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Chapter 34Estelle✦༺⚜︎☠︎⚜︎༻✦The Wartenberg wheel disappeared, and for a moment, I thought he was done. That maybe he’d finally give me what I desperately needed.Instead, Kegan reached into the drawer again and pulled out something else—something small and smooth that looked almost innocuous until he turned it on.The buzzing sound filled the office.“Do you know what this is?” he asked, holding up what looked like a small, egg-shaped object.I shook my head, still blindfolded, relying entirely on sound and the feel.“It’s a remote-controlled vibrator,” he explained, his voice almost clinical. “The interesting thing about this particular model is that I control the intensity. You don’t get to decide when it stops or starts. You can't control how your body reacts to it.”My breath hitched as I felt him positioning it, and then—He trailed it slowly up my thighs, his face was in my hair as he did, inhaling, feeling…teasing. His left hand grabbed my waist, holding me in place as the vi
Chapter 33Estelle✦༺⚜︎☠︎⚜︎༻✦I woke to the feeling of something cool trailing along my collarbone.My eyes opened slowly, adjusting to the early morning light filtering through the floor-to-ceiling windows. Kegan was sitting on the edge of the bed, fully dressed in dark gray linen, watching me with an expression I couldn’t quite read.In his hand was a piece of ice.“Good morning,” he said softly, and before I could respond, he pressed the ice against the hollow of my throat.I gasped at the sudden cold, my body jolting awake. He held it there for a moment, watching my face with that same intense focus he’d had last night—like I was a puzzle he was methodically solving.“Kegan, what—”“Shh.” He moved the ice lower, tracing a path down between my breasts. The sheet had fallen away at some point during the night, leaving me completely exposed. “I want to try something. And you’re going to let me.”It wasn’t a question.The ice continued its journey, circling one sensitive peak until I
Chapter 32 Kegan ✦༺⚜︎☠︎⚜︎༻✦ She was still trembling when I picked her up, her body completely boneless in my arms. The sheet had fallen away, and I didn’t bother retrieving it. There was no point in pretending modesty now. I carried her from the bedroom to the en suite bathroom attached to the secondary master. The space was all marble and chrome, designed for function rather than comfort. I set her down gently on the edge of the pristine bathtub. “Kegan,” she whispered, her voice hoarse and confused. “What are you doing?” “Aftercare,” I said simply, turning on the shower and adjusting the temperature. “Come on.” She didn’t move, so I simply lifted her again and carried her under the spray. The warm water hit her skin, and she made a small sound—not quite a whimper, not quite a sigh. I grabbed a washcloth and began cleaning her with careful, deliberate movements. Her neck. Her shoulders. The inside of her thighs, where my finger prints were most pronounced. Fuck, Kegan. You
Chapter 31 Estelle ✦༺⚜︎☠︎⚜︎༻✦ “You want me to consent to that?” I asked, my voice shaky. “I’m not asking for consent,” he said. “I’m telling you what I’m going to do. And you’re going to say yes because despite how frightened you look right now, your pupils are dilated and you’re clenching your thighs. Even though your mind is still convincing you to run.” “I’m not thinking of running.” “Yes, you are.” He released my face and walked over to the sideboard, pouring two glasses of something amber-colored. He handed me one without asking if I wanted it. “Drink. You’ll need it.” I did, and the liquid burned down my throat—expensive whiskey, probably something I couldn’t even pronounce. “Third question,” he said, settling into one of the leather chairs like we were having a casual conversation. “What’s your pain tolerance?” “What?” “Pain,” he repeated. “How much can you take before you break? And don’t lie to me. I’ll know.” “I don’t—I’ve never—” “I know you haven’t.” He leaned
Chapter 30 Estelle ✦༺⚜︎☠︎⚜︎༻✦ That sounded suspiciously like I was signing an NDA to become one of those things crazy spoiled mafia men love in movies…a submissive. I took one look at him and frowned. He was still waiting patiently for me to give him a response. Was Kegan into that kind of stuff? Bondage and surrender? He moved closer, and I had to tilt my head back to maintain eye contact. “You’ve been fantasizing about me for two weeks. Every night, according to you. Now that I’m here, now that I’m offering you exactly what you’ve been dreaming about, you seem speechless.” My throat went dry. “Let me think,” I said weakly. “I can say no?” “You can,” he agreed. I stood silently, hyperaware of the way his shirt was unbuttoned at the collar, how close he was standing, the fact that I could smell his cologne and the fact that if he was a bad person, he could kill me within the blink of an eye. “I’m not going to hurt you,” he said quietly, reading my silence like it was writte
Chapter 29 Kegan ✦༺⚜︎☠︎⚜︎༻✦ I’d been tracking Estelle for five days. Not in the obsessive way Pietro had been tracking her—though I’d discovered that particular piece of intelligence when I dug into the phone I’d taken from her in Italy. No, my tracking was more from a place of duty. I needed to know if she was safe, and the only way to do that was to understand her patterns. The library every morning at 8:47 AM. Home by 6:15 PM. She took the same route, stopped at the same café for coffee, and visited her friends some afternoons. Her life was small and predictable in a way that made it easy to protect, and it also made it devastatingly easy for someone like Pietro Catalano to exploit. Catalano. Of the Palermo Catalanos. A family that had been trying to move into territory that belonged to families allied with Russel’s territory for the last three years in the guise of a harmless import/export business. A family that understood the value of leverage, and apparently understo







