The Drake Unwound Complete Collection (The Drake Series Book 9)(3)

She examined me from the corner of her eye. "But do you lose interest once you've conquered?"

That was a surprise and I frowned, wanting her to explain.

“Once your adversary has surrendered,” she said. “When there's nothing left to tame?"

I shook my head. "The wise general never totally destroys the spirit of the conquered. What good is a razed and barren landscape?"

She leaned her head against my chest. "Will you go off looking for new lands to conquer once you've subdued your current target?"

I pulled away and looked down at her, surprised she was so insecure.

"Kate…"

"Well, when you put it that way, it got me thinking."

I led her over to the couch in the living room and sat down, pulling her down to sit on my lap, the way we sat that first night in November. I wanted to remind her that I was the Dominant and she was supposed to not think. Especially not overthink, which she had a tendency to do.

"I was just playing around."

She nodded, but I knew that wasn’t enough.

"Kate, you're not merely a submissive to me,” I said. “I love you. I want to be with you. Not only as your Dom but as your partner. I'm old enough to know when I've found what I need to make me happy. I have found it.” I stroked her cheek with the backs of my fingers, searching her face for understanding. Acceptance that I was telling her the truth. “I'm not going to grow bored with you. I want you to stay who you are. I don't want a footstool. I thought you understood."

"I do, but it's every woman's insecurity." Her cheeks were pink and it wasn’t the cold. She was embarrassed by her insecurity. It made my heart melt even more.

"Shh," I said, a finger against her lips. "You are completely everything I want and need. You're beautiful, intelligent, warm, loving and submissive sexually underneath all the questioning and resistance. You don't have to worry."

"We hardly know each other," she said, still not convinced.

I knew that words weren’t enough. I had to show her. She had to feel it, but that would take time.

"I know you, Kate," I said, kissing her cheek. "You don't easily hide your emotions. You question everything, so I know where your mind is. I know you."

She sighed and leaned her head against my shoulder, giving in just a bit. She said nothing for a while and we sat there in each other’s embrace, the warmth of our bodies mingling. But I knew she was still doubting everything. I knew her mind was going somewhere it shouldn’t.

"Stop," I said, tilting her chin up so that she had to look into my eyes. "I know what's going on in that mind of yours. This is a big commitment, but don't you feel the way I do? That this is exactly what you want and need?"

"Yes," she said and she said it without hesitation.

"Good." I kissed her softly, my gaze moving over her face, her large green eyes, her smooth skin, her lush mouth. I stroked her cheek, and touched the choker I gave her as a Christmas present, before letting my fingers drop to her cleavage. "I want us to be happy and enjoy ourselves tonight, with your father and Elaine but also as a couple. Until they arrive, we're in scene and I want your total submission to me. No questions. No more doubt."

I ran my hand along her leg, from her knee to her thigh. I slipped my hand under the hem of her dress, searching out the tops of her seamed stockings to the clasps of her garter belt.

"Mmm," I said, murmuring against her throat, my cock thickening at the feel of the lace against her creamy skin. "Just what the doctor ordered."

She smiled and closed her eye. "Your wish is my command."


I pressed her down on the couch, lying between her thighs. Could there be anything better than that position? A beautiful woman beneath you, her eyes closed, her mouth open, ready, waiting for you to kiss her?

I reached down and ran my fingers over her garters and the tops of her stockings, loving the contrast between the lace and her milky thighs. My fingers found her *, slipping between her folds and inside her warm wetness, my cock jerking in response. Beneath me, Kate moaned and pressed her hips up, against my fingers. I kissed her deeply, searching her mouth, sucking in her tongue. I pulled back, and my eyes moved over her from her face to her breasts to her *, my fingers penetrating her.

"Nice and wet already," I said approvingly. "It'll be hard to last through the night with you like that."

She lay with her eyes closed. "All you have to do is talk to me and I'm ready. In fact," she added. "I only have to think of you."

I bent down and kissed her neck, smiling at her admission.

"That's an awful lot of power," I said playfully. "I like it, being a Dom and all." I grinned and abruptly sat up, pulling my hand from between her thighs and beneath her dress. I stood and helped her up and she was a bit unstable so I steadied her.

"So, what are your plans?” she asked. “Are you going to make me so aroused before dinner that I can't focus and I sit there like a rag doll in front of my parents?"

"Oh, I have so many plans, Ms. Bennet," I said and pulled her to the entry, where I picked up her coat and held it out. "You'll just have to be a good submissive and wait to find out." I opened my eyes wide at that, reminding her that she was supposed to be in sub mode.