The Unfortunates(21)

“I’m not… I can’t… I don’t…” She shook her head as an abrupt tear spilled over the rim of her left eye.

“I’ve been very lenient, Nine.” He pulled her forward until their foreheads touched. “I haven’t taken from you, I haven’t ordered you around, and I haven’t beaten you. I’m starting to think you believe I can be walked over.”

“No, not at all—”

“Do you think your pretty face is going to soften my hand?”

She shook her head.

“You want to know why I haven’t hurt you? You want to know why I’ve left you alone for weeks?” He didn’t wait for her response. “I don’t plan on using you for myself.”

Her face crumpled and it irritated him. Where was the girl that glared at him? The girl that would have spat in his face as the sentence left his lips? To say the vision of her broken on his lap didn’t arouse him was a lie. He wanted her under his thumb—to do exactly what she was born to do.

“You are going to save my house—boost me and my family name higher than my father ever has. I need you to be ready. I need you to be ready to kiss, suck, and fuck whoever I want you to, do you understand?”

Kade’s chest was tight—from arousal or anger, he had no idea. He was both pissed and wound up to the point of combustion and he needed a release. He needed it now.

“Off,” he ordered. She quickly slipped from him.

Nine took a slight step back and lowered her head. She wasn’t crying anymore. Her lips were parted, her eyebrows furrowed. Shock. She was in shock. Kade hated that he had to give someone as marvellous as Nine away to people who would only brutalize her perfect body, but it was the way of the new world. He had to push his mother’s advice to the side and do what society taught him to do—to rule.

“I’m going to teach you how to seduce a man. I’m going to teach you how to tease and please a man… and you’re going to use that knowledge to help me.”

His heart was racing and it rattled his ribcage as he fought hard to suppress his own excitement. Kade tugged at his belt and she took a defensive step back. Her eyes went round as fear spread across her face and froze her features.

“Get on your knees, Nine. This is lesson one.”

“You’re going to skip everything and go straight to that?” She spat ‘that’ like it was poison on her tongue.

He smiled. Brave, but stupid. “Now you want me to skip everything? Now you want me to seduce you, to kiss you and touch you?” He narrowed his eyes. “You didn’t want that a moment ago. Have you heard the term don’t push your luck?” He paused and she refused to look at him. “Drop to your knees.”

“And if I don’t?” she uttered, pinching the tip of one of her index fingers, nervously. “What will happen?”

Perhaps she wasn’t as smart as she looked.

“Get down and prepare yourself for lesson one or I’m going to call a handful of people into this room to watch you perform. They won’t take your disobedience as lightly as I have.”

Her violet eyes flicked anxiously around the room before her face fell. Defeated, she lowered herself to her knees, kneeling right between his legs. The warm soft sides of her body rested against the covered insides of his legs. Master Kade watched her as he dragged his zipper down. He kept his movements slow and soothing. This was her first time doing anything so erotic and he wouldn’t make it any harder than it had to be, and if truth be told, he didn’t want to scare her. Kade didn’t want it to be like this, but he’d teased himself and she had to learn anyway. He couldn’t afford to waste any more time and he figured there was no harm in teaching her while he appeased his sexual appetite at the same time. He pushed the zipper down the last section of teeth and opened his slacks. Nine kept her eyes on his pants, waiting for him to expose himself to her, and as he slipped his fingers underneath the fabric, her lips parted and she expelled a breath of air. He released his hard cock from his pants. Pre-cum coated the top and it glistened in the dim light of the crackling fireplace a few feet away. Nine surveyed him, not once taking her eyes off his length. Her eyebrows smoothed out and arched. She waited a few seconds before shifting her position and inching closer. Kade tensed, unsure why she was suddenly so compliant. The girl who glared at him in front of everybody and dived into a bush just to avoid him was now moving towards him without hesitation. It put him on edge.

“I’ve never hit a woman, but I swear to god if you bite me—”

“I won’t bite you,” Nine said, cringing when she realised she’d cut him off. “I want to bite you,” she clarified, her brows drawing together. “But I won’t.”