Page 88 of Alluring Darkness
Metal rattles from the drawer.
Then he abruptly releases my hair.
I wasn’t at all ready for it, so I just blink in surprise.
Eli uses my second of stunned surprise to shove my hands behind my back and then snap a pair of handcuffs shut around my wrists. Reality crashes back into me, but it’s already too late. Eli pulls a leather belt from the drawer as well while gripping my hair with his other hand. Then he drags me back to the desk.
“Seriously?” I mutter. Since my hands are now locked behind my back, all I can do is stumble along beside him. “You just happened to have handcuffs lying around in a drawer?”
A chuckle rumbles from his chest. “You’re lucky we’re not in Kaden’s room. He has a much more extensive collection of… equipment.”
Before I can reply, we arrive at the desk. Eli uses his grip on my hair to pull me upright again. Then he loops the leather belt around my neck. I watch him through narrowed eyes. He smirks at me.
Once he’s done, he plants his palm between my shoulder blades and shoves me face down over the desk again. Grabbing the end of the belt, he efficiently ties it to the table leg below the edge. It leaves me bent over the table with my hands shackled behind my back and my hips pressed against the edge.
I try to pull against the belt in order to lift my head. Since Eli slid the leather through the beltloop before placing it around my neck, all my yanking does is to tighten the belt around my throat. With a grumble, I’m forced to admit that I am firmly trapped in this position now.
Resting my cheek against the smooth tabletop, I glare at the smirking man standing next to me.
Amusement dances in Eli’s eyes as he rakes them over my vulnerable body while he slowly slides his belt out of his dark jeans. I watch as he makes a show of rolling the leather belt around his fist.
“I promised Kaden I would punish you,” Eli declares. “So I won’t stop until you apologize for stealing his knife.”
A thrill races along my spine.
With a grin on my face, I retort, “Good luck with that.”
He huffs out a dark chuckle. Moving down the length of the table, he positions himself behind me instead. Because of the tight belt around my neck, I can’t see him from here.
For a few seconds, nothing happens.
A jolt zaps through me when his hands suddenly appear on my bare thighs as he shoves my skirt up to my waist. Then his warm hands brush along my spine as he pushes my shirt up too, exposing my back. I wiggle against my bonds as he then curls his fingers around the edge of my panties and slides them down over my ass.
My skin prickles at the exposure as they flutter down my legs and land on the floor around my ankles instead.
“Look at this ass,” Eli muses, a roughness to his dark voice, as he traces the curve of my ass with his hand. “Just begging to be punished.”
A shudder of pleasure rolls through me at his gentle touch.
It’s cut off halfway through as Eli quickly pulls his hand away and whips my ass with his belt instead.
I gasp and jerk instinctively against my restraints, but it only serves to restrict my breathing even more.
Eli brings the belt down on my ass again.
Pain pulses through my sensitive skin. I wiggle my ass to relieve the ache even as my thighs clench and my pussy throbs with the sensation as well.
“I love it when you squirm like that,” Eli says, and I can hear the smirk in his voice.
He spanks me with the belt again.
Heat floods my core, and I fail to bite back a small moan. Fuck, I’m so wet already. When I’m bent over a table like this, handcuffed and with a belt around my neck, Eli can do whatever he wants with me, and all I can do is to just take it. I can feel the sheer power pulsing from his entire being as his muscular body looms over me. He holds my pain, my pleasure, my very life in the palm of his hand.
Another moan rips from my throat as he brings the leather belt down on my naked ass again.
“I knew it.” His smug voice vibrates through my very bones. “You’re enjoying this, aren’t you?”
Squeezing my eyes shut, I suck in a shuddering breath instead of answering him.