All persons portrayed are fictional, and over the age of 18.
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The punching bag rocked anemically on its base, punctuated by the sounds of her gloves hitting it. She was dripping sweat, a soaked hairband holding up her frizzy dark hair, and a look of frustration plastered across her face. The workout clothes and the sneakers were darker than when she started, but she didn't feel better at all.
The sound of the sunroom door opening didn't even penetrate the music until the heard the player click off.
"You look pretty pissed off still." His voice, as usual, carried a subtle sarcasm to it, but not in a mean condescending way.
"Really, smartass? How could you tell?"
He smiled slowly, eyes boring into her as she felt that familiar tightening in her stomach.
"Oh, maybe because you are still hitting it and you said you'd start your workout an hour ago. Which means that either you didn't get the frustration out, or its frustration of a different type. Wanna talk about it?"
"Bite me." She gritted her teeth into a smile but knew that he was toying with her. No way would he actually be able to help her with her problem.
His sudden movement across the room startled her, but suddenly she felt his body pushed up against hers, and her back to a wall, and he pinned her arms to the wall.
"Bite? You?" He caressed each word before leaning dangerously close to her neck and opening his mouth, drawing his smile into a wicked grin before closing his teeth on her neck, just above her collarbone. His teeth started to close together and she suddenly remembered the other night when she had tried to feed him a piece of cake and he had bitten down on her finger. She remembered feeling his jaw muscles and the corded ridges they made when he clenched, and a part of her swallowed in anticipation.
His mouth shut fast and then opened and she gasped in time to try to twitch away, but he had backed away and was standing as if nothing had happened, an innocent smile on his face.
"Smartass. I guess it's a good thing I didn't explain what my frustration was..."
He smiled again, and she self-consciously moved hair out of her face. Her heart was still beating fast, but she felt herself getting wet and wondered if there was even a chance this might actually happen.
"Oh really? What was your problem, dear?"
"Nothing you can take care of. I wouldn't expect you to understand."
He moved again, fast, and she spasmed as she tried to leap away, banging her elbow into the wall where she has previously been pinned.
"FUCK ME!" she yelled, hand already moving towards the elbow.
The afternoon sun slanted through the sunroom and she realized in the silence that followed her outburst that he might take her literally. Her stomach rose into her throat as she saw him shake his head while smiling and beginning to unbutton his shirt.