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.Cristian brought his hands up and shoved Adrien away, pure instinct.Adrien laughed and advanced again, like it was a game.Cristian pushed him back again, and this time he closed the distance between them, advancing.Adrien’s brows rose.He retreated.Satisfaction surged in Cristian’s breast.Finally he’d wiped that smirk off Adrien’s face and put him on the defensive.He advanced, pushing Adrien back each time he got close, until the backs of Adrien’s legs hit the edge of the bed and momentum dropped him down onto it.Cristian stood over him, his heart pounding fast and strong.“You want me to hit you?” he demanded.Adrien ran his tongue over the edge of his lip and flicked his gaze over Cristian.“I want you to beat me.A minor distinction, I know, but if I come home with a fat lip, Amber will never let me hear the end of it.My new vid starts production in three weeks.” His expression changed as he looked up at Cristian.“Are you going to?”Cristian’s fingers tightened around the paddle’s handle.He looked down at it.It would feel so good to lash out.His whole life, Adrien had been a constant source of frustrated rage.And now here he was, putting the paddle in his hand and telling him to do what he’d always wished he could.Fuck.This is something he would do.You’re better than that.Since when do you do what he tells you?If he didn’t, he’d spend the rest of his life fuming, wishing he could vent his frustrations on Adrien, only this time knowing that he’d had an opportunity and let it pass.“Fine,” he said.“You want it? You’ve got it.Give me that rope.”Adrien reached across the bed and retrieved the rope.He passed it to Cristian without a word and stretched his arms out before him, wrists pressed together.The surreality of the moment struck Cristian as he looped the rope around his wrists.That Adrien Grant himself was here in Cristian’s guest room, sitting placidly on the bed while Cristian tied his hands together, not just allowing Cristian to raise a hand to him but actually goading him into it.He shook his head and let it pass, and when the rope was knotted around Adrien’s wrists, he used the last length of it to secure them both to the headboard.Mostly, he feared that Adrien didn’t really mean it, that he’d change his mind or reveal it all to be some elaborate prank.But Adrien didn’t protest, just slid across the bed so the rope would reach and held still while Cristian tied it off.He knelt at the head of the bed when Cristian had finished, forced to hunch over a little because of the way he was bound.He watched Cristian, his expression unreadable.When Cristian met his gaze, Adrien shifted, rising up on his knees and bracing his hands flat against the headboard so his back was toward Cristian and he was bent forward slightly at the hips.He looked back over his shoulder.“Well?”Cristian’s mouth flattened.He gripped the paddle and swung it, connected hard with the side of Adrien’s hip.The impact jolted up his arm, shocking in its strength.Adrien sucked in a breath.His fingers curled against the headboard, but he gave no other reaction.Cristian wasn’t sure what he’d expected, but it wasn’t that.Adrien hadn’t seemed like the sort to stoically take a beating, or to swallow down his reaction to one.Cristian hit him again to test his response.Adrien’s shoulders tensed, his muscles standing out in sharp relief.Cristian adjusted the paddle’s handle in his fist, settling it more comfortably, then swung a harder blow that landed high across Adrien’s ass.This time, Adrien sucked in an audible breath and twisted away.“Jesus Christ,” he groaned.“These pants have rivets, you know.”Cristian’s brows climbed.It hadn’t occurred to him, but it was true Adrien was wearing jeans, the corners of the pockets secured with brass rivets.He chewed thoughtfully on his lower lip and struck Adrien again in the same spot.Adrien’s head dropped forward, between his arms.Cristian watched his shoulders rise as he gasped for breath.“Fuck,” Adrien said after a moment, muffled a little.“That’s wicked.I’m going to have to remember that one.You’re a natural at this [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]