded, amazed that she spoke of the woman who ruined her life without a trace of anger and that her grace and poise came naturally. “You are incredible,” I said and hit the button raising the partition between us and James. Ella’s eyes grew wide as I leaned into her. “Absolutely incredible, and I’d have you right here and now if I wasn’t saving that for later.” Ella bit her lip and lowered her eyes and my cock was instantly rock hard.

No one had ever gotten my so hard with such a slight show of subservience. No one.

With a quick tug behind her knees, I yanked Ella down in her seat and angled her to face me. She rested on her elbows as she looked at me from between her knees. “What do you want me to do to you, Ella?” I asked as I hooked each of her knees around my shoulders. Reaching under the gown I found the elastic of her panties and ripped them off her.

Ella gasped, eyes even wider. “Anything, sir. Anything at all.”

“Don’t say things you don’t mean, Ella.” I grabbed her hips and lifted her body to my mouth. She writhed against me, grinding herself on my tongue and I didn’t stop her. I sucked on her clit, hard and strong and before I knew it she was coming all over the pla

ce. I lapped up her sweet, sticky juices as she moaned and clawed at the seats.

“Is that what you wanted, Ella?” I asked, lowering her back down.

She took a minute to answer, her body still shook and shivered slightly from coming so hard. “No, sir,” she said, much to my surprise.

“No?”

Elle lifted herself off the seat, hoisted up her skirt, and before I registered what was happening, she straddled me and was working on pulling my cock free. “Whoa, Ella, not here. Not like this.” I grabbed her wrists and put her back in her seat.

“Don’t you want me?”

Jesus fuck! If she only knew how much I wanted her. “Ella, you can’t imagine the amount of restraint it takes to keep me from fucking you senseless right here and now. But let me assure you, I want you. And I will have you. But I’ll be damned if your first time is going to be in the back of a town car.”

Ella pursed her lips at me. “What does it matter? I want you, you want me. Let’s just—”

“No, Ella. Trust me, this is just as hard for me as it is for you. But I promise the wait will be worth it. Just wait until you see what I have in store for you.

Chapter Eleven

Ella

I pouted next to Kase. I didn’t care what he promised. I wanted him now.

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