Puppet Master

Chapter Fourteen

“So where exactly is it that we’re going Jay? You never gave me any proper answers ...” he grinned at her out of the corner of his eyes, not wanting to look away from the road for too long, it felt like they’d been driving ages, although, in fairness, she could still taste the white chocolate pannacotta that she’d had for dessert so it couldn’t have been longer than five or ten minutes. But she was intrigued, which always makes the seconds drag on.

“You didn’t ask any questions babe, I just heard moans and yes’s.”

Her face fired red, it still felt sort of strange to be joking about this stuff with him, fuck it felt strange to be doing it, but in a good way, like her every dream just came true.

He might take her for a fool, she probably was a fool, Jayden was a confirmed bachelor, always had been, but she couldn’t turn away from him when there was so many happy ever afters riding on him. She’d already invested too much to let it drop away without at least trying to make him see that it could work.

Tomorrow, he might go back to the ice statue, but at least she’d have had tonight.

God, she thought, that sounds pathetic.

“Don’t freak out, please. Just let me open your eyes a little bit, and, if you want to go home, cut me out, you can do it, but not until I’ve laid it all out for you. I don’t want any misunderstandings between us babe, you’re too important to me.”

Was he reading her mind now?

“You know I like control, right? And I do, it just, sex doesn’t have the same buzz for me without the games and stuff, I just need it. You can understand this, at least on some level, you will, you’re a natural submissive...”

“A what now?”

“A submissive. I give the orders, you take them.” He grinned then, “You take them good.” He stretched out the word “good,” like something out of a badly acted American sitcom, and she had to chuckle.

She rolled her eyes, “That wasn’t what you were saying last week Jay, so I’m taking this with a pinch of salt and a douse of pepper.”

He frowned, “I don’t know how to explain last week. I don’t know if I’m ready to, Tor ... I just didn’t like seeing those marks on you. I’ve never worried about that before, but I did. Because it was you. I freaked out, did exactly what I’m expecting you to do tonight. You don’t have to forgive me babe, just ... keep an open mind or something, hell I don’t know! I’ve never done this before, everyone knows what page they’re on, it’s straight forward, fuck I can’t even explain this at all!”

He growled, hitting the steering wheel with the heel of his hand, and she jumped.

“Look Jayden, I’m not freaking out. I don’t really know what you’re talking about, I guess that’s what this “show and tell” is all about. I enjoyed ... I mean I um, yeah, no right words, I enjoyed last week, it was fine, and I, uh, I mean, I think it’d probably take a lot for me to freak out right now, you’re well, you’re Jayden, and I was a virgin last week, and you’re my brother’s best friend, and I’ve known you forever. Things can’t get weirder, really, throw me in at the deep end, I’m a big girl now Jay, I can take it.”