~CASSELBA'S POV
THE REFRESHING WATER of a hot shower runs down my skin as the events of the day replay in my head. Vapors rise all around me and the bath is smoky with steam scented with liquid soap.
I had started out Monday morning with a lazy gait. I walked into my office and I met Ryan, the beautiful young human I had been trying to avoid. Minutes later, he was all over me—correction, we were all over each other. Then to crown it all, his father walked in on us.
His entrance had sparked something deep in me. Some awkward minutes later, I held in my hands his proposal.
A sex contract.
We had just spent all of two minutes in each other's 'physical' company and all I could think about was what would happen once I appended my signature.
I said no of course. Actually, my 'no' was more of a 'not right now.'
I needed to know them, past our superhuman mind connection. I just hoped I did not push them away. I towel dry and step out of the bathroom. I am slowly brushing out my hair when I hear my phone ring. I ignore it for some seconds before the montonous buzz begins to push at my buttons.
I stride across to the bed. Grabbing it off the bedside cabinet top, I don't bother to check the caller profile. When I pick it, I so wish I didn't. It was Caden, and it was a video call.
"Shit!" I rasp.
My eyes widen at the screen and I see him smirk. My hair was dry but uncombed. I did not even want to visualize how I looked. I contemplate ending the call but his eyes draw me in.
There was another alternative though. I swipe at the screen, switching it to an audio call. I'm about to say something when his voice fills my ear.
"I'm sorry if I startled you."
I grin shyly inspite of myself, glad that he can't see my me.
"Hello, Mr. Hallow. Nice to hear you too. How are you doing?"
The line goes silent and I lift the phone away from my ears to stare at the screen. The call was still connected. I put it back to my ears.
"Caden?"
A beat later, his deep voice comes on.
"Good," he growls into the receiver. "You will only address me as Mr. Hallow when I want you to."
My smile wavers at the dark edge of his tone. He intentionally did not reply. His actions were strange but his dominance was turning me on. Heat spreads over my belly, stirring lower.
Christ! I just had a shower.
His voice comes again.
"I called for something else but now, you will do something for me."
The sinful lilt of his words draw to me and I whisper.
"What should I do for you?"
"Go back to the bathroom!"
"What?"
"Casselba..." He growls.
"Alright," I whisper, heading back to the showers.
He must have noticed my bathrobe from our video call.
"I'm in the bathroom," I say, holding the phone to my ear.
A second later, I feel the telepathic signals in my head. Someone was nudging at the fringes of my mind. He was persistent, and slowly, I let down the walls.
His thoughts flood into my mind and I immediately see exactly what he wants me to do. The images electrify my blood.
"Caden, I'm not doing..."
"Mr. Hallow," he growls. "You will call me Mr. Hallow. Now, lean into your tub."
Seeing what he wanted me to do in our mind connection was one thing but him saying it to me was a new level of heat. I hold the tap over the tub and let it run until it is partially filled. Then I loosen the bathrobe and slowly sink naked into the warm water. The water is stirring on my skin as his voice deepens out again.
"Let me see."
"What! No! It's absurd that I'm even doing this..."
"Casselba," he whispers softly.
His voice turns loving and I want to show him everything. I bite my lips as I slide the phone back to video call. His face fills the screen once more. His brown eyes light on mine and he smiles. His gaze lowers and I look down. My skin was slightly visible under the water.
He looks to me and my mind melds with his. I feel his thoughts and he fills mine. He smiles at me and we begin our roleplay.
"Touch yourself," he says, his eyes warm on me.
"I can't..." I start to say but his next words stop me.
"You let Ryan touch you. Now, it's my turn."
"This is not a game."
"Isn't it?" he growls. I smile at this.
It was really hard to believe that a man who manifested such confident sexuality was a human. I lower my hands into the water and watch as his eyes follow my fingers until they disappear under the surface.
My palm slides wet between my legs and I moan at his hot gaze on me. His eyes turn darker and my palm rubs over my skin. I imagine Ryan from behind and Caden in front and my fingers begin to move of their own accord.
"Watch me kneel before you."
I open my eyes at his words and hear a brief scuffle in the background. He angles his phone on something and moves away.
He stands at a distance where I can see all of him. His shirt comes off and I whimper at the strength of his molded pecs. With only his slacks angled on his tapered waist, he kneels to the floor.
He kneels before me.
I feel the exact image he creates in our mind link; Caden between my legs, eating me out. I moan and spread my legs wider in the tub.
My palm moves faster on my slit and from my lidded eyes I watch his muscles tense in barely repressed need.
"Show me more." Caden rasps, his voice a seductive whisper.
I lift up slowly from the tub and his eyes immediately glue to my skin, smooth and wet from the water. His wicked eyes hot on my tits heats me all over and I softly push in with my fingers.
He groans at this and I buck from the pleasure I see in his eyes.
"More," he growls.
I give him exactly just that. I lift up until my spread legs open before his very eyes. My head falls back at the open need I see brimming in his gaze. His eyes turn furious and his hands clench at his sides.
I had never wanted a man so much. I watch as veins bulge on his arms. He wanted to touch me, but somehow the pleasure of denial was thrilling as lightning. I decide to win our little game. I open my lips softly and sing to him.
"At your word, Mr. Hallow."
His eyes light with so much hunger I shiver from it.
"Come for me," he thunders, his eyes right on my sex.
I push another finger in, splintering into our mind connection as I shiver under his dark stare.
He makes no effort to leave my mind so I push him out. He frowns at this but I could not let him stay in. Besides, we were playing a game I was hellbent on winning.
I slowly slide back into the water and it covers once more over my breasts. I spy his eyes follow them into the water, and I grin at him. Caden and Ryan had a thing for boobs.
"This is the best video call I've ever had," I say, smiling at him. "Now, tell me why you called?"
His eyes still peer at me in passion.
"Caden?"
"Yeah. I wanted to ask you out."
"Is Ryan okay with this?"
"He will be there too."
Once again, my mind starts accessing all the reasons why I can't go.
"Caden, I'm not sure... A date with two men. It's not conventional."
"Yes," he says, "...it's not. It is dynamic, it's magical and it's beautiful."
"Also daring and dangerous," I add.
"I would like to have a proper conversation with you, Miss Crane."
I smile coyly at him.
"You mean one where you don't offer me a sex contract or ask me to masturbate in front of you?"
He colors at this. My smile stretches wider.
"Casselba?" he growls, clearly hating the pink crawling up his neck.
"Alright, Mr. Hallow. I'll be there. Text me the time and place."
His eyes move to lower once more but I lean further under the water.
"No more peeks," I whisper before I end the call.
The phone screen goes blank and I smile, receding further in the tub. I could not believe what just happened. It was weird, possessive, thrilling—and I loved it.
I let the tap run once more, and the smile is still on my lips as the water closes over my head.