Chris POV
Scarlett shifts, winces as my nails digs hard into her spine. I can sense her heart thudding in my chest. The sheet attach to her lower body is moving; that tells me how badly she's shaking.
I raise her chin with my fingers and see tears gathering in her optics. She was experiencing trouble sleeping and so was I.
We endured a rough night at the party and what transpired is clearly getting to her and to me.
"Are you ok?" I ask, sitting on the bed, eyes longingly fixated on her naked body damp with glistening oil and a little perspiration.
"No," she bites her lip, pushing her curly, full—luxurious hair, out of her face as she observes me.
I watch her too, with an intense yet fiery heat. She lied—omitted the truth, that she and Thorne.
That:
Piece
Of
Fucking
Shit!
Had fuck her, possibly raped her. I'm not mad, I'm irate.
She fucking lied! And, I'm conceiving a thousand and one things to do, to her sweet young body as punishment.
A body that's curvy—thick and delicate, with a firm hint of muscle in her stomach, just above her tiny, almost hairless little cunt.
I own her. I own her breasts, her hips, her glistening lips, both on her innocent face and in that spot between her legs where she will earn her worth.
"You and Thorne?" My eyebrow raises.
"I know you said not to talk to anyone, let anyone Thorne or let him touch me, but—,"She pauses, her watery eyes lowering away from mine.
"You disobeyed me, Scarlett. What was your order?"
She shivers against me. Her skin is tender, like a hot oven and I can feel my cock rising and pushing hard inside my boxers.
"I was ordered to stay away from him. Not have him touch me or talk to me," her teeth grazes her lower lip.
"Then you remembered. I'd hoped you'd simply forgotten." The sheet falls off her body and my eyes take in her breasts; round and firm, with big chocolate nipples already hard.
"Who owns you Scarlett? Me or Thorne?"
She jumps as my hand nears her face, then it drops back down to her pussy, I wonder if I should stroke or slap it. I brush a finger lightly over her mound instead, as I pull her to me, grazing my fingers over her pussy.
"I, er," she grits her teeth with lust. She recognizes the answer I need to hear.
She lied about her and Thorne relationship for months. She's afraid to tell me that, that asshole was the first to be inside her, hence she'll probably lie to please me. Or she could tell the truth because NO one lies to Chris.
"Tell me who owns you?"
"Chris." She etches defiantly, knowing that's what I hope to hear. "Chris Holmes owns me. Mind, body, soul and spirit. He controls when I eat, when I sleep, when I fuck, and if I get to live. And if there is ever a day when I refuse him, he would not hesitate, nor even blink, to destroy me."
My body tenses against her, shaking and seething with anger as she'd fed me more or less bullshit. When my eyes meet hers, she's paralyzed with fear. I'm virtually positive that she'd never seen that much rage on my face. She should have told the truth, she should have—
"Why are you lying to me? I demand, voice quiet. Calmer than I intended. It's terrifying though, "my little blackberry is lying," I jerk her face to mine, our noses touching.
My jaw clenches and I'm sure Scar can feel my eyes scouring, flitting with fury.
"I'm sorry I won't speak to him ever again. Let's—let's just forget about last night," she says much, much quieter, but I brush aside the plea that rises in her articulation.
"Do you think I care?" I ask pulling her to her feet, striking down the sheet to the floor.
She can tell that I'm furious; my body is emitting off pent-up fury.
I detest the fact that his hand touches her, I also hate the fact that she allowed him to be her first. Thorne fucking Scarlett before we knew each other existed doesn't sit well with me.
I know that he'll be trouble if I don't remind Scar who the fuck is in charge.
Tonight will be the night I'm gonna lose all self control.
Tonight will be the night she meets the side of Chris Holmes that the entire Staff is terrified of. They are frightened and reverent of me, Code Holmes Enterprise owns personal God of pain in the mortal flesh.
"Tell me, little lady. Is there something going on between you and Thorne that I should know about?"
"No." She breathes hard as her body sags in relief. I imagine my little glimpse of nodding had her feeling like she can breathe.