That’s when he started to come. Hot, intense spurts of pure sensation. His cock rested against his belly as he shot his load, each pull of her mouth on his nipple sending another tug to his balls.

When the last shot released, he flopped back to the mattress and squeezed his eyes shut.

Holy fuck.

She’d made him come on command.

That’d never happened to him before.

When Shiori touched his face, he jumped.

He peeled his eyes open and looked at her. “Sorry.”

“It’s okay.” She caressed his cheek. “You did very well.”

He didn’t know what to say. Thanks for the erotic torture?

“Your eyes got a little dreamy. What were you thinking?”

That I could get used to feeling like this. But that seemed too . . . honest, so he backtracked. “Are you giving me equal time to touch you?”

“If I say no, what will you do?”

Knox pushed a chunk of her hair over her shoulder. “Yell. Curse. Throw shit.” He smiled. “Kidding. I’d be disappointed because I’ve been dying to get my hands all over your beautiful body.”

She kissed his abused nipple. “I want your hands on me. But there are parameters. No touching my pussy unless I specifically tell you to. And that means with your hands, your mouth, or your cock.”

He grinned. “Good thing you clarified that.”

She pushed into a sitting position. “Clean yourself up. There’s a bathroom in the hallway.”

As he washed himself off, he had time to think. Tonight hadn’t gone at all like he’d expected. He hadn’t equated Dommes with a loving touch—except for after they beat the shit out of their subs.

They hadn’t talked about pain play; hell, they hadn’t really talked about anything besides trying this out once and seeing where it went.

“Knox? Did you fall in?” Shiori yelled from the bedroom.

He dried his hands and returned to her. “Sorry. Got a little lost in thought.”

“What were you thinking about?”

“You.” He wrapped his hand around her ankle and playfully tugged. “Are you still wearing clothes because you want me to take them off you?”

“What if I asked you to work around them?”

“I’d ask if that was an order or a suggestion. Because I really want to see you in nothing but skin, ma’am.”

Shiori grabbed the bottom band of her sports bra and pulled it over her head.

Knox was so focused on those fucking perfect tits that he almost missed her hiking up her hips and ditching her spandex shorts. He groaned when she rolled over and he got his first glimpse of her bare ass.

She sent him a saucy look over her shoulder. “Now, why don’t you show me what those big hands can do.”

Oh, he planned to use more than his hands. And just because she hadn’t talked while she drove him wild didn’t mean he’d do the same.

He rested on his haunches over her thighs. She hadn’t spread out yet; he’d move her as he wanted. He brushed the hair from her cheek and spread that black silk out across the mattress. “Why’d you cut your hair?” When she’d arrived in Denver, the ends of her hair had reached the curve of her ass.

“I wanted a change.”

He kept stroking the black tresses, starting at the top of her scalp. “When you first came to class and you had that deadly double braid, I fantasized about wrapping my hands around it and holding you in place while I tasted your sassy mouth.”

“I would’ve thrown you on your ass if you’d tried it, even when I secretly might’ve liked it.”

“We’ve been circling each other for a while.” Knox traced the outside of her ear with his lips. Then he placed a soft, lingering kiss in the hollow below her lobe. He nuzzled the nape of her neck, and she couldn’t hide the shiver. Her reactions gave him a road map of how she liked to be touched.

He used his teeth.

He used his tongue.

He used the long, sensual scrape of his callused fingers.

By the time he reached that bitable ass, he worshipped those taut round globes, all the while basking in the sweet scent of her wet pussy drifting from between her legs. “Goddamn, I love your ass.”

“I can tell.”

He massaged her thighs and her calves. Before he turned her over, he layered his naked, aroused body to hers, pressing his groin into the bottom curve of her ass. “I want to take you like this sometime. Me moving on you, in you, as hard and fast or as long and sweet as you want. Using my mouth on your shoulders and the back of your neck, seeing if I could make you come just from that.”