= CHRIS POV =
I sat back on my heels.
“Wha….” I started.
Sarah laughed and put down her wine glass.
“Ok, honestly, I get why you might think that; you’ve only seen me date guys, but honestly, I go both ways” Sarah said with a sweet, sort of dreamy smile that made my stomach flip.
“ I’ve just…never had the courage to ask a girl out properly, ok?…So a girl can dream, right?” she said, running a finger across her lips
“And Ms Jun definitely gives me a lot to dream about” She added with the sweetest giggle that made me want to un-alive my business partner.
I slowly crossed my long legs and leaned forward, arms on my knees, tense, not wanting to hear the answer, but needing to hear it anyway.
“What…exactly is it about Ruby that is attractive to you? So far all I’ve heard is that she is a menace” I asked curtly, feeling my blood boil but keeping it under wraps for the sake of our temporary…friendship.
Sarah looked at me, her large brown eyes not quite focused, but were full of curiosity and intrigue as she contemplated the answer to my questions.
“Well… aside from being forward and honest about her feelings, she said she would make me fall for her, and at this point in my life, I realize that not one of my boyfriends ever made my heart flutter the way those words did”.
I froze. I felt like someone had just knocked out all the wind from my lungs.
To hear Sarah say those words.
To think that Sarah…
Sarah had feelings….
for fucking Ruby….
All because the extrovert punk hit on her openly and directly?
Was I seriously going to lose Sarah to that woman-child?
Ruby constantly claimed that I was always one-upping her, fuck, I didn’t take Ruby’s threat seriously, but now…it looked like she actually stood a chance.
Fuck my life.
“Hey, are you ok? Do you have a tummy ache? Let me get you some water” Sarah said, reaching out to gently squeeze my hand
I hadn’t realised I had doubled over, but the thought of Sarah being with Ruby made me physically ill.
I sat up and grabbed her arm.
I pulled Sarah toward me, and she flopped into my arms easily, with a surprised look on her face, slightly tipsy.
“Sorry Sarah, I think I’m at my limit. I can’t continue to be your best friend from this point onwards” I said softly, my voice coming out hoarser and more gravelly than I intended, my grip on her arms tightening.
“Chris…Chris stop…” Sarah gasped, but I couldn’t help myself. I was fighting against the fierce desire to erase Ruby from Sarah’s mind and heart, perhaps by any means necessary.
I released Sarah only enough to let her wiggle away, and then I crowded her up against her bedframe, my hands bracing either side of her head, not touching yet, but effectively trapping her beneath me.
"So this is what turns you on? When you're pinned down against your will?" I snapped, glaring down at her.
“C-Chris” Sarah gasp, her voice coming out, startled and breathless, like her voice was a bird fluttering around frantically in the cage that were her ribs.
I dropped a hand down to her neck, gently running my fingers along her pulse point.
I could feel her chest rise and fall rapidly. She opened her mouth as if to correct me, and then bit her lip and looked away.
How could she try to deny it after all she told me moments ago?
“Would you let anyone touch you? Touch those lips of yours?” I asked my heart racing, my voice low, treacherously close to a growl.
Thinking of Ruby having the audacity to be this close, to use her fingers to touch her body...her lips...
“N-No,” Sarah said; I could feel her trembling beneath me, “ Y-Yes? I don’t know. I didn’t mean for it to happen…”
“But you would let Ruby touch you. You let her hand feed you,” I said and cupped the back of her head. “ Did she hold you like this in that parlor? Did she take your breath away?” I demanded, turning her face so that she was forced to look at me.
She couldn't lie, looking deep into my eyes.
She knew that I knew her too well.
Sarah swallowed and nodded. “But I didn’t want it at the time; she just came on to me”
“And was that what made you fall for her? That she forced herself on to you like this? Is that what it takes for you to fall?” I asked as my other hand drifted down to grasp the back of her neck. I ran a finger over those delicate ear lobes of hers which I longed to lick and bite oh so gently…mark her up as mine until she forgot all about Ruby.
Sarah shuddered under me and let out a slight moan. Her eyes fluttered open wide in alarm as if she didn't mean to do that.
Her free hand reached out and wrapped her fingers around the twist of my hand that was caressing her neck.
“Chris… Chris, I can’t…we can’t do this,” she said breathlessly.
“Why? Who’s stopping me? This time, you don’t have a boyfriend. I don’t have to respect anyone’s wishes. I was trying to respect your wishes, but you just revealed to me that you like your wishes to be disrespected," I said.
Sarah shook her head. "No you misunderstand-"
"You like to be held against your will-"
"Please Chris, you're not like this. Don't do this -"
“Don’t do what?” I asked, pressing my forehead against hers “Don’t do what exactly? All I’ve ever wanted to do was take care of you” I said, my voice shaking as I did everything I could to hold back from completely ruining her with my desires.
I felt slender fingers rising to press against my shirt. It was so light, I might have missed it had I not been hyperaware about everything happening between us.
“I’m just…exploring. I don’t know what I like. It’s sort of like…an aftershock response or something, I don’t know” Sarah tried to weakly explain.
I pulled back, cupping her face with my larger hand, holding her like the precious part of my life that she had no idea that she was.
“Yeah but you live in my house, sleep in my bed and eat my food. You belong to me” I said firmly, drunk her scent, her body, her presence.
“I-I…belong to you?” Sarah said tentatively, as if she was trying on the word for size.
However the minute she said it, something broke inside me. The hunger that I had been holding back, broke like a damn.
"Fuck this" I said and leaned in, kissing her hard on the lips, claiming those precious jewels for myself.
I then started kissing her down her jaw, on her neck.
I dragged my tongue along her tender skin, exploring her skin like it was the most delicious thing I had ever tasted, eliciting another moan from Sarah.
I heard the sound of a wine glass clattering to the floor and then her other hand pushed against my shoulders, but I didn’t care at this point. I nibbled and suckled at Sarah’s tender flesh, needing desperately to remind her that she was mine.
I pulled back and stared at those large brown eyes.
"You are the one who offered yourself up to me on a piece of paper, and you want to talk about having a thing for Ruby? To my face? After all that we’ve been through?” I asked
Sarah’s eyes went wide. “Chris…I’m sorry, I’m feeling really confused. I think it’s the wine, I’m sorry I shouldn’t have said that-“She started
“I have a request,” I said, cutting her off.
I could feel Sarah shudder in my grasp.
“Yes?” she responded meekly, her fingers digging into my shoulders, neither pushing or pulling, just simply, surrendering.
I leaned in close, “Let me kiss you,” I demanded, a breath away from her lips.
“Why-“ she started, but I cut her off with a deep kiss.
I let my tongue explore her mouth, drinking in the sweet and savory flavor that was pastry, wine, and sushi until I felt like I was drowning in Sarah’s sweet folds.
I drew back and found myself gazing down at a breathless, panting, and flushed Sarah. It was the most erotic sight I had ever seen.
“Chris, please, stop; you’re confusing me,” Sarah said, trying to wriggle her hand out of my grasp.
I released her and sat back on my heels.
Sarah immediately recoiled, pulling her hands to her chest as if she were reclaiming them while keeping her eyes locked on me. Her breath was coming out short, and as she licked her lips nervously.
God she looked so sexy.
I leaned forward again but kept my hands on my knees.
I didn't need to hold her to overpower her. I knew where she was weakest. I knew things about her that she didn't even know herself.
I raised a hand and placed it above her on the surface of the bed so that she was trapped between me and the bedframe, and I leaned in close so that my lips were at her ear.
“How am I confusing you? If you are under contract, I own you,” I whispered, and I could see Sarah visibly tremble as my breath caressed her ear. “And as long as I own you, I can do whatever I want, right?”
“No, but-“she started, as I licked her ear, “ Shouldn’t we talk about this?” Sarah gasped, turning her head away, shifting so that she was still under me, but her ear was angled away from my teasing lips.
“Ah…Chris. No..” she moaned and shuddered as I ran my fingers up her leg.
“If you keep making lewd sounds like that, I won’t be able to hold back any longer,” I growled, biting down on her tender neck once more, not enough to leave a mark, yet, but enough for her to feel it.
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