No Ordinary Love (High Rise Novella Three)

by Bliss, Harper

  Contents

  Copyright

  No Ordinary Love

  About the author

  Other Harper Bliss books

  HARPER BLISS

  NO ORDINARY LOVE

  High Rise Novella Three

  Copyright © Harper Bliss 2013

  Cover picture © Depositphotos / deposit123

  Published by LadyLit Ltd - Hong Kong

  All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of characters to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. The author holds exclusive rights to this work. Unauthorised duplication is prohibited.

  Warning: This title contains graphic language and f/f sex.

  Please note: This is the third novella in the High Rise series and the sequel to Fool for Love and Undisclosed Desires.

  www.harperbliss.com

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  Other books by Harper Bliss

  Hired Help

  Wetter

  The Honeymoon

  Learning Curve

  A Hotter State

  Summer Heat

  Younger Than Yesterday

  Endless Summer

  Can’t Get Enough

  All of Me

  Fool for Love (High Rise Novella One)

  New Girl

  Undisclosed Desires (High Rise Novella Two)

  ALEX

  Alex lay with her hands cuffed to the railing of Maddie’s bed. The cuffs were lined with fur, but still cut into Alex’s flesh every time she moved.

  She had scratches on her back, her buttocks, and a whole maze of them healing on her shoulders. Maddie always had that little extra to give when it came to Alex’s shoulders. Her nails dug a little deeper and her moans grew higher whenever Alex flexed her shoulder muscles.

  Her shoulders, no matter how strong, were quite useless now though. So were her legs, tied around the ankle to the foot end of the bed with two of Maddie’s Hermès scarves.

  Alex was totally at Maddie’s mercy and she wouldn’t want it any other way.

  Maddie’s gaze hovering over her naked, helpless flesh was enough to cause a wild throbbing in Alex’s clit. But Maddie wasn’t just using her eyes. She’d unearthed a short leather whip from the box under the bed where she kept all her valuables—as she called them—and traced it along Alex’s abs. Alex’s abs could take a lot of things, gentle teasing with what looked like a riding crop was not one of them. She squirmed under the touch of the leather and the more she squirmed the more Maddie loved it.

  As usual, Maddie had undressed Alex with no intention of shedding her own clothes. She still wore her work outfit, a grey Ralph Lauren pencil skirt topped with a black pin-striped blouse that looked a little too tight for comfort at the office. Maddie’s blond hair was tied together at the back of her head and, no doubt for effect, she hadn’t taken off her dark-rimmed reading glasses. It was working.

  The room was silent except for the soft swish of the whip as it glided along Alex’s flesh and the ragged sound of Alex’s breath, which escaped her at quickening intervals.

  Maddie kneeled between Alex’s legs, her face sporting that wicked smirk she only ever displayed in the bedroom. They’d only been dating a few weeks but Alex always knew the score when she spotted the bedroom smirk.

  It was hard to notice the emotion in Maddie’s eyes while they were protected by glasses, but Alex could see plenty of passion displayed in the way Maddie’s mouth twitched upwards as she dragged the tip of the whip over Alex’s breasts. Maddie’s nipples had grown so stiff they pointed through the fabric of her bra and blouse.

  For the first time that night Maddie cracked the whip, right next to Alex’s left nipple. Alex let out a tiny gasp, loud enough to encourage Maddie to repeat the action, but controlled enough to not let her experience too much satisfaction. From the outside Maddie may have appeared completely in charge, but they both understood this game was a two-way street.

  Maddie treated Alex’s right breast to the same sensation, but added more power to her action. She trailed the whip between Alex’s breasts, down to her belly and over her belly button to her upper thighs. A few quick snaps on each thigh, on that delicate spot just below her entrance, and Alex was lost.

  A rapid succession of whip lashes on her nipples and outer thighs reduced Alex to a puddle of desire at Maddie’s mercy. Then Maddie positioned the whip between her legs again. She traced it through the moistness gathering there, slowly but with such menace it made Alex shiver in her skin.

  Maddie flicked the whip twice right on Alex’s clit. Alex arched her back and the cuffs bit into the tender flesh of her wrists. The whip circled her pussy before coming down hard on her blood-shot lips. Wetness trickled between Alex’s legs and suddenly the whip was gone.

  Maddie removed her glasses, slowly unbuttoned her blouse, slid out of her skirt and sat in front of Alex clad only in a black lace bra and matching panties. Unlike Alex, Maddie always dressed to impress.

  Her light blue eyes peered into Alex’s. She didn’t move a muscle for several seconds, just staring at Alex, her unflinching glare setting Alex’s skin on fire.

  Maddie had said it out loud enough for Alex to guess what she was thinking—that her body was a work of art. That marble statues should be carved to its likeness. That it should never be allowed to be covered by more than a tank top and boy shorts, and only if strictly necessary.

  She had that ravaging expression on her face, her lips pursed together in a tight line and her eyes scanning prey.

  Alex lay there panting, immobile and impatiently waiting for what was to come. She fiercely hoped Maddie would undo her bra and reveal her creamy white breasts and tiny nipples. They stood high, the pink buds of her nipples always pointing upwards, and Alex couldn’t wait for one of them to coast along her lips.

  Her prayers were answered as Maddie brought her hands behind her back to unclasp her bra. Alex inhaled sharply, her entire body pulsing with want. Foreplay between them wasn’t always so unconventional, but either way, she was ready for the more advanced action to begin.

  Maddie’s breasts tumbled out of her bra. She slipped it off her shoulders and threw it behind her onto the floor. Maddie’s gestures always had a flare for the dramatic, while it was Alex who was supposed to have fiery Mediterranean blood running through her veins.

  Alex checked, if by any chance, the cuffs holding her wrists in place hadn’t come loose so she could cup Maddie’s divine breasts—they fit so snugly in her hands. She wanted to roll Maddie’s nipples between her fingers and pinch hard. Maddie could take as good as she could give. The cuffs held and Alex could tell her struggle with them—and the consequent flexing of her bicep—excited Maddie. She was fast to discard her underwear and position herself on all fours, hovering over Alex, her breasts inching close to Alex’s wanting mouth.

  Maddie traced her lips over Alex’s collarbone, not quite kissing and not quite touching, blowing air on her skin until all the hairs on it reached skyward.

  Her lips trailed down, only briefly stopping at Alex’s nipples to lick them into even stiffer buttons. She blew air on Alex’s inner thighs and pussy lips—hot moist air driving Alex crazy.

  The only body part, apart from her head, that Alex could manoeuvre was her pelvis and she thrust it in the direction of Maddie’s teasing mouth.

  While digging her fingers into Alex’s abs, Maddie flicked her tongue where the whip had done the same earlier. Short, quick snaps of her tongue skated across Alex’s lips and Alex eased into it, relaxing, knowing it was only a matter of minutes now.

  When Maddie’s tongue found Alex’s clit and circled it, she buried her nails in the muscles of Alex�
�s belly, causing Alex to expel a loud moan. It wasn’t the first time Maddie did it, but the effect it had on Alex still surprised her. Desire mingling with pain. Pleasure blending with lust. Alex was no stranger to it all—Rita had made sure of that—but a new lover always brings new tricks to the table, and Maddie certainly knew what she was doing.

  Maddie sucked Alex’s clit into her mouth and let her tongue dance over it. Exquisite sensations slammed into Alex, starting at her core and spreading through her well-kept muscles at lightning speed. Maddie kept working on the sensitive bud between Alex’s legs, letting her tongue alternate between circling Alex’s clit and lapping at her lips.

  Shackled and bound, the sensation hit Alex twice as hard and when Maddie traced one hand from Alex’s abs to between her legs and pushed the tip of her finger in, Alex couldn’t stifle a scream.

  Just like that, Maddie was inside of her while licking her, and the trembling started. For all the control Alex issued over her muscles in her daily life, they were useless when it came to this. Shaking and contracting of their own volition, leaving Alex spent in a matter of seconds.

  Maddie added another finger and upped the pace of her tongue. Alex held on to the railing of the bed and shoved her heels into the mattress as the climax engulfed her. She felt the walls of her pussy clench around Maddie’s fingers, again and again, as she rode out her orgasm and Maddie’s tongue bestowed a few more strokes on her clit.

  After slowly pulling her fingers out, and wiping Alex’s juices off her lips, Maddie was quick to loosen Alex’s restraints. She untied the scarves and unlocked the cuffs and poured her hot limbs over Alex’s shivering body. Taking advantage of experiencing freedom of motion again, Alex curled her arms around Maddie’s neck and drew her close.

  “You can whip me any time,” she whispered in Maddie’s ear.

  “I intend to,” Maddie replied and bit into her earlobe.

  MADDIE

  “I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed such smugness in your smile before.” Maddie sat across from Isabella on her friend’s roof terrace, nibbling on one of the croissants she had brought from The Bean.

  “I don’t think I’ve ever had reason to feel this smug.” Isabella leaned back in her chair. “I almost feel as if I got myself a trophy wife.”

  “I heard that.” Nat stepped out on the balcony, her hair still wet from the shower. “But I’ll take it as a compliment.” She eyed the pastries. “Does your trophy wife know you’re eating this?” Nat fixed her clear blue eyes on Maddie and accompanied her question with a smirk.

  “What she doesn’t know, won’t hurt her.” Maddie took a big bite out of the croissant. “And my calorie burn is way up since she’s in my bed every night. It compensates.”

  “Already keeping secrets from each other.” Nat stood behind Isabella and rubbed her shoulders. “Let’s see what the shrink has to say about that.” She kissed Isabella on top of the head.

  “A few secrets are crucial to the success of any relationship.” Isabella put her hands on top of Nat’s. “I, for instance, have no idea where you were for the better part of last night. And I don’t intend to ask.”

  “See, this is what I have to deal with every day. This emotional manipulation. I know she can’t help herself, but still.” Nat squeezed Isabella’s shoulders and Isabella let her head fall back onto Nat’s belly. “And you know full well I may not have spent the better part of the night in your bed, but I was there for the best part.” Nat leaned down and planted a kiss on Isabella’s nose.

  “Mind and word games. This is what my life has become. Oh, how I wish I had landed a hot fitness instructor as my trophy wife. It seems so much less complicated.”

  Nat curled her fingers around Isabella’s neck and mock-strangled her. “I know Alex seems perfect, but she’s only human, just like the rest of us.” While stepping away from Isabella, Nat grabbed a pastry and sat down in between her and Maddie. “You must have discovered that by now.” Nat cast her glance towards Maddie again.

  “Well, there is the unfortunate habit of dim sum with the family every other Sunday. As if she’d be disinherited if she dared to miss one Pozzato family meal.” It was a struggle every time Alex had to make it to Tai Po before noon on a Sunday. Her parents lived in a house in the country Maddie had not yet been invited to.

  “You’ve been here long enough to know you don’t cross a Chinese mother when it comes to yum cha. It’s tradition. You don’t mess with that.”

  “For some reason it was never an issue with the company I kept before.” Maddie thought about June and her growing belly. She was probably at dim sum as well, Mark’s family fawning over their pregnant daughter-in-law.

  “Either way, you can’t blame Alex. She’s being a good daughter.” Nat chimed in. “They raised her well.”

  Maddie nodded, hesitating to broach the next subject, even though it had been bugging her. “There’s also the case of the unmentionable ex.” She searched Nat’s face for a reaction. If anyone had information about Rita, it was her. “I know Rita cheated on her, but that’s it. It’s not as if I need all the details about their affair, far from it, but I do believe she would benefit from talking about it once in a while.”

  “Give her some time.” Nat’s tone was serious. “It’ll sort itself out.”

  “Really? How?” Maddie made eye-contact with Isabella in the hope of getting some support. “If she won’t even acknowledge the woman’s existence.”

  “Alex is simply not the kind of person who needs to talk through everything extensively to process. She’s not that kind of lesbian. I mean, she is half-Chinese.” Nat sounded as if she really needed to convince Maddie of this.

  “It’s not because they don’t easily talk about their feelings that they couldn’t benefit from it,” Isabella said. “I’ve been practising in Hong Kong for fifteen years and the only Chinese clients I ever get are the ones born and bred abroad.”

  “I do hope it doesn’t come back to bite her in the ass.” Maddie, who had no interest in discussing the mental state of the local population, brought the subject back to Alex. “I wish she’d share more. I can see it in her eyes sometimes, this darkness, this well of emotions not dealt with.”

  “There’s only one solution. Instead of talking about it with us, confront Alex.” Isabella extended her hand over the table and reached for Maddie’s. “And don’t push her.”

  “She does have some wise things to say now and again.” Nat smiled at Isabella. “Then again, she attended university for about ten years so that education had better pay off.”

  Maddie sagged back in her chair and let the easy banter between Nat and Isabella pass her by. As far as she knew, they didn’t have skeletons in their closet like Alex had.

  * * *

  “Did you tell them about me yet?” Maddie had awaited Alex’s return from Tai Po anxiously. After the impromptu chat she’d had with Nat and Isabella she was eager to get something out of her.

  Alex walked over to where Maddie was sitting and pushed her down into the sofa cushions. “For now, you’re still my dirty, little, whip-cracking secret.” She smiled down at Maddie before kissing her.

  Maddie wasn’t that dead-set on getting Alex’s parents’ approval, but she decided to use them as a way to instigate the conversation she wanted to have. “Are you afraid I won’t stack up against the memory of Rita?”

  “What?” Alex pushed herself up, making her triceps bulge in the process. “No.”

  “I know they thought the world of her.” Alex hadn’t given her that information, but Nat had mentioned it once, late at night after a dinner including too much wine. “I understand your hesitance.”

  “You want to meet my parents? Is that what this is about?” Alex crawled off Maddie and sat down on the ottoman next to the sofa, far enough not to touch her accidentally.

  “No. I mean, I do one day when you’re ready, but we’ve only just got together.” Maddie already felt herself pussy-footing out. She couldn’t do it. She did
n’t have the words to address Alex in a way that would make her open up.

  “How about when we’ve been seeing each other for three months? I’ll introduce you officially then, but you will regret it because you’ll be spending many a Sunday off the island.” Alex managed a smile again and it was all Maddie needed to let the subject go completely. Maddie wasn’t in the business of making Alex feel bad. On the contrary, her sole task was to make her feel as good as possible.

  “Deal, but you’ll have to come back with me to Melbourne in the spring so my family can finally be convinced I’m not a complete romantic disaster.” It surprised Maddie she was thinking so long-term. And that she even contemplated introducing Alex to her family, who had only ever seen her with Emma.

  “We’ll see.” Alex offered her hand and Maddie gladly took it. “Let’s just enjoy the delicious early stages of this relationship without worrying about family.”

  A broad smile split Maddie’s face in two. “While you were being a family girl, I went online and bought this.” Maddie grabbed her iPad from the coffee table and showed Alex a picture of a dolphin-shaped sex toy. “Delivery in two days.”

  Alex rolled her eyes. “You have a box full of those already. I’m beginning to worry about you.”

  “This one’s waterproof, though. And turbo-charged.” Maddie pulled Alex closer and sunk her teeth softly into the flesh of her shoulder.

  “I may have to confiscate your credit card before this online shopping gets out of hand.” Alex let herself slide onto Maddie. “They have support groups for that, you know. I’ll go with you if you can’t find it in yourself to go alone.”

  “Shut up and kiss me already.” Maddie pulled Alex’s tank top over her head, gasped as she always did at the sight of her flawless torso, and pushed her down into the sofa.