He does do it again, wearing a frankly malicious look of glee on his face. My legs spasm, wanting to curl upward to protect me—I can’t help it—and he shakes his head in mock disapproval. It’s perfectly fucking clear that he knew I’d react, and was, in fact, counting on it.
“Oh, dear,” he breathes. “Looks like you’re gonna get punished now.” He grips hold of the clamp in his hand and a charge of intense sensation smashes into me as I try and move away from him. I instantly still, realizing that if I move, the clamp gets tugged. With one arm, Zeth scoops me up from the bed underneath my stomach and turns to sit, pulling me into his lap. I instinctively wrap my arms around his neck to maintain my balance. His face is an inch away from mine, the heated skin of his chest burning into me, and the hardness of his erection prodding into me when he says, “You want the belt or my hand?”
“What?”
He gives me a look that tells me not to bother with any theatrics. “Belt or hand, Sloane? Your choice.” He reaches between my legs, fingers finding the place where the metal meets my clit. He rubs softly, massaging the connection, gifting me with more pleasure than pain this time. He smirks wickedly when he lifts his fingers up for me to see that they’re slick with the evidence that I’m not hating this as much as I’m pretending. Not for the first time, he slips his fingers into his mouth and sucks them clean, his breathing fast and labored.
“Make up your mind or I’ll choose for you,” he advises through his rough voice.
“Hand,” I whisper. “Use your hand.” Maybe if he punishes me with that then he’ll go a little easier on me, I reason. It will hurt him, too. In the blink of an eye he spins me over on his lap so I’m facing the floor, bent over his knees, my butt sticking up in the air. He seems to like that very much; his hand cups my ass cheek, squeezing and stroking across the smooth skin.
“Perfect,” he informs me. He takes hold of the clamp’s handles between my legs and gives it a gentle tug. More of a suggestion of what can be done than anything else. Fire pools in my belly, teasing a low moan out of my throat. It feels…it feels amazing. And scary. And painful. And so many other things all at once that I can’t bend my mind around the sensations flooding through me.
But then everything goes blank as his hand comes down on my bare buttocks with a resounding crack! I’ve never really understood the term seeing stars until this moment. This moment when Zeth lays his huge, powerful hand to the tender skin of my bottom and means it. Yes, it must sting his hand, too, but that doesn’t stop him. He gives me four more painful slaps, each time holding his breath. I’m too stunned to move, or even react at first. He tempers the tingling sting by sliding his fingers between my legs and running them up and down my pussy, stroking over my clit and easing them farther back, so that my wetness saturates my ass as well. He kneads me slowly, whispering encouragement.
“There’s my brave girl. Such a brave girl. Are you going to be good now? Have you learned your lesson?”
The whole act is humiliating. I’m on the brink of tears, but also so ferociously desperate for him that I can barely stop myself from pivoting around and launching at him. I make a rasping sound at the back of my throat and Zeth lifts me in his arms and places me back down on the bed.
“That was five,” he says, like the pain may have addled my ability to count. “Next time it’ll be ten. You ready?”
I swallow, still not sure how the hell to react. And then I nod. Zeth strokes a hand down the inside of my leg in a soothing motion, almost apologetically. “Good girl.” He bends down and nestles in between my legs, propping himself up on one elbow as he ducks his head down and finally sweeps his warm, almost unbearably hot tongue between my pussy lips, pausing to tease the tip of it over my hypersensitive clit. A juddering roll of pleasure powers upward from my legs, settling on my chest, making my nipples ache.
“Ahh!”
Zeth hums his approval into me as he carries on, working his tongue over my center. I gasp when he gently flicks the clamp again, but this time it’s changed. There’s no real pain now, or there is but it’s so delicious and intoxicating when combined with his mouth that it heightens the feeling to something I’ve never experienced before. I feel drunk from it.