Chapter 1 CHA

"What are you doing here?" Jess Vaughn retreated back into the apartment.

Kai Rylan walked into the room, shut the door, and locked it. A black rope as wide as his arm dangled from his hand, catching on the floor with every step he took toward her. "You know why I'm here."

Regaining from the initial shock of the sight of the rope, Jess cleared her throat. "No, I don't."

But she knew exactly why he'd appeared. She'd run away from him when he'd told her not to.

"Don't lie to me, Jess."

On the edge of the couch, a few inches away, she rocked back on her heels, grinned demurely at him, and put her pointer fingers together attempting to be as shy as possible. Because shy girls like her weren't bratty. "I seriously don't know?"

"You bolted away from me," he snapped his fingers out to encircle his hand around the side of her neck and force her head back so she had to look at him. His teeth were gritted, his nostrils flaring like they did when something went wrong in his presence. "When I told you not to."

"I didn't do any such thing," she hummed.

God, getting angry made the heat down there between her legs worse.

"Don't play with me, Jess."

She had to bite her lips to stop herself from saying something stupid, but she couldn't resist.

"Or what?" she responded.

In a flash, Kai spun her around, leaned her over the couch, and began wrapping the rope around her arms. She jostled her shoulder against him to push him away, jiggled her body back and forth in an effort to get him to stop, and lifted her leg backward to kick him in the shin. But the ties only grew tighter around her forearms so she couldn't move them.

"Let me out."

"If you'd listened to what I told you," he grumbled in her ear, "I was going to treat you gentle."

"Screw you."

She didn't get a chance to say anything else before he shoved four fingers into her mouth. She gagged on them, spit dripping down her chin, and glared at him.

"Bratty girls like you don't talk back to their masters."

Heat flared between her thighs, her pussy clenching tighter.

"Do you get it?" he snarled.

She nodded to appease him so she could respond to his next question with a snotty reply.

Grabbing his hand free from her mouth, he yanked her up by the restraints and slams her into the nearest bedroom-blessedly hers and not Lylah's. He then bashed the door and thrust her onto the bed.

"Why did you bolt out of there?"

"Because I just wanted you to sleep with me. And besides, I was waiting for another guy."

He reached out and pinched her chin. "Don't be a brat, Jess. It's pissing me off."

"Good. Maybe you'll-"

"Maybe I'll shove my cock down your throat and give you your first punishment."

"Come on." His words lodged in her throat as he shoved her off the bed to her knees before him and unzipped himself, his cock springing out of his jeans. She stared up at him with her mouth wide with shock, never having done something like that in her life.

Twenty-four damn years of her life, and she hadn't even given a blow job.

"Open your mouth and be a good girl for me. This doesn't have to be difficult."

She sealed her lips and gazed up at him.

"Don't make me do it," he warned. "You won't enjoy it."

However, she gazed up at him and did not open her mouth.

He dragged his tongue along the front of his teeth, a black laugh bubbling up in his throat. "Oh, I am going to ruin you," he growled, and then his thumb and forefinger closed her nostrils off so she truly couldn't breathe.

But she was not going to let it slide that easily.

Tears began to fill her eyes, her cheeks flushing hot by the second.

No way was she going to give in to him. He'd break before she did.

"Getting hard to breathe, isn't it, brat?"

She shook her head, but she was starting to see stars.

"Any second now," he taunted, "you're going to give in to me."

Heat coursed through her, and she at last managed to open her mouth wide enough to take in a gargantuan breath, attempting to get it in early. But as soon as she opened her mouth, he was already inside her, pounding into the back of her throat and making her gag.

Kneading her nails into the palms of her hands, she glared up at him with tearful eyes and attempted to retreat. But his hands encircled the back of her neck, digging in hard so that she had no room for maneuver. And with her arms pinned behind her back, she was totally at his mercy.

His gaze was dark, eyes hooded. He shoved as much of his dick into her mouth as he could, and when she couldn't take any more, he stepped closer to her in order to force another inch or two. The light from the buildings surrounding them flooded in through the large windows, hitting the side of his perfectly sculpted face.

"I'm in control, Jess. Not you."

"Screw you," she gargled on his dick, still gagging.

"We're going to train this bratty little mouth of yours until you learn not to talk back."

That would never happen, but he could try.

A second later, in the midst of her gagging and spitting fit, his phone buzzed against his jeans pocket lying on the floor. He glanced down at it, and then at her, before pinching her nose again.

"Pick up the phone and answer it."

Her eyes widened further.

"Now."

She dipped her hand into his pants and retrieved his phone and stabbed at the green button-or she hoped it was the green button, but it was hard to tell with the tears blurring her vision. Why was he doing this now? At all of this?

"Hey, Kai," Gideon Vaughn's voice came over the speaker.

Gagging softly, Jess stared at the phone in raw horror.

Though she wished for Kai to turn it off immediately, that jerk moved it towards her face. If she spoke a single word, if she gagged, choked, or moaned on him, Dad would hear that. He would hear it, and she would be humiliated for the rest of her life.

"Something happen at the office?" Kai asked.

"I had to talk about Q4 finances with you. Are you in a rush?"

He slid another inch of himself into her. "Tiny, but I can talk."

Struggling around his dick, she clamped a gag down and swallowed the spit that had built up inside her mouth. Her face was streaked with tears, her cheeks aflame and the need to breathe growing each second.

Except for Kai didn't care.

Her cold, dark eyes locked onto her shiny gaze as he talked on the phone with her father for how long she did not know. He pushed one hand into her hair and thrust her head forward and backward on his cock until her throat was dry and the ropes were cutting into her wrists.

"We need to switch her position," Gideon said. "I was thinking underneath you."

Shift Adelaide Grey under Kai

She had only been catching bits of the discussion, but if that was what she thought it implied, then Adelaide would be working with Kai even more closely, and she was the loveliest-and smartest-woman in their party.

Jealousy seethed in Jess, and she was bouncing her head up and down on his dick without him having to make her do it for herself. She gazed up at him through tearstained eyes, so desperately wanting to leave an indelible mark on him.

Even though she didn't know yet if he was enjoying this. He wasn't revealing anything.

"Damn," he breathed, quietly enough Gideon would not be able to hear. "Good girl."

"Is it good?" Gideon asked on the phone.

Jess was on her knees in front of Kai, his cock in her mouth and her tongue stroking the inches she couldn't reach. Kai rested back on his hands, eyes rolling, and closed one of her breasts in his massive, calloused hand.

"That's great," he panted, cum shooting down her throat. "That's fantastic."

"Good. We'll talk about it tomorrow." Gideon fell silent. "You sound like you're busy."

Kai cleared his throat and snatched the phone from her hand. "Talk tomorrow."

As soon as Kai pressed the End Call button, he stepped back from her. She fell forward onto her rug, shoulder first, and swallowed as much of his cum and her spit as she could. Her chest rose and fell quickly, her mind reeling.

While she expected that Kai would growl at her and tell her he was leaving, that she was supposed to have learned something from this revenge, he picked her up and set her down on the bed. After sitting behind her, he untied the rope and tossed it over the floor beside her. He took her hand in his and then strangely kissed the groove on her wrists caused by the rope.

What was that?

"For once in your life, listen to me and stay here." Kai pulled on his jeans. "I'll get you water.".

As he exited the room, Jess looked in wonder at the door, astonished that he was being so nice to her after she had been nothing but a snotty little bitch to him. But the flames burned quickly down, and she didn't think she had it in her to be hard to get along with anymore tonight.

Still, jealousy recoiled in her at Adelaide taking a step closer to Kai. Since Kai didn't know, but he was hers. All hers. And no one was going to get in her way.