‘Fine, then I’ll have a drink.’

His laugh startled her. ‘That’s what he wants, then it’ll be “have another drink, take a line of coke, take off your shirt, dance,” where do you stop? You gonna get naked for him? Kiss him? Suck him off?’

‘Stop it,’ she hissed. ‘I won’t do any of that. I can’t stand the guy. I wouldn’t be able to touch him or—‘

‘Then he’ll force you, you’ve seen it before. You’ve fought him off once.’

‘And I’ll do it again if I have to, Dax,’ she said.

Angry as she was, she knew that facing Trystan would be difficult for her, and she wouldn’t hold up well if Trystan tried to ruffle her. Having Dax at her side was the only way to be sure that she would come out of the scenario intact and unviolated.

‘I don’t know what drugs he has, he could have anything,’ Dax said. ‘If he injects you with something then he could do whatever the fuck he wanted with you while you were unconscious. Do you want that?’

‘No,’ she whispered.

‘For all I know he’ll kill you and collect the bounty for kicks, you don’t know him like I do, Minx. Please, just wait there, and I will deal with Trystan.’

‘And if he hurts you?’

‘I’ve been looking for an excuse to kill the guy for a long time, maybe today he’ll give it to me.’

‘I don’t want you to kill anyone,’ she said. ‘I’ll wait here, and then we’ll go over there together.’

‘Wait there,’ he said. ‘That’s what I want you to do.’

Whether or not they went over there together was a fight they’d reserve for when he was here. For now, Ivy had given him what he wanted, and they would both have time to recharge their batteries and rethink their arguments before they were together again.

‘Drive safe,’ she said, worrying that Dax on the road in a rage might not end well. ‘I’ll be here, at Saul’s, I won’t go anywhere, I promise.’

‘Good,’ he said. ‘Try not to get into any more trouble.’

‘I’ll try my best.’

They hung up, and Ivy returned her phone to her purse. She wouldn’t go looking for trouble, but for some reason it always managed to find her.

Chapter Twenty

Although she hadn’t intended to, Ivy had fallen asleep on the bed in the second bedroom after she’d enjoyed her shower. A hand pushed her bare shoulder, she moaned in protest, but it kept on shaking her.

‘Dax,’ she said, throwing out an arm to toss aside the one prodding at her. She blinked up at the person sitting on the edge of the bed to see that although she’d still been asleep her subconscious had guessed right.

‘What the fuck do I do with you?’ Dax asked, but didn’t expect an answer. Whipping her towel out from beneath her, he stood up to throw it aside, then pushed her onto her back. ‘I know you like to challenge me, but for fuck sake, Minx.’

‘Can I have my towel back?’ she asked, stretching. ‘Anyone could walk in here.’

‘Saul told me that Carina went for a walk, and he’s tied up with the piece of ass he picked up last night. So that gives me some time to teach you a lesson.’

Digging a hand under her shoulder, he rolled her onto her front and smacked her ass. ‘Come on, Dax we don’t have time for this.’ Much as she complained, it was nice to be together again. The sting of his hand on her ass warmed more than just the flesh he’d touched.

Climbing onto the bed, he knelt over her thighs and rested his weight on her. Despite her trying to hit him, he got hold of her wrists in one of his hands and held her imprisoned hands against the small of her back. Leaning down, he swept her hair away and licked the back of her neck, around to her ear, where he whispered to her.

‘We have all the time I say we do, Minx. You ran away from me, again, came here to this place and put yourself in danger. You want to be hurt, you want to be punished, it’s the only way I can figure it.’

Sitting up on her thighs, he spanked her again, then rubbed his flat palm up and over the globes of her ass. Pushing her still locked wrists higher, he smacked the other cheek then leaned down again, urging the thick length of his erection, which was still enclosed in denim, into the mounds he was punishing.

‘I came to help my sister,’ she said, biting into the pillow to try and stop herself from whimpering out the pleasure it gave her to be dominated by the man she loved. ‘You would’ve done the same thing.’

‘The only thing I care about is you,’ he snarled and smacked her one more time.

Rising on his knees, Dax released her wrists and flipped her over, while keeping her inside the triangle formed by his thighs and the mattress. ‘I’m safe. You can see me, there’s nothing wrong with me. Nothing happened to me.’

‘It’s about to,’ he said, throwing off his tee-shirt, he unbuckled his jeans and took himself out of his underwear. ‘You think that you can lie around naked in other men’s houses and I’ll just let it slide?’

‘I fell asleep after my shower, it’s been a long night.’

‘No more excuses,’ he said.

Still holding himself, he showed her two fingers then lowered them to her crotch. Massaging her clit as he passed it, Dax parted her lips and eased his fingers into her. There was no hiding her enjoyment now, it was coating the digits that he worked in and out of her.

‘We don’t…’ she exhaled. ‘We don’t have time for this.’

Bowing down, he caught her lower lip between his teeth then licked her upper lip before he delved his tongue into her mouth and kissed her. Their breathing was loud, each desperate breath was needed to maintain the fervour of this joining.

Her hands caressed his body, working their way around to his ass, which was still half in his jeans. He hadn’t gotten naked, but already he was pressing the head of his dick into her. Widening her legs, Ivy elevated her hips, begging him to move into her, to fill her now.

Just when she was giving up hope and believing that he wanted to tease her, he eased himself inside, and she smiled at him, touching her fingertips to his lips. His lips parted, and he caught one of her fingers in his teeth. He bit her with just enough force to be uncomfortable, but he didn’t break the skin, then he opened to free her fingers and concentrated on pumping his dick in and out of her pussy.

A quick fuck was all they had time for, and he was on his way to climax already, bringing her along with him.

‘Yes, Dax,’ Ivy gasped out. ‘Oh, yeah.’

This wasn’t their house, and they weren’t alone, but Dax wasn’t asking her to be quiet, and she had no intention of subduing herself. With her eyes locked to his, Ivy matched his thrusts, his depth massaged each secret crevice within her sending flames licking up through her womb, to her abdomen and into her heart.

A steady moan pulsed out of her as he took her closer, then just when she was on the edge of the precipice, he kissed her, swallowing the cries of orgasm she released into him. With a few more thrusts, he was right there with her, finishing himself and filling her with his precious nectar.

While she was still glowing and twitching through the aftershocks of orgasm, he rolled off her and flopped down onto his back beside her. ‘They’re at the GoldSpring,’ Dax panted. ‘I called before I got here. They’re not in their suite now, so I’ll have to keep trying. You’re staying here until I’ve got Rosie, and then I’ll take you both back.’

‘She won’t go with you,’ Ivy said, rolling to her side and supporting her head with her hand. ‘She doesn’t know you. Trystan won’t let you take her either. He’ll have plenty of snide jokes about you stealing another of his women.’

‘I don’t care about his jokes and Rosie will come with me, if I have to pick her up and carry her then she’ll fucking come with me.’

‘If you let me come with you then I can deal with Rosie while you keep Trystan at bay. We do make a good team, you know.’

‘You’re forgetting about this stupid bounty. I don’t want you out there because I don’t want you to get hurt.’