Se connecterI still need to hold my pride intact.Stein's eyes were on my face, watching every flicker of my expression. He looked as if he wanted to know when I would give up and finally lose all fight. His hand was steady on my cock, holding the sound in place, and he waited until my breathing evened out and the tension in my shoulders dropped by a fraction.“Good,” he said. “Very good.” He reached for the flogger.My eyes went wide. I looked from the flogger in his hand to the sound on my cock, and understanding dawned. “I want you to feel it,” he said. “Every tremor of the leather, transmitted through the steel, inside you.”He swung the flogger against my chest, and the vibration travelled through my skin, my cock, and the sound. It resonated in a place I didn't have words for. A shudder ran through me, and I jerked my hips. The sound shifted inside me, sending a spike of sensation that was almost too much.“Please,” I whispered because the sensation was too much, and it felt as if I might c
“Again,” Stein said, in an almost detached voice. “This time, mean it.”I swung again, harder this time, because there was freaking no going back. The crack of leather against skin was freakinly loud in the quiet room. This time, the falls caught the chain between my clamps, and the yank sent a spike of pain through both nipples. I bit back a moan of pain because I couldn't contain the sharp sound, and the flogger dropped from my hand, clattering to the rug.I bent over, gasping as I braced my hands on my knees. The welts were like lines of fire across my chest, and the chain was cool against the heat. My cock throbbed in the ring, painfully hard.Stein didn't move. He just watched me with an almost bored look, as if challenging me to do more with the whips. Bastard. I straightened slowly and bent to pick up the flogger. My fingers closed around the handle, and I looked at him. I'll show the bastard how fucking good I am. Let's see who has the last laugh after I'm done with what I h
“Put these on yourself.”My breath caught. I hadn't expected that. I'd assumed he would do everything to me, and that my role was to receive, endure and take what he gave. I didn't think he would be crazy enough to make me participate.He held them out to me, and I reached up with both hands and took them from his palm. The steel was cold against my fingers, the chain cool and smooth. I looked down at the clamps, and I felt a wave of nausea that I swallowed down before it could reach my mouth.“Whenever you're ready,” Stein said.Seeing his words as a challenge, I brought the clamps to my chest. I didn't want him to win this. Since he's determined to do it this way, I'll have to endure until he gets tired of it. My nipples were already hard from the cold, so there was no need to make them hard. I positioned the first clamp at the base of my left nipple, and the rubber gripped against the sensitive skin and squeezed.The pain was immediate and bright. The sharp pinch radiated out thr
KAII had all the time in the world to change my mind after I saw that smirk on his face. Undoubtedly, I knew tonight wouldn't be all roses, yet I didn't take my words back. I had promised him, and I would seem less of a man if I took it all back. We cleaned the kitchen before tidying up the house. Thankfully, the damage wasn't that much; otherwise, it would have taken a cleaning crew to get everything done. After cleaning up, I went to my room to wash up while he did the same, but not before asking me to come to his room when I'm done. I took my time with my bath, knowing that things would take a freaking new turn when I stepped into his room. I got dressed in a simple cotton round-neck polo and shorts before I went over to his room. I skipped dinner because of everything. From the disaster I caused in the kitchen to the favour, he asked. I doubt I could stomach any food. At his door. I stood outside for a few minutes before knocking and going inside. Stein was looking for someth
“No?”“No,” I repeated as I turned him to face me. His eyes were bright with embarrassment, and I wanted to kiss every trace away. “You're not throwing it away. I'm eating it.”His jaw dropped. “Stein, it's burnt. It's probably raw in the middle and burnt on the outside, and the rice is—”“I don't care.” I released his wrist, only to cup his face. “You made this for me.”“I ruined it for you,” he corrected, looking at me like I had somehow grown two heads, and he was only realising it. “I can't even do this one thing right. I wanted to—” He swallowed hard. “I wanted to do something for you, for once. Instead of you always doing things for me without me giving back. I wanted to give you something.”“You are,” I said, and I meant it more than I'd meant anything in my life. “Kai, look at me.”He did. He looked at me with those pretty blue eyes, which were swimming with emotion.“You've done more than you would ever imagine for me.” I placed a kiss on his forehead. “The thoughts alone are
STEINIt was working. I came at the right time, like a damned knight in shining armour, and stole the day. I knew even before his words of thanks that he would be forever indebted to me, which was why I decided to throw some crumbs his way. I'll let him believe things are about to turn out well, then drag them away. By then, he'll be too grateful to me that he wouldn't think twice about giving his all to me. He'll be willing to get on his knees when I ask him to, unquestionably. Until then, I need to pay my cards well. Which I had been doing for a week now, cleaning up the mess I caused, while acting like I was seriously helping him out. My phone dinged with a message, and I smiled. For the first time, Kai was actively contacting me. He sends messages every few hours and always calls whenever I am running late. This was the side of Kai that I didn't know about, and I freaking love it. Now that I had thought of what I wanted, I couldn't wait to return home to tell him that. It would
Funnily, Stein didn't speak to me throughout dinner. I tried to rope him into the conversation, but the same man who claimed he came for the business meeting acted like he wasn't there. He only nodded whenever Logan looked his way, and that was all. He didn't eat with us and while I ate; he kept lo
He was still in his suit from earlier, but he'd lost the tie somewhere, and the top two buttons of his shirt were undone, revealing the column of his throat. His hair was dishevelled, as if he'd been running his hands through it, and his eyes—God, his eyes.They weren't looking at me.They were fi
KAIStein hadn't reached out since I disconnected and switched my phone off. After that meeting with Mr Thompson, the youngest tech wizard who graduated top of his class, I had switched my phone on, expecting a barrage of calls from Stein, but I got nothing, which was odd. The Stein, I knew, would
STEINI left Kai after lunch and returned to my office. While I worked, I watched him in his office through the camera I placed there. Everything was going smoothly until I saw a young man walk into his office. I froze, with my hand hovering over the keyboard. I was typing a response to an email wh







