Spanking Threats - Over 18 years old. 

 


Black Rose  by Christian Skye   

  •  Publisher: Dell Publishing A division of  Bantam Doubleday


 


Then his lazy façade shattered.  With a savage growl, he thundered across the room and jerked her from her chair. "Oh, I'll know, Tess Leighton. But first…" Seizing her hands, he hauled her against his chest.

Tess twisted in silent fury, fighting his iron grip, fighting the savage heat of his body.  "Go to hell and toast your eyebrows, for all I care! But leave me alone damn you!"

"Ah, but that's the very last thing I mean to do," the viscount snarled, his lips twisted in a cold mockery of a smile. :No, what I mean to do is pick up precisely where we left off.  Beginning with that night in your father's gate house at Fairleigh. You do remember that night, don't you my love?"  His fingers tightened punishingly on her wrists.

Painful images swarm before Tess's eyes, fragments of memory more cruel than his ruthless fingers. Dear God, could she never put the past behind her?

"I remember, you swine," Tess hissed. "But it seems you do not. If your memory were better, you'd remember that we left off nowhere- and with nothing!  Can't you get that through your thick skull?  Even now?"  With a choked, angry cry she drew back her foot, taking aim and just as Jack had once taught her.

Instantly, Ravenhurst pivoted, then drove his knee between her flailing legs.  At the same moment his fingers dug into her straining hips and forced her forward until she was anchored against his thigh.  His dark eyes glittered with triumph.  "You wanted me to believe that, didn't you? But it won't work. I didn't believe it then, and I don't believe it now!

Tess gasp, twisting helplessly, feeling the hard blade of his arousal through her thin skirts.  She jerked her hands wildly, desperate to rake him with her nails, but his granite arms held her captive. "Then my lord," she spat, "you are a fool whose conceit knows no bounds!"

Grim-faced, Ravenhurst cupped her slim hips and ground his rampant manhood against her. "Not conceit, my love - just raw, hard fact.  You see, nothing changed between us Tess," he snarled. "You burned for me once and by God I'll see you burn for me again.  But I warn you - one more trick like that will find you over my knee while I teach you some manners!"

"I'd like to see you try!

Ravenhurst's fingers tightened on her hips. "Don't tempt me, little hellcat. Nothing would give me greater pleasure than leaving my palm prints all over your sweet, pouting bottom."

Wild with fury, Tess wrenched against his grip, only to find herself quickly overwhelmed.  His hands were granite-hard from years of fighting cables and furling sails.  She could feel exactly where the rough calluses scraped her writs.

Still she fought, her cheeks flooding crimson. But every movement drove her more intimately against his aroused body, making her savagely aware of the rigid column of muscle digging into her thighs.

And she hated herself for that awareness.

"You're just like all the rest of your arrogant set! It's some kind of sick game you play, isn't it? The eternal thrill of the chase!  Well, I'll not be your prey, do you hear?  And I'll never surrender - not to you nor anyone else.

Slowly Ravenhurst captured her straining wrists within one powerful hand.  Some dark, fleeting emotion came and went in his eyes. "Oh far more than a game, my dear," he whispered harshly, reaching our to anchor her face in his free hand.  "And cease these comparisons to the other men who've shared your bed.  I'll make you forget them soon enough, I assure you."