AUTHOR'S NOTE: Thanks for the comments and for reading! I'm glad people are enjoying it. Happy comments make me all warm and fuzzy inside. hehe
I also wanted to mention that Hiliad uses the term slave with Connee even though she is not his slave/sub. He only uses the word at certain times because he knows she was Daniel's slave, and he knows she responds to that term. This applies mainly to upcoming chapters until Hiliad is...hmm, shame on me! I don't want to give anything away!
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Without a word, he grabbed me by my shoulders and pushed me back into the bathroom, closing the door behind him gracefully with his foot. "Hiliad? What are you doing?" I demanded.
By the time I realized what was going on, I was pinned against the tiled wall of the bathroom, my arms straight above my head, Hiliad holding both of my hands securely with one hand; the other was planted on my hip. I was so shocked by the swift movement I was stunned into silence.
"Did you like Susie?" he asked. His voice was menacing, his teeth glared an inch from my face. I knew what he wanted.
Before I could react, his fingers pulled the skirt of my sunflower dress up, and I gasped when his cold hand brushed against the skin of my hip. I struggled to free myself but I could barely breathe, much less move. I'd also forgotten I was wearing no panties. "No, I didn't. Let me go, please," I pleaded, though I didn't mean it.
"Don't lie to me," he growled wickedly. He gathered more material of the skirt and patted my ass cheek before he brought his hand up to my crotch. I sighed with excitement, but I wanted to desperately kick him in the groin and run out, yet my body didn't have any strength whatsoever. It wouldn't hurt him anyway, would it? I wasn't about to ask. His fingers slid easily over my soaked entrance to my clit. His eyebrow rose curiously while he gave me an evil half grin. "You lied to me."
Yes, I liked playing with Susie. Yes, I was drenching wet. Yes, my clit wanted some attention. Yes, I needed to be fucked. But I'd be damned if I was going to get it like this. "Hiliad, drop your pants."
He pulled his head back and smiled before he unbuttoned the waist and pushed them down to his ankles. I allowed myself a split second glance of his engorged cock, and I swallowed hard. Then I ran for it.
As quick as I knew Hiliad was I couldn't believe I made it out the bathroom door. But I was thrilled. I headed for the back door and ran out to the end of the parking lot. By the time I turned around to catch my breath, Hiliad was leaning against a car with his arms crossed. The thing was he actually looked ... scared. Hiliad scared?
I stepped to him angrier than I'd ever been in my life. "Don't you ever do that to me again!" I spat, pointing my finger right in his face. If he wanted to bite it off I wouldn't have cared.
He put his hand on my shoulder, his mouth open to say something but I pulled away, taking a few steps back. "You're shaking," he stated.
"No shit! Do you have any idea ..." He was gone before I even finished speaking. I blinked a few times wondering if it was just a dream.
He returned two seconds later with a full shot glass in his hand. "Drink this."
My anger built up inside of me again. I struck his hand that held the glass and it flew to the ground, the liquid darkening the graveled lot. I put my hands on my hips and glared at him.
"I'm sorry." The tone of his voice and the expression on his face told me he really was sorry. Probably for only two seconds, though.
We stared at the other for a moment before I finally caught my breath and was able to get my thoughts together. "This isn't working," I heard myself say.
"I shouldn't have pushed you. It won't happen again."
"You didn't push me. I chose to do that. And that's not what I meant, jack ass." I could feel tears build up in my eyes. I didn't want to cry. I didn't want to show him any weakness. "You have my two week notice."
Walking away, I held my shoulders high and proud of myself at standing up to him. But I could feel his eyes beaming into my back. I could also see the grin he probably had on his face. A single tear fell from my eye as I headed back inside to my office. I could hardly concentrate on what work I had left to do. I wasn't sure if I meant what I said—about giving my notice. I was pissed, that was a sure thing. So pissed, I decided to leave an hour early. If he fired me, oh well! Two week notice—a day's notice. It didn't matter.
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I only stopped shaking when I'd gone back to the hotel room after half an hour and changed into a tank and shorts. It felt like I'd had twenty cups of coffee and my mind was all over the place. I was far from sleepy. Soon enough I felt claustrophobic and needed some air. It was 3:30 a.m. but I didn't care. I threw myself in the chair outside the room and buried my face in my hands. How could I have been so stupid letting Hiliad do that to me? Then the tears came in sheets.
A second later I heard a scuffle near me, and I looked at the shoes in front of me. Hiliad's shoes. The last thing I needed was to talk to him. "Go away, Hiliad," I whined behind my fingers.
"Connee?" I ignored him. He knelt down and put his hands on my knees. "Connee, look at me." The command in his voice got my attention. I slowly tilted my head up and took a deep breath but still found it hard to look him in the face. "Was that your first time with a woman ... like that?" I nodded. "You did an excellent job. Why were you shaking?" His voice was soft then, but I was still cautious of his intention.
"Be ... because I—" I wasn't really sure why I was shaking.
"I am truly sorry." He reached his hands up and pulled my hands from my face.
"No, no," I muttered, shaking my head. "Don't do this. You are who you are and ... this whole nice, compassionate Hiliad then is not really you." I finally found the courage to look him in the face. And believe it or not, he was serious.
"I want you to stay."
"Why? So you can use me again?"
Laughing, he stood and leaned against the post, crossing his legs. "You are stronger than you give yourself credit for. You intrigue me like no other."
"Why?"
"I don't quite know, to be honest."
"You, honest?" I asked with a chuckle. He was starting to bring my barrier down.
"True. But what I want to know is do you think you can find it in your heart to forgive me? Don't you trust me?"
I laughed long and hard. Wiping the remaining tears on my cheeks I leaned back. "I trust that you are a fair boss. Outside that arena, no. Trust is earned, Mr. Fildri."
"Mr. Fildri?" He laughed. "Ah, I almost forgot." Reaching inside his back pocket he pulled out a single key on a key ring. Taking a step closer he handed it to me. I didn't take it. "This is the front door key to apartment 307 on Sycamore. The apartment is yours as long as you want it."
I couldn't believe it. I was floored. "Why?"
He shook his head. "You really need to stop using that word. Stay and the apartment is yours."
"Oh, so you're gonna buy me—"
The air was sucked out of my lungs when he lifted me and pushed me against the door. "I do not have to buy anything, little one. If I want something I'll take it."
My stomach churned. I didn't know what to say.
Hiliad took the key, pulled the tank back a little and let it fall down into the bra of the tank. "It's yours if you want it."
"Why are you doing this?" I choked.
"Because I want you to trust me. I need you to trust me." He looked over my face quickly before he turned and was gone in a flash.
I started to shake again. What the hell was he doing?
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By the time the sun had risen I was still tossing and turning in bed. I still couldn't get Hiliad out of my head. When he seized me and had me up against the wall in the bathroom my stomach churned then, something I hadn't felt in a long time. It was the raw animal hunger in Hiliad's face that turned me on. The look in his eyes scared the crap out of me but made my pussy tingle, spreading down to my toes. Hiliad having me pinned to the wall was on my mind as sleep finally found me ...
"I wasn't done with you," he growls into my ear, his fangs exposed trailing over my earlobe.
My heart pounds. I can't breathe from my deep, heavy gasps for air. He grabs behind my knee and pulls it up behind his thigh and I hold onto him, making sure the heel of my foot presses against his tight, luscious ass. The feel of his hard, long, swollen cock bulge presses against my pussy.