Frostbite (Last Call #5) (5 page)

The fact that he could spend the rest of his
immortal life enjoying her mouth on his dick... Well, that was an
entirely different problem.

Cain admired the reddened hand prints
decorating her delicate ass, unable to avoid a small bit of
satisfaction. He adored the way she squirmed with the first swell
of pain, how her lips tightened around him as it receded and bliss
took its place. Smoothing his palm along her hip, he waited a
moment and then slapped her.

Her back arched, and her hands flexed in the
gold cuffs. A moment later, a muffled groan vibrated around him.
Physical pleasure from the heat of her mouth battered at his
reserve, washing away the foundation.

He wanted to come.

He wanted to
feel
.

Cain worked his fingers between them to find
her clit. “Come, my sweet Siren.”

She shuddered, her skin flushed, and her
entire body rocked into an intense rhythm between her mouth on his
cock and her cunt on his hand. Her trembling grew into shivers that
rolled through her in waves, faster and faster until she began to
shake. Then she ground hard against his hand and froze, every
muscle in her body taut with pleasure.

Stepping outside his body’s frenzied desire,
Cain stroked her softly through her orgasm, moved and a little awed
by the open way she fell apart for him. Nothing held back, nothing
hidden.

She was straddling death and seething with
life.

Kelsey threw back her head, arched again,
and the rattle of chains almost drowned out her husky, plaintive
whisper. “Cain.”

That fast, he was trapped in sinning flesh,
his pleasure beyond his control. Fire licked up his spine as he
groaned. Came.

Hard.

She laughed through a moan and shuddered
again as she caught the head of his cock between her lips. Gentle
sucking gave way to slow licks and finally another hoarse chuckle
as she released him. “I think you came in my hair.”

“
Hell.” And damnation,
possibly forever. He hurried to unwrap her wrists and urged her to
the bed. “That was unexpected. I apologize.”

“
Stop.” She caught his arm
and dragged him closer. “Want to take a bath with me?”

She was still a puzzle. Desperate for a man
who couldn’t be wooed by her voice, but seemingly unbothered when
he lost control of the very reserve she had come here to find. “A
bath would be nice.”

“
Mmm.” She smiled and slid
off the bed. “I’ll run it if you let me out of these cuffs.
And
if you promise to
tell me why you look so confused.”

Freeing her from the bracelets took little
time. He marshaled his defenses as he did so, wrapping himself in
cool logic. A puzzle was all Kelsey could ever be, and he’d do well
to remember that. “I was afraid you’d be disappointed at how much
your man of ice melted.”

“
Are you kidding? That was
epic.” Her smile faded, and she touched his face. “You keep talking
about ice, but that’s not what I want. Just...to be able to slow
things down. Have the time to make it good.”

“
All right.” He patted her
hip. “Go start the tub. I’ll be there in a moment.”

She hummed and walked lazily toward the
bathroom, pausing to cast a glance over her shoulder.
“Bubbles?”

As hard as he tried to hold back a smile,
his lips still twitched. “A reaper in a bubble bath? What an
affront to the dignity of death.”

“
Suit yourself...sir.”
Kelsey disappeared into the bathroom. Only moments later, water
began to run.

Brat. Just as well she’d come upstairs with
him and not a werewolf looking for true submission. Cain let the
bracelets clatter to the bedside table before crossing the room to
examine the contents of the toy closet. Shelf after shelf of
illicit items stared back at him, ranging from the simplest of
phallic objects to complicated contraptions even he couldn’t
decipher.

He ran his finger over the shelf of
magically enhanced toys and paused at one shining silver item.

Yes, that would do nicely.

He retrieved his selections, followed the
sound of running water and found Kelsey submerged in the tub, tiny
bubbles floating up in the churning water as she blinked at the
ceiling.

She broke the surface a moment later and
inhaled as water sluiced down her face and off her hair. “There are
even mirrors up there. I love this place.”

Water beaded on her skin and tracked over
her breasts. He traced one drop’s path with his gaze, watching it
catch on her nipple before dropping back to the tub. Not so hard to
imagine a lonely sailor following her voice to certain death.

Poor girl. Lucky sailor.

Cain slipped into the tub and set his prizes
from the toy cabinet on the smooth tiles. “It’s the definition of
decadent.”

“
That’s one word for it.”
She leaned back, splaying her arms over the opposite edge of the
tub. “Tell me a secret. Something you can’t tell anyone you really
know.”

He relaxed and studied her. Something
secret. Something real. “I have a cat.”

She nudged him with her foot. “A familiar,
or a regular old house cat?”

“
Just a cat. A tabby. I got
it...” He hesitated.
From someone whose
soul I collected
seemed an unwise thing to
say to a naked woman he hoped to further debauch.

But her smile gentled. “At work?” she asked
softly.

He nodded. “She was only a few weeks old.
Belonged to a cranky old man. All the kids in the neighborhood were
terrified of him, and I can see why. He argued with me. Wouldn’t go
into the damn light until I agreed to find a home for his
kitten.”

Kelsey shifted in the water, tucked her legs
under her and leaned her cheek on one arm. “What’s her name?”

“
Sherlock.”

She laughed. “For a reaper, you’re not very
grim, you know.”

He gave her his best stern
bringer-of-death look. “
I’m
not the one who named the damn thing.” Just the
one who’d found unexpected empathy in his icy heart for a querulous
old man and a fragile kitten. “I keep her because I like to be
unpredictable.”

“
Oh, you are.” Her fingers
brushed his. “In the very best way.”

“
Yes?” He twined his
fingers with hers. “So now you owe me one secret.”

“
A secret? I only have
one.” She hesitated. “It’s not only sex that’s a problem. I have a
charm—I took it off before I came in tonight, but I have to wear
it, always. Without it, I can’t talk to anyone.”

“
Truly?” He pulled, and she
glided through the water. Cain tucked her against his side and
curled one arm around her shoulders. “Your voice is lovely, but now
that you’re less...emotional, I’m not unduly affected.”

“
You’re not human, either.”
She nuzzled his neck. “What did you bring me?”

How evasive. He tangled his fingers in her
hair and tilted her head back. “Are you bored of talking or
changing the subject?”

Her blue eyes were huge. Guarded. “Why would
I do that? It isn’t as though you don’t know what it’s like, right?
Being lonely?”

“
I suppose.” He couldn’t
explain what prompted him to press the gentle kiss to the corner of
her mouth. It wasn’t logical, just irresistible. “But that’s why
you’re here. To feel the way you don’t usually feel.”

“
I’m here to feel...” She
trailed off with a sigh. “Like I’m not ruining someone’s life by
wanting to get close. By
wanting
.”

He kissed the other side of her mouth and
dragged his lips up to her ear. “Do you want a cat?”

“
Smartass.” Kelsey turned
her head and caught his mouth in a quick kiss, teasing her tongue
just between his lips before retreating entirely.

His mouth moved before he realized he’d
decided to speak. “If you won’t take her, you could at least feed
her when I’m out of town.”

She stilled, her hands tightening on his
arms. “Are you trying to hire me to cat-sit, or saying you want to
see me again?”

He hadn’t intended to say anything, but when
he imagined her presence in his empty, sterile apartment, a smile
came to his lips. She’d be a splash of color in his monochromatic
life. “Maybe a bit of both.”

She pursed her lips as she reached over to
shut off the water. “I wouldn’t do it for money,” she said finally.
“But I’d definitely do it as a favor for a friend. Or
whatever.”

He hauled her back against him, settling her
with her ass snug against his cock. “I’ll take whatever.”

The water sloshed and settled around them as
Kelsey leaned her head back on his shoulder. “Deal.”

As aroused as he was, there was something
peaceful in this moment. Something he didn’t want to subject to
logic and analysis, that would crumble under the weight of so much
cynical reality. So he stroked her belly before trailing his
fingers up to her breast. “Feel free to change the subject
now.”

She shook with laughter, though the sound
carried a thread of hot desire. “To what?”

“
You asked what I’d brought
you. Still curious?”

“
Mmm, tell me.”

He retrieved the smooth metal plug meant to
nestle deep in her ass and held it up in front of her. “It’s part
of an enchanted set.” He touched cool metal to her breastbone.
“Once it’s inside your body, there’s a thin collar that goes around
your throat. Closing the clasp activates the spell, which will make
everything pulse along with your heart.”

“
A full body throb.” Kelsey
turned her face to his. “Is that how you want to fuck me? Feeling
it every time my heart skips and beats faster?”

Even the thought made him hard. He traced
the flared tip of the toy down her body. “I thought about bringing
the whole set. One for your pussy, one for your ass, the sweet
little bits to go on your nipples and your clit. You’d be art.
Coming and coming...” He licked her cheek. “But I have to be inside
you. Soon.”

The water lapped around them as she shifted
to kneel over the edge of the tub, her ass in the air.

Glorious. A scant hour ago he might have
deconstructed the posture, the one women had used to bring men to
their knees for eons, but now he felt no less susceptible. She
wasn’t speaking, so he couldn’t blame her voice.

Kelsey was perilously close to melting his
frozen soul, and he was too hungry to stop her.

God help them both.

Every breath pressed her breasts to the
warm, slick tile, even more when the gentle touch of Cain’s hands
left her gasping.

He was
still
teasing her, brushing light
touches over the curve of her ass. Kelsey gripped the tile ledge
and parted her legs. “You like to play.”

“
Mm-hmm.” The flared tip of
the butt plug tickled over her ass, but he moved it lower, rubbing
it against her pussy. “I’ve always been meticulous. And
thorough.”

She swallowed a moan. The
whole night had been a tease, from the moment Cain had stood before
her in the bar downstairs. His voice, his hands, his
tongue—everything leading up to
this
.

The slim bottle of lubricant beckoned. She
snatched it up and held it back over her shoulder. “Please?”

Metal kissed her clit. He teased it there
before trailing back up and working the blunt tip into her
pussy.

He wasn’t the only one who could play his
game. Kelsey moaned again and let her head fall back. “Is that
where you’re going to keep it? Are you going to put your dick in my
ass instead?”

“
Would you like that?” His
lips brushed her ear as he took the lube from her. “Do you know
what this does? Heightens everything. Are you sure you’re ready for
it?”

She wasn’t sure of anything but the need
twisting her. “I want it. Want you.”

He left the toy buried in her body and
pressed a hand to her back, pushing her down to raise her ass
higher. Liquid dripped over her ass, cool compared to the bath’s
water, but it heated her skin wherever it touched, coaxing
pleasurable tingles to the surface. Cain massaged it over her, his
finger breaching the tight ring of muscles and bringing slick bliss
with it.

Her body clenched tight, but she forced
herself to relax. “That stuff is just not right.”

More of it trickled over her skin, and he
chuckled. “Does that mean you want me to stop?”

“
Fuck, no.” She was
buzzing, alive with pleasure. “Deeper.”

His amused chuckle bled into a groan as he
worked her slowly, preparing her with gentle care and enough of
that magical liquid to make her lightheaded, dizzy. It felt like
the rush that followed a sound spanking, that dreamy flood of
endorphins but without the pain.