Chapter 246: Sorry, Baby!
** Harper **
To her surprise and horror, Eli didn’t pull away. Instead, a devilish chuckle brushed across her inner ear, making the tingles flare up again way too easily.
"Scared?" he whispered. "Say the chicken word and I’ll stop."
"..."
This shameless man! Did he really have no modesty himself to feel frightened by getting caught?
"I’m not a chi—" Harper hissed, though she quickly caught herself before the chicken word slipped from her tongue. Would that count as saying a safeword? Would that count as giving up on the game and admitting that she had no guts to live up to the dare?
Her heart rate kicked up a whole other level. Scared as she was of being discovered in such a state, she couldn’t simply let him think of her as a coward either. No way she’d hand him the perfect opportunity on a silver platter to call her chicken for the rest of her life!
"I’m not scared!" she declared, as quietly as she could yet not without a vehement tone. The logical part of her brain lost the battle again, both to the adrenaline rush and to the barely subdued heat that was still lying low yet sure inside her. "I didn’t tell you to stop! That was just a warning for you to keep your noise down and— umm ..."
Her excuses turned into another gasp when the hand under her bodice instantly came back to life, slithering silently across her chest and closing those wicked fingers around the neglected nipple on the other side.