I nod to Edward, who is holding the door open for us, then slide in, the pearls moving with me. I can’t control the little gasp of pleasure that escapes me, but I settle into my seat and try to look nonchalant.
Damien eases in next to me and rests his hand on my knee. “Did you say something, Ms. Fairchild?”
“No. Nothing.” I clear my throat. It feels very, very warm in here. “So, where are we going?”
“It’s a charity function,” he says.
“Mmm.” I am so not interested. I’m also so, so aroused. Playing coy might be fun, but the fun is starting to turn into self-torture. “What charity?” I ask. “Any chance you could just write them a very big check and we can go to the house? Or your apartment? Or right here? Here is good, actually.”
What started as a grin on Damien’s perfect lips has turned into a full-blown chuckle. He reaches for the console and pushes the button to raise the privacy screen. “As a matter of fact, here is very good.”
Oh, thank God …
“I think you have something to tell me, Ms. Fairchild.” His eyes are dark and hungry.
I shift away from him, which considering the pearls isn’t the best idea. He sees my reaction and the corner of his mouth twitches. He’s enjoying my torment, the rotten bastard.
“Well?”
“I—I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
He slides closer to me and takes my hand. He guides it to my thigh, then eases my skirt up just enough to reveal the band of my stocking. “You glow when you’re aroused,” he says. “I’ve told you that before. It’s an incredible turn-on.”
“Oh.” The word slips out of me like a wisp of cloud.
“Did you do this, baby?” he asks, guiding my hand higher. Tracing over my scars, finding that soft, tender spot where my thigh meets my sex. “Did you touch yourself before I came over?” He slides my hand over my sex. I’m slick with desire. He guides me to the pearls, then curves my fingers so that I’m caressing them as he moves my hand up and down, up and down. “Did you play with your clit? Did you think of me?”
“Yes,” I whisper, as his hand continues to control my finger.
“Did you read my note?”
“Yes.” I squirm as our joined hands continue to tease me. I am desperately, achingly hot for him.
“Yes, what?”
I fight not to smile and end up gasping. “Yes, sir.”
“What did it say?”
“Not to touch myself.” I tilt my head so that I’m looking straight into his eyes. My skin is burning, my dress clinging to me from the sheen of sweat our heat has generated. “You said that was your privilege.”
“And why is it my privilege?”
I’m so desperate for him I can barely speak. “Because I’m yours.”
“That’s right.” Slowly, he thrusts two fingers inside of me. I bite my lip so as not to cry out, silently begging him to just fuck me right then.
He doesn’t. Instead he pulls out, then gently takes both our hands away, sliding out from under my skirt. I actually whimper. “You broke the rules, Ms. Fairchild. What happens to girls who break the rules?”
I shift my hips, letting the pearls continue the work that our hands were doing. “They’re punished.”
He casts his eyes down toward my crotch. “I think you better sit still, Ms. Fairchild.”
“Damien,” I beg.
He bends over and slides his hands down into the bodice of my dress. His fingers find my very erect, very sensitive nipples, and twists them. Not hard enough to hurt—but just barely. I gasp as a fresh wave of pleasure breaks through me.
“Do you like that?”
“Oh, yes.”
He keeps one hand on my breast. With the other, he pulls out the lacquered chopstick I’d used to hold up my hair. It falls in loose curls to my shoulders. He runs the strands through his hands and breathes in the scent of my shampoo.
“I’m crazy about your hair,” he says, then takes a handful and tugs my head back so that I’m looking up at him. His mouth brushes over mine. My lips are parted, ready for his kiss, but he’s only teasing me. Torturing me.