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hard, fast kiss.
    His fingers slid through her heavy hair, pushing the mass away from her forehead. Long bangs that had been swept to the side feathered across her eyes. When she reached up to move them out of her face, Seth tightened his fingers and stilled her head with controlled force. Tilting her face back forced her to meet his gaze. “You agree to the terms we’ve outlined?”
    “Y-yes.” A satisfied sigh escaped her, her warm, moist breath whipping around the head of his burgeoning hard-on.
    “I’ll put you through your paces once. If you satisfy me, we’ll take this upstairs.” He absently stroked the pad of one thumb over her temple, stilling his hand when he caught the affectionate gesture. “Understand?”
    “Yes.” No hesitation this time.
    “Good girl.” The heavy length of his erection stood out from his body, twitching and bobbing as he grew more turgid. Feet spread, he unbuttoned his shirt and fisted the silk, pulling it aside. “Let’s put that beautiful mouth to use.”
    The nymph stared up at him, grey eyes dark with desire. The way they widened telegraphed her uncertainty in no uncertain terms. “You want me to—”
    “Suck my cock, Red. I’ll issue your directives and you’ve got an out if the request is unreasonable. Otherwise? I don’t expect to have to spell out every single command.” Shifting his weight, he settled his ass on the edge of his desk and waited.
    “May I touch you?”
    “May I touch you, sir,” he corrected.
    “May I touch you,
sir
.”
    “Below the waist, above the knees. No damage. My definition of damage is anything that draws blood or leaves me with erectile dysfunction, physical or psychological.”
    Her brow furrowed.
    “It was a joke, Red.”
    “Oh.”
    Soft hands, feather-light and tentative, settled on his thighs. Fine vibrations ran across her palms and down her fingers, her grip on him tightening as she moved closer. The pointed tip of her tongue trailed up the underside of his shaft, tracing the ridges and veins and playing around the corona, teasing.
    Seth settled more of his weight on the desk’s edge.
    She settled back and peered at him through thick lashes. “Good?”
    “It will be once you commit.”
    “What do you mean ‘once I commit’?” She slapped a hand over her mouth, the “sorry” muffled but clearly contrite.
    “Nope. On your feet. Bend over the desk. Grip the other side and spread your feet wide enough only your toes touch the floor.” He reached over and, with a single sweep of his arm, cleared the desk. Something broke as it hit the floor. “Now, Red.”
    Scrambling to her feet, she stood bare from the waist down.
    He didn’t remember her losing the shoes. Knew he hadn’t told her to. “Any reason you ditched the footwear?”
    “I—” She paused then clamped her lips together before shaking her head.
    “Put them back on. Clothes come off at my discretion.”
    “And my acquiescence.”
    He arched a brow but inclined his head slightly. “That’s two.”
    Mutiny brewed in her eyes.
    The heavy weight of his testicles made his entire groin ache. If he didn’t get control of the situation, the situation would end up controlling him. That’s how people got hurt. Flashes of memory were illuminated, shifting and drifting to pile up like Polaroids.
Snap. Flash. Remember. Hurt. Deflect. Try to forget.
Over and over the pattern repeated until he wrested control from his psyche and forced the unwelcome past from the promising present. Only fools repeated unsavory mistakes. That’s all Anahita had been—a mistake.
    Cold sweat stole over his torso. The air conditioner kicked on with little more than a soft
tick
. Stale, refrigerated air moved through the quiet hush of the office, the only competing noise that of Red’s breathing and his own erratic heartbeat.
    “Step it up.” The command was hoarse. He cleared his throat, parked his hands on his hips. If he couldn’t get it together any better than this, he might as