I stepped closer, forcing her against the desk. The sharp corner pressed into her back, but she didn't flinch. If anything, she grew confident tilting her chin higher, defiant.
"What do you want from me?" I asked, the words rasping through clenched teeth.
Her eyes burned with something fierce and unyielding as she said, "Something real. Something you can't control."
The words hit harder than I cared to admit, cutting through the armor I had spent years perfecting. She didn't just want me-she wanted the part of me that I kept buried, the part that I didn't even trust myself to handle.
I should've walked away. Should've let the silence swallow us whole.
But instead, I cupped her jaw, my thumb brushing her cheek as I murmured, "You don't know what you are asking for."
Her lips curved into the faintest smirk, a challenge that made my blood hum. "Then show me."
The room seemed to shrink, the air heavy with unspoken promises. My hands found her waist and for the first time in years, I felt out of control.
Her breath hitched as my hands tightened on her waist, pulling her closer. The silk of her dress was cool against my fingers, a sharp contract to the fire she was stroking with every word, every defiant look.
"I'm not a man you play games with," I warned, though my voice had lost its edge. It sounded rough and uneven.
She tilted her head, her lips brushing the shell of my ear as she whispered, "And yet here we are."
That did it. I claimed her mouth with mine, crushing any last pretense of control between us. She met with the same intensity, her hands tangling my hair, pulling me closer like she couldn't get enough.
Every instinct told me to stop, to push her away before I did something I couldn't take back.
But she tasted like rebellion, like everything I had denied myself of, and I was starving.
The desk creaked under her as I lifted her onto it, my body slotting perfectly between her knees.
Her nails bit into my shoulders, dragging a growl from deep in my chest.
"You think you can handle this?" I rasped against her lips, my hands roaming lower, testing, teasing.
Her laugh was breathless, wicked. "Think the question is-can you?"
The room was a blur of heat and chaos, our bodies moving like they'd been made for this moment. But somewhere in the haze, a single thought clawed its way into the surface: If I continued, there would be no going back.
Feeling her core, I could tell she was ready for me. Gently caressing her clit between my fingers, the puffy round bud was more than enough to release my wrath. As if her voice alone didn't make me hard enough. While my lips traveled from her lips to her neck, I was spreading her legs wider, following the same slow speed as my kisses. She didn't resist me at all. Was she a foolish woman or was I a foolish man?