Chapter 174: Pain And Pleasure
After having their evening meal together in the guest room, Samantha returned to Ivan’s chamber in the hopes of finding him there, and as expected, he was sitting up on his bed, fully awake. He had worn his glasses as usual, perching them elegantly at the bridge of his nose, and his blue eyes, which scanned the paperwork on his bed, instantly flicked in her direction when he sensed her appealing presence in his chamber. Samantha could feel her heart skip a beat, an extrinsic reaction that had become a natural occurrence to her whenever she saw him.
"Why are you standing there?" His eyes raked over her frame, almost questioningly, and Samantha had to force her feet to move forward. Ivan simply continued on what he had been doing as he gathered the paperworks and kept them on his side table. His gaze returned to his little lamb who came to stand at the side of his bed, and before she could say anything else to him, he held out his hand for her to take.
"Give me your hand." His once cold tone had softened in the blink of an eye, it sounded honeyed, making her insides sing! But even though her mind was clueless on what he wanted to do with her hand, she gave it to him without thinking deeply on the matter. When he kissed her tender palm, it sent flutters to her heart, and all it took was a swift effortless pull to have the woman he loved falling onto his bed.
"Wait... what are you doing?" Samantha tried to wriggle out of his bed, but his strong arms had her pinned to him. Her breath hitched when her back came in contact with his chest, the sound of his steady heartbeat aligning with hers, and she swallowed gently after realizing he just spooned her against him. Whenever she made attempts to break free, his hold would automatically tighten until she heard his deep reprimanding voice.
"Stop!"
And she did.
Samantha still couldn’t discern how he was capable of controlling her body better than her. She never had the intention of stopping, but there was something so hypnotically commanding in his tone that made her body listen to it. When she turned her head so she could meet his gaze, it turned out to be a wrong move because his soft lips were on hers before she could blink. It was a brief, heartfelt kiss that Samantha found herself surrendering to, and it made her nerves tingle in more than one way.
"How was your day today?" He asked after pulling back to look at her flushed face. "I see you’ve gotten into Helena’s good books in just one day. Helena is a difficult woman to please, but my little lamb achieved that in just a day. Not to mention the fact you supported her in the capital’s Town square." Reaching for her slender hand, the tip of his nose grazed her skin until he got to her wrist, and without warning, he bit her, earning a surprised whimper from the woman whose eyes bulged.
His grip on her wrist tightened as he sucked on her sweet blood, and Samantha felt insane for finding his actions quite arousing.... Maybe it was because of the feeling of his lips on her skin? When he subconsciously deepened his bite, a much louder whimper escaped from her, but it sounded disapproving, whilst Ivan had to open his eyes to meet her slight glare. She had no right to blame him, it’s almost as if she kept getting prettier and more attractive whenever he saw her, it was making her hard to resist.