Bound to be Tested: Emergence, Book 3 (14 page)

She didn’t move except to fist her hands and wait for him to quit torturing her.

With no warning, he swiped a finger through her folds.

Lori moaned and bucked toward him.

“Ah ah ah. Don’t move.”

She lowered her ass to the chair and he did it again. “One to ten?”

“Ten, Sir.”

“I thought so. How do you want me to take you? Hard and fast? Slow and easy?”

“Hard and fast, Sir.”
And fucking now
.

He swirled her wetness around her pussy. “So wet…”

Lori held very still. The waiting was the entire hold he had on her. It was the crux of their relationship. He liked to keep her on edge, and she loved it more than he did. It felt so fucking fantastic, needing to come, being consumed with only thoughts of orgasm. Dazed.

Suddenly Jude released her and grabbed her hips. He lifted her to stand beside him on shaky legs. Then he lifted his ass and shrugged out of his jeans and underwear. He plucked a condom from his pocket and rolled it onto his length. “Straddle me, baby.”

He was going to let her be on top. It was rare. And she knew better than to think she was in control. If anything, he could manage to give her less control from the top than the bottom.

Lori straddled his legs and lined herself up with his cock.

Jude held her hips. “Who’s in charge?”

“You are, Sir.”
Always
.

“Lower yourself on my dick, slowly. If you go too fast, I’ll turn you around and spank you and leave you horny, understood?”

“Yes, Sir.” She swallowed. Challenges like this had always been his specialty. And she knew he wasn’t kidding. She’d endured the punishment for not heeding his instructions properly on too many occasions to count. He meant what he said. He would spank her ass until it stung, and leave her dripping pussy alone, sometimes letting her suck him off before he left the room.

She was in no mood for that sort of treatment today. She needed his cock worse than ever. Her pussy pulsed. Her ten had grown to a twelve.

She lowered her body until the tip of his dick nestled at the entrance. Jude kept his hands on her hips but didn’t squeeze. He let her control the pace…in a manner of speaking. It was a test.

“Ease down, baby.” His voice was deeper, the only sign he was as affected as she.

God, she tried. Her arms shook where she held herself up by his biceps. She gritted her teeth to endure the workout it took to lower herself slower than he demanded and ensure she received permission to finish this sex act.

So much for asking her if she wanted it fast and hard…

“Look at me, baby.”

She lifted her gaze from where their bodies met to his face.

“Good girl. Keep going. Eyes on mine.” He didn’t even seem winded. How did he do that? His control was amazing.

Lori lowered herself more, gradually working his cock into her tightness until she was fully seated, her clit trapped against the base of his length. She held steady, hoping to keep from coming involuntarily.

Jude spread his hands on her back and brushed them up and down, covering all of her skin. “Lift off, baby. Do it again.”

Lori followed his directions, raising her body, using her arms as support. She waited for him to nod before she eased back down. How many times would he make her do that? She was about to combust.

When she was fully seated, he grabbed her arms and lifted her upright, so she wasn’t leaning over him anymore. “Stay right there. Rub your clit for me. I want to watch you come, impaled on my dick.”

Oh God
… Her fingers shook, but she needed to come so bad she would even masturbate on the back patio for him.

“Try not to scream. We don’t want the neighbors to come out and find us like this.” He smiled.

Lori smoothed her hands down her chest, grazing her nipples on her way. She reached between her spread thighs, lifted the hood with one hand and rubbed her clit with the other. She moaned, throwing her head back. She loved masturbating with him inside her. It was so intimate.

Her arousal built fast. Too fast. That twelve shot off the charts in a hurry.

“Come for me, baby.”

She shattered, her pussy gripping his cock and pulsing over the stiff length.

Jude reached to fondle her breasts. “Yes. I love how that feels.”

When she could lower her face to his, he smiled. “Now, fuck me hard.”

She didn’t need more encouragement than that. She planted her hands on his chest and lifted off him before her orgasm dissipated. She wanted to come again. And this would do it.

Like a sledgehammer, she thrust onto him over and over until she saw his eyes glaze and jaw tighten. He squeezed her breasts and a moment later, he groaned as his cock shot into her.

Lori kept fucking him for several thrusts until she caught up and came on the tail end of his orgasm, her body stiffening as she let it go. She held steady with him deep inside her as the waves subsided. God, she loved this man.

Lori leaned against his chest, unable to support herself any longer. She wanted his cock to remain inside her as long as possible.

A chill shook her body when a light breeze picked up. It was too cold to be outside naked, but she couldn’t move. And now that she’d come down from so high, goose bumps rose on her skin.

Jude chuckled. “You’re cold.” He lifted her shoulders and winked when he caught her eye. He nodded to the left. “Hot tub.”

Ahhh. Lori moaned at the idea.

“Stand up a second, baby.”

She struggled to pull herself off Jude’s cock and watched as he disposed of the condom in a tissue and lifted the top off the hot tub. Steam rose into the air. Lori’s frame shook harder now as she grew colder. Her arousal must have been the only thing keeping her warm before.

“Come on, baby.” He held out a hand and helped her up the steps and into the water.

Lori groaned. Every muscle in her body thanked her as she eased into the hot luxury. It had been ages since she’d been in a hot tub, and it felt like heaven.

Jude climbed in and seated himself in a corner. Her grabbed her hand and pulled her between his legs, her back facing his front.

And then he massaged her shoulders. “So tense, baby.” His thumbs dug into the knots on her shoulder blades and pressed hard to free them.

Lori let her head tip forward, her face inches from the steaming water. “God, that feels good, Sir.”

“Just relax. Let me work.” He didn’t speak again for several minutes, his magic fingers roving down her arms and back up. He rubbed her neck and then made his way down her spine.

Lori thought she might fall asleep and slip under the water if she wasn’t careful. It felt that good and relaxing.

When Jude reached her thighs and massaged the muscles between her legs, she came alive. He switched places with her and sat her in the corner. He settled on his knees between her legs and resumed his massage from her feet up, pulling on each toe and rubbing the sole of her foot before working his way to her shin.

Lori watched the intense expression on his face as he massaged her beneath the water. She grabbed the edges of the hot tub on both sides to keep herself from floating away. Her arms were out of the water this way, but she was warm enough now that it no longer mattered. Her breasts bobbed at the top, her nipples sometimes popping above the water level. They puckered as they hit the air and ducked back under.

Jude worked up her legs until he reached her sex. He pressed her thighs wide and set her feet on the bench seat.

And then he lifted his gaze to hers and held it. “Eyes on me, baby. Don’t move.” He took both outer lips between his fingers and squeezed, pinched a row up and down her vulva as though it was simply part of the necessary, thorough massage.

Lori held as still as she could, but her breath caught in her throat. The laziness of the last half hour evaporated in an instant as Jude pressed and rubbed everywhere intimate. Suddenly he flipped his hand over and plunged two fingers into her pussy.

Lori yelped. “Oh God…”

He did it again, settling his thumb on her clit and pressing hard.

Lori’s toes curled under and she had trouble keeping her ankles in place.

“Your face is flushed, baby.” He gave an innocent half smile. “Are you too hot?”

“No, Sir.” It was hard to keep her eyes focused on his face.

When Jude added his second hand and circled her forbidden hole, she moaned.

“Keep looking at me, baby. I want to watch you.”

Her eyes had fluttered. She struggled to open them as he pushed a finger into her tight hole.

“That’s it, baby. Accept my finger… Yes, your ass is so tight, baby.” He stroked his finger in and out, matching the pace of his other hand inside her pussy. “I know you like to have both holes filled.” He thrust both fingers in opposition.

Lori held her breath. She’d come so hard before and now the build was slower. But just as intense. It seemed he stroked her everywhere at once. Even her breasts were engaged as they bobbed up and down, in and out of the water, making her aware of her nipples.

Jude added a third finger to her pussy and held them deep while he stroked her clit and her G-spot at the same time. His other hand continued to pump in and out of her ass. She stiffened. “I’m going to come, Sir.”

“Go ahead, baby.”

Lori fell over the edge, a slow crash that had her pussy pulsing in tandem with her ass, every muscle inside her working on Jude’s fingers, gripping them as though she never wanted to let them go. And she didn’t.

When she finally came down, Jude released her and tugged her feet to set them on the bottom of the hot tub.

Lori was exhausted, more so than before. But she never wanted to leave this warm water or break from the gaze meeting hers from inches away.

Whatever happened to Jude for the last two years, she knew one thing for certain: he loved her. His feelings were written on his face. Hell, he’d proven himself over and over to her in the past days, bringing her to climax more times than she could count. She could count only three times he’d gotten his own satisfaction from her body. He adored her and never intended to harm her. She was softening to this new reality. But should she? What if he left her again? Her heart couldn’t take that kind of torture.

Something in the backyard caught her eye. She glanced over Jude’s shoulder. Nothing.

“What is it?” he asked.

She shook her head. “Nothing. Must be seeing things.”

Jude turned around and stared at the expanse of trees behind the house, his gaze shifting from left to right slowly. She thought he stiffened.

“I’m sure it was an animal or something,” she said, reaching for him. “Come back here.” She pulled him close, but he stayed rigid as though she’d scared him. Weird.

Chapter Thirteen

On Tuesday morning, Jude stood in the doorway to the bedroom, sipping his coffee and watching Lori sleep like the dead. Granted, he’d kept her on her toes most of the evening yesterday, pushing her to her mental limit.

Was he forcing her to acquiesce too fast? He wanted her the way she was before he left her. It would take some time to regain her trust, but if he could get her body to respond to his every command in the same fashion as before, everything else would fall into place.

Monday evening she’d spent a lot of time cooking dinner and cleaning afterward. Jude hadn’t asked her to perform that service, but she’d insisted.

Jude stepped into the room, set his coffee on the bedside table and stroked Lori’s ass beneath the sheet.

She squirmed under his touch and turned her head to the side, opening one eye. “Is it late?”

“Yep. You have a class to teach at eleven.” He swatted her butt. “It’s time to get in the shower.”

She smiled and stretched her arms over her head. The sheet inched down her body, leaving her breasts exposed. “I slept hard.”

“I can see that.” He tugged the sheet away. “Come on, baby. Shower.”

He hadn’t showered yet himself. He’d saved the luxury to share with Lori.

Leaving her on the bed to pull herself awake, he padded to the bathroom and flipped on the water. He loved bathing her. The feel of her curves under his slippery hands made his body hum.

He heard her creep up behind him, so he didn’t flinch when she wrapped her arms around his middle and leaned her face against his back. She kissed a line up his spine and reached on tiptoes to nibble his shoulder. “I’m dirty.”

The sentence was loaded and he grinned. He reached behind and nudged her toward his front. “Get in.”

While she stepped into the warm cascade of water, he removed his jeans and underwear. His damn phone beeped in his jeans pocket as he set them on the floor. He tugged the device from the pocket, only to find the same blank number. He tossed it on top of the pile, shaking away his aggravation.

In moments he was beside her, kissing the top of her head and reaching for the shampoo.

“You don’t have to work at all this week?” she asked.

Jude paused a moment and stared at her. “I have a few weeks of vacation, baby. I’m eligible to retire soon.”

“From the army?”

“Yes. I’ve been assigned as an advisor for the National Guard unit here for the remainder of the year.”

“I see.” She lowered her gaze and didn’t say anything else.

He held her glorious red locks as he spread the lather into her scalp. She tipped her head back to give him better access. Water sluiced over her nipples, making them pebble. Jude reached around her front and spread the soap across her breasts, molding them to his hands.

Lori moaned and leaned into him.

“Uh-uh, baby. Shower first.” He stood her back up and washed her entire body. While she let the water run down her, he washed himself. She stayed in her lazy, just-woke-up stage the entire time. She’d never been a morning person.

After he ushered her out of the shower, dried her and wrapped her in a towel, he nodded to the bedroom. “Go lie on the bed with your pussy to the edge.”

Her eyes shot open wider. “I could have shaved myself, Sir.”

He tweaked her nose and raised his brows. “I know that. But I wanted to do it. Stop questioning me.”

She hastened to leave the room, and he dried, cinched his towel around his hips and gathered his supplies.

He found her where he’d asked, not as close to the edge as he liked, but in the right position. “Lift.” He tucked a towel under her ass. “Open wider.” She did as he said. “And don’t move.”

When he squirted shaving cream into his hand, the swish noise made her flinch and she stiffened. Having her pussy shaved by him made her nervous, but it also made her horny.

She squirmed again when he touched her skin and spread the lather around. “Hold still, baby. I don’t want to hurt you.”

Slowly he dragged the razor up one side of her pussy, from her ass to her clit, carefully avoiding the little nub. He repeated the action several times on each side, wiping the razor on the towel in between until he was satisfied. “So smooth.” He stroked her skin with his fingers. “I’m going to insist on shaving you myself for a while. I can reach everywhere easier and do a better job than you.”

She nodded, her face pinkening.

“Flip over on all fours, please.” He pulled the towel away as she lifted, her legs shaking. “When was the last time you wore a plug, baby?”

“With you, Sir.”

He inhaled sharply. She never ceased to amaze him. “Lower your head and spread your knees wider.”

She set her forehead on the bed and widened her stance.

Jude stepped away for a moment and grabbed the lube and a medium plug from his bag. He set the plug between her knees and squeezed some lube onto his fingers.

With one hand, he held her cheeks open; with the other he circled her tight hole. “Relax. You know the drill. If you stiffen, it’ll hurt more. I’m going to loosen you up first.” He pushed one finger inside her and she bucked forward. He stopped. “Did I say to move?”

“No, Sir.” She righted herself.

“Have I injured you?”

“No, Sir.”

“Then stay still, Lori.” He pressed his finger deeper and circled it around her entrance until she stopped clenching. As he added a second finger, she moaned. She didn’t pull away, but she more than likely didn’t realize she rocked forward and backward into his touch, essentially fucking herself on his fingers.

He scissored his fingers in several directions until he was satisfied she could take the intrusion of the plug. The one he’d chosen would be tight, but not more than she could handle.

Holding her cheeks apart, he removed his fingers and grabbed the plug. He circled it in the lube several times until it was well coated and then nudged it forward.

Lori moaned. “It’s too big, Sir. It’s been too long.”

“Hush, baby. It’s not. You just aren’t used to the feeling.” He pressed forward until the plug finally breached her hole and slipped into place.

She squirmed and gasped for air.

“There. I love knowing you’re wearing this. It helps you concentrate on what you are to me while you aren’t home.” He rubbed her ass right above the outside nob of the plug.

She twisted her face around to see him. “Jude, I can’t wear that while I teach yoga. It would distract me and someone might notice it.”

Jude kissed her ass cheeks and left her to wash his hands and put things away. When he returned, he took her hand and led her from the room. “Legs spread wider when you walk, please.”

She did as he said until she walked with an uncomfortable, difficult gait. Good. He liked her a little awkward. It embarrassed her, and the pink flush was sexy as hell.

He turned toward her as they entered the kitchen area. “Ten minutes on the chair, baby. I’ll make breakfast.” He pointed at the seat where he’d already set up the thick dildo. “If you say a word, I’ll double it.”

With a shiver, she hobbled over and took her position, straddling the chair and lowering herself over the wide cock. It wasn’t as though he needed to point out how many times in the last half hour she’d argued with him about his choices. Ten minutes was beyond fair.

When he had breakfast ready, he told her to sit on the floor where she was, legs crossed, and handed her a plate of eggs, bacon and toast. “You can eat facing the window also. Think hard about defying me again.”

She didn’t say a word, but her face was flushed as he handed her the food. He set a glass of orange juice next to her.

She must have been starving because she gobbled the meal in minutes and set it aside. She didn’t ask if she could move.

Jude worked around her, loading the dishwasher and cleaning the kitchen. When it was time for her to leave for work, he excused her. “You may go dress and leave. You may remove the plug. And I expect you to come home with better control of your mouth.”

She stood awkwardly and waddled to the bedroom. Minutes later she emerged and went to the door, her yoga clothes in place.

“I’ll see you at two thirty, correct?”

She had two classes to teach.

“Yes, Sir.” She left silently.

Jude spent a few hours on his computer and then tried to watch some television.

Man, he needed a nap.

He closed his eyes, praying he could rest. Luckily, for the first time in days, he slept hard. Hours later he jerked awake at the sound of his phone beeping.

Jude glanced at the caller ID. Shit. He’d forgotten to call Stanton. “Cavanaugh here.”

“Jude, you didn’t return my call.”

“Sorry, busy week. What’s up?”

“I need to meet with you. We have a situation I need to discuss.”

“Now? Jeez. Can’t it wait? My entire life has been a situation for so many years I can’t sleep. I’m on leave and I’m not under your jurisdiction anymore. Remember that little declaration of intent to retire?” Jude smiled. He knew his old commanding officer well. His humor wouldn’t go unnoticed.

“Yeah. Sorry, but this is important. When can you come in?”

“Dude, whatever it is, talk to me now. I’m right here.” Jude stood and headed toward the kitchen. Why the hell did his old commander need a face-to-face during Jude’s leave?

Lori stepped back into the house at two thirty sharp.

Jude was on the phone in the kitchen when she entered and didn’t seem to notice her. She quietly removed all her clothes and folded them in a pile.

She flinched when his voice rose. “I still don’t understand how this is possible.”

She stood very still, not wanting to interrupt.

“Where is he now?... What do you mean you don’t know?... You aren’t fucking kidding, that isn’t cool… No… Not a chance… Fuck…” He stood, knocking the chair on the floor behind him. That’s when he spotted her and froze. After a second he nodded in her direction and pointed toward the living area.

She deciphered his actions to mean that she should kneel where she normally did to wait for him.

“I can’t talk about this now… Well, what do you want me to do?… No. Not going to happen.” He stomped into the kitchen and out the back door, slamming it behind him.

She could hear him continue to rant with the caller for several minutes. Finally he stopped. He must have hung up, but he didn’t return for a while.

When he did, he entered calmer, shutting the door with a quiet snick. He busied himself in the kitchen and then went down the hall.

Lori waited on her knees beside the couch. She sat back on her ankles when her legs grew stiff. Surely he wouldn’t fault her for that in his preoccupation. What the hell was going on? She’d never seen him that agitated.

Eventually he reemerged and sat on the couch in front of her. He put his head in his hands and took a deep breath. “There’s a slight problem.”

She figured that.

“I don’t want you to worry about it right now. It doesn’t concern you.” He took her chin and lifted her gaze. “Okay?”

“Yes, Sir.” Her voice cracked.
Hell no, it’s not okay
.

“I need you to trust me.”

Like I trusted you two years ago?
Did that conversation have anything to do with where he’d been for the last two years? She knew better than to ask questions.

“You’re stiff.”

She was. “Sorry, Sir.”

He took a deep breath and wiped his free hand over his face. “I need to make some calls. I want you to reacquaint yourself with my vibrator while I work. It’ll help you learn control and keep you occupied.”

He had to be kidding. He was going to yammer on the phone, and she was going to masturbate?

“Stand.” He took her forearm when she released her hands and helped her up. “Get on the bed.”

She followed him, concern about his behavior wearing on her.

“Lie in the center, arms above your head.”

She crawled up, wondering how she was going to masturbate without her arms.

When he approached, she realized his intent. She wasn’t going to get herself off at all. He was going to strap her down and force her. She swallowed a groan as she stretched her arms up and he strapped first one wrist and then the other to the headboard. While she tried to steady her racing heart, he spread her legs and used the infamous spreader bar to hold her open.

He didn’t talk while he worked. His brow was furrowed. He leaned in to kiss her lips but only briefly. Next he pulled a length of leather from his bag and set it on her body. Her nipples puckered when the soft material hit her.

A harness. She’d never worn this particular type before, but she recognized it. He strapped it around her neck and then pulled the center length between her breasts to her crotch. “Lift up with your heels, baby.”

She lifted her body off the bed so he could reach beneath and pull the leather under her back. As he cinched the top section, she closed her eyes. Her breasts were displayed between the triangle formed by the leather, which heightened her awareness of each globe. It was sensual and unnerving at the same time. The leather strip resting below her breasts pushed them up.

And then Jude pulled her lower lips apart and something cold hit her open sex. She lifted her head and opened her eyes to see him trailing a dildo through her folds. He smiled as he caught her gaze. “Relax. I’m going to make you feel so good.”

His idea of making her feel good didn’t include orgasm, though. She knew that. Strapped to the bed and wearing this harness, he would want her to remain aroused while not pushing her over the edge.

He held her gaze while he slid the vibrator home, pushing it deep within her. It wasn’t a slender dildo either. It was thick and long. It filled her almost as much as his cock did.

Next he held up a plug, slightly larger than the one she’d worn earlier. He squeezed lube onto the tip and used one finger to spread it around the bulb. When he finished, he circled her lower hole with that finger, massaging the lube into her skin. He slid the plug into her without speaking.

Lori shocked herself that she’d accepted the foreign object so easily this time.

Jude gave her a half smile. He stretched a section of the leather strap up her butt crack and attached it to the length hanging between her legs from the front. He tightened it, tested it and tightened it again. She was completely at the mercy of the vibrator, which wouldn’t be able to escape her pussy with the harness in place.