She left me no choice but to do as she asked. I frowned and slipped the bands over my wrists. I didn’t push them any farther up my arms but held out my hands for her to fasten the clasp.
She shook a finger in my face. “You’re not getting off that easy. You’ve trussed me up twice before tonight and you fastened them behind me tonight. I want you to see what it feels like.”
“I don’t need to know what it feels like,” I said. Okay, that was a little lie, Marta and I had played several games that involved light bondage. I quickly learned I prefer to have my hands free to touch my partners.
“I think you do. Now don’t be a baby and put them behind you.”
Reluctantly, I crossed my wrists behind my back and waited for Gail to close the clasp. She surprised me by kneeling on the floor in front of me. She reached across the top of the pillow on my lap and I felt her hands fumbling at the silver chain at my back. A few seconds passed before she leaned back on her heels and looked up at me.
“Well?” I asked.
“Did you feel anything?”
I wiggled my hands. The bands were still loose against my wrists and I hadn’t felt the tingle that I felt when I put them on Gail. I pulled; yes, the chain was definitely fastened.
“Nothing. It’s not getting tighter.”
Gail nodded solemnly. “I thought as much. When you connected the bracelets on me, I felt like my senses had been dulled.”
“What?” I asked.
“You know how my hearing and sense of smell has improved since the full moon?”
“Yeah, I remember.”
“Well, that’s something that I notice all the time and let me tell you it’s not all fun and games to have a heightened sense of smell. That little tramp Marta for instance—”
“Oh, don’t start about Marta again,” I groaned.
“Well, if you had smelled how hot she was for you … Why do you think I had to stake my claim as soon as we got to the room? If I had let that tramp get her teeth into you, you wouldn’t have had a chance.”
“You could smell her?” I asked, more than a little surprised.
“Please, the woman was so horny that every man in the place should have been panting over her.” Gail gave a wicked smile.
“So you knew these bands did something to your werewolf senses. Then you guessed they wouldn’t work on me. Then why’d you have to make me put them on?”
Gail grinned evilly and yanked the pillow off my lap. “My my, it looks like someone is enjoying the restraint after all.”
Bullshit, it wasn’t the restraints; it was the beautiful naked woman kneeling at my lap. But a smart man knows when to keep his mouth shut and—sometimes—even I do, too.
Her lips met my flesh and I felt a quiver go through my body.
Sometime later, her lips finally left me. She smiled, slyly this time, and licked her lips.
“How was that?”
When I could breathe well enough to talk, I said, “I was near passing out for a minute there. You were always good, Gail, but that was amazing.”
Gail braced her hands on my knees and rose until her lips met mine. We kissed hungrily.
Behind my back, I caught the chain’s clasp in my fingers and flicked it open. I let the armbands slide down into my palms and then brought my hands around fast. I caught Gail’s wrists in my hands and pulled them behind her back. She broke the kiss and started to weakly struggle. When I slipped both bands onto her wrist, she fought back.
I pitched her onto the bed beside me. Before she could move, I had both her wrists in one hand and I was fumbling with the chain’s clasp with the other.
“Damnit, Jesse, you’d better not—”
She broke off as the clasp closed. The armbands tightened against her wrists. She thrashed from side to side.
I slapped her across the cheeks hard enough to leave a handprint on her smooth flesh. Gail froze and rolled her face toward me.
“I can’t believe you swatted my butt,” she said. Her voice was neutral. I’d been more than a little afraid she’d bite my head off for that one.
“If you keep struggling, I’ll swat it again. Now, since you enjoyed playing with me when you had me at a disadvantage, I thought it only fair that I return the favor.”
She shook her head. “It’s not the same, Jesse. You could have undone the chain anytime you wanted.”
I nodded but added a wry grin. “True and you can’t. You’re helpless until I release you.”
I pulled her completely onto the bed and rolled her onto her back. She still glared at me, but she let me spread her legs with my hands. I lowered myself slowly, still watching her eyes until my lips met her vulva. Her eyes rolled back and she moaned.
For the next hour, I did everything I could think of to keep her moaning.
Chapter 18 – Exorcism
When I awoke, I was once again pressed into that perfect backside. This time, we were both naked with only a thin sheet covering us. I had turned the room’s air conditioner as low as it would go sometime during the night and except for where our skin touched, I was pleasantly cool. I moved my fingers and found my hand was cupping exactly what it should be cupping the first thing in the morning. I gently rolled my fingers across a nipple and it hardened beneath my touch. I leaned closer and pressed my lips against Gail’s neck. I trailed kisses across her nape and onto her collarbone.
She moaned and shifted her hips against my erection.
I kissed
