Chapter Nine
I couldn’t sleep.
It was a long night of discovery. I had come hard in minutes under her knowing ministration, and threw myself down beside her for a grateful kiss, tasting myself on her lips. The way she returned my kiss reminded me that she was still unsatisfied. The way that her body yearned against me reminded me that she was still bound.
I pulled back to look into her eyes.
“It’s Friday night,” I said. “The library is closed until Monday. How about you?”
“I tend bar on Saturday night,” she murmured. “I can sleep late.”
“You can spend the night then?”
She grinned and lifted her cuffed hands from the pillow, putting enough tension in the line to make it creak. “It looks as though I don’t have any choice.”
We both knew that she did, of course, but that wasn’t what sh
