chess instead of having sex. My sense of smell sucks, and yet I could still scent her arousal. Her body language and micro-expressions gave it away as well, but I ignored it. No more orgasms this year, and I didn’t want the evening to feel punitive.
I kicked her ass in chess, of course, but I gave lessons as I did it. Cheyenne is smart, and the cat understood strategy also, so she learned fast.
When it was time for bed, I tucked her in and held her, but didn’t initiate sex.
“At least let me give you a blow job.”
“Not tonight. Go to sleep, kitty cat.”
She sighed, and I realized she didn’t understand my reasoning.
“Tell me why we aren’t having sex.” I tried to keep my voice soft. I didn’t want to come off as ordering her around, though in reality, I was.
“You’re punishing me.”
“No orgasms this year, right? If we have sex, it’ll just be me edging you. Frustrating you.”
“Then why have the stupid rule? Surely you don’t mean to keep from touching me until after New Year’s?”
“No, you’ll get edged and frustrated again tomorrow. I’m just giving you a night off tonight, as a reward for being honest with yourself and with me.”
“Reward?”
“Yes, Cheyenne. So many women would have fought themselves and the man they loved tonight, refusing to admit they needed power exchange in their life. You figured it out and accepted it, and that’s one of the reasons I love you so fucking much. You’re smart, and you’re honest, and you don’t fuck around with pretense.”
She relaxed in my arms. “Oh. I love you, too, and for the same reasons.” She took a breath. “There’s more, though. The way you are with the kids, the way you handled Gil — with power and strength and aggression when it was called for, but then with cooperation and diplomacy when they had a chance of working. A lot of men would have hung onto the fact they’d kicked his ass and didn’t need to negotiate or use diplomacy, and I love you for not doing that.”
I chuckled. “He knows how thoroughly I kicked his ass. I don’t have to keep reminding him. You love those kids, so whatever I could do to keep them in your life, I did.” I rubbed my hand down her arm and rested it on her hip. “I told you when we first started this dance that I didn’t want to complicate your life, that I’d do my best to fit into it.”
“You did. That’s why I let you spank me in front of everyone. It was important for me to try to fit back into your life.”
“I know.” I kissed her cheek and settled in behind her again, willing my body to relax. “Sleep, kitty cat. I have you.”
Chapter Twenty-Six
Cheyenne
He made good on his promise to begin tormenting me again the following day. He woke me the next morning by licking and sucking my clit, and twenty minutes later, he came deep in my ass, and I was nearly in tears because I needed to come so fucking bad, but I knew it wasn’t going to happen.
Ten minutes later I turned my warm shower into a cold one, hoping it would help, but my insides clenched even harder, and even more blood went into my clit.
Fuck.
For dinner one evening, he rubbed vapor rub on my clit and put a remote-control vibrating butt plug in my ass, and then took me out to a fancy fucking restaurant.
Long before we made it to New Year’s Eve, he only had to look at me like he was considering giving me an order to make my clit throb and my entire lower abdomen go tight and hot.
The morning of December twenty-ninth, he handed me a sheet of paper at breakfast, without saying a word to prepare me. The top part was legal-type wording, saying we were creating an agreement, basically, and then there was this list:
Frost has complete control over every sexual decision between the couple, every minute and second of every day, with the exception of situations including the kids, Cheyenne’s work, or Cheyenne’s art.
Frost will decide Cheyenne’s clothing worn at the clubhouse or on a date, whether the children are present or not.
Frost has the right to decide Cheyenne’s underwear, 24/7/365. He may or may not choose to exercise this right daily. He will clear out any garments he doesn’t like, so they are no longer an option. He may also forbid the use of any