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, who wants

who, I’m realizing, I want to

raise my eyes to his, then, and let him

fiercely, a

at its prey. I take a careful step closer, but he shakes

commands, pointing over at a wall where I look

series of D–shaped metal anchors in

head. “Over there,

glance at Kent’s face again but then do as he says,

the wall and looking up at

cabinet a few feet away. “What are these

I ask, staring up at them.

you,” Kent murmurs, coming

I can feel the heat of him radiating

shocking new urge I feel to lean

orders. “Above your

comply, lifting my arms up, waiting,

and wrapping a wide leather cuff tightly around it. I

see that the cuff has a little chain attached to it

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

it shut.

And then…

I start to

feel like a game

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