Tame Me: A Filthy Billionaire Romance

by Cassandra Bloom

  “I tried to tell you before!” she yelled.

  “It’s ridiculous!” he shouted back.

  “Oh, yeah?” Her thoughts were full of all the misery and weeping that she had gone through and an ugly rage rose up in her. My feelings are not ridiculous!

  “Yes, you know we can’t part,” he stated with assurance.

  “And why not?” She crossed her arms over her chest.

  He shrugged and stepped closer. “We can’t ever.”

  Madeline took another step back.

  “We are joined,” he whispered.

  “Couples separate every day. There are annulments, div—”

  His sudden laugh cut off her words.

  She snapped her mouth shut.

  “I’m sorry, it’s just…you still don’t understand it,” Dev attempted to explain.

  “Oh, really?” She crossed her arms angrily over her chest. “What don’t I understand?”

  He took her into his arms. “We were not married by clergy or the church.”

  “Yeah, I know.” She swallowed nervously, as she could smell the sweet drawing scent of pine again. “So then, it will be even easier to part.” She fought to get rid of the weak-kneed feeling of being close to him.

  Dev shook his head and tightened his embrace. “We won’t even part in death, Madeline.”

  Feeling panicked again, she pushed away from his chest. “Now, Dev—”

  “We were joined under special terms.” He grabbed her up.

  Madeline swallowed and stared at his lips. “Terms?” She felt her mouth almost water as that familiar sweeping desire for his yummy lips nudged at her. She tried to push the temptation for his hot mouth away as the heat from his skin penetrated through her silk blouse.

  “Can you tell me you don’t love me?”

  Without answering, she moved her eyes away.

  “Look at me!” he commanded.

  She refused.

  Dev looked angry as he lifted her from the floor and raised her up above his chest. “Tell me that you don’t love me!” he shouted at her.

  Her emotions became all mixed up as she trembled all over. Lie to him to make him let you go. You have to. Do it, Madeline, convince him, and then you can go back to your old life. You won’t be weak anymore and dependent on someone else. Your old life is safer and more secure. She stared down at his face. “I don’t love you anymore.”

  He raised a brow. “And you don’t desire me?”

  “I…I…?” She bit her lower lip.

  Dev slid her down over his chest. “Yes, you do want me,” he accused.

  “No!” she denied.

  Laughing at her obvious lie, he raised her higher, placing his face between her breasts.

  His hot breath immediately penetrated through the silk blouse as her nipples tingled from the contact and Madeline knew she’d better stop him. He could seduce her with just a glance and this close contact would more than do her in. She began to struggle again, while his sweet muffled laughter goaded at her because she knew it was all a pitiful lie.

  Dev pulled his face away and stared up at her. Those mesmerizing dark eyes of his grew intense with passion.

  “Put me down!” she yelled, desperate now while he kept staring at her. “I mean it!” she screamed out, and Madeline grew frantic. She held her body rigid and turned away from those beautiful, warm eyes of his. She needed to convince him before he could seduce her in any way. If allowed, he would wear her down and she would lose all her courage, all her strength and be left by him again; her pride nothing but tattered weeping shreds.

  Rage at how she was reduced to a whimpering fool by this man boiled up in her. He’d taken the old calculating strong Madeline, taken a way of life, which was a sure thing, steady and safe. He made me weak with false dreams and built an illusion of happiness that does not exist! She drew in a determined and calculated breath. I know all about a man’s pride and how to take them down.

  Dev lowered her body and pressed his mouth to hers.

  “You’re a freak!” She accused to his warm lips.

  Abruptly, he froze at her words.

  “You aren’t even real!” she seethed, the nasty insult close to his face. “You may not even be human.”

  Quietly, he set her down.

  She stumbled back as her whole body shook with fury. “You took me from a good life and gave me fucking misery in exchange!” Her eyes filled up with tears at the stricken look on his face.

  Dev stared at her. “You don’t know what you’re say—”

  “Yes! I do!” She was breathing heavy. “I don’t want a surreal marriage.” She backed away at the stunned expression on his face. “With a fucking ghost!”

  At her insults, his eyes darkened.

  A small fear pinged in her brain. You should stop now, Maddy. She warned herself, but she couldn’t seem to stop. “I am a woman from the twenty-first century and I bow to no man!” Her ugly shout echoed in the cave.

  His expression looked stunned as he dropped his hands to his sides. “I never wanted you to feel like...” His eyes glimmered and seemed to widen at her. “You mean this?”

  “Yes!” Her heart pounded painfully in her chest. “I don’t want you!”

  Dev seemed to let out a defeated sigh and lowered his head.

  Madeline’s chest tightened with a gnawing pain at how hurt he appeared. She swallowed and attempted to shove the sob, which rose up in her throat, back down. She felt such misery and immediate regret at the image of her magnificent, strong warrior with his head lowered. I didn’t mean it really; I’m just so scared, I can’t live with the constant fear of losing you! But her regret-filled thoughts would not come out of her mouth in words.

  He raised his head.

  She stared at his face, her eyes widening with realization while her pounding heart nearly stopped in her chest

  “You defy?” His guttural tone echoed low in the cave.

  Stumbling back, she gasped and her shaky hands rose to her mouth.

  The Brave took an even steady step toward her. “You drove him away with your sharp flinted words.”

  Madeline shook all over. The Brave! She looked around the cave at all the violently erotic images. Oh, no. She swung her eyes all around, desperately searching for an exit.

  “Yes, you should run,” he whispered in that growling tone again. “Woman!”

  Her breath rushed from her as panic grew in her. “Just wait a fucking minute here!”

  Stepping closer, he gave her a cold smile.

  Her heartbeat pounded in her ears as she gaped at the supernatural savage. The one man who’d reduced her to a quivering mass of jelly while he released the true sensuous woman inside of her. Here she stood with no barrier in the very place where he’d tamed her. What had she done with her spiteful barrage against Dev?

  His cold glinting eyes looked her over from head to toe. “You will learn, white witch.”

  Madeline screamed and tried to run to the left of him.

  Releasing a feral growl, the Brave easily caught her, hefted her up and slung her body over his shoulder.

  Madeline fought him as he set her down onto a slab of stone. “Let me go, you fucking savage!”

  The Brave snickered as he raised her arms up over her head.

  “Help!” she screamed.

  Shaking his head with humor, he tied her wrists to the hooks at the head of the slab.

  “You can’t do this!” She kicked her legs up at him.

  He remained silent as he caught an ankle in midair, then easily tugged it down and over.

  She pulled at it with all her strength.

  With very little effort, he held it down with one hand and secured it.

  “No!” she shouted.

  Without any effort, he caught the other one, pulling it down and securing it.

  Madeline furiously pulled her torso up and fought against the bonds. “Ooh!” She was panting with the effort.

  The Brave stood back and crossed his arm
s over his chest.

  “I will never forgive you for this!” she yelled as she tugged at the ropes.

  Wearing an emotionless expression, he watched her struggle.

  After a full minute, she stilled her movements as her chest heaved with winded breaths. “What? Do you get off on watching a victim?” she nearly spat the words up at him.

  He remained mute.

  Madeline swallowed heavily with trepidation at his ominous silence and decided to try to reason with him. “Look, I’m sorry for what I said…”

  At her obvious subterfuge, the Brave let out a rich, booming laugh.

  Her eyes flew up to his face. “Fuck you!” She began to struggle again.

  The visibly amused Brave stood silent and simply waited.

  Madeline huffed and puffed as she tussled with her bonds. “Oh, I see, let the little victim wear herself out before you...”

  Still silent, he stepped ominously closer.

  “I’m not afraid of you!” She tried to melt back into the slab.

  Reaching down, he ripped her white silk blouse from her chest.

  She gasped as he held it above her. “That cost three-hundred dollars, you fucking creep!” Her eyes glinted up at him.

  “It is worth nothing here.” He dropped it to the stone floor.

  The cool air from the cave swept across her chest. “You stay away from me!”

  With slow deliberation, he fingered the white lace bra. “Pretty.”

  “Keep your filthy hands off of me!” she warned, panting heavily with sheer rage.

  He lowered his fingers to her skirt.

  “Don’t you dare do it!” she warned.

  Within two seconds, he ripped it completely from her hips.

  “Oh, you son of a bitch! You just ruined a five hundred dollar outfit! You think you can just— ooh!” She was livid.

  The humor-filled Brave stared down at her thong style underwear. “Also pretty, but they are too small.” A smile showed at his lips. “Why wear such a thing?” He leaned closer to her “And you waste so much, on so very little.”

  Her chest was heaving from her useless efforts and she ignored his snide remarks. “The last time I was here you already had me in that pool and I was…” She blinked her eyes at the still vivid memory. “…Needing.”

  At her bold statement, he turned his attention from her lacey underwear to gaze at her face.

  “This time, you don’t have me under an aphrodisiac and I will not submit!” Her voice rose to a hysterical shout.

  He tilted his head at her. “You will.” His tone was low. “You will beg and plead, my woman.”

  Her face was mottled red with rage. “No, I won’t!”

  “Must be tamed beyond third image.” He shook his head as though it were a shame or something.

  “Third image?”

  The Brave walked over to the far wall.

  Madeline followed him with her eyes.

  Without looking back at her, he took an old wooden cup from the small ledge.

  She could see water trickling down the rock face of the cave wall.

  Setting the cup beneath the water flow, he pointedly glanced over at her.

  Madeline’s eyes rounded with realization. “Oh no, that’s not what I think it is?” Her chest tightened with panic. What would happen to a person if they ingested pure lightning water?

  “I had...” He slowed his words, as he seemed to think of what he wanted to say in English. “Not remembered the lightning water until you…” He swung the cup to her face. “…spoke again, in defance.” He rolled his dark eyes. “In defiance,” he corrected himself.

  Disgusted with herself, she turned her head away. Dammit, me and my big fucking mouth!

  “You are my mate for eternity and I wish for your body to be ready for the taming.”

  “Keep that away!” Her eyes widened as he drew closer.

  With a calm manner, he sat next to her on the slab. “Did you know that it can be...?” He lowered the cup to her face. “A drink?”

  Her eyes really grew round. “No!”

  The Brave put it to her lips.

  “No, I won’t!” She tried to turn her face away.

  With amusement in his expression, he laughed and stood up. He set the cup down and drew closer to her.

  She was breathing heavily again. He is just playing with me like a feral cat with a helpless mouse.

  With a loud growl, he reached down and ripped the flimsy bra from her breasts. Interest appeared in his cold eyes as he stared at her creamy round breasts and her hardened pink nipples. “Mmm,” he groaned.

  Her body responded to the low sound. No! I cannot give in. I haven’t even had an aphrodisiac! More dread ran through her.

  The Brave stared down at her thong-like underwear and grasped the material of her lacey panties in his fingers. “Maybe they have a purpose.”

  Madeline flinched as his fingers grazed her tender skin there.

  With a seesawing motion, he tugged the thong back and forth over her labia.

  “Ohh...”she let out a throaty response before she could think to suppress it.

  He smiled wickedly while he moved the panties more briskly across her skin.

  The friction built up and she could feel the wet lace rub her clit causing it to swell. Oh, God, I cannot bear this! Her body began to tighten and her frantic breathing grew in her chest.

  Unexpectedly, he stopped the wet-lace strapping of her clit. He ripped the panties away and drew them up in his fist. “Yes.” He lowered his other hand to her clit and explored her with his strong fingers. “Wet,” he stated flatly with a victorious expression on his face. He raised a glistening finger and grazed it across his tongue, as he tasted her juices.

  Madeline gulped at the sight of his sensual action. So raw and so sexy at the same time. Her weakness for the pure animal sex this being was capable of spoke to her inner wildness. She attempted to push it all away. She needed to foil his plan of dominance and she let out a loud harrumph of disgust.

  “You are hot-blooded woman and you also lie very badly.”

  Feeling a spark of defeat, she shut her eyes.

  “You wanted him and lied,” he accused. “You also crave me.”

  “No,” she denied with an uneasy breath.

  His laughter became a rich echo booming through the cave.

  Madeline glared at him.

  “A woman who lies is a thorn to a man.” His eyes narrowed at her.

  “Let me go.” Her voice fell low.

  “You need much taming.” He remained expressionless.

  Aggravation at herself for bringing this sexy savage back grated at her and she again, turned her face toward the other wall. “Fuck your taming and obedience crap!”

  Abruptly, he stood up and moved away.

  Defiance rose up in her, and she refused to look at him. I will resist and fight until... She drew in a shaky breath. There was silence in the cave. Curious, she turned her head to look for him.

  The Brave stood a foot away from the slab, bare and tan, his skin gleaming in the torch light.

  Stunned, she stared at his muscled legs and up to his—engorged cock. Her eyes rounded. She had forgotten about the sheer size of the Brave. She swallowed and her eyes rose up past his rippling muscled stomach and broad chest to his face.

  His eyes glinted down at her. “I will use no remedies on you. You are already wanting and needing.”

  She shook her head in weak denial.

  With a pointed gesture, he picked the cup up and tipping it back, he drank it all.

  Madeline drew in a stunned breath and watched him as his face flushed with color.

  “Mmm,” he groaned low in his throat. He dropped the cup, leaned his head back, and closed his eyes.

  A crackling sound rumbled throughout the cave.

  With a flicker of fear, Madeline’s gaze drew reluctantly down to his cock. It had swelled to twice the size and length of before. His body seemed to ripple and all the cave wa
lls surged with blue light behind him.

  The noise was almost deafening, like claps of thunder and the slab even shook from the force of it.

  Stretching his torso out, he let out a wild savage call.

  Madeline stared as fright finally began to stir in her. The walls even started to crack with the waves of thunder as it seem to meld with his call.

  He dropped his head back down to gaze at her. Blue sparks of light lit in his eyes while he wore a satisfied smile on his rugged face. “It will make me hard for a long time of your taming.”

  “Oh, no...” Her body tightened with desire and she could feel the sudden moisture bubble out of her.

  “You will have much painful pleasure.” He stepped up to the slab, as the echo of Madeline’s loud panicked breathing bounced off the cave walls.

  CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

  KAMI

  The meal was glorious. With a resplendent sigh, Kami leaned her head back on the chair.

  Taylor chuckled.

  “What?” she asked without looking up at him.

  “Full are we?” he teased.

  “Yes!”

  “That’s how you should always feel.”

  She sat up and looked at him.

  “With the right man, you could feel full and satisfied all the time,” he purred at her.

  Kami’s brows drew up.

  As though he’d not made such a bold statement, he stood up and casually began to stretch.

  Taking in his physical qualities, Kami just sat and blinked her eyes at him.

  “Ahh, that was wonderful.” He pulled his arms up high as his torso stretched out.

  In fascination, she stared at his body as he stretched his arms up. I wonder what that body would feel like next to mine?

  His eyes dropped to her face.

  She could feel the color flaming up her cheeks.

  “Were you just checking me out?” he asked in a shocked tone as his arms dropped to his sides.

  She lowered her eyes.

  Abruptly, he let out a burst of laughter.

  Her head flew up.

  Taylor stilled for a long moment and studied her, and then he came around the table.

  Nervous again, she sunk lower in her seat.

  Quietly, he put his hand on her shoulder.

  Again, she averted his intense eyes and held her breath.