HE REACHED DOWN AND PULLED A BOTTLE FROM HIS bottom nightstand drawer. Grosset was sleeping soundly in his doggie bed in the kitchen. That was good. He had some significant plans for Grosset’s mistress and he didn’t want any canine interruptions.

“What are you going to do with that?” Sarafina asked lazily.

He didn’t answer, he only squirted some of the lubricant onto her lovely, aroused sex and let it drip down to the area of his immediate fascination.

“What? Theo, I’ve never—”

“Hush. Lie back and put your hands above your head, Sarafina. Place your wrists together. Consider yourself tied and unable to move. My words are your rope. Break it and I’ll tie you up for real. Got it?”

She studied him for a moment, her lower lip caught between her teeth and insubordination on her face. He reached out and slid his finger through the lubricant, massaging it into her clit. Her eyelids dropped and her head fell back on a moan. She lifted her hands above her head the way he’d asked.

Ah, that was better.

Theo liked to be in control in the bedroom. He suspected Sarafina liked him to have it, too. He slicked the lubricant down to her rear and played there a bit, waking up all the nerves.

“Theo,” she said, her voice breathless. “I’ve never done this. I’ve never had a man touch me there before.”

“Virgin territory? Lucky me. Do you trust me, Sarafina?”

She nodded.

“I’m excited by this, Sarafina. I’m excited by the fact that when I touch you here, I can see your sweet sex becoming even more eager for my cock.” He used a finger of his opposite hand and speared deep inside her sex. She shivered. “You may not have ever had a man touch you here, but you’re curious, aren’t you?”

“A little,” she admitted.

“Do you want me to stop?”

She bit her lower lip and shook her head.

Suppressing a smile, he slid the tip of his finger inside her rear and she gasped, then moaned. “Can you feel all your muscles stretching?”

“Yes, oh, God, yes.”

He pushed in deeper, making sure there was a lot of lubricant to ease the way. Her legs widened even farther in an unconscious gesture of surrender.

“Ah, there you go. It’s good, isn’t it?”

She nodded and moved on the bed, arching her back and stabbing her breasts into the air. He added a second finger to the first and maneuvered so he could rub her clit with his thumb at the same time, knowing she needed that stimulation to add some sweet pleasure to the unfamiliar play at her rear.