Page 74 of Tamed

“I mean this,” I said. “Tonight’s challenge is that you’re going to come for me in twenty seconds and I’m going to watch.”

“Too easy.” Her voice had gone husky. “I won’t need twenty seconds.”

“Then let’s make it harder, shall we?” I took my hand away from between her thighs. “Here are the rules. First, you can’t touch yourself. And second, you’re not allowed to move.”

Her eyes widened. “What? But that’s not—”

“Remember what I told you about doing what I said?” I interrupted, holding her gaze as I settled into my role. “Continue to defy me and you’ll be racking up quite a set of punishments.”

She sucked in a breath, her teeth sinking into her bottom lip. “Yes, Daddy.”

Hunger shifted inside me, along with an intense satisfaction at how she obeyed. Her trust was a precious thing and better than any drug.

“Good girl,” I murmured approvingly. “Your twenty seconds starts…now.” I started to count aloud, watching her face as she swallowed, her eyelashes fluttering as she stared up at me. She didn’t move, not even a wriggle, but I could hear her breathing getting faster and faster as I got down to eleven.

“Ten. I’m going to be asking you exactly what’s going through your imagination right now,” I said. “Nine. And if you’re lucky, we’ll do it for real. Eight. But only if you come within the time frame. Seven. And only if you don’t move. Six.”

She panted. “God…”

“Five.”

“Caleb…” Her brow furrowed with concentration. “I…. I…”

She was shaking now, I could feel the tremors quaking through her, but since she wasn’t actually shifting around or squirming, I allowed it. “Four.”

Her lashes lowered. “Please…”

“Three. Open your eyes. Look at me.”

They fluttered open again, her green gaze feverish. “Cal…”

“Two. Remember what to call me.”

There was desperation in her gaze now, as if she was dying of thirst and only I could give her water. “Daddy,please…”

I loved the urgent note in her voice and the way she begged. And it satisfied me intensely knowing that I was the only one who could give her what she needed. No other man could and since she was mine now, no other man would. There was only me.

I slid my hand between her thighs again, over her silky, slippery skin, finding her clit and stroking, giving her the friction she was pleading for. “One. Now, come for me like a good girl. Come for your Daddy.”

Her head went back into the cushions, her body arching, a cry escaping from her throat. I bent over her, covering her mouth with mine, swallowing that cry and the sounds of her orgasm too, allowing my weight to settle on her and hold her pressed to the couch, containing her.

She shuddered and shook, kissing me back desperately as she trembled through the aftershocks. Then after she quietened, I lifted my head.

“I’m sorry.” There was anguish on her face. “I didn’t do what you wanted.”

Christ, how had I not seen how desperate she was for approval? I’d known, of course, but hadn’t really comprehended the depth of it. Fucking Ten. That was his fault. He’d ignored her needs for far too long and this was the result.

Well, I’d already told her she had my approval — she’d always had it — but it seemed I was going to need to keep emphasizing it.

“You asked me for help, though,” I said soothingly. “Which is what you should do, Isabel. That’s what a Daddy does for his little girl.”

Her lashes lowered. “I disappointed you. I hate disappointing you.”

Something just behind my breastbone tightened, a thread of emotion I shouldn’t feel. “You have never disappointed me, Isabel,” I said roughly. “You drive me fucking crazy by not listening and not thinking through some things, but you’ve never disappointed me.” I let her see the truth as her lashes lifted once more and she stared up at me, and gradually her anguished expression faded.

“I suppose that makes me kind of pathetic, but—”

“Hey. Don’t start with that. We’ve already established there’s nothing pathetic about you. Now…” I brought her wrists down, chafing them to get the blood flowing again. “The more important question is what exactly were you imagining to get yourself off just now?”

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