her head. “Oh, no, I was being a brat.”
“Brats get punished.”
“So you say. I’ll be over there on the bench.”
She wanted to push him? Oh, he would push back. “Not like that you won’t. I think Jared should see how I operate. I prefer my subs to offer themselves to me. Their trust, their submission, and most definitely their beauty.”
That seemed to stop her in her tracks. “Are you telling me to get naked?”
He felt the deep satisfaction that came with shocking her. He also knew instinctively that she wouldn’t back off. There wasn’t a lot of difference between submissive Kori and the Kori he knew outside the club. She could be stubborn, brutally so. She wouldn’t back down from a challenge, which meant he would need to watch her carefully in order to assure that he didn’t take things too far. “Yes. I’m telling you that for this scene, I require you to wear nothing but your lovely skin. How can Jared see what a perfectly reddened ass looks like if it’s covered up with all that leather?”
She snorted as though reminding him there wasn’t that much fabric on her body, but she turned anyway. “I’m going to need help out of this thing. I didn’t lace myself into it. Sarah did that. And if you think you’re going to pull a knife and cut it off the way I’ve seen some Doms do here, think again, Sir. Cutting my clothes off me is a hard limit. I work for a very tight-fisted boss. Corsets aren’t cheap.”
He frowned. “I am not tight fisted. I’m very reasonable. Come here. I’ll get you out of it. And you should be careful how you talk about your boss or he might implement disciplinary actions at the office.”
“Promises, promises,” she whispered.
He worked the laces of her corset with a practiced hand. “And it’s considered very sexy by some women to cut them out of their corsets.”
“I consider frugality sexy,” she shot back.
“Is it going to bother you to be naked, Kori?” Jared asked.
“Not at all. I’ve got a heavy streak of exhibitionism in me. Another thing I learned from the lifestyle,” she explained quietly. “There’s something freeing about it when you know you won’t be judged. All healthy body types are considered lovely here, though I will admit most of the men are ridiculously hot. Any good club will welcome people of all sizes.”
“Some of the sexiest women I’ve ever known have been curvier,” Jared admitted.
“I would think being around the Hollywood types, your preferences might have changed.” Kai loosened her laces, his fingertips brushing over soft skin. She had lovely skin. Even her freckles were pretty.
“Not at all. I still like what I like.” Jared was watching as Kai finished loosening the corset.
“Arms up,” he commanded. He wasn’t about to take the time to pull the laces out. When she complied, he gently pulled the corset over her head. “Oh, now that’s pretty.”
She’d had the thing on so tight he could see where it had bitten into her skin, leaving lovely lines and indentions. He traced one with his finger. It started right below her shoulder blade and ran down the skin of her back to right above the curve of her ass. Now that she was without the corset, the swell of her cheeks were punctuated by the black leather boy shorts she wore. There wasn’t much there. The waistband dipped low on her hips and the legs weren’t legs at all. They were strips of fabric that revealed the under curve of what had to be the juiciest backside he’d ever seen.
He was about to spank it. In an academic fashion.
Yeah, that was likely going to go bad. “Now the rest of it, exhibitionist.”
He’d seen her wrapped in another Dom’s ropes before, her breasts thrust out and on display. He’d turned away because he hadn’t wanted to. He’d wanted to stand there and stare. It had been an act of discipline to walk away. Since that first time he’d seen her, he’d tried to avoid her during play. It wasn’t so odd. There were several siblings who played at Sanctum and they informed each other of what parts of the club they would be in that evening so as to avoid awkward situations.
This wasn’t awkward. This was heavenly.
She pushed the shorts off and over her hips, her ass coming into full view.
“I don’t think your tastes have changed either, brother,” Jared said with a smirk.
His dick needed to calm the