Owned by Him (3 page)

“Why did you come back?” she
asked, tears in her eyes.

He hated causing her
physical pain. Spanking her, tying her up, and being a dominant was different from
literally hurting her with his presence.

Leaning down, he brushed his
lips across hers and moaned. She tasted so damn sweet. Would there ever be a
time when he wasn’t so taken by her?

Her hand went to his chest.
She tried to push him away. He felt it in the shoves until eventually she
fisted his shirt, tugging him close.

Gripping her waist, he
lifted her up on the counter. The movement sent her coffee cup flying, spilling
the contents over the side and the cup clattering to the floor.

“I need you,” she said,
moaning, whimpering with need.

Elijah gripped her waist,
slamming his lips on hers to bring her closer to orgasm. This is what it was always
like with them. The burning heat and the sizzling fire blazed thicker than ever
before. He truly thought he was going to get burned or the fire was going to
burn out. With Amber, the passion and flames only seemed to burn forever
brighter.

All too soon, Amber shoved
him away. “No, I’m not doing this. You shouldn’t be here. You shouldn’t be
coming here.”

He stepped back and watched
as she started to clean up the mess from the coffee and the cup.

“We need to talk.”

“No, no more talking. I’m
not your pet or your sweet Amber. I’m me, Elijah. I’m Heather’s best friend and
someone you barely know.” She threw the cup in the sink. Going up behind her,
Elijah nibbled on her neck, banding his arms around her waist as he did.

“I know you better than
Heather. I’m the only person you’ve ever allowed to see the real you, and do
you know what I see?” he asked, pushing her like he always did.

Amber was such a
contradiction of submissive fire. She could do as she was told and walk through
any scene he put her through. He could tan her ass with the coiled whip and
she’d still not scream out. If he made her uncomfortable or she didn’t want his
attention then she’d curse, scream, and fight until he backed down.

Her passionate nature was
how he knew when she screamed
red,
he was taking
things too far. When she’d witnessed him with the thin, blonde woman, Erika,
he’d pushed her too far. He didn’t know what he was hoping to achieve by her
seeing him with another woman.
An outburst?
Some hint
that she cared about him? He was looking for anything to convince him that he
meant more to Amber than a Dom. Not once in all the years they’d been together
had she talked about her feelings. He wasn’t attracted to Erika at all. She’d
been someone he used to try to get closer to the real woman he wanted. His plan
backfired, and he’d lost Amber.

From the very beginning,
Heather’s eighteenth birthday, their time together had been a struggle. They’d
never come clean or been on a real date. Nothing between them was conventional.
They gravitated toward each other like two magnets that really were the polar
opposites.

“What do you see?” she
asked. Her body was rigid and tense.

“I see a beautiful woman who
is unsure of where the future will take her. You’re lonely, Amber, and I can
take that loneliness away. I really can.” She snorted, but he continued. “We
can be together.”

“No,” she said, shaking her
head. “We can’t be together. It’s impossible.”

“You’re running from me,” he
said, getting angry with her.

“No, I’m not running at
all.”

He nibbled on her neck,
trying to get her to relax against him. She remained tense in his arms. Letting
out a sigh, he spun her to face him, getting covered with soap as he did.

“What happened with the
blonde?” she asked, before he got a chance to say anything.

“What?”

“The
blonde?
The one you were intent on fucking and claiming as
your sub. Tell me, Elijah,
Sir,
were
you going to tell me before or after you made it official?”

She was trying to make him
angry. He saw her deflection and hated the fact he’d been the one to cause it.
She didn’t deserve that.

“I was never going to claim
that woman.”

“Don’t try and fool me,
Elijah.”

He cupped her face, staring
into her eyes. The pain reflecting out at him drove him insane. There was a
time, not too long ago, when Amber did nothing but smile and laugh. Those times
were long gone.

“I’m not trying to fool you,
Amber. Nothing happened between me and Erika. She was talking. I wasn’t doing
anything other than flirting.” He’d not even been tempted by the other woman.

All he’d tried to do was get
Amber close to him. Instead he’d pushed her away. When Tyler had come to him a
couple of hours after he’d talked to Erika to tell him Amber’s request, he’d
been shocked. Closing his eyes, he took a deep breath to give himself time.

“I can’t do this,” she said,
tugging out of his arms.

“Why are you always running
from me?” he asked, following her through her apartment. She stopped in the center
of the sitting room.

Her apartment was quite
spacious.

“I’m not always running,
Elijah. You’re always following me around, and I can’t deal with this. I don’t
want a relationship with you. I never did.”

Her words cut him deeply.
Years of keeping his emotions locked away helped him not to show any reaction.

“Don’t try and kid yourself.
I know what you want.” He took hold of her hand, bringing her in close. “You
want me.”

“How big can your ego
possibly get?” she asked, storming to the door. “I want you to leave.”

“No.”

“Heather and the girls are
coming. We’re going out, and I don’t want you here when they come and get me.”

“You’ve never told them
about us?” he asked. He’d wondered for the longest time if Heather’s hatred of
him was because of what he did to Amber all those years ago. The biggest
mistake he’d ever made was putting Amber over his knee. Since that moment she’d
been over his knee a fair few times.

“Never.
We’re a secret, remember? No one is to know about
us.”

She opened the door,
averting her gaze.

“This isn’t over,” he said,
seeing no other choice but to leave.

“It has been over a long
time, Elijah. You’re the only one who doesn’t see it.”

Amber slammed the door
behind him. Resting his palm against the door, he waited for her to do
something else. He didn’t know what he expected, but he got silence as an
answer.

Chapter Two

Dealing with Elijah outside
of any social setting always unnerved her. He had the power to destroy her, and
he didn’t even realize it. Amber brushed the gloss over her lips giving them a
nice clear sheen before adding more mascara and some blusher. After he’d left
she’d done nothing but cry. Elijah wasn’t wrong when he said she wanted him.
She really did want him. There was no chance for them at all.

The extra makeup would cover
up the splotches caused by her tears. Standing under a cold shower helped to
numb her body. She needed to be numb, as otherwise she’d go insane. For the
last seven years Elijah and his brand of domination had been part of her world.
From the moment he put her over his knee, he’d cemented their future together.
No other man would ever be good enough. She’d enjoyed his hard spanks more than
she liked to admit. Amber liked his spanks so much she’d gone out of her way to
get them. They’d been alone a few times before she went in search of Club Kink.

Elijah had helped her when she
didn’t know what to do. Taking a deep breath she stared at her reflection
seeing the six months’ worth of denial written all over her. She’d not been
submissive to anyone or gone on a date with another man. Her time was divided among
work, friends, and reading. She loved to read because it distracted her far
more than anything else she could think of.

A couple guys at work had
asked her out for drinks, but she’d turned them down. She’d felt uncomfortable
at work and handed in her notice. Ashley had quit not long after. Amber now
worked in a law firm as a secretary whereas Ashley worked in a bar.

No one spoke to her at the
law office. She liked it like that. Dealing with calls, typing letters, and
seeing clients to the lawyers was all she was required to do. It was taxing but
stopped her thinking about everything else.

The door sounded
interrupting her thoughts. She fluffed up her hair before walking to the door.

Ashley, Connie, and Heather
stood waiting for her.

“We got her away from Julian.
She’s ours for the night,” Ashley said, laughing.

Smiling at her friends,
Amber grabbed some money, which she slotted down her bra. She hated looking
after a purse.

“Are we still headed to
Wade’s place?” Amber asked.

“The one
and only.
He’s going to make me sing tonight.
He did warn me,” Connie said, grumbling.

“He’s totally in love with
you, Connie. He’ll do anything to get a piece of your fine ass,” Heather said,
giggling.

Amber looked at Connie and
saw the other woman blushing.

“Wade’s being nice.”

“He wants a piece of your
ass. It’s all any man wants,” Ashley said.

Locking her apartment door,
Amber followed them down to the foyer. A limo was waiting to take them to the
club.

“Julian wouldn’t let me out
without a personal driver.” Rolling her eyes, Amber put her arm through
Heather’s as they walked to the waiting limo.

They climbed inside,
giggling at the extravagance.

“Your man has got too much
money,” Connie said.

“Yep, and I think he makes
more every minute. The guy can sneeze, and he’d be making a few bucks out of it,”
Heather agreed, smiling.

Amber watched as Heather
smiled. She was the only one in their group who was settled down. Julian Goff
was Heather’s boss. She’d tried to quit work, but Julian wasn’t having any of
it.

Seeing her friend with Julian
had once given her hope that there was a chance in love. With Elijah back in
the picture, she doubted there would ever be a good time for her to be in a
relationship.

“I need to find me a man
tonight. It has been too long since I had a good dick to ride,” Ashley said.

“
Ew
,
Ashley. We don’t need to hear about all your personal details,” Connie said,
shaking her head.

Amber chuckled. Out of
all the
group, Ashley was the most open about everything.
She’d been the first in the group to lose her virginity and tell them all the
details, which were not that great.

Thinking about sex brought
her thoughts around to Elijah. He’d been her first and only fuck. The man knew
how to get her off. She loved every second of her time with him. Squeezing her
thighs together, she looked out of the window trying to distract herself from
her erotic thoughts.

There was nothing he
wouldn’t do to bring her off.

“What’s the matter, Connie?
Not used to a woman getting what she wants?” Ashley asked, smiling. “You’re my
best friends. Why wouldn’t I share it with you?”

“We’ve never met any of your
boyfriends,” Heather said.

“They’re not worth it. I
don’t introduce you to them because I don’t want them to spoil our time
together. We’re all together. We come first above everything else.”

“Of course,” Amber said.

They put their hands on top
of each other and screamed “girls”, raising their hands over their heads and
laughing. It was childish, but it took her back to when they were younger.

“We’re here,” Heather said,
knocking on the window.

Amber climbed out as Heather
thanked the driver. The guard at the door let them in. She knew Wade had given
the guards permission to let them in before anyone else.

Her gaze went straight to
the bar where Wade was serving Julian. She tensed when she saw Elijah sitting with
her friend’s man.

Crap, what was he doing
here?

“For fuck’s
sake.
If you were fucking Wade all your men would be here,”
Ashley said, making her jump.

“What? What do you mean?
I’ve not got a man here,” Amber said.

Her friends looked at her
like she’d done something silly.

“We know. You need to get
laid,” Ashley said. It was her answer to everything.

Rolling her eyes, Amber headed
toward the bar with the other three. Glancing up she saw Elijah was staring at
her. Lowering her gaze she wondered how she was going to get out of this. It
was a total nightmare.

After his visit that
afternoon, she didn’t know if she could handle much more of him. Seeing him
with that blonde had opened her eyes to the life she’d been living. She kept it
locked away like a dirty little secret. She hated dirty, and she hated secrets.
Stepping away from it all had been the best decision of her life, or at least
she’d thought it had.