Bondage Unlimited
A Totally Bound Publication
Bondage Unlimited
ISBN #
978-1-78430-495-9
©Copyright Tori Carson 2015
Cover Art by Posh Gosh ©Copyright March 2015
Edited by Jennifer Douglas
Totally Bound Publishing
This is a work of fiction. All characters, places and events are from the author’s imagination and should not be confused with fact. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, events or places is purely coincidental.
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Published in 2015 by Totally Bound Publishing,
Newland House, The Point, Weaver Road, Lincoln, LN6 3QN
Totally Bound Publishing is a subsidiary of Totally Entwined Group Limited.
Warning:
This book contains sexually explicit content which is only suitable for mature readers. This story has a
heat rating
of
Totally Burning
and a
Sexometer
of
2.
Desired Discipline
BONDAGE UNLIMITED
Tori Carson
Book six in the Desired Discipline series
After Eva gave Giovanni her love and virginity, he was gone. Now he’s back and the torch burns hotter than ever. But can love grow without trust?
Back in college, it wasn’t love at first sight. Though Eva Anderson was attracted to the sexy, confident Giovanni Parma, she didn’t trust anyone easily. Gio patiently worked past her every defense. He wooed his way into her heart and her pants. Then, the next morning, he was gone.
Gio knew early on he was a kinky SOB. It was just his luck to fall in love with a straight-laced, vanilla kind of girl. He tried hard to curb his baser instincts—she deserved a romantic, gentle man—but he just couldn’t do it. He knew if he stayed, he’d lead her down his own dark path.
When a chance meeting thrusts them together again, neither can deny the instant and intense magnetism sparking between them. A little older and wiser, Eva decides to explore her sexual fantasies with the ex love of her life. His untamed, no-holds-barred manner of sex wins Gio a place in her bed, but she refuses to let him anywhere near her heart.
Gio must prove he’s worthy of a second chance both in and out of the bedroom.
Dedication
How do you thank someone who has more faith in you than you have in yourself? The mere words
thank you
barely scratch the surface, but every day I say them and I mean them. This book is dedicated to that wonderful man—my best friend, my lifemate and my husband.
Trademarks Acknowledgement
The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of the following wordmarks mentioned in this work of fiction:
Band-Aid: Johnson & Johnson
Sweetheart candied hearts: Necco
Jell-O:Kraft
Coke: Coca-Cola
Escalade: General Motors
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going
(Billy Ocean):
Wayne Anton Brathwaite, Barry James Eastmond, Mutt Lange,Billy Ocean.
Chapter One
As the music started and the wedding party began to take their places, Giovanni Parma couldn’t believe his eyes. His attention should have been on his sister, Adriana. It was, after all, her big day, yet his gaze was fixated on her bridesmaid.
She couldn’t possibly be the same woman he’d fallen in love with back in college. The same woman that he dreamed of night after night and the same woman who he’d run out on the day after he’d taken her virginity.
His brother Alex elbowed him in the ribs. “What’s your problem? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.”
“Who is that girl?” He tipped his chin in the girl’s direction and whispered as calmly as he could manage.
Alex shrugged. “Some friend of Adriana’s. I think she’s the bartender at DiscipliNation.”
Gio’s eyes went wide. “The bartender at a kink club?” He scrutinized the woman again. “No way. What’s her name?”
André, his sister Adriana’s soon-to-be husband, was one of the founding partners of DiscipliNation, a chain of sex clubs and a highly profitable sex-toy line.
“What the fuck’s your problem? Did you forget what we do for a living, asshole? Don’t be judging her.” Alex shoved him hard and scooted away from him on the church pew.
His brother didn’t understand and he wasn’t about to explain it to him. Not here anyway, in the middle of his sister’s wedding ceremony. Gio couldn’t care less what she did for a living. He just found it hard to believe that the girl he’d known in college would go anywhere near a sex club. She wasn’t like that.
The girl turned her head and looked as if she was scanning the bride’s side of the aisle. He felt her gaze fall on him and he froze like a deer in the headlights. He would have crawled under the pew and hidden, if it hadn’t already been too late.
There was no doubt about it. Eva Anderson was only a few dozen feet away, breathing the same air and smiling at him sadly.
Fuck.
Her long blonde hair, tiny waist and deep blue eyes he’d never forget. Especially her eyes. So expressive. Six years ago, they’d been wary but optimistic. Now, they just looked sad, resigned even.
How in the hell had she gone from majoring in education to tending bar at a kink club?
He had the sickening feeling he’d played a role in the switch.
Wait a minute… W
hy wasn’t she shocked to see him?
He hadn’t been around much since his sister had started dating André, and if Adriana knew about the connection between Gio and Eva, she would have said something. Lots of somethings. Lots of loud, ugly somethings. And he would have deserved every last one of them.
Alex nudged him. “She cleans up well, doesn’t she?”
“She’s stunning.” But she always had been. He would sit in class and stare at her, unable to draw his gaze away.
“Our sister, you dolt! Who the fuck is this girl that has your tongue dragging the ground? You’re embarrassing me, bro. You act like you’ve never seen a woman before,” his brother ridiculed him.
Gio ignored Alex. He was just talking shit anyway and Gio had better things to think about—like what to do about Eva. Beautiful, innocent, straight-laced Eva, now working in a kink club.
He’d known he’d screwed up, had regretted it every day since, but until now, he’d had no idea how much. Emotions he’d thought long buried came crashing back. She was even more beautiful than he remembered but just as unattainable. Eva was so far out of his league, he couldn’t believe she’d ever given him the time of day.
Gio had been attracted to her looks at first. He hadn’t thought it would be hard to get what he wanted. She was a fish out of water, quiet and shy, keeping to herself. She hadn’t seemed to have a social life. When she hadn’t been in class, she’d been studying or doing volunteer work. The more he’d learned about her, the more intrigued he’d become. She’d been unlike any girl he’d ever known.
Eva had been homeschooled and raised in a strict environment. She’d been the first woman in her family to go to college. It was a responsibility she hadn’t taken lightly. She’d acted like the future of every woman in her family counted her on doing well.
“Hello?” Alex waved a hand in front of Gio’s face.
Gio looked around. Everyone was standing, but him.
Shit
! Eva really had him rattled. How in the hell was he going to face her?
* * * *
Eva had known that Gio would be at the wedding. How could he not attend his sister’s big day? Yet, she hadn’t expected it to affect her so. She’d come to terms with him leaving long ago—or so she’d thought.
One look at his handsome face, dark hair and striking ebony eyes, and it had all come flooding back.
She’d tried for so long to resist him, but he’d gotten around her every defense. He’d been the perfect man, kind and funny. She’d envied his confidence and his ease with people.
College had been her first experience in the real world and she hadn’t managed it well. Socially awkward, didn’t come close to describing how she’d felt back then. In the years since, she’d learned a lot. She could speak in public without breaking into a sweat. She knew how to sip tea without slurping and how to shoot whiskey without choking. Which utensil to use at a fancy dinner no longer threw her, but facing Gio sure did.
Thankfully, she wasn’t the maid of honor and her duties consisted of ‘stand there and smile’. It was about all she was capable of right now. Her legs were shaking so badly, she feared the audience would hear her knees knocking.
This sudden case of nerves could only mean one thing—she still loved him. How fucked up was that? He’d made it obvious that she wasn’t the woman for him. He’d quit school, given up a free ride scholarship to Columbia, just to get away from her. It didn’t get any clearer than that.
Her heart might be flawed, but worthless organ that it was, it could just get the hell over it. She was using her brain from here on out. She’d be polite… Distant, but polite.
The music began playing again. André and Adriana walked back down the aisle, this time as husband and wife. It was nice to see that someone’s dreams really did come true. Gloria, Adriana’s sister, and Ted Stevens, one of the three owners of DiscipliNation, went next. Eva turned and took the arm of Nick Branson, the third club owner and good friend of André Devereaux.
She’d been disillusioned when she’d arrived in Phoenix. Watching these strong men lose their shit after finding the women that would eventually become their wives left Eva aching for a man who could love her.
Maybe she needed to start dating. That cute coach might be worth a try. Since the men from her evening job reminded her too much of Gio, maybe she should give the guys from her day job a chance. Shame they left her cold.
“Penny for your thoughts,” Nick whispered as they stood in the receiving line, smiling and shaking hands with the guests.
“They’re not worth that much, Nick.” She sent him a wink, wishing she wasn’t so easy to read.
