Dark Demands 02: Made to Submit (3 page)

I’ll take good care of her,” he promised Grace.  “Perhaps not an ideal solution to my problem but time away will ensure secrecy and keep Gina out of Carlotti’s clutches too,” he explained.  “
I don’t have a lot of choice.  You have to understand
I’m just one very nervous businessman with a new product about to hit the market and every rival company you can name is trying desperately to get a sneaky peek.”

Grace nodded, she understood and she knew too that both
Carlotti and Spence would happily play on
Gina’s
emotions and give
her
anything
she
asked for in return for the information
she had
. 
Grace Deverell could only hope that Dark meant what he’
d said but nonetheless would Gina
really be safe with him?   And when she went over the events of the last few days, she realised that Gina was quite badly smitten with the man.   That was a dimension that would only make Gina more hot tempered and emotional than usual.  Hopefully wrestling with her feelings wouldn’t get her into any more trouble.

The
London
traffic seemed lighter on the return journey and it wasn’t long before
Matthew
swung into the hotel’s underground car park.  He took her case and led the way to the lift. 

“I keep a suitcase with the basics already packed,” he told her going straight to the bedroom.  “So I just need a few extras and some papers then
I’m ready
.”

Gina hung back, watching him from the bedroom doorway. 
Was she doing the right thing?  He wanted her and she wanted him but that want was very different.  She wanted his lovemaking, plain, simple sex - he wanted to possess her – make her submit – dominate her.  Whatever happened between them next would be orchestrated entirely by Matthew and her needs wouldn’t even figure. 
Her eyes were constantly being drawn to the huge silk covered bed.  She couldn’t help it; it dominated the room and fired her imagination with all sorts of weird images. 

“
Come on in,” he invited holding out a hand to her while
put
ting
paperwork in a briefcase
with the other one
.

He watched her flush and turn her face away from him.  He
could guess what was going on in that pretty head of hers.
  Every flicker of her big, blue eyes, every give away movement of her body spoke volumes. 
She wanted him and despite the resistance and the
earlier
attitude she’d
made the decision to submit.  The realisation made him stiffen, he needed her and soon.

The t
ime
had finally come
to start training
the lovely
Miss Deverell. 

Over the coming weeks he intended to train her, mould her into the yielding creature he demanded all his women became. 
Despite her defian
t nature
she would give in to that burning need and became as submissive as all the rest had been
b
ecause she
couldn’t resist him.  As these thoughts filled his head he f
elt an all too familiar stiffening assert itself again
.  He
wanted her - wanted to possess her so much it hurt.

Now that he’d made his mind up he couldn’t resist, the urge was too strong. Dark left the bedroom for a moment and
made sure he’d
locked the penthouse door and on his return he threw his suit jacket and tie onto the sofa in the sitting room.

“
Perhaps what we should do is
just cool things for a while,” she told him as he returned. 
Why oh why did you
say that
. She chastised herself.
“You have issues about what I did, and that’s understandable, so it would seem a good idea
to
perhaps to take things slow and try to build our relationship again, from scratch,” she paused for a few seconds,
her mind in a turmoil and
considering her next words carefully.   “I think it would be better for both of us if we work really hard at keeping a degree of emotional distance.”

“Emotional distance,” he echoed her words and chuckled softly.  “You can certainly rely on that from me, Gina.” 

Gina heaved a sigh of relief. 
So he was thinking along the same lines too. 
Their relationship might be hot and frantic but both of them were hurtling into something that could spiral out
of control – well it could for
her certainly.

He gave her a quick smile that Gina took to be his agreement and then
began to search through the clothes and papers strewn around the room
until finally he found a pair of scissors and tossed them on the bed
along side the cuffs and the rope.

“You can’t just leave those thing
s
there, so get rid of them” she said watching
the scissors land
and nodding towards the bed.  “The cuffs I mean, at least stash them somewhere out of sight.”

“Making you nervous are they Gina?”   He asked scooping up the cuffs and the rope and dangling them tantalisingly in front of her face

“No they’re not but you can’t just leave them lying on the bed for the staff to find.  So put them away.
Matthew
,” she insisted.

“OK, you’re probably right
but before I do
I really must insist you try them.”

He had that look on his face again, that ‘
you’ll do as I say and no arguments
’
look.  Gina’s body reacted immediately
.  Her
nerve ends tingled
and she felt her nipple
s
tighten
with excitement.  He was doing it again.

“I know you
’re nervous but you do
want
to try them?”  He teased.  “
You want to know what it would be like to have me take you while you’
re helpless,” he told her darkly.
  “You want to know how you’d react as I do what I want to your body while you lie there u
nable to stop me,” he enticed
.  “Can you imagine it, Gina, my hands exploring, stroking – my eyes looking everywhere at every last centimetre of you?”

Gina’s heart pounded and her skin pinked again at the thought. 
His voice was soft and sexy. The picture, the description he’d just painted for her was so alluring that, despite her embarrassment, she couldn’t refuse him.

“
But
whether you agree or not
I must insist that you do as you’re told
,” he said taking one of
her small wrists in his hand.
“
Because I know
you want to explore
the more dangerous, erotic
side of your sexuality,
don’t you
Gina?”

That idea sent an electric flare of the sweetest pleasure through her body and unable to stop herself she reached out and touched
the cuffs
. 
What was she doing?  Another flash o
f excitement plunged from her brain to her belly
followed by the irresistible urge.  Reaching out she
felt the coldness of the steel against her fingertips and wondered, with a shudder, if it was a reflection of his heart.  A terrifying thought if that was so and she snatched her hand away.

“Every time you’ve kissed me so far,
Matthew
you’ve rendered me helpless so I don’t see
what difference the cuffs will
make.”

“So it’s no big deal then, is it? 
He parried.  “
But there’ll be no arguments about this,” he told her.  “I know there’s a
n
urgent
need teasing round your body,” he tempted with that enigmatic smile on his lips. 

H
ow did he know, how does he always know, Gina wondered.  Lo
oking up into his handsome face
she knew she was lost.  She was drowning in those dark eyes and she was sure his seductive voice was capable of hypnotising her into doing anything he asked.  His eyes stared back at her mysterious as ever and hiding what turmoil of emotions, Gina couldn’t tell.  And although she suspected
Matthew
Dark had a problem with women she couldn’t help herself.  Since that first meeting in his office her body had clamoured for his touch incessantly. Perhaps the time ha
d come to admit this
and accept his embrace in whatever way he chose to give it.

He smiled at her again, a more calculated and colder smile this time an
d reached out for her hand
.  All the
while he held her hazy
blue eyes with his
clear,
dark ones.  Gina moaned softly as he put her fingers to his mouth and kissed them.  The
thin
sliver of common sense still active in her head was screaming at her to hold back from this but then she felt him place the cold steel around her wrists and knew it was far too late.

“Nothing to it is there,” he smiled?  But this time
his smile was as
cold,
as the steel he’d just encased her wrists in – a
humourless smile with a hard dangerous edge
to it.  A
n edge Gina hadn’t seen before and
although
one she couldn’t fathom
she was wise enough to realise
she’d been a fool to let this go so far
.
 

But Matthew had no such fears. 
He sighed with a deep sense of relief and ran his hand over the length of her body and
this time it was him that shivered with
need.  His eyes swam in front of hers, eyes with a new and unfamiliar glow.

“Now lie on the bed, on
your back for me,” she ordered
gently while
kissing her cheek
and
undoing the tie of her blouse.

Fighting this now was pointless and anyway
she was being swallowed up by the wave of passion engulfing her body.  She wanted this man
and nothing else mattered
.

Once she was lying down
Matthew
knelt over her body and
took the rope link
ing
it through the chain connected the two cuffs and tied Gina’s arms above her head to the
ring in the
headboard. 

He smiled down at her, that delicious small smile of his and
Gina
could guess what was going on inside that handsome head.  She’d capitulated, willingly allowed him to do this to her and they were both
i
ntensely turned on
by
the mood of the moment
.
  But did that make it right?  
Don’t wimp out
.  She let the words roll round her head
- giving them time to
do their convincing.
 

“So
much for
letting things cool
down a little then,” she gasped as he checked the rope was secure.  Her voice wavered as he met her eyes briefly before they seared over her restrained body.  “Perhaps I imagined the emotional distance you just agreed to, Matthew,” she reminded him. 

Matthew kissed her cheek reassuringly as he checked the cuffs as well.  He knew she’d struggle – she was bound to
because
very soon he was going to spank her – hard. 

“Well as I don’t see the link between emotion and sex I won’t have any problems screwing you,” he replied crudely. 

Matthew
watched her
eyes widen an
d as a small moan of weak protest
escaped her lips he
stroked her face gently
before
running his fingers down over her soft cheek
and
kissing her hard
.  His tongue flexed in and out of her mouth while hi
s fingers worked on undoing her
bra until finally he had her breasts naked.