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“I don’t have any,” she finally said, her breath co out in a rush

“None at all?” he asked skeptically

“None,” she confir naked at the club? Me using toys on you? Floggers, canes, whips?”

Those were just a handful of things she kneas really thinking about “I have no hard liain

“Drop the skirt,” he co the material fros Once it pooled at her feet, she stepped out of it,beautiful you are?” he asked

Mercedes wasn’t sure whether he’d meant to say the words out loud, but she answered him anyway “No”

“Fuck,” he muttered “You steal my breath, Mercedes”

Holy shit The honesty in his tone nearly had her knees going weak beneath her She’d never heard hi that he was trying to distract her, Mercedes re for an answer

“Do we have a deal?” she repeated as she waited for his next instruction

“Take off the bra,” he told her, his eyes locked with hers

Without hesitation, Mercedes reached up and unhooked the front clasp of her bra, pro it to the floor Xander hadn’t answered her yet, not verbally anyway, but she could see his response in his eyes

They were going to do this They were going to submit to one another

It was only ahis best to focus on the conversation and less on the dazzling, nearly naked woman in front of him It wasn’t easy Even if he prided himself on his ability to keep his composure, there were still sonore Mercedes was just such temptation

While he conte her incredible curves with his eyes, wanting to put his hands on her, to feel once again how soft her skin was To cup her breasts in his hands He wanted to put hisbeneath hi forto anyone, let alone in public, would’ve sent his dick into hiding, but truthfully that wasn’t the case Or maybe it was the fact that Mercedes had told hih to make him dah to know he’d only push her as far as he felt she could go, well, it was hu

“Just to confirive yourself over tonow No hard liree to submit to you on two occasions Once at Devotion, the other at a ti?”

He knehat she had up her sleeve She was going to play her card in a public place that would put hiht intimidate him If she believed he wasn’t on to her plan, she was sadly mistaken He’d just recently asked her to join hih it wasn’t planned for roughly sixthat would be her venue of choice

Not that he really gave a shit He knew the Walkers would likely find it a, but that was the least of his worries

“That’s correct,” she said on a breath, her eyes still locked with his

“Re away

Without reservation, Mercedes reached down and slid the silky white panties down her legs, stepping out of them as hich put her a mere foot or so away from his, then he trailed up over her generous hips, ad the small tattoo he’d only been privy to when he had seen her playing at the club He continued upward, over gently rounded belly, past her bountiful breasts He was distracted briefly by the ornate tattoo that encircled her entire arm from her shoulder down to her elbow He’d always loved that tattoo She’d gotten it before heto her, it was a reh The flower represented her, and the intricate detail around it was the chaos she’d lived in since she was younger As with a lot of her personal details, whenever he would ask, she would shrug hi hi about her was important to him And she should know that by now because he’d never let her retreat from him before because he was her friend He was in her corner, no matter what