The Drake Restrained Compete Collection: Part 1 - 4 (The Drake Series Book 7)
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"That's so sweet," she said softly.
"That's why I didn't ask you out after we met, despite wanting to. I didn't think I'd be able to be that man."
She turned around again and hugged me, her arms slipping around my waist. I ran my hands over her hair.
"He talked about your trip to Africa. He talked about your thesis. About your position at the school newspaper. I knew you'd be amazing before I ever met you. Like I said, a goner.” I smiled, remembering how I wanted to meet Kate for so long. “And then I met you at the fundraiser and you were the girl with the luscious tits and garters and you were Katherine. I wanted to know you so badly. I wanted so badly to be with you despite knowing it was probably impossible for us to be together, given what I was. I thought your father would hate me if he knew…"
She smiled and ran her fingers through my hair. "He loves you like another son."
"And then," I said, pulling her closer. "Then a miracle happened and you were this little subbie, pretending to be a researcher who wanted to meet a Dom and learn about BDSM. You were this sweet little thing Lara wanted me to mentor because she thought you wanted this for real and I was the best teacher she knew. God, Kate… You can't understand how I felt when I saw you at the café and realized it was you."
"I was so mortified."
"I was ecstatic. There you were, this woman I'd always wondered about, this delicious little morsel of womanflesh I couldn’t wait to eat, and you wanted a Dom. It was like I'd won the lottery. Found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow."
"I felt like a silly girl in above her head, mortified that you knew I was interested in kink."
"I felt like the luckiest man alive.” I pulled her closer. “I knew I'd have the battle of my life with you, keeping things under control, but it was a battle I just couldn't turn away from, no matter what."
She stared at me. "My dad talked about you, too. He used to talk about your father. Liam the crazy man, his best friend from 'Nam. A wild sonofabitch. A crazy idealistic socialist. He talked about Liam's son—this brilliant young neurosurgeon who spent time in Africa doing delicate surgeries for free. Donating hospital equipment. A man's man. Solid. Strong. Intelligent. Professional. In control. You sounded like a dream, a fantasy. If it wasn't for the fact you were a Republican, I would have wanted to meet you."
"I told you none of that matters when we fuck." I grinned. "Do you suppose he was matchmaking even then? Before we ever met?"
"He was!” she said and laughed. “I realized it the night of his first campaign fundraiser. He knew you were a Dom and yet he was pushing us together. He thought I needed someone like you."
"He did."
"I do." She pulled me down and kissed me and I felt a stab of emotion in my chest.
"My father would’ve loved you, too," I said when I pulled away. "I think he'd especially love the thought that you're Ethan's daughter."
"I remember the moment I fell in love with you," Kate said, cupping my cheek. "It was that night on 8th Avenue when you played that song for me. Hearing you play and sing that song, knowing it was from my father to yours and that it meant so much to you. It was as if you were letting me in. Letting go of all the control and dominance and confidence to see right into your heart and I just fell."
We embraced, our arms around each other, the bright sun of the clear January day streaming in from the bare windows.
"You know," I said, looking around the apartment, "I always felt deprived after that first night…"
"What do you mean?"
"I never did get to fuck you here. If I recall correctly, I walked out of here that night with a boner."
"That was entirely your choice," she said, grinning. "You could have done me. Why didn’t you?"
"I didn’t want you to think that I would use you like that."
"You still won't, even though it’s a fantasy of mine. Even on New Year's Eve, you made me come."
"No, that was just you being far too hot," I said, grinning now, too.
"One of these days, I want you to just fuck me until you come, leaving me panting and desperate for you."
"Why on earth would I want you not to come? I said that for psychological purposes because I knew it turned you on. But I wouldn't enjoy myself unless you did."
"Chivalry is not dead with you, Drake Morgan."
"I don’t want to leave this apartment without at least christening it," I said, pressing my hips against her. "I want my last memory of this place to be a good one."
Then I kissed her, my mouth finding hers, pulling her up and into my arms. "Let's fuck missionary-style on the bed. It’s still here."
"Missionary style?" she said, running her hands up under my shirt. "Again? Where's your imagination?"
"It's the middle of the day,” I said. “I want to see you naked beneath me in the full light so I can watch you come." I took her hand, dragging her into the bedroom and throwing her across the bed. Then, I lay on top of her.
"We're having a lot more plain old vanilla sex since New Year's Eve," she said. "I hope you’re not losing your taste for D/s and bondage."
"No fear of that," I said, one hand slipping beneath her sweater to cup her breast. "I love that you’re such an eager student. I want to see how far I can take you. I'm always going to be a Dom, Kate. I'm always going to want to have control, but I don’t need to use it any longer as a shield to keep things in their proper place."
"Meat, potatoes, and gravy touching each other?"
"My plate is thoroughly mixed up now," I said, smiling. "There's no chance of keeping things compartmentalized any longer. You're in each part of my life and I'm in yours." When she pulled me down for another kiss, I closed my eyes, unable to think of life without her.
Everything was mixed up now and I couldn’t imagine it any other way.
THE END
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