Diamond (Rare Gems #2)(22)
“Hello.” He pulled her into his arms and kissed her. She was wrapping her arms around his neck and pulling him closer to her when she heard someone clear their throat. Diamond looked at Blair.
“For as much as it makes me happy that you’ve found your mate and all, Sapphire and I have work to do.” Blair moved to the newly installed coffee machine and started it up as he continued. “I’m assuming you’re going back now, Thad. Can’t say that I’ll be sad to see you go, but we need to figure out what do to with your relationship with my sister.”
“I’m not leaving.” Everyone turned to look at Thad. “I may have to go back for a few days now and then, but I’m not leaving her, nor will I take her from her family. I have a feeling it would never work anyway.”
He took the platter of bacon and ham from her and put it on the table. Thad smiled at her as he gave her a quick kiss on the mouth and sat down. No one moved as Thad continued.
“I was wrong. On a great many levels, but saying the things I did hurt you all, and I’m profoundly sorry for that.” He got up and shoved her in a chair before getting her cup of tea and setting it beside her plate. “I don’t know how this will work out, but I’d very much like to live here until we can find a place of our own. There are a great many houses around the area that are—”
“You’re not living here.” Blair flushed and lowered his voice as he continued. “I mean you can visit, but I don’t think it will work out with you living here and us being on opposite side of things with this vegetable tray.”
“Have you sold the idea yet?” Blair looked at Sapphire, then back at Thad before he shook his head. “Good. I would very much like to go back to the drawing board with this. I don’t mean your end, but on my end. I want to start a production company here that would mass produce the containers as well as the fluid containers that Sapphire and I talked about before.”
“You think that just because you saved Diamond that you can simply waltz right back in here as if nothing happened?” Blair sat down and slammed his cup on the table, sloshing coffee everywhere as he continued. “It doesn’t work that way, buddy. I have my reputation to uphold, as well as Sapphire. You can’t be seriously thinking we’d want to work with—”
“How many people would you hire for startup?” Blair huffed at Sapphire when she cut him off. “Think about it for a minute. Where will we be if he decides to move to Texas and takes my sister with him? Or better yet, what will happen to the others of our pack if something doesn’t happen soon with the job situation here?”
“I can’t go to Texas.” Everyone looked at her. “I’m not sure we’ll be able to make this thing between us work out, but I’m not moving again. I don’t want to…. What if things don’t work out between us? Then I’m stuck all the way across the United States and no one to help me come back.”
“You’re not going to have to worry about this between us. I realize what we did yesterday was big, huge really, and I’m not going to let you get away from me again. I’ll make this work.” She was shaking her head at him when he continued. “We’ll make this work. And as soon as possible I want to be changed…converted, I think they called it.”
She sat there playing with her food as the rest of them talked. Argued really, but she didn’t listen in. He wanted to make this work, and she was afraid he would too. Diamond didn’t want a mate that would hurt her when he was pissed off, nor did she want one that thought he could dominate her either. When his hand touched her thigh, she stilled.
We need to find us a home so that when you make me scream out my climax, I don’t have to worry about others hearing me. Diamond felt her body heat at his words. I’ve also made a few calls before coming down here. There are two bondage shops, as well as a club here in town. I’d very much like to take you there tonight. I want you to enjoy my dominating you as much as I do. I want you to keep an open mind and let me show you what pleasures there are for us. Can you do that for me?
And if I don’t like it, will you drop me again like I’m a diseased animal? The words were out before she could stop them, and when his hand squeezed her thigh, she looked at him as the others stepped out of the kitchen. She wondered how they knew but right now didn’t care.
I won’t do that to you ever again. I swear to you. But if you don’t like what we do in the bedroom, I’ll understand, but I’m betting you will. Very much so. Thad turned in his seat and took both her hands and spoke aloud to her. “You came hard last night because you let me dominate you. If you don’t want this lifestyle, we can make love like other couples. But once you let me show you, you’ll see.”
Would she? Did she really want to? He leaned in and took her mouth for a slow and very thorough kiss. When he cupped the back of her head and pulled her closer, she was suddenly sitting over him on his lap. He never stopped kissing her as he lifted her tee-shirt up and cupped her breast. Moisture pooled between her thighs, and she tried to squirm around so that he wouldn’t smell her.
“Don’t do that.” His hand between her legs had her rolling her hips up to meet him. “I’d very much like to lay you over this table and eat you.”
“They’ll hear us.” Diamond didn’t recognize her own voice as he continued to torment her nipple through her bra. When he leaned her back and she touched the table, he lifted her bra up and took her breast into his mouth, and she knew she was going to come like this.