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“Both.”
I step back. Normally I’d nip her neck and grope all the pretty pieces of her body I want to come all over, but she’s been coerced before into things she didn’t want to do, and I’ll be damned if I’ll put her in a position where she can’t think straight enough to answer honestly.
“Come with me.” Grabbing her hand, all the tension binding tightly around us snaps free. I bring her into the kitchen and pour us both a glass of water. “Sit.”
She plops down on the chair and looks a little angry and confused.
I hand her over a glass of water. “Drink.”
Mak snatches it from my hand and gulps it down. Then she slams the empty glass on the table and leans back in her chair with her arms crossed. Brows furrowed, and mouth turned down, she grumbles, “Want me to bark like a dog next?”
That makes me smile. Her sarcasm will cost her later. “I need you to think clearly. What just happened was my fault. I got ahead of myself. We need parameters first.”
If she was going to disagree with who was to blame, she stops herself and that makes me happy. Two things are iron clad in this dynamic: One, I’m the dominant. Two, she holds all the power.
I need to make sure that we’re on the same page before I set us both loose on each other.
“As per the K!nkLink requirements, both of us have been tested and are clean.” I sip my water. “I’m perfectly comfortable letting you decide if I can fuck you raw or with a condom. And again, this preference can change at any time.”
She only stares at me.
“I need your answer before we continue.”
“I…” She fiddles with her fingers.
I know I’m making her nervous, but for once that’s okay. This is important, and she needs to take everything I say seriously. “You don’t have to answer me right now, but nothing will happen between us until boundaries are set. I apologize for my behavior in the living room. It’s just…” Here comes my brutal honesty and transparency again. “I’ve been thinking about fucking you for the past twenty-four hours and now that I have you in my house, I want nothing more than to strip you down and worship every inch of your body. I shouldn’t have taken things as far as I did in the living room before we set up clear boundaries and for that, I’m sorry.”
Her brows pinch together, and mouth falls open.
“Until we are on the same page, I won’t touch you again.”
Silence grows between us. My ears start ringing. My dick hurts because it’s losing blood flow in my jeans, but I use that pain to focus. It’s the least I can do since I nearly went overboard in the living room just now.
See? This is why it’s important to have rules. I can’t believe I broke so many of mine tonight.
Her voice cracks a little when she says, “Bare.”
“Where can I come?”
She glances at her empty glass for a moment, then those gorgeous hazels lift up to meet my gaze. “Anywhere you want.”
“What about anal?”
“I…” She bites her plump bottom lip. “I only tried it once, and it hurt. I didn’t like it.”
That’s not a yes or a no. I need one or the other. “Are you willing to try it again?”
“Yes,” she says without hesitation. “So long as I can use my safe word if I don’t like it.”
She doesn’t get it. Mak still can’t grasp the purpose of a safe word if she felt the need to say that to me. “I want you to use it, Mak. At any point. At any time. I don’t care if I’m mid orgasming inside your cunt, you say Cupcake and I will pull out and stop instantly.”
Her cheeks turn pink again. “Okay.”
“Okay, what?”
“I want anal. When I’m ready, I’ll ask you for it.”
She’s not going to ask. She’s going to beg.