Dark Duet Platinum Edition

by CJ Roberts

  “Will you stop asking if I tell you?” He stretched. I tried not to be distracted by his nearly-naked body and the serious case of morning wood he had going.

  “Why would I keep asking you if I had the answer?” I retorted and boldly smiled when he glared at me.

  “The better question would be: why do I put up with you?” I knew he meant it to be banter, but all he’d done was thrust our situation into awkward focus. We both knew why he put up with me, and the answer was shitty.

  I was just about to lie and tell him I wasn’t really curious, but Celia finally came into the room with breakfast. Celia – things were surprisingly not strained between us. She hadn’t been happy Caleb had used her and sent her packing, but the following morning she’d come in, business as usual.

  Once, when Caleb hadn’t spent the night and therefore had not been in my room the next morning, I spoke to her again. She’d actually seemed a little frightened when I grabbed her arm and asked her just what that smile she’d given me had been about.

  “Please don’t be upset with me,” she’d said, and I felt a little snotty and let her go. “He brought me here for you,” she continued. Her expression suggested I was stupid for not knowing – which apparently, I was.

  “What do you mean, for me?”

  “He cares for you. He cares for you the way I wish my master would care for me,” she said in an almost sad and thoughtful tone. “In a way, I was glad you were jealous – I could see it on your face. It was a nice change from being jealous of you.”

  She had stunned me; I’d never considered she was jealous. I’d never considered my position to be an enviable one.

  After Celia concluded her morning business, Caleb and I still lay in bed, just the two of us. The feeling grew more and more comfortable as the days and weeks progressed. I still hadn’t been able to convince him to let me roam the mansion, but I could go out onto the balcony if he accompanied me. The view was breathtaking. It appeared to be the quintessential Spanish villa, surrounded by lush fields below and cactus in bloom in large ceramic pots, set on Spanish tile on an extravagant balcony. I’d only dreamed of living places like this. Though, in my dreams, I was never living there as a captive. Semantics.

  “Breakfast on the balcony?” I asked with more enthusiasm than necessary.

  He smiled. “What do you think this is, a vacation?” I felt a tight pinch in the center of my chest when he teased me. I think I’d rather come to like it. Not the teasing, but the way he smiled when he did.

  “Hardly,” I said, coyly.

  He stretched out again and put his hands behind his head, then looked at me disbelievingly. He had a grin playing across his lips.

  “Did you…kiss me this morning?” Instant heat rose to my face, turning me what had to be at least eight different shades of red. I worked hard to resist the urge to bury my face in my pillow.

  Kill me. Kill me, now!

  I couldn’t even speak; I just shook my head emphatically, but the look in his eyes told me he knew I was lying.

  “Yes. You did.” This time his teasing was a little painful. I was really embarrassed, and I knew he just wouldn’t let it go. Tears started to well up in my eyes.

  “No, I didn’t!” I said on a rush of breath, and I felt the heat of my tears cutting across my cheek.

  He rolled his eyes as he sat up. He put his finger under my chin and tilted my head upward. “Really? Tears, Kitten? You kissed me. Against my will, I might add. Shouldn’t I be the one to cry?” he asked. He laughed uproariously as I buried my face in my pillow again.

  “Oh, come on!” he said in an annoyed tone and laid his face next to mine. “I’ll drop it, okay?”

  Bringing my head up slowly and wiping away my tears, I whispered, “You promise?” He put his hand around my waist, pulled me close, and rolled me onto my back. Stunned, I simply looked up at him. “Absolutely not,” he said. Carefully, I tried to move, but his weight pinned me to the mattress. “By now you should know I always get what I want.”

  As I stared up into his enigmatic blue eyes, it was hard to ignore the sensual line of his jaw. It showed the barest trace of his morning stubble. His hair was ruffled from sleep, and while I thought it should make him look ridiculous, it only made him more handsome. Caleb was a person, bed head and all. But of all the things difficult to ignore about the man on top of me, there was one that stood out…quite literally. He was incredibly hard between my thighs.

  “And what do you want?” I asked, softly.

  We stared at one another for what felt like an eternity. He looked at me in a way I’d never seen before. I didn’t want to give it a name or classification. I was more than content to just have him look at me with that expression on his face.

  Slowly, I brought my hands up to his face. I couldn’t help myself. Knowing how soft he could be, the urge to touch him was something I didn’t want to fight off.

  He seemed taken aback by my touch, and the playful smile he held fell from his face. Our eyes met for the briefest of moments, and my fingers sensed the gentle shake of his head just before I kissed him so hard we both made a hurt sound. My brain fired synapses to every part of my body, and heat flooded my skin and pooled between my thighs. His tongue begged to be allowed into my mouth and I opened up to him. My hands weaved through his hair. He moaned into my mouth, and my hunger for him exploded from a place I had begun to suspect was there for quite some time.

  I started to get a little frightened when he reached down and pulled up my nightgown. I don’t think I’m ready for this. He spread my legs with his body, cradling himself between my thighs. His cock was incredibly hard. I wanted to say something, protest in some way, but then I felt the heat of him against the wetness I’d created, and I could’ve sworn I heard us sizzle. He withdrew his lips from mine and latched his hot, sucking mouth onto my neck. I threw my head back, surprised by the sensation of both pleasure and pain, a sensation that only became more powerful as the son of a bitch bit me.

  I gasped loudly. My hands instinctively flexed into fists in his hair and I pulled him backward. “That hurt!” I said through gritted teeth.

  He pulled my hands free from his hair and held them above my head with his left hand. “You think I don’t know?” The unmistakable look of lust had taken over his features, and he appeared almost feral in his intensity.

  I was a little frightened, but my desire for him wouldn’t let me care. I pulled his mouth down toward mine. My heart slammed around in my chest as the liquid fire in my veins seemed to burn me from the inside out.

  Abruptly, his touch turned soft and he kissed me so gently I wanted to cry again. “You’re so wet; my cock is covered in you,” he whispered against my mouth. I moaned loudly at his words, and I knew my mind was made up.

  “Make love to me,” I replied. My voice sounded alien to my own ears. His heart beat hard against me, and his cock twitched against my pussy. He took a deep, ragged breath and placed his forehead against my shoulder. In the silence, my hunger feuded with my growing shame over the idea he would say something cruel or make some silly joke. I would be undone.

  He finally picked his head back up and looked at me. I couldn’t decipher the message in his eyes. He conveyed so many things at once: need, anger, confusion, and something else. “Fuck,” he said.

  His shoulders slumped subtly, and I worried this was the part where he was going to say something to make me wish I could crawl inside myself and die. I wanted to say something, perhaps offer some preemptive strike, like ‘I was just kidding,’ but I couldn’t say anything. Then, to my relief, he let my hands go and slipped the straps of my nightgown down my shoulders, exposing my breasts.

  “You have the most beautiful tits.” Heat crawled over my flesh and my nipples tightened.

  “Thanks?” I said, unsure.

  “You’re welcome,” he said through a smile and put his mouth around my aching nipple.

  I attempted to wrap my arms around him, but they were trapped in the straps of
my nightgown. Overcome by a rush of sensation, I pressed my thighs tightly in an effort to close them and crushed Caleb closer to my body as I writhed under his consuming touch. He sucked and bit at one nipple and then the other, and did not neglect any part in between. I closed my eyes and swam in a sea of pleasure, pain, and longing.

  I think I love you.

  The thought swirled in my brain like an angry tornado begging me to say the words out loud, but I couldn’t – I couldn’t possibly. I felt like I might have an orgasm just then, before he was even inside me, before he’d even touched me down there. I teetered on the edge, which felt both delicious and annoying.

  Say it! I think I love you.

  He reached down between our bodies and slid his underwear past his erection.

  Oh my god! Oh my god!

  “Wait,” I said, breathless. Caleb paused.

  “What?” he asked. He sounded genuine in his concern.

  “Be gentle, okay?” I whispered and resigned myself. The look in his eyes turned devastating. It was as if he wanted to tear me apart with his teeth, and I probably would have let him.

  “Don’t worry, Kitten. I’m not going to fuck you,” he said through a rueful grin.

  Before I could ask him why the hell not, the hot pulse of his thick shaft splayed the lips of my sex. He rubbed the hard, yet pliant, flesh of his cock against the swollen bud of my clit, and I was paralyzed. Desperate, mewling sounds came out of my throat, and my hips instinctively rocked back and forth against the heat of him. I was going to come, and it was going to be incredible. Up and down he moved his cock against my sensitive flesh, and all I could do was pine as I tried to get my stupid arms out of my nightgown so I could touch him.

  His mouth traveled up my body and nestled at the nape of my neck. He bit me again, but this time I inclined toward him. “Does it feel good, Pet?” he asked in a voice dripping with arrogance. I didn’t care. I nodded fervently and looked for his mouth. He let his lips dance just above mine, all the while keeping his rhythm against my clit.

  “I want to hear you say it. Tell me it feels good. Tell me how much you want me to make that little pussy of yours come.”

  Oh. My. God!

  Every muscle in my body tightened all at once. The opening of my pussy contracted and grasped at what wasn’t there. My heart pounded and my hands grabbed at the sheets while my legs pressed against Caleb as hard as they could. Orgasm ripped through my body indiscriminately, engulfing everything in its path, and I was so overwhelmed, tears ran down my face.

  “I love you!” I screamed. I couldn’t help myself and I kept crying, even as Caleb’s hot semen splashed against my sex and belly.

  He panted hard and grabbed at his cock, expelling everything he had onto me. Then he grabbed my ass tightly and squeezed me as his mouth once again found mine. He kissed me until we both settled some and then gently collapsed against me.

  Chapter Fourteen

  Caleb knew his weight was probably crushing Livvie, but he wasn’t quite ready to address this new and provocative situation. He supposed it was common for a person, especially a female person, to say incredulous things in the throes of passion, but he couldn’t actually say it had ever happened to him before. She had said she loved him. She’d said it during a very intense orgasm, but she’d said it just the same. Even now, he felt the heat and wetness of her tears against his shoulder. She wasn’t sobbing, or blubbering. In fact, the way she was caressing his thigh with her fingertips suggested she was quite content, if not sated.

  Wanting suddenly to put an end to his discomfort, stemming both from his own thoughts as well as the feeling of heat and stickiness, he moved to disengage himself from Livvie. She made a series of adjusting sounds as he peeled off of her and watched as Caleb wiped the semen off of his lower abdomen with the edge of her nightgown. She scrunched her nose, as if it were the most disgusting thing she’d ever seen; he didn’t respond.

  He didn’t like the feelings running through him. He replayed the incident in his mind, trying to find the exact moment in which he’d lost control and fallen under the spell of the woman who was supposed to be his captive. She couldn’t even move, yet it was impossible to ignore the hold she had over him with her big, innocent eyes and pouty, trembling mouth.

  He pulled his boxers up and sat on the edge of the bed, trying to think of what to say. He heard her sigh contentedly just before the warmth of her cheek pressed against his back, causing a mild tingle to spread through him. She wrapped her arms loosely around his waist.

  “Please, don’t,” Livvie whispered softly against his back.

  “Don’t what?”

  “Whenever something nice happens…between us…you’re mean after.” Livvie pressed herself against his back and held him tighter.

  Caleb’s confusion was turning toward anger, but he knew she was right. His instinct was to lash out in an effort to put distance between him and Livvie. He’d called her a coward, threatened her with humiliation and violence, even fucked another woman in front of her to try and stop whatever was happening between them. None of it worked. Here they were, in yet another emotionally compromising situation. It was exhausting.

  “I love you!” Livvie’s words echoed through Caleb’s thoughts. He looked down at Livvie’s arms, the way she held him there. He realized it was a silent plea: “I could stay with you…be with you.” Caleb closed his eyes and let himself place his hand on her arm, holding her there in return.

  “I can’t,” he replied, knowing his words were odd. Livvie had neither asked a question nor requested a response, but he just knew she would understand what he was trying to say.

  “Why, Caleb? Why can’t you?” she whispered. Caleb swallowed thickly. She did understand. He’d known she would, but it affected him nonetheless.

  Because none of this makes any fucking sense! He wanted to yell the words, but said, “I have to go.”

  “No, you don’t, Caleb. You don’t have to go.” Her arms gripped him like a vise.

  Caleb wanted to correct her, yet again, for using his name, but it felt ridiculous to do so at this point. Livvie was just too fucking stubborn. It didn’t matter what he said or did. Ultimately, there were simply some orders she would not obey. If there was any compromise on the issue, it was that she didn’t do it in front of others.

  “I need to take a shower,” he said, in the hopes logic would prevail.

  “I need to take one too,” she countered. “We could take one together? I need your help.”

  Caleb laughed ruefully. “You don’t need my help. You hate my help.”

  Livvie rubbed her cheek against Caleb’s back as she laughed. “All the more reason for you to help me. You love doing things when I ask you not to – it’s kinda your thing.”

  “It is, isn’t it?” Caleb agreed.

  “It is. Also…” she shifted uncomfortably, “there’s something I’ve been thinking about.” Caleb was begrudgingly intrigued by the hesitant, but excited, tone of her voice.

  “And what, exactly, might that be?” Caleb asked.

  Livvie shifted her body until she was on her knees behind him and then pressed her naked breasts against his back to whisper in his ear. Caleb’s eyes widened ever so slightly and his heart picked up speed.

  Over the last few months, Caleb had taken advantage during their sexual encounters, and though she’d always been incredibly wet when he touched her and she’d had several orgasms, he’d always suspected her heart had not been in it – and he hadn’t cared. Somehow, things were different now.

  “Make love to me.”

  He’d intended only to play the game they’d always played, the one featuring him as The Big Bad Wolf and her as frightened Little Red Riding Hood. He hadn’t been prepared for the kiss or….

  “I love you!”

  After she’d been injured, he’d treated her like spun glass. He’d been careful not to injure her further, or cause her unnecessary pain. Unfortunately, it had also allowed her to work herself into mor
e than his thoughts. For the first time since his life had descended into this dark place, something akin to caring for another person found a place to thrive inside him.

  It seemed a lifetime had passed since Caleb had been made to submit to the will of another. It had nearly killed him the last time. Still, her hold on him…was far more than physical. “Kitten?” he said.

  “Yes?” Livvie said hesitantly.

  “I came on you,” Caleb said through a laugh.

  Livvie laughed. “Yep.” She kissed Caleb’s neck. “I’m pretty sticky, too.”

  “Shower?”

  “Absolutely,” Livvie said.

  Caleb walked into the bathroom and stared first at the shower, and then at the bath. Either would serve their purpose, but each had its own appeal. The shower had a bench, and the glass enclosure trapped steam to keep them comfortable when not under the direct spray. Caleb had a vision of pressing Livvie up against the glass. It left him light headed for a moment.

  “The shower or the tub?” asked Livvie.

  “I was just asking myself the same. I suppose it’s up to you. This is your fantasy, after all.” Caleb grinned and turned to watch Livvie blush.

  She playfully slapped him on the chest. “Yeah, right! I’m sure you’re just gonna hate it.” She smiled brightly, but then seemed to doubt herself.

  “What’s wrong?” Caleb asked.

  “Nothing. It’s just…” She bit at her bottom lip, then started picking at it with her fingernails.

  Caleb pulled her hand away from her mouth. “It’s just, what? Change your mind?” He was at once relieved and annoyed.

  She shook her head slightly. “No, it’s just…I’ve never done this before.” She looked down at her feet, up at him, then back down.

  Caleb wanted to help her out, he really did. He wanted to let her know it didn’t matter. Anything she deigned to do to him, or with him, would be perfect. But frankly, watching her squirm was too much fun to pass up.

  “Never done what before?” he asked and went toward the shower to turn it on. This could get messy. The shower was perfect for messy.