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"Obey me," he murmured "Just obey me, Elisa This is a reminder of that"
He said obey, but she wondered if he eable She’d obeyed a lot of people in her life--her employers, because she needed her job; Lady Constance, because she educated Elisa for the purpose of serving her daughter; and then Danny Danny had been the first to win Elisa’s trust such that her obedience was based in love and loyalty Hearing Malachi speak the word obey in such a manner made her think of that, and wonder if it was possible for hi, whether this yearning feeling in her chest was an absurd desire to feel it for hie of the chair Grip the top of it and balance yourself that way"
"It will topple"
"It’s heavy oak Your weight is unlikely to disturb it" His eyes were still so close, hisheated breath across her lips as he spoke His hands, gripping her upper aret on the chair, I want you to reach under your skirt, slide off your panties and hand thelea a shard of fla at first, but I’ve gotten rather fond of your fixation with calling me sir So, Yes, sir would be the proper response" He cocked his head, and his lips brushed her cheekbone,her shiver
"Yes, sir," she whispered While her own confused reaction was occupying most of her attention, she didn’this chest, her upper thighs pressed against the heat of his splayed ones There had to be only a hs and the heat of his aroused groin
"Good girl" He turned her then, helping her get started Folding her fingers in the fabric of her skirt, she tried to gather it up to find the undergarment beneath He’d taken her to bed before, in to shake now, and her es, she didn’t know Willis’s kisses, gentle and thenat herher in the faceMal, angry with her, such that she thought he was going to send her away All the ees flooded her
She whiht "I can’t I just can’t I want to, but I don’t, and I don’t knohy I’ to faint"
"Shhh" His ar the opposite shoulder and dwarfing it as he held her back into the heat of his body "You wouldn’t faint, fierce little flower, even if Satan himself blew fire and brimstone in your face What I’ through your head now I proo and do as I say Keep going; reach beneath your skirt"
He loosened his hold enough that she could do as he said, but he was still there, his body lending her the strength behind the de up to find the elastic waist of her panties, he was stroking the side of her throat, tilting her head into his shoulder, letting her close her eyes as she hooked the band and began to ease the so that when they reached the tapering part of her leg, just above her knee, they slid free and fell, landing around her ankles and onto her canvas sneakers
Pressing a hand to her back to help her bend, he let that touch drift to her hip to steady her as she freed the panties froathered them up into a discreet ball in her hand, she had to quell the sudden coht do with the laundry However, if she was having troublewere far outside her abilities right now
His hand ca about her waist, holding her close When she put the ball of soft, worn fabric in his palers closed over it and her sli her there before he took the panties and his touch away
"Up on the chair with you now" His hand was on her elbow again, urging her forward Sheto adjust her skirt so it wasn’t caught under her knees Drawing in a breath, she closed her hands on the top of the chair for balance He adjusted her stance so her knees were on the edge of the wood, digging into her flesh with the reminder of the open space beneath theether, but he widened theainst either chair arm It made her balance feel precarious, vulnerable, such that she tightened her hands on the chair top
"Stay like this, Elisa"
"This frightensover the desk, he pulled out a drawer "Eyes front, Elisa Toward the opposite wall"
She knew the types of games and sexualtests, for lack of a better word, that vampires played with their servants And play was definitely the wrong word for it, for there was nothing whimsical or childlike about it She’d witnessed quite a few of Lady Danny’s dinner parties, but even as a second-mark, she was only dinner help, not part of the floor show the way Dev alas, as Danny’s full servant She was often sent out of the rooan, those limited to the vampires and their full servants However, on the few occasions she’d had to co s that had fascinated andaway quickly, blushing, even though she’d had an equal wish to stay and look longer That conflict in desires was si?
He’d taken out a handful of short ropes and now he’d cinched each of her knees to the chair ar over her, as straining against the denih the skirt, he looped another tether over her hands and bound them to the top slat of the chair