Playing Rough: 3 Hot Tales of Sensual Submission (8 page)

They each took a drink of their wine. When
they had set their glasses down, he reached across the table and
stroked the back of her hand. His touch was soft and sensual, the
combination electrifying. “This is just the beginning of a long,
amazing relationship, Rachelle.”

She met his eyes and her heart beat faster.
There was something he wanted to tell her and whatever it was, it
was important to him, and probably important to her, too.

He locked his gaze with hers. “I would like
you to move in with me.”

She almost knocked her wine glass over and it
took her a moment to gather herself. “You want me to move in with
you.” She repeated his statement slowly, as if to make sure she
heard him correctly.

“We make a good match in so many ways.” He
rested his hand on hers and squeezed. “More than a good match.”

“Yes, we do.” Thoughts swirled through her
mind. This was the last thing she had expected to hear tonight.

His expression was serious now. “Will
you?”

An excited feeling made her skin tingle. She
gave a naughty grin. “Does that mean we would be able to play all
of the time?”

His sexy smile returned. “As much as you
would like.”

“And I can tie you up sometime?” she said and
he laughed.

“If you want to, sure,” he said with a
grin.

She raised her glass and he raised his. “Then
you have a deal,” she said.

He leaned across the table and she met him
halfway. His lips were warm as he kissed her and she felt a
happiness that she had never felt before.

He murmured against her lips. “This is just
the beginning.”

“Just the beginning,” she agreed and kissed
him again.

# # #

Austin Graham did a double take as he walked
into the office. He’d recognize that ass anywhere. After all, he’d
spent a good deal of time staring at it.

Tanya James knelt beneath her desk, her ass
up in the air. Her black skirt had crept up and he got a good look
at her red panties.

Nice.

Hunger stirred inside him and a good number
of thoughts went through his mind. Taking her from behind and
spanking that beautiful ass were among them. Her long brown hair
that normally reached her waist was pulled up. He imagined letting
her hair free, wrapping it around his hand, and pulling her head
back as he took her.

Tanya was beyond sexy with the kind of figure
he considered hot—full with generous curves. She dressed on the
conservative side which made him want to strip her all the more to
see for himself what was beneath that suit.

He mentally shook his head. The last thing he
needed was to get fired for having a relationship with one of the
support staff. Although Tanya just might be worth it.

She eased out from under the desk and he
decided it was a good time to head into his office.

“Austin.” Tanya’s voice brought him to a stop
and he faced her, hoping she hadn’t caught him staring at her. He
nearly groaned when he got a look at her from the front. She had
her jacket off and he could tell she was wearing a bra beneath her
silky blouse, but it didn’t prevent her nipples from pressing
against the soft fabric, large and obvious. No doubt she didn’t
realize that or she would have that jacket back on. “The contracts
just arrived for the Harris building lease.”F

“Great.” He relaxed. “Put them on my desk
after you log them.”

“Yes, sir. I’ll have these contracts in to
you as soon as I’m finished with them.”

Austin gave her a brief nod, headed into his
office, and shut the door behind him. He thought about Tanya and
taking her many ways, many times.

He had to stop this obsession with her.
Interoffice romances never worked, even if it wasn’t against
company policy. Not to mention he was her boss.

Austin sat in his chair and booted up his PC
to check email. Instead he found himself searching the internet for
some of his favorite images.

Bondage and spanking and other hot pics
filled his screen. His cock grew harder as he imagined Tanya
instead of one of the random women in the pics. He imagined she was
the one wearing the ball gag while on her elbows and knees as he
flogged her beautiful ass.

Ten minutes later, Tanya lightly knocked then
walked in carrying a stack of papers.

Austin clicked the minimize icon on his
Internet browser and gave her a smile.

“Here you go.” She set the papers on his desk
and smiled in return. He didn’t think she did it on purpose, more
that it was something she did without thinking, but her smile was
sultry and sexy, the kind that made a man think of hot, sweaty
sex.

He wondered what those beautiful lips would
look like around a ball gag, her arms stretched high overhead with
her wrists tied to a hook hanging from the ceiling. Nipple clamps
would dangle from her large nipples and he’d have a butt plug up
her ass. Yeah, he’d like to play rough with her, real rough.

Thankfully he was sitting behind his desk so
that she couldn’t see his erection tenting his slacks. It wouldn’t
do for the senior vice president of the company to be caught with a
hard-on when his executive assistant was in the room.

Tanya eased into her desk chair and sighed.
She wanted Austin so badly that she constantly ached between her
thighs and her nipples were permanently hard when she was around
him. She hadn’t planned on him catching her kneeling beneath her
desk, but the thought made her smile. Had it caused him to think
about her in ways other than as his assistant?

She wished she had her friend and co-worker,
Jessica’s, confidence in herself. If she did, she would seduce her
boss in his office. She imagined him bending her over his desk
while he took her from behind. The thought was so hot it made her
squirm in her chair.

Better yet she would like to be tied up like
some of the women were in the pictures Austin looked at from time
to time on his computer.

He wanted her to have access to his files on
his computer for business reasons. He had no idea she could see the
drive he was connected to on his home computer. She came across it
the first time by accident when he left it minimized on the screen.
She couldn’t get the images out of her mind and spent time thinking
about what he obviously enjoyed, a helpless woman.

Tanya stared at the door to his office,
wondering what he was doing. Did she cross his mind when she wasn’t
around him? Several times she had noticed him watching her when he
didn’t think she was looking. Did that mean anything?

Austin Graham was everything she could want
in a man and more. Not only was he good looking with his dark eyes
and dark hair and striking features, but he had a great
personality. He was easygoing with his employees, always
professional but would have a little fun with his staff now and
then. He never crossed the boundary between being the senior VP and
being too familiar with his employees, but he made them all feel
like they were part of a team and they enjoyed working with
him.

Tanya thought about the other sides of him.
There were a lot of complexities that made up the man and she
wanted to know them all better. He joined the company a few months
ago and she had fallen for him within weeks. As his executive
assistant she had also seen another, more private side of him
because she was around him so much. She knew about the
extraordinary donations he made to his favorite causes that he
never mentioned. She had heard the gentleness in his tone as he
talked with his mother and the amusement in his voice when speaking
with his nephew who always made him laugh.

There was also this kinky side of him that
she now knew that few others, if anyone else, did. She liked
knowing his secret and she would never even tell Jessica. No, she
would guard this.

She thought often of what would happen if she
told him she knew what he liked, and she wanted him to do it to
her. But that was not her style. She was the quiet type—the thought
of actually saying something to him made her stomach twist.

No, that conversation was for her fantasies
only. Before she saw the pictures she really didn’t know what
bondage and discipline was. The pictures she saw raised her
curiosity and she had done her own research online. She realized
that a lot of people, normal people like her, like Austin, liked
it.

She couldn’t figure out whether she was
infatuated with the idea of being helpless to a strong controlling
man or whether she was infatuated in being with Austin and doing
something he liked to do. Regardless, all the time now she thought
about being helpless and vulnerable and she thought only about
being that way with Austin.

Tanya glanced at her schedule and saw that
she needed to get a letter out for Austin to Max Henry. She
scrunched up her nose as she scrolled through the files on
computer. Austin said that he had completed the letter, but
apparently he hadn’t remembered to send it to her.

She pushed a wisp of hair from across her
cheek behind her ear as she got up and started toward the open door
of his office. When she reached it she knocked on the doorframe
then looked inside. His chair and office were empty—she hadn’t
noticed him leave. She walked to his desk. No doubt he had the file
in the client’s computer folder as usual.

As she settled behind Austin's desk, she
bumped the mouse and the screensaver vanished, showing the Internet
browser.

Tanya went completely still. On the screen
was a website with a picture of a woman, naked, a ball gag in her
mouth, and her hands bound behind her back, and a butt plug in her
ass while she lay over a man’s lap as she’s being spanked.

With her heart in her throat, Tanya scrolled
downed further. The next picture was of a woman on her knees,
sucking a man’s cock. The woman wore a collar and the man held her
by a leash.

The third made her tingle between her thighs
even more. A woman was on a bed on her knees, her arms stretched
over her head, her cheek pressed against a pillow. A man was
holding her long hair in one hand, using it to pull her head back
as he fucked her. To think this was what turned him on. What would
he do if he knew that she was aware of his interests?

“Tanya.” Austin’s voice sent heat rushing
through her cheeks as she minimized the browser screen. “What are
you looking for?” he asked as she raised her head.

He was used to her getting onto his computer
when she needed something, still she felt as if she had been doing
something wrong.

“Trying to find the Miller Corporation
folder.” She rose to stand, her heart racing. “I need the letter
you just wrote to Mr. Miller, but I can’t seem to locate the file.
I figured you had finished it but hadn’t forwarded it to me, and I
wanted to save it to my drive.”

“I’ll send it to you now.” Austin walked
around behind the desk and she moved out of his way.

“Great.” She worked on a smile. “I’ll get
right on it as soon as I get it.”

Austin sat in his chair. Tanya had seemed to
act a little odd, and her cheeks had been bright red. Slow
realization came to him as he looked at the lower part of the
screen where the Internet browser had been minimized.

Had he left that open?

He clicked on it and the website he’d been
looking at last popped up. He had just gone to that website when a
call came in and he’d had to take care of something himself. He had
forgotten to close it. And he hadn’t had a chance to scroll down
the screen to look at anything more than the first picture on this
site.

He got up from his desk and stood in the
doorway and looked at Tanya. She had her head down as if studying
something intently on her desk. He pushed his hand through his
hair. Damn. Tanya knew his little secret.

She had obviously taken the time to look at
some of the pictures before he had arrived. Unfortunately, not
everyone liked BDSM as he found in previous relationships. A few
had tried it, but they did it for him, because he loved it. He had
found no one who thought about it like he did, and actually did it
because she loved it, too.

On the other hand, maybe the sexy assistant
had liked what she had seen.

What was he going to do with her even if she
liked it? The idea of the boss having a sexual relationship with
his assistant was a potential disaster. He would be gone if that
got out, but then what a way to go. The thought amused him and
aroused him at the same time. He imagined himself finding out just
how much Tanya liked those pictures and showing her what submission
was all about.

“You haven’t dated in so long.” Jessica toyed
with her wine glass as she shifted on the bar stool. “You still
have a crush on your boss.”

“In the worst way.” Tanya smiled as she
thought of Austin. She didn’t want to get over the obsession. She
wanted him. “He’s the only man who appeals to me. He would be hard
for any man to live up to.”

“Interoffice dating is forbidden.” Jessica
took a sip of wine. “Of course I don’t need to tell you that.”

“Sure don’t, but maybe I should quit. After
all it’s easier to find a job than the right guy.” Tanya tugged
down her skirt that was a little shorter than she was used to then
adjusted her blouse that showed off her cleavage more than she’d
planned. Going clothes shopping with Jessica was dangerous to her
budget and her wardrobe. “But I can’t get my mind off him.”

“Well, honey, I need to go.” Jessica set a
five on the bar for a tip and swiveled her seat. “Are you leaving
with me?”

“Nah.” Tanya smiled at Jessica. “I’m going to
finish downing my mojito and catch a taxi home.”