“I want you to know you’re safe,” I countered, continuing to slide my hands over her silky skin. “You’re not in charge here. You don’t have control. You don’t have to do anything. I don’t have to be anywhere but between your thighs. I’m in no rush. Got it?”

“You’ll get bored if it takes too long.”

I laughed at that. “Bored?” I pointed at her pussy. “Here? I could spend the rest of my life right fucking here.”

She gave me a glare that I assumed she’d used in the past to make lesser men cower. “Yes. But I can’t come without using my fingers on my clit.”

Those words were a challenge. I wanted to tell her to hold my beer but, I didn’t respond. Instead, I got to work. I hadn’t been lying when I told her it was no hardship to eat her out. Her pussy was the sweetest thing in the world. Hot, wet. Plush. So pink. I had no idea how long I licked and fingered her, but she writhed and moaned, tugged on the cuffs and called out my name.

Sweat dotted her skin.

I took the time to learn how her clit liked to be flicked, the right press on her g-spot. Deep fingering versus shallow. Circling her entrance. Teasing. It was when I added a swirl of my thumb to her ass did things ramp up.

She was close, to the point where she could probably get herself over the finish line. The cuffs rattled and I knew she wanted to reach down and do just that.

I looked up her gorgeous body and she lifted her head. Looked at me. Then burst into tears.

I kissed my way up her body as she cried. I’d wanted a release from her, and I’d gotten one.

“Shh,” I murmured, kissing one nipple and then the other, working my way to her cheeks.

“Jed!” she wailed.

“Pretty intense, huh?” I whispered, nibbling along her neck. “I’ve got you. You’re safe.”

The crying jag bled away pretty fast, and I set my hand beside her head, stared down at her.

She blinked her watery eyes open.

“Okay?” I asked.

She sniffed. “Yes.”

“Good girl. I got to a good spot, but your release turned the wrong way. Ready for more?”

She stared at me with teary, confused eyes. “That’s… you’re not—”

“Far from done. Remember, nothing to do but get you off.”

She nodded, took a deep breath.

I gave her a smile, kissed her, then pushed off the bed.

I stood, grabbed a condom from my pocket, stripped, then protected us both.

I moved back between her thighs and put my mouth on her again. She tasted so fucking good. “Jed, I thought—”

“Not in charge,” I reminded, and made her lose her mind.