8. Rook

8

ROOK

“ D id something happen?” I asked.

Kitty stared up at me with those gorgeous turquoise eyes and my heart stood still. She shouldn’t have this kind of effect on me, and yet every time she looked at me, I was utterly transfixed. There was some sort of magnetic pull that latched onto me every time I was in her orbit, and I was not strong enough to resist.

“No, nothing happened,” Kitty replied after a few long seconds of silence. “I just needed to see you because…” She glanced over her shoulder, checking our surroundings, and then she stepped close to me. She placed one hand on my chest and her fingers slipped slightly into the gaps between my buttons. Her fingertips were a hairsbreadth from my skin, and the warmth of her palm seared right through me.

“Kitty,” I warned, watching her head tilt to the side and her blonde plait drape over her shoulder.

“What? You told me there was danger and then you rushed away. And all I could think about was something happening to you and I wouldn’t be able to help. What would I do then, if you weren’t around to protect me?”

“I am protecting you.”

“Not right then, you weren’t. You locked me away like I’d been a bad girl?—”

“Kitty!”

I grabbed her arm and pulled her inside the manor, slamming the door behind us. My heart was pounding, and blood was rushing around my head at the implications of her words. With Kitty in tow, I didn’t stop walking until we were in one of the empty lounges on the first floor. I kicked the door closed behind us and released her, but she didn’t step back from me.

“Kitty, you can’t talk like that, do you understand me? Someone might hear you.”

“So what if they do?” Kitty jutted her chin up and her eyes flashed as she stared at me. “I don’t care if they hear.”

“Well, I do. I could lose my job, do you understand that?”

“So what?” Her lips pouted slightly. “Then it wouldn’t be in the way.”

“Kitty—”

“No!” She snapped suddenly and placed both hands on my chest, shoving me as hard as she could. “Don’t Kitty me, okay? You… you haven’t even looked at me since that night, do you know that? Not in the same way, and I don’t understand why because you made a choice in that house. You chose to follow me and you chose to come into the shower and we had an amazing night! Or I thought we did, but now you’re back to acting like Mr. Robotic, like you have no feelings whatsoever or that you don’t give a shit about mine. And that hurts, y’know? It hurts that I put myself out there and you accepted, and now it’s like there’s some huge wall between us.”

I didn’t say a word as she suddenly unloaded everything that she’d been carrying since that night in the safe house. The only problem was that she seemed to have persuaded herself that the reason I was so distant was because I was a one-and-done kind of guy. That couldn’t be further from the truth, and my chest squeezed like a rubber band listening to her.

“So sue me for wanting to try and get some alone time together to see if I really was crazy or if I’m just chasing a dream, because I don’t like feeling used, okay?”

“Kitty!” I grasped her shoulders, leaning down to her height and looking her right in the eye. “You have it all wrong.”

She was panting slightly from her burst of speech after being dragged into the house. As we locked eyes, she slowly licked her lower lip and sighed. “Do I?”

“Yes.” The word barked out of me, tight and painful. “I… you have no idea how hard it is for me to be around you every day and have to stay away from you. But this, whatever this is? It can’t work. I had a moment of weakness and I shouldn’t have slept with you. Not because I don’t want to but because it’s so incredibly inappropriate.”

“I don’t think so,” Kitty replied sullenly. “How are two people consenting to be together inappropriate?”

“My job for one,” I said as calmly as I could manage. “My friendship with your father? The fact that I’m so much older than you? There’s too much at stake here, Kitty, and as much as I want… as much as I would love to give in to this insane hold you have over me, I can’t.”

“I’m twenty-six,” Kitty snapped back at me. “I’m more than old enough to make my own damn decisions. And friends with my father? He barely has friends, just people he likes to use. And your job to protect me makes it so much hotter. I don’t see these as a problem like you do. Do you think I’m too young for you? Is that it?”

“You are,” I replied in a softer tone. “I’m thirty-seven, Kitty. You should be with someone your own age, someone with shared?—”

“Don’t you dare stand there and tell me I should be with someone with shared life experience ,” she barked out, her eyes flashing with anger. “Look at my life. My upbringing. There’s no one in the world I can share this life experience with except, oh, I don’t know, the guards who live in the same world I do?”

It was tough to argue with her since my restraint stemmed from my moral obligations.

“Are you not attracted to me? Is that it? Was I just a–a pity fuck?”

“Don’t you dare say that,” I snapped, moving my hands to her arms and drawing her in a step closer. “I am incredibly attracted to you, Kitty, but there’s more than that to consider.”

“No, there isn’t.” Kitty suddenly surged forward, and I stepped back until I was pressed up against the wall. Before I could say anything else, her hand cupped my crotch and she groped me through my pants. “I want you. You make me feel alive, like everything isn’t so smothering, and I feel like you see me.”

I couldn’t breathe. Her hand cupped me so perfectly that even the slightest movement was sure to bring a rise out of me. So I remained frozen, holding my breath as I stared down into her gemstone eyes.

“Tell me you don’t feel the same.” Her voice dropped to a whisper. “Tell me you don’t want me like I want you.”

I knew I should tell her that.

I should put an end to this. She was my friend’s daughter, my charge and responsibility. But I couldn’t. I couldn’t lie to her when she was pouring her heart out to me.

I swallowed painfully and quickly wet my lips. “I can’t tell you that because it would be a lie,” I replied hoarsely.

“Then fuck everything else.” Kitty squeezed my soft cock and then dropped down to her knees in front of me, sending my heart rocketing into my throat.

“What are you doing?”

Kitty sent me a withering glance, then smirked. “Most guys don’t need to ask.”

The voice in my mind telling me to put a stop to this and recreate the boundaries between us fell silent when Kitty unbuckled my pants, pulled down the zipper, and freed my cock from the confines of my clothing. In just those few seconds, the brush of knuckles and fingertips against me had sent all my blood rushing south, and I was half hard when her warm hand circled me.

“Wow,” Kitty breathed out, and her breath ghosted hot and soft across my shaft. “Knowing this was inside me is kind of insane.”

“Bet you say that to all the guys,” I croaked out, unable to look away.

She looked up at me through her lashes and smirked. “Would you believe me if I said you were the first to impress me?”

I wanted to tell her yes. I wanted to ask her about the others. I wanted to say so many things, but before I could even take my next breath, Kitty placed her lips against my shaft and all coherent thoughts fled me. I pressed my shoulders back against the wall and balled up one hand at my side, unsure where I could touch.

Her hand curled around the base of my cock, and as she kissed from her knuckles up to my crown, blood pooled hot in my core. My cock hardened with each kiss, and when she kissed my crown, my length twitched in her palm.

“Excited?” she whispered, writing the words against my crown with her lips. Kiss after slow kiss was placed against the crown of my cock, then she kissed her way back down my length until her lips met her knuckles. Only then did I dare place my other hand on her head. She leaned into it, making a small, pleased noise in the back of her throat.

I didn’t guide her. I let her remain in control, and it was worth it because on her next path upward, she changed from lips to tongue. She slowly licked a hot, wet line up the underside of my shaft where everything was much more sensitive. My hips jolted forward slightly with a mind of their own. She reached my crown and used her tongue to pay particular attention to the sensitive bundle of nerves just beneath the tip. My cock throbbed, and all the muscles in my abdomen pulled tight.

“Fuck,” I gasped, lifting my free fist to my mouth. I had to be quiet. I couldn’t imagine the scandal if we were caught. Unable to take my eyes off Kitty, I watched as she lapped quickly at the beading precum glistening at the crown of my cock. Every stroke of her hot tongue was delicious torture.

Then Kitty parted her lips and slid a good few inches of my cock into her hot mouth, and I was lost to her.

She immediately set up a swift rhythm, bobbing her head back and forth down my cock while her hand worked on stroking the inches she hadn’t placed into her mouth. Each hot downward stroke had her tongue dancing across my shaft, then she hollowed her cheeks and sucked hard on each upward stroke.

I was a weak man and I was not going to last under such divine attention.

“Kitty,” I moaned out, muffling my words with my own fingers. She didn’t pay me any attention, focusing instead on her act. Pulse after pulse of heat worked its way down my body, flooding my balls with a throbbing, tightening need to reach my end.

Then Kitty moved her hand from my cock to my balls as she sank forward and took my length right into her throat.

“Shit,” I gasped, curling forward as a wave of pleasure punched through me. I flexed my fingers on the back of her head, fighting the urge to take over and fuck her throat until I found my orgasm. I knew she’d get me there.

She gently rolled my balls in her palm, kneading back and forth as she took me as deep into her throat as she could manage. The heat was intense, and the rippling muscles made the silky stroke of her throat all the hotter as she choked slightly.

Then Kitty swallowed around me, and my vision whited out. I came immediately with a muffled cry as my hips jolted forward. No one had ever done that to me before but the hot tightening of muscle around my cock with the teasing of my balls and the sound she made were the most erotic things I had ever experienced.

My cock twitched and throbbed while pulse after pulse of cum flooded down Kitty’s throat. She gripped my thigh with one hand and swallowed one more time, then she pulled back and off my cock with a loud, wet gasp.

“Holy shit,” I gasped. My voice trembled almost as much as my thighs did, and I sagged a few inches down the wall.

“Good?” Kitty asked, staring up at me through sparkling lashes. She brushed the corner of her mouth where some cum had leaked and sucked it off, then she pressed a sweet kiss to my softening cock.

“So fucking good,” I croaked. “How did you… I mean, that was… I have no words.”

“I know.” When Kitty stood, she had the proudest smile on her face. “Just think, you almost passed up on that.”

I lifted my head and looked into her gorgeous eyes, then I slid my hand from the back of her head to the back of her neck and pulled her in for a deep, desperate kiss.

She was right. I did almost pass up on that.

At that moment, I knew I wouldn’t ever be able to say no to her.

I was completely and utterly hooked.

And if she was happy, then I was still doing my job, right?