Elusive Hero: Invitation to Eden (Vampire Queen Series Book 12)

by Joey Hill

  As he passed a light hand along her back, he found she’d gone rigid as a board, so he let it go for now. Before it was done, he’d kill to hear those words come from her lips. Now, though, he put himself against her back, his mouth to her jaw. “Can you give me everything I demand, my lady? Can you serve your Master better than any sub ever has?”

  Nothing like rousing a competitive streak in a power sob. A long pause, then she nodded, a hitch like a sob coming from her. He nuzzled her jaw, inhaled her scent, a flavor of powder and lavender, a metallic undercurrent of blood. He could almost feel her rolling the phrasing around in her head. Your Master…

  “Then I think it’s time for a punishment,” he said.

  Pulling the alligator paddle from his back waistband, he trailed it down her back, let her feel the edge, the broad slapping part. When he got to her buttocks, he rotated the handle against the flared dildo in her ass. “I’ll bet you haven’t been stretched here in awhile. Do you push your fingers in there sometimes when you’re alone, think about being taken, your face pushed in the mattress, my hands yanking your hips up so I can plow your ass?”

  She nodded again. Because she was so graceful, he was beginning to love that unsteady jerk of motion. While farther down the line he might demand a yes, Master or no, Master, since he didn’t rely on his hearing for stimulation, body language was often far more arousing to him. Every twitch she made went straight to his cock and the fire burning inside him to take, possess. It was a state he often experienced during a session, but there was an extra intensity to it with her, knowing how far they had to go—and how hot that flame would be by the time they got there. He might incinerate them both.

  “I’d drop down over you, cover you, grip your wrists for leverage, but also to stroke them as I fucked you. A reminder that I never forget you when I fuck you. You’re never just an object. You’re the object.”

  His object. His property. His lady.

  It might be a little harder to keep this out of the emotional arena than he’d expected. She trembled under his touch. When her lips parted, he spoke harshly. “No talking unless you want that gag back in.”

  He forced himself to step back. “A little warm up, mainly because I love the way my hand feels, connecting to your pretty ass.”

  He spanked her once, twice, the slap a blunt, solid sound in the quiet room. She sighed, a sound of relief and need at once. He did it a few more times, drawing the blood up to the surface of the skin, giving her a nice rosy blush. She rocked at the force he put into it, and he ran his hands up along her arms. The muscles were tight. By the time he was done she’d need a nice full body massage, one of his favorite parts of aftercare. Usually it got him worked up enough he’d fuck his sub again while she lay there exhausted, staring up at him with shining eyes and slack mouth. He’d like to see that in his lady’s face. While every sub who’d gifted him with her willing submission was special, they all felt like warm ups toward this. This was a female who needed every skill he had and would be as demanding a sub as he was a Master. They’d test each another’s limits with every interaction. Right now she still wasn’t sure of herself, but he could tell the signs of it, in those little fights they’d had.

  Yeah, the little fights that had left his ribs bruised and his skull almost split like a pumpkin. A grin split his lips. “Time for payback, my lady.”

  She jerked at the first slap of the alligator paddle. It was a vicious brute, tough and unforgiving, and it left a nice pattern on female flesh. It was nice, working with such a physically powerful woman who nevertheless had curves. One of his subs had been a competitive weight lifter, all hard muscles and very little body fat. She’d been beautiful, yes, like having an exotic creature in his care, but if he had his preference, he wanted a woman who had generous breasts and a heart-shaped ass. Lady Kaela reflected the best parts of Aprodite and Artemis. Goddess of beauty and huntress both.

  He ran his hand over her ass after he hit her three times in the same place. She exhaled that shuddering sigh again at his contact. Reaching in front of her, he brought the stimulator up another notch. She whimpered, her legs fighting the bonds, trying to rub herself against it. He cinched his arm around her, held her fast and started applying the paddle to both ass cheeks, her upper thighs, back to the butt again. As she got close to a cusp, he pulled the stimulator away from her, made her pussy clench on empty air, and spanked her some more, until the pain took her away from the edge. She was making all sorts of noises, soft cries, words it seemed like she was trying to strangle back. Not because he’d bid her be silent, but as if she was used to having to be quiet about her pleasure. He was having none of that.

  “I want to hear you, my lady. Else I’m going to make this hurt a lot more.”

  He pinched a nipple, gave her cunt a few smacks with his hand over the stimulator before he stripped that from her. She let out a little protest, and he gave a nasty chuckle. “Yep, not going to let you get off with that, my lady. You have to ask me. Beg me. I can keep your climax out of reach for hours, break your mind in half.”

  She was going to more cavernous levels inside, pulling him down with her. He could follow because he saw the path in front of him, in the way her head tipped back, her mouth worked, her body flushed as she shook, jerked, fought her bonds. Forget the second mark. What would it be like to have that third mark, be able to follow her down to her soul, see what happened when subspace took over, wrapped itself around every part of her, inside and out?

  “No…I can’t take anymore…please…”

  “Yeah, you can. You’re just scared to let go.”

  He seized her around the waist from behind, set his teeth to her throat, shoved his rigid cock against her ass, against the dildo. When he forced his knee up between her legs, a decided impact that made her strain against the chain, she groaned with pleasure. She wasn’t holding back any more.

  He reached up, clasped her hand above the manacle and shifted his body to give her bottom another whack, earning another short shriek from those lush lips. Her fingers clamped over his hand, hard enough that the bones creaked alarmingly. Oh, yeah, she still had some fight in her. The blow he gave her this time was a definite reprimand, and triumph surged through him as she not only understood loud and clear, but responded appropriately. She convulsed, let him go, but he saw the flash of her fangs, heard that little defiant hiss.

  He flexed his aching hand and used the other one, spanking her marked buttocks, stopping to work the dildo in and out of her until she was making those whimpers again. ‘Going to be my dick in there before this is all over. I’m going to fuck your mouth, your cunt and your ass, my lady. Then you’re going to wash my cock with your manicured hands so I can do it all over again.”

  “Please…”

  “That’s it. Ask me for what you need. I’m in charge of all of it, aren’t I?”

  “Yes…” It was a desperate whisper, charged with painful arousal. It made his heart hurt to hear it. But he had to keep pushing. That hiss and the attempt to lock up his hand had told him that, as well as his gut. Time for a different tactic. Pleasure could overcome her where pain couldn’t.

  Setting the paddle aside, he went back to work on her with his mouth. Kisses down the sensitive nape, the shoulders, moving the braid aside to work his way down her spine. He started humming in the back of his throat, giving her further sensation, letting the thick rope of hair tumble back in place as he straightened to ease the dildo from her ass. Using a flavored wipe to clean away the chemical lube, he massaged her blissfully tight opening before kneeling behind her and replacing the wipe with his mouth, teasing those sensitive rim nerves. He held her buttocks with hard hands while she bucked and cried out.

  At length, he left that to kiss his way down each leg, to her feet, her toes. She went really still then, her lips pressed together. She became less still as he worked his way up her front. He bypassed her cunt, went around it, teased her navel. Nuzzling the crease beneath her breasts, he made moist circles
around the still swollen nipples before descending again. When he put his mouth over her clit, warming her there with swirling flicks of his tongue, short nips, she shuddered like an earth tremor.

  “Please…” she whispered again.

  “Please what?” He kept his mouth on her, let his tongue ease into her pussy, play. She tasted sweet as divinely ordained sin, the best of both worlds. An animal cry came from her. His rigid cock had gone numb, the circulation cut off under the hold of the jeans. He was going to have to fuck her or jack off soon, or he wouldn’t be able to concentrate beyond his own lust.

  “Please…”

  “Say it, my lady. There’s only you and me.”

  A tear slid down her cheek, and he lasered in on it. She swallowed noisily and he rose, went to the wall behind her. He retrieved a belt, made sure she heard the clink of the buckle. Wrapping the strap under her arms, he cinched it over her sternum so her breasts tilted up higher, the nipples getting stiffer. He bent, licked one then the other, keeping his knuckles wrapped in the short fall of the belt, pulling her roughly toward him, as much as her bonds would allow. She was his. His.

  He loosened it, moved behind her, doubled it over and gave it a sharp snap. Didn’t touch her with it at all, but the noise made her jump. Her breath hitched, that near sob again. He opened his jeans, got them out of the way and applied more of that lube to his cock, pressing himself up behind her so she’d feel what he was doing.

  “I can’t…”

  “Tough. I say you can.” He parted her buttocks, guided himself to that tight hole. “Push against me again, only this time you’re taking me, not some fake dick. You’re taking me.” As he began to ease slowly into her, he felt her breaking apart. He put his mouth to her ear. “Your Master, my lady.”

  He’d given her a push, and she was so close to the edge of the cliff he could almost see her start to flounder. Perversely he wanted to grab her, hold on, keep her from the fear of that flight, even as he knew he was the one who had to ruthlessly shove her over. He didn’t usually have trouble detaching, staying cruel enough to deliver what the sub needed. But that was because he always let them go when it was all over. They went back to their lives, leaving him with pleasant memories. He didn’t want pleasant memories of her. He wanted her.

  “You know why I’m fucking your ass first? Because in your world, this only happens when someone’s topping you. Proving they’re the biggest, baddest thing in the room. In charge. In control. What do you want, Kaela? Tell me.”

  Her head fell back on his shoulder, and he felt the war inside her as if he could see her being torn in two. “What do you want?” she gasped.

  It was what she’d asked when they were walking through the stable hand fantasy, and he cupped her face, stroked the pounding pulse in her throat. “Is that more important to you than your own desires?”

  A pause, and then she gave him the one word he wanted to hear. “Yes.”

  He gave her the time to understand the significance, hear it as clearly as he did. “So what is it you want, Kaela?”

  “To give you pleasure.”

  “How do you do that?”

  “Any way you demand.”

  “But how do you do that, my lady?” He let his lips cruise along her jaw, whispered the next words. “Look inside. What do you want? What words are there, just waiting to be spoken? You’ve thought them when you’ve touched yourself, imagined your Master.”

  She was strangling on emotions, her body like a taut rope. He ran his hand up and down her throat, as if stroking a cat. Her head tipped back on his shoulder again.

  “Say it,” he murmured, and he felt the ache move into her throat, the way she swallowed under his hand. “How do you give me pleasure, Kaela?”

  “By serving you.”

  “Bingo.”

  He tamped down the surge of satisfaction. It wasn’t the time. She needed his full focus, because those three words snapped the rope, bringing back the panic. He’d closed her into a narrow space surrounded by his demands, his words, challenging her reality in every way, and facing that was more unsettling than mere manacles.

  Settling into her, he put his hand fully around her throat, squeezed it tight enough she felt the constriction. Fingered that collar he knew did all sorts of delicious things to her mind. “You’re mine, my lady. In these bonds, I could pick up a stake, end your life. But you aren’t afraid of that, are you?”

  When she shook her head, he tightened his grip more. “Why?”

  “Because…you won’t hurt me. Not that way. You make me feel…cared for.” She started to shudder. “Like Jared did.”

  Because she was so lost in her head, he wasn’t going to pull her out of it by asking who Jared was. Plus, whoever Jared was, he was past tense.

  “All right. Hold on, because I’m taking you on a ride, and I’m not letting you off until I’m good and ready. Give me pleasure, my lady. Serve me with your body, your heart and soul. Don’t you hold a damn thing back. When it’s just you and me, you don’t have to hold anything back.”

  She caught that sob in her throat again, the one that made him want to take off her bonds, cradle her in his arms and hold her until the last sunset for all eternity. But that wasn’t what she needed. He began to work his hips against her, stroking in and out, making all those sensitive nerve endings in her ass thrum down to her pussy. He didn’t touch her clit at all, just let her build to that crescendo. She struggled, her ass working against him in a way that had him gritting his teeth for control. Cupping her breasts, he teased and pinched the nipples, rubbed and pulled on them, using those generous curves for leverage as he started to thrust even harder. Smacking his pelvis against her ass with each thrust, his testicles hitting her cunt, had her squirming even more. He knew her ass was sore from his punishment, and he wanted to keep it that way as long as he could. Though her vampire healing would give him an excuse to start all over, wouldn’t it?

  He pulled out when she was shuddering erratically, her body jerking.

  “No…” The word slipped from her, a single protest, and he bared his teeth in a grin, stepping in front of her to tip her chin up, stare into her eyes with his best I-will-so-kick-your-ass look. “What did you say to me?”

  The woman who could break him into little pieces and tear out the throats of other vampires did a double take before that look. Then those beautiful eyes swept down before his hard stare. An unthinking act of submission, no hesitation at all this time, just pure sub instinct. It told him just how deep inside herself she was. He’d successfully pushed her beyond the reality of who she was, even past the fantasy of who she wanted to be, into the real Kaela, at her core. Her whisper proved it. “I wanted you to stay inside me.”

  “I am inside you, Kaela.” He gave her temple a light tap. “But you meant my dick in your ass, didn’t you?”

  “Yes. No. Just…inside me. All the way inside me.” She was fighting for her words, having trouble organizing her thoughts, but he knew what she meant as naturally as he knew what it was to breathe. For women, the physical connected to the emotional, down to the spiritual, to the lowest levels. But there was more he wanted, and he was willing to deprive himself to get to it. He wanted to knock her so far into subspace, he’d be the only one who could reel her back in.

  Going to the sink in the corner, he filled a bowl with water and picked up soap, a wet cloth. Rolling a small table in front of her, he set the bowl on it and began to wash his cock thoroughly, rubbing it, stroking himself, thinking about whether or not he’d give himself a climax this way first, with her golden eyes trained on the movement of his hands, her lips parted, her expression obviously one of hunger.

  “You said…I could do it.” She almost whimpered it.

  “You will. When I’m done fucking you all the ways I want.”

  Pushing the basin and table aside, he brought two waist-high T-frames from the corner. Using the track system on the floor, he locked them down a few feet in front of her, spacing them out wher
e he wanted them. He didn’t need to measure. Experience and a glance at those long, slender legs told him approximately where they needed to be placed. With the same efficiency, he moved in front of the T-frames, bent and unsnapped the chains holding her ankle cuffs. Sliding an arm under her thighs, he lifted her, reattached each ankle to a frame so she was suspended by arms and legs in a hammock pose. He added the necessary straps to support her head, neck and shoulders. And her hips, so her knees were higher than her head, her ass canted up. She might be vampire, such that she could hang from her wrists and ankles without permanent damage, but he didn’t want her distracted by that kind of discomfort.

  As he stood between her raised, spread legs, her pussy and ass were gorgeously vulnerable, all his for the taking. They were glistening with her juices, her clit flushed and full, the lube giving the rosebud opening to her ass a slick little sheen. He indulged a nice visual of pumping his cock over her, painting her flesh with his seed as she hung there, helpless. The image was more than enough to send him over the edge, but he clamped down on it.

  Retrieving the butterfly stimulator, he put it back on her. As he took his cock in hand to stroke, he reached out and turned it onto its highest setting. “Changed my mind, baby. Want to watch my sub come hard, with not a damn thing you can do to stop it.”

  Her eyes widened, lips parting. Her gaze flicked to him, a delicious panic, and she started to buck at the sensation, pulling at the bonds.

  Her mouth worked in breathless protest, but there was no room for anything but reaction now. He seized the thick rope of her braid, kept his fist tight on it so she had to stare into his impassive face as the climax took her, as her body shook, as a scream broke from her lips. Removing his hand from his cock, he put it on the butterfly, working it against her swollen lips as she writhed and screamed some more. It wasn’t enough for him, so he slid two fingers below it, into her spasming tissues, letting her tight pussy clench him.