herself from using her safe word was that it seemed like such a trivial thing to do over a driver he had basically hired only five minutes ago. She would not break her loyalty to Liam because of Kade Tremayne. He didn't have that much power over her. He was a complete and utter stranger to her, nothing more.
“I gave you an instruction, Little One. Are you going to disobey me?” Liam repeated. This time his voice was no longer softened with affection. The dominance in his tone was the same he used when they were in bed. And she always obeyed that voice. He had trained her so.
“No, Master.” She whispered her conditioned answer so softly it might have come off as inaudible spilling from her lips. She also knew better than to question or defy her master in front of company, no matter who that company was. She could make her case afterward if she so wished, and she knew Liam was a fair, just man. He would make things right no matter what if he felt he had treated her unfairly.
“Now would be a good time to prevent me adding more to the punishment I have in store for you.” Liam's eyes darkened as she started to slide her hands up her dress, which offered her zero modesty, not with the way it was designed. She didn't even realize it, but they had arrived at the mansion of Liam's friend, and the driver had parked the car and switched it off. The momentary darkness which offered her a shield didn't last long. Liam switched on the interior lights, and she was back in plain view again.
She couldn't help herself; she glanced into the rearview mirror and caught the driver's gaze on her. Could he see her bare legs from the mirror? Surely, he could.
Finally, and breathing slightly out of rhythm, she snuck her fingers into the band of her panties and started to roll them down her legs. Horrified, she discovered the tiny piece of fabric had soaked up her wetness. The realization made her so mad. She wished she hadn't been aroused at all. But Liam's words together with the stranger, who seemed to have impacted her with the worst kind of mixed emotions she'd ever experienced, had drenched her.
She squashed the bit of fabric into the palm of her hand and forcefully and angrily shoved it into Liam's waiting palm before she tried to cover as much of her thighs as she could with the dress and failed epically.
Too mad now to care, she flung the door open even while the two men were still seated, stepped out, and walked toward the steps leading to the entrance of the house, where she turned around and waited impatiently. She was furious and hotly embarrassed.
The chauffeur opened Liam's door, and Liam stepped out like a graceful panther. Her heart beat that much faster as she stood, fuming, facing the two of them, so different in their maleness and yet so uncannily alike.
Liam, sophisticated and powerful, godlike, the world at his feet. The chauffeur, Kade, casual, almost with entitled laziness, but she wasn't deceived by his easy grin. There was a kind of superior danger to him. Underneath his shield he looked lethal. Olivia couldn't understand why that thought crossed her mind about a man she virtually knew nothing about.
With her heart pounding ferociously in her chest, she watched her husband turn to their new chauffeur.
“Kade, will you keep these in your pocket for the time being? It appears my wife's panties are quite soaked through, and I would rather not get my suit all messed up… just yet.”
Chapter Two
Olivia thought she might faint, and she wasn't inclined to fainting at all. This couldn't be happening to her. Oh God, why didn't she just shake his damn hand in the first place. This… all this humiliation mixed with the strangest sense of arousal could have been avoided.
She opened her mouth; her intention was to tell Liam she didn't want this. She couldn't want this. Because this man called Kade poked at her; he niggled; he annoyed her, and he seemed to have the audacity to intrude on her private space with Liam.
Yet it was the truth that rattled her the most. She had been the one who invited Kade Tremayne into that world she shared with Liam the moment she saw him. She was the one who couldn't treat him the same way she did all the staff