Stripped Defenseless

by Lia Slater

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  Kade understood the game. And he didn’t mind playing as long as he won the prize of Ava at the end. He squeezed her breast. “Touch.”

  After all, he could do so much more with his hand than he could with his eyes. He dragged his fingers down her stomach to the sexy patch of blonde hair on her mound, arrow-shaped, pointing to heaven. He’d liked the smooth bald look, but somehow the downy curls seemed more authentic. More Ava.

  “Okay.” She gulped and leaned over him to pick up the last red scarf.

  He watched as her rosy pebbled nipples lightly grazed his chest. Damn, he was going to miss the view.

  She finished wrapping the silk around his head, blinding him, forcing his other senses into overdrive. The heat from her wet pussy smoldered against his chest as he lifted his head for her to tighten the knot. He could smell her sweet scent, feel the supple skin as his fingers skimmed her outer thigh, and hear her breathing when she spread out over his body. He could taste her fruity lip gloss as she molded her soft lips to his.

  He enveloped his hand around the back of her neck and held her to him. Then he slid his tongue into her lush mouth, hot and delicious.

  She let out a small moan but pulled away from him.

  Fuck. Why was she fighting it?

  Maybe she needed clarification of his feelings for her.

  “I love you, Ava.” The words drifted into the air above him and didn’t return. Had she changed her mind about him? Did he even stand a chance? Lord only knew. He’d put her through hell and back and wouldn’t blame her if she despised him.

  She sat up on his stomach and brushed her fingertips across his chest.

  Kade reached for her, finding her leg. He made his way over to her soft folds and slid a finger in between his stomach and her pussy, up into her tight, moist heat. So wet. She might not love him, but she definitely wanted him. He could work with that.

  She clenched down on his finger as he slipped in and out, rubbing against her clit with each pass. She moaned as she began working with the rhythm of his finger, her ass sweeping up against his throbbing cock.

  “I want you, Kade,” she said breathlessly.

  “You can have me. Whatever you want, it’s all yours.” His body. His heart. His soul.

  Without warning, she grabbed his wrist and tore his hand away from her wet juices. Then she lifted off him, and his body felt empty without her heat warming him from the outside in.

  “Are you teasing me, sweetheart?” he asked, blindly attempting to locate where she had gone. “Are we even yet?” This was getting ridiculous. All he wanted was to be close to her after all the time they’d been apart.

  The bed creaked, and the softness of her lips touched his ear. “Not even close,” she whispered. “I’m going to go hide your shoes. Be right back.”

  “What?” The shock of her words made him forget he was tied down. He attempted to rise but jerked back to the bed when reality hit. “Ava,” he bellowed. “Ava, I thought you forgave me.”

  With his free hand, he yanked his blindfold onto his forehead—and saw her sitting at the end of the bed with one of her crinkly, adorable smiles on her face.

  “Just kidding.”

  “Very cute.” He tried to grab her, but she was out of reach.

  She crawled on her hands and knees across the mattress, her short blonde hair swaying with her movements. God, this new hairstyle was sexy as hell. And it suited her.

  His cock tightened when she stopped between his legs and kissed the tip of his engorged head. His gut knotted painfully, and he gritted his jaw.

  Her deep blue eyes stared intently at him as her pink, slick tongue slid out and licked. “Mmm,” she murmured against his skin.

  Kade inhaled sharply. The woman played a good game. “Are you going to let me make love to you yet?”

  “After.” She ran her slick tongue down his shaft and up again.

  Oh, hell. “After what?”

  “After you promise me no more secrets. I want to know all there is to know about Kade Gavin.” She brushed her fingers over his ever-increasing erection and dipped his throbbing head into her hot mouth.

  Fuck. He was about to burst. “Kade Gavin is dead,” he said, mindlessly.

  Ava jerked her head up and sent him a glaring look. “Probably not a good time to be joking around like that.”

  “I changed my name. It’s Kaden Thompson. I hope you don’t mind,” he said, quickly.

  Her eyes softened as she repeated the name a couple times, rolling it off her tongue. “I like it. Why would I mind?”

  “You’ll be Mrs. Kaden Thompson after you marry me,” he dared to say.

  “Marry you?” She smirked, her wet, luscious lips curving up at him.

  “If you’ll have me, that is.” He grinned back.

  She shrugged her creamy, delicate shoulders. “We’ll see.”

  Kade waited anxiously as she maneuvered her naked body around the bed, slowly untying each of the scarves, teasing him with her lingering, sensual movements. One of these days he’d get her back good.

  But now, he only desired to please her. Once all the bindings were loosened and tossed to the side, he grabbed her by the waist and threw her to the bed, laying his body on top of her in the process.

  She giggled and smiled up at him. “Feel good to be free?”

  “Better than ever.” He molded his mouth to her moist lips and slid his tongue along hers. Then he pulled away and kissed her neck, her collarbone, her breast.

  She sighed and arched her back, meeting his mouth as he sucked in her aroused nipple.

  She was his. All of her. And he didn’t plan on ever letting her go.

  “Fuck me, Kade.” The sweet, familiar words delighted his ears.

  “As you wish.”

  Chapter Fifteen

  Ava waited, impatiently biting her lip and running her hands through her short, wispy, trendy hair, or so her hair stylist had told her when she chopped off all the red.

  Kade didn’t seem to mind the change. He released her starved nipple with a slurp and hungrily took her mouth. In return, she suckled his tongue and skimmed her fingers over his sexy stubbly head.

  It was so good to have him back. And hearing he wanted to get married elated her.

  Who cared about what had happened in the past? Shoes? What shoes? She’d gladly throw them out the window and lock herself in a room as long as he promised never to leave her again.

  She wrapped her legs around his lean waist and stared into his eyes as he drew his lips away. Clear blue eyes that penetrated her. Lord, she could have an orgasm just from one look.

  He grinned, showing her his pearly whites. “You going to tell me you love me yet?”

  “I don’t know,” she quipped, unable to help herself. “We’ll see how well you do after six months with no pulse.”

  He chuckled and kissed her again. No one had ever adored her as he had. Even after she opened her big mouth he still loved her.

  What was wrong with him?

  She soon realized the answer to that was nothing as he slid his thick cock inside her. He was perfect—every inch of him. Slowly, he worked his way in, filling and stretching her sensitive walls, finding the areas of her that welcomed him—no, screamed for him.

  Biting her bottom lip, she closed her eyes and focused on the glorious sensations she’d been missing for so long. His lips brushed against her cheek and then her forehead as he slowly slid out and then plunged back in.

  “I think I feel a pulse,” she whispered and grinned up at him.

  Unfazed, he pulled out a second time and then drove back into her harder, jouncing her up the mattress. Wiping the smile off her face.

  “Oh, Kade.” She moaned at the heat building in her womb and tightened her legs around him, ready for more.

  But he stilled.

  “Tell me you love me.” His voice rumbled into her ear.

  “Make me come,” she countered.

  His eyes narrowed at her.
“You’re asking for it, Ava.”

  “Damn right.” She tightened her snug walls around him, and he gasped for air.

  “It’s been a while, sweetheart. You might want to slow down.” He withdrew from her body, leaving her with an empty feeling.

  “What are you doing?”

  He grabbed her by her calves, dragging her to the side of the bed as he stood.

  Half of her body hung over the mattress, her ass on the edge. “Kade, what are you doing?” she asked again.

  “Obeying your every command.” He gripped her knees and eased them toward her. After spreading her thighs, he took in the view. His tongue ran over his top lip. “Looks tasty.”

  She gulped down the anxiety building in her. “Take a bite,” she dared say.

  A smirk spread across his greedy face. He released her legs but she held them in place and ran her hands down the insides of her thighs. Then she inserted a finger into her wet, swollen pussy.

  Satisfaction rippled through her as recognizable raw hunger flashed through his eyes.

  Kade dropped to his knees in front of her and jerked her hand away. “Let me do this.” He clasped his large hand over her mound, rubbing his thumb against her clit. “God, you’re so fucking beautiful.”

  She stopped trying to watch his every move and let her head fall back against the bed. His warm tongue dipped into her and fervently and forcefully stroked her inner wall. Heat surged up from her thighs, spreading to the tips of her toes, causing her legs to give out and fall forward.

  He grasped hold of them and draped them over his shoulders. One long finger sank into her tight slit, then another. Her juices seeped from her pussy and trickled down her ass. His thumb followed the slick trail, stopping to massage her receptive anus.

  “Baby.” His hot breath feathered against her clit. “Does this feel good?” He ran his warm tongue over her swollen nub, slow then fast, working her up to a place close to insane.

  “God, yes,” she cried out and tilted her hips. The smoldering pressure built inside her, and she grasped for her comforter, clenching it in her fists.

  He sucked her clit into his mouth and prodded his thick thumb into her puckered entrance. She loosened for him, trusting his every move, allowing his wet thumb to press on into her taut warmth. Unexpected sparks jolted straight to her pussy.

  “Kade...” She lost her train of thought. What the hell was she going to say? Did it matter? The pleasure was too intense. The wave of ecstasy rolled through her core to her deep inside her thighs. “Oh, yes! Oh, baby! Oh...”

  “Yes. Come for me, Ava.” He withdrew his fingers and laved his tongue over and into her throbbing pussy, milking her. “You taste so good, honey.” He removed his thumb from her anus and slipped in two slippery fingers. “Feel so fucking good.”

  She pumped her hips up to meet his rhythm until she exploded, her body bursting against his sweet mouth. She threw her head back and clapped her hands over her face. “Oh, God,” she whispered as her body slumped with satisfaction.

  Tiny pulses tingled throughout, but he didn’t wait for her to recover. Instead, he slid her back up the mattress and climbed between her legs.

  “Still waiting for my love.” He slowly delved his solid cock into her still-sensitive depths.

  She caught her breath. The game was getting better than she had anticipated as his hardness teased her all-too receptive nerves. Leisurely, he prodded, kneading her inner-most walls.

  His pale blue eyes were heavy and filled with desire as he stared down at her. Telling him she loved him wouldn’t even begin to describe the emotions he triggered. She caressed his cheeks and inhaled sharply as another orgasm began to rise. How easily he could bring her there.

  “I love how you feel inside of me.”

  He smiled down at her. “Nice, but not what I want to hear.”

  Before Ava could respond, he pulled out of her, letting his cock tease just outside of her pussy walls.

  Frustrated with the interruption, she gripped his ass and attempted to persuade him back in.

  He simply shook his head. “Tell me,” he said with a hint of uncertainty lingering in his eyes. “Do you love me?”

  How could he not know? Guilt bit into her gut. The game had gone too far if he had an ounce of doubt. “Of course I love you.” She lifted her head to kiss his lips. “My heart can’t contain how much I love you.”

  Her eyes burned from the release of the pent-up emotion.

  A knowing smile adorned his face, and his expression brightened. “I love you, too.” He chuckled, and she didn’t know whether to feel annoyed or ecstatic.

  He had played her well. With a smirk, he lifted off her and went into the bathroom.

  “Where are you going?” Her body ached in his absence. “We’re not done here.” And she wasn’t about to let him out of her sight. Not anytime soon, anyway.

  Seconds later, he returned with a small velvety box in his hand. “Trust me, sweetheart, I know.”

  Ava propped herself up on her elbows and stared in astonishment as he displayed an engagement ring—gold banded with at least half a karat. Princess cut, just like the ones she’d always ogled in the jewelry store display whenever she went window-shopping. “Is that...is that what I think it is?” Her eyes honed in on the shiny object as her belly turned upside down with utter enthusiasm.

  “What? This?” He slid the band onto the tip of his pinky and climbed back on top of her, forcing her to drop back on the mattress.

  He fisted his hands on either side of her head, and from the corner of her right eye, she could see the glinting diamond. She desperately wanted to see it in full view—on her finger. She wanted to be his. Forever.

  She reached for it, but he stopped her by grabbing her wrists and pinning them above her head. “This isn’t funny, Kade. I just want to see it.”

  “Really? How bad?” He clamped both her wrists into one of his large hands. His free hand brushed down her arm, over the side of her breast, and past her stomach.

  Her skin prickled from the light, teasing touch. When he reached her center, he took hold of his erection and guided it into her welcoming pussy. Gradually, he filled her and began working her just as he had only moments ago.

  But now Ava was distracted. She could feel the band of the ring against her wrist. “Aren’t you forgetting something?”

  “Hmm?” He grasped the backside of her knee and shifted her leg up.

  Instant pleasure blurred her mind as he pumped in and out, sliding his thick cock along her slick walls. “Kade,” she moaned, her mind slowly wandering away from the ring and her future and focusing on the moment.

  His hand gripped tightly to her leg as his body spread out against hers. Deeper, he plunged, driving into an area that erupted from his touch.

  “Oh, Kade.” She met his thrusts as he continued to crash into her with a passion she’d never experienced. A passion she never wanted to live without again. She ran her now-free hands down his broad back to his firm ass and held on tight as she peaked yet again, lifting her hips to meet his last thrust. She indulged in the way his body shuddered and collapsed onto hers.

  “Ava,” he whispered into her ear as if she held the secret to his next breath.

  They lay motionless for several minutes before she realized something heavy was on her finger as her hands gripped the damp skin on his back. She loosened them and brought them into view. A shiny glint caught her eye.

  The ring was on her finger. And it fit perfectly. “How did you?” she asked but didn’t wait for the answer. “Oh, Kade, it’s absolutely beautiful.”

  He chuckled and kissed her cheek. “Ava, will you marry me?” His voice was sweet and contrasted with the hard, masculine lines of his gorgeous face. The words were even sweeter. “I love you and I want you to be my wife.”

  “I, uh—”

  He pulled his lips in, and she observed the familiar telltale sign as his Adam’s apple bobbed up and down.

  “Yes, I do. Or I will, I
mean.” She let out a nervous giggle and a tear ran down her temple. His expression immediately turned to that of relief. “I had no idea when I woke this morning that you’d come back to me alive and well.” She slanted a kiss to his grinning lips. “Now that you’re here, I’m never going to let you go.”

  Kade swiped his thumb down the wet path into her hair. “That’s good to hear because I’m never leaving. I’m training to become one of the good guys,” he said, with a crooked grin. “I’ll be working for the police.”

  She laughed with joy at the good news. “You mean no more pinpointing and abducting young, innocent women?”

  “Nope. And nothing in my life will ever be cut and dried again. Not when I have you as a wife,” he teased. “But that’s okay because—” He let out a breath and kissed her lips. His cock began to harden inside of her again. “Because I love you, Mrs. Thompson.”

  Ava clenched down on him and enjoyed the pulses of pleasure that surged through her thighs, up her belly, and into her heart. “I love you too, Kaden. Forever.”

  About the author:

  Lia Slater thinks the world would be a better place if everyone read romance novels. There’s so much to learn from the storylines. Love. Loyalty. Confidence. Passion. Desire. Conflicts would be resolved with happy endings. And, of course, the sex would be mind-boggling.

  Lia is well on her way to helping the world become a better place by writing steamy romance with heart-throbbing emotion.

  Find more of her titles at http://www.LiaSlater.com/

  Table of Contents

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

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