Chapter 168

I see Kent’s mouth curve up, ever so slightly, as he sees the panic

plain on my face. As he thinks that he’s won.

And god damn it, but it lights that fire in me. I snap my mouth shut and square my shoulders, pleased when I see that smile drop from his lips.

“Sure, Kent,” I say, giving a casual little shrug, feeling a new

confidence flood me that I certainly hadn’t had ten minutes ago –

hell, thirty seconds ago. “I’m ready when you are.”

Kent’s eyes narrow at me and he takes a deep breath in through his nose. I watch him closely, my breath and heart rate still raised as I sweep my eyes over him, noticing the swell of his muscles beneath his shirt, the trim line of his body as it traces down to his hips, the –

The heaviness there, at the front of his pants.

The panic and the thrill pulse through me anew at the sight of it, of

what I’ve raised in him, and I feel a new perverse curiosity as well.

I want, suddenly, to unbuckle his belt, to let his pants fall to the

floor. To see it for myself.

Which is something totally new for me. I’ve never done this before

– not really. Never been in a room alone with a man who was hard

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wants to see me naked like this,

me. And who, I’m realizing,

raise my eyes to his, then, and let

his jaw fiercely, a

step closer, but

commands, pointing over at a wall where I look

of D–shaped metal anchors in a

“Over

but then do as he

the wall and looking up at the metal

cabinet a

I ask, staring up

to show you,” Kent

the heat of him radiating against me.

the shocking new urge I feel to lean back, to

up,” he orders. “Above your head.”

arms up, waiting, staring straight at the

my left wrist first and wrapping a wide leather cuff tightly around it. I shoot my

has a little chain attached to

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the matching cuff still in Kent’s hand. I watch breathless as Kent passes the other cuff through one of the

it shut.

And then…

to really freak out.

this doesn’t feel like a

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