Chapter 12
A Secret Domain
Katelyn
The removal of clothing was some kind of a challenge she’d thrown down without even fully realizing it. She didn’t even fully know what was happening. The nervous anticipation building in her stomach, the tingling tremble in her limbs told her she wanted to stay. Her brain tried to intervene, as his had. She knew she should leave, but she also knew that wasn’t going to happen.
Kian stood up so quickly she was a little astounded. She didn’t know someone his size could move so fast. He said nothing as he turned and left the room. She paused, still on the couch. Should she follow?
Yes I should definitely follow.
She knew nothing about him, but she sensed he’d probably gone to his bedroom. He was too much of a gentleman to have her right there on the living couch like a couple of raunchy teenagers. He didn’t take her hand or lead the way. He wasn’t demanding, didn’t sweep her off her feet and carry her there. No, of course he’d let her come to him. He left it up to her, yet at the same time, she didn’t feel at all like it was a choice or at all like she was taking the lead.
The walk to his room took all of a few seconds. Of course, since house was the mirror opposite of hers, she knew where it would be.
She started guiltily as she stepped inside. The bedroom, that was a sacred domain. It was one room in someone’s house you didn’t just go poking around in.
The hall light was on and flooded the first few feet of the bedroom. Shadows played over the walls. The massive king size bed took up most of the room. It was one of those expensive looking beds, the kind that was upholstered in black leather on both the headboard and footboard. Even in the dark, she had a well trained eye. She could almost smell the quality. A glass nightstand, the mirrored kind that was all the rage and in demand with what felt like every single one of her clients a few years ago, stood perched beside the bed. There was only room for one.
A tallboy antique dresser took up the remaining real estate in the room. The wall space between the window and the small walk in closet was just wide enough for it. Katelyn didn’t have a whole lot of experience with antiques, but she figured it was old. It had the curved drawers at the top, and carved wooden handles that spoke to quality which belonged to another century.
Her natural assessment of the room and its furnishings was done. Katelyn’s eyes swept to Kian himself. He stood by the bed, poised, waiting. Even in the dark she could see the feral gleam in his eyes and knew it wouldn’t take much to take him to the brink and push him over. It won’t take much for me either.
While she watched, perhaps because she watched, Kian gripped his shirt and worked it over his head. She couldn’t smother the gasp of appreciation that escaped her lips. She’d never seen a man so muscular, at least not up close, not in his damn bedroom. Scrawling ink covered his entire chest. She couldn’t make out much in the near darkness, but the glow from the hall spilled golden light over what looked to be angel wings. They covered both pecs and higher, that ink turned into something else, some kind of writing and other symbols she couldn’t quite make out.
She could have stared at his ink all day. A shock wave detonated from the inside out. Shivers crawled up her spine and wracked her body. She couldn’t tear her eyes away. Her eyes made a slow caress of his chest, his powerful shoulders and massive arms. There was not a scrap of extra skin anywhere. Nor blank skin. It was all dark, swirling ink and hard, ridged, sinewy muscle. He seemed to tower over her, though he was probably only half a foot taller. He was easily twice as broad as she was. His jeans hung low on his hips, held up by a black belt. Her fingers itched to take it apart, to slide those jeans down and find out just how big he was…
Katelyn’s cheeks flamed hot at the wicked thought. She turned her attention back to Kian’s chest. She wanted to touch him. She ached at the thought of all that smooth skin under her fingertips, the crisp hairs. Heat spread wildly as her body responded to the strange sexual pull that radiated from him.
She wanted her skin on his skin in the most elemental, animalistic way.
When she undressed it wasn’t romantic. It wasn’t seductive. It wasn’t much of anything but a frantic pulling off of her own clothes in a response to the sudden desperation she felt to be naked. Her clothes ended up in a heap on the floor and she stood before him in nothing at all, wondering what it was he liked in a woman.
His face gave nothing away as his eyes slowly licked over her. He started at the top, at her shoulders, and worked his way down over full breasts with dusky pink nipples, a flat stomach, hips and a backside that were perhaps just a tad too curvy, down legs that were shapely enough, she supposed.
When his eyes flicked back to her face, the heat in his gaze nearly took her breath away. She was aware of him then, his powerful masculinity, the size of him, of how tiny she felt in comparison.
“Take off your jeans.” Was that really her voice all husky and desperate and commanding?
Kian hesitated for just a fraction of a second. Clearly they were past the point of return. She traced every single erotic movement of his hands as they worked his belt loose, the button of his jeans, his fly. He pulled all his clothes away at once and stepped aside, as though boldly daring her to look.
Which she could do all day, every day. He had some ink flowing over his hard thighs, down the streamlined calves though it wasn’t as thick and concentrated as the ink on his arms and chest.
Her gaze was pulled, because she just couldn’t help herself, to his thick cock. It stood out from his body, the most massive erection she had ever seen. As she watched, it seemed to thicken, to grow harder until it pulsed.
She made a sound that was half a gasp and half a strangled groan. The ache inside of her intensified to the point where it was utterly blinding. She could think of nothing else. Her mouth watered at the thought of tasting him, of falling to her knees and sliding him to the back of her throat, licking and swallowing the salty tang of his arousal…
“Katelyn,” Kian commanded, his tone hard. “Are you sure? I- I don’t want to hurt you?”
She blinked. Am I sure? God, I’ve never been more certain of anything in my life. She didn’t say it was a little late for regrets. She didn’t ask him what he meant when he said he didn’t want to hurt her. It was clear he wasn’t talking about the physical…
“Yes,” she said, voice unwavering. “Yes.” Her nipples tightened, peaking and standing out hard. Her sex throbbed, her thighs ached.
“Then tell me what you want. Tell me what you want me to do.”
Heat bloomed on her cheeks. She’d forgotten all about what happened earlier that night until the bruise on her cheekbone throbbed suddenly. Tell me what you want me to do. God there were a thousand things she wanted him to do. To her.
“I want you to get on your bed. I want to start by riding you.” So that I’m in control. He was huge. Huge! She very much doubted she could take even half of him and she wanted to be the one setting the pace. After that… well, she didn’t imagine they would be limited to one position.
Kian’s eyes sparked with wild hunger. He moved slowly, with all the grace in the world, grace she didn’t imagine that a man who looked so damn… masculine, even possessed. She watched him spread out on top of the white covers. God, he looked so beautiful waiting for her, the golden light from the hall playing over his inked skin.
She couldn’t make herself wait any longer. A wild need drove her forward. She’d never felt this way about a single man she’d ever been with. Not that there were many. She was too busy studying in high school, trying to graduate early so she could move out of their mother’s house and in with Dinah. She’d had a few fumbling boyfriends, more boys than men. John had been her first. He didn’t compare. Not even close. He too seemed like a boy, someone who took what they wanted and left her bereft.
Not Kian. Somehow she knew that he was the type of man who would wait. He’d wait for her to find her pleasure first, maybe even over and over again, before he took his. He was the kind of man you could fuck all night and wake up and hour later, in the morning, and want to do it all over again. He was the kind of man who remained ingrained in memory, every single pleasing hard muscle. God, he was the type of man a woman fantasized over.
Delicious flames licked over her skin as she crawled up onto that bed. She felt the heat of Kian’s skin soak into hers, the silken smooth skin of his thigh as she moved, draping hers on either side of his. One hand, the fingers strong and so very warm, the palms surprisingly calloused, cupped her breast. She gasped as Kian’s fingers played over her nipple, circling and pinching expertly.
“So beautiful,” he said huskily, and when she looked down at his face she realized he was looking at her, not just at her body.
She flushed wildly under his praise. She boldly reached between them and gripped his cock. It pulsed in her palm, growing even thicker at her touch. She gasped and closed her eyes. Her vision had become pretty hazy anyway. Her hand moved slowly, savoring the feel of him, every single inch as she caressed him from the smooth, rounded tip down the hard, ridged shaft, right to the base.
The pressure grew inside of her. She knew exactly where it was she wanted him. If they had been different people at a different time, maybe she could have tortured him. Maybe she could have waited, toyed with him, brought him right to the brink before she pulled teasingly away and started it all over again.
No, she couldn’t do that. She needed him too badly to even think of keeping up the game of touch and taste. Kian wasn’t the kind of man you leisurely explored. At least not this time. He was the kind of man you either took or surrendered to, but either way it would be hot and hard, sharp and aching.
Katelyn spread her legs wide and shifted lower. She’d been straddling his waist more so than his thighs, and when she moved, she positioned herself right after his cock. She guided his cock to her entrance, which was already slippery and soaking wet.
She lost herself as she sunk down, slowly, taking him inch by inch, as much as she dared. He parted her, sliding through her slick passage easily. She closed her eyes and threw back her head, just letting herself feel… feel all of it. Every sensation that ripped through her all at once. He filled her, was so thick it stretched her and it hurt, but in the most delicious, elemental way that a hurt could be.
Katelyn didn’t think there was a hope in hell of ever fitting all of him inside of her, but she surprised herself. She sunk down, lower and lower, until he was fully sheathed inside of her. She didn’t move. She was almost afraid to move, afraid that if she did, she’d shatter. Just having his rock hard cock inside of her was enough to send her right to the brink.
“Oh god,” she moaned. “You’re so damn thick.” Which was, of course, completely the wrong thing to say if she didn’t want to set him off.
His hands moved so fast she was barely able to track them. They descended to her hips. His hands gripped her flesh hard, the fingers digging in wickedly. He began to force her to move, no, not force, to teach her how to move. Her body was an eager student and it was only a second before she was swaying back and forth, gyrating, riding him in every sense of the word.
Her hands flew out to brace herself on his rock hard chest. She rose up slowly, at the guidance of his hands, and sunk down just as slowly, taking his pulsing thickness all the way inside again. She could feel the way her muscles closed around him, held him tight. Shards of white hot pleasure rocked her body. The heat that flared up and sizzled between them stole her breath. Beads of sweat formed on her forehead and rolled down her temples, her hair soaking it up. She bit her bottom lip hard.
And then Kian’s hand moved and he found her clit.
He pressed the tight little bead, circling her as her hips rocked and bucked. She was moving up and down with a molten force that drove her from the inside out. She rose up and slammed down hard, taking all of him so very deep inside of her, inside places she didn’t even know were there. And god, it felt good. It felt so fucking good.
She barely registered the fact that Kian’s hips were moving too. He was thrusting in time with the grinding of her hips, his breath coming in short, rapid bursts just like her own.
She kept going, driving towards something unforeseen, the spending peak of bliss… when she stepped off of it, the climax was shattering. It shook her, wrung her out, ripped through her body and left her numb and aching.
She threw her head back and screamed something unintelligible, words that were no words at all, just the sound of wicked, hot pleasure.
When Kian moved it was so swift and catlike, she didn’t even process the fact that her world was somehow changed. He’d flipped her as easily as if she weighed nothing at all, onto her back. He rose up on arms that rippled with straining muscle. She smelled his sweat, his desperation, the acrid tang of a male who wanted her with everything he possessed.
His thrusts were hard and hot, unmerciful even. She loved it. She took everything and craved more. She locked her legs around his waist and dug her heels into his thighs, pushing him on, begging him with small, tiny whispers torn from her throat, begging him for more.
The second orgasm was stronger than the first. It consumed her, cleansed her, shattered her in ways she didn’t know were possible.
She shook and shivered and was only dimly aware Kian’s body leaving hers as he pulled out and the warm rush that followed. He shook above her, trembled in her arms, the tremors matching hers.
When he rolled away, he didn’t take her with him. He left her like that, staring up at the ceiling, the black spots slowly fading from her vision as she crashed back to earth.
Katelyn felt the chill air of the room for the first time since she’d stepped into it. She felt strangely bereft and wished Kian would have wrapped an arm around her and pulled her close. She turned her face and stared at him, but he wouldn’t look at her. He too looked up at the ceiling.
When the words came, she half expected them, the complete and utter shutdown. “I need you to leave.”
What did I expect? Some kind of rosy endearments? We just needed each other… that was it. It wasn’t anything more than that. A guy like Kian had ‘fucked up’ written all over him. She’d been through enough of her own troubles to recognize a man who was even deeper in than she’d ever been. He’d saved her, in more ways than one, given her what he could, and that should count for something.
Unfortunately his words still hurt like hell.
“Is that before or after I wipe this off of me?” She didn’t mean the words to be bitter but they were. She couldn’t look at him, but she imaged he winced.
He moved swiftly, getting up. The bed rose when his weight lifted off. She waited while he walked out of the room and appeared a minute later, with a towel in his hand. He roughly scrubbed the cold pool off her belly and upper thighs.
It was the most unromantic thing she’d ever had done to her yet her skin burned. Her heart hurt, but her body wanted more. She craved him with the desperation of wanting something that had literally been torn from her grasp. She wanted him and it was utterly clear that no matter what he’d thought beforehand, he wasn’t equipped to deal with the onslaught of feelings after.
Because he was a gentleman of sorts, Kian passed her the clothes she’d discarded earlier. He shrugged into his own and turned his back while she got dressed.
He stayed that way, facing the window, pretending to look out of closed blinds, seeing nothing at all, so she spoke to his back.
“I’m fine with a one night stand. I’m fine with whatever this was. Honestly I am. I just wish I wouldn’t have thought it was going to be different.”
She didn’t need to wait around and listen to his answer. What was there to say to someone after you pretty much left their foolish heart torn wide open?