My hips stop punching up, my hands pausing on their lift. I raise a hand and fist her hair, tugging her face to the side. She hisses out a breath that turns into a groan.
“You need this?” I say, pinning my hips against hers, keeping my fingers threaded through her hair so she will look me in the eye. “Need to be punished?”
Her throat bobs, and I see a flicker of something in her gilded depths. “Yes…”
I thrust into her in a slow drag that makes her eyes roll back.
“Well, guess what?” I say, bringing her lips close enough to mine that I can sip in her exhales. “You don’t deserve punishment, Auren.”
She goes stiff in my arms, eyes widening.
“I see you.” I start fucking into her slow and steady, just as I slowly release her hair and instead bring my hand between us to stroke her clit. “You need an escape? You need me to make you feel good? I can fucking do that.”
I punctuate my words with my fingers rubbing against her, making her shake, her teeth biting down on her glistening lip.
“Listen to me,” I command, making her watery eyes latch onto mine. “You don’t deserve punishment for anything. You deserve reward.” A sob churns out of her, and I don’t need her to say a thing, because I see it all there in her eyes. “I will drive myself so far into you all you’ll feel is pleasure for how fucking glorious you are as you burn for me. But there will be no punishment.”
A golden tear drops from her lid and falls on my chest, soaking into the fabric of my shirt.
Before she can let out a protest, I sit us down on the ground. I lie beneath her, my cock notched so deep inside her that she lets out a whimper. But from this angle, she can be in charge. “I’m going to thumb your clit and make you scream, proving to you that you’re a goddess who takes her pleasure because that is what you deserve,” I growl out. “Now ride me.”
Her palms press against my chest, and with an angry glare, she starts lifting her body and then slamming back down on me hard and fast, her pace relentless, her expression determined. But all the while, I just stroke her clit with slow, smooth movements, circling her nerves and waiting.
Waiting.
Another frustrated tear slips down her cheek, and she looks down at me with anger burnishing her cheeks. “Fuck me,” she says.
“I will,” I tell her. “As soon as it’s about your pleasure and not your punishment.”
She slaps her hands down on my chest hard. “I need to be punished!” she snarls, chest heaving, aura flaring.
“Why.”
It’s not a question, it’s a demand.
Her expression falters. “Because I…I…”
I sit up fast enough that she sucks in a shocked breath, my cock angling deep. “I’ll tell you what you did. You finally broke free and you conquered.”
She stares at me like I’m her lifeline. Like I’m her only hope of not being torn to shreds. But I will always ground her. I will always remind her of who she is.
Because I see her. I always fucking have.
I wrap my hand around her throat, my other hand still stroking her clit, slipping through the wet desire she’s gushing. I make my grip just tight enough to cause the slightest restraint to her breaths. The moment I do, her chest heaves faster, more moisture slicking from her pussy, pupils blowing wide. “The only thing I would ever punish you for is the way you tried to give up on me.”
Her pulse slams against her veins, and she lets out a small, shaky noise. I tighten my grip and thrust my hips up into her, making her shudder and moan.
“You’ll never give up like that again, will you, baby? You’ll never let your power overwhelm you.” I thrust again, hips snapping up and making her gasp out my name. “You’re going to remember who you are and how fucking powerful you are, and you will not—ever—fucking—give—in—again.” Every word is a thrust, every letter a faster stroke over her clit.
“Say it,” I demand, my growl vibrating against her ear. I want to consume her. Bury myself so far into her that she will feel me forever, sear my words into her thoughts.
“I won’t ever give in again,” she cries. “Slade, please.”
Bliss to my ears.
My fingers rub over her clit, my speed a blur. My hips punch up again and again, making her mouth drop open in a scream that echoes through the cave.
“Come, baby. Take your pleasure on my cock and fucking flood me with it.”
Her orgasm seems to implode.
I feel her body clamp down on my cock, and my thrusts stutter. She calls out my name, shaking all over, her pussy surging with wet heat that sends me right over the edge with her. “Good fucking girl.”