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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who wants to see me naked like this, who

I’m realizing, I want to touch.

then, and let him see me wanting

clenches his jaw fiercely, a predator holding

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

at a

in a

“Over there,

again but then do as he says, walking

the wall and looking up at the

swiftly to a cabinet a

staring up at

to show you,” Kent murmurs, coming up close

can feel the

to

he orders. “Above your

up, waiting, staring straight at the

a wide leather cuff tightly around it. I shoot my eyes

cuff has a little chain attached to

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cuff still in Kent’s hand. I watch breathless as Kent passes the other cuff through one of the d–rings above me, and then lowers it to wrap it around my

it shut.

And then…

to really freak out.

like a game of chicken

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