To Collar and Keep by Stella Price, Audra Price Page B

cliff.”
    “Never darling. Everything I do, you will enjoy.”
    “Then I will always obey you.” She wiggled in his lap. “Rule number two?”
    “Always say what you mean with me.”
    “Even in public?” she asked with a quizzical look.
    “Yes. Did you meet Lady Minerva?”
    Arabella nodded. “Briefly, yes, she was very nice.”
    “And have you seen her with her Satyr?”
    “Not yet, no, but she did speak of him.”
    “And what did she say?” Harley asked as he ran his fingertips across the flesh of her thighs.
    “She loves him very much. She spoke freely of him and their clan.”
    “And that is how I wish you to be.”
      She grinned and nodded enthusiastically. “I can manage that, I’d like it very much.”
    “Good. I won’t have a mindless twit at my beck and call. Your brother said you were very smart.”
    She beamed. “I am. Very. I was getting my degree back home, for a while anyway.”
    “In?” he asked and ran his left hand down her side.
    “Well, my first few years I studied the usual, bio, chem and physics. But I had several off set courses as well, and I’d hoped to go into biotechnologies and engineering. Gene splicing and so on.”
    Harley stared at her with awe. “You’re serious?”
    She nodded. “A little bit, yeah. It’s complicated but once you get your head around it… It’s hardly rocket science, which coincidently isn’t that hard. It’s like brain surgery on a very tiny scale. Once you know where everything is and what it does, it’s easy. Not that we know what everything does yet, which is why it’s so fascinating.” She grinned excitedly. “I only got to look at human DNA, think of the possibilities.”
    He smirked. “So you know that I’m getting my doctorate in astrophysics, right?”
    “You are?” She flushed. “I was only kidding about the rocket science part. I’d love to peek at your notes sometime.”
    He laughed and ran his hand up her torso and weighed her breast in his hand. “Only if I can take a look at yours. My minor in graduate school was in crypto genetics. It was something I was interested in.” Harley grinned. “I got me a woman that rivals me in looks and brains… Shall we see about the way you fuck?”
    “Please, I’ve been dying to since I first saw you. I couldn’t have broken the rules much more though. How was your pet?”
    He growled. “Not you…not remotely you. And she’s not mine anymore.”
    “Ah…I wasn’t implying that she was. I had to sit in my room alone.”
    “Had you just walked out of the darkness, you could have had me,” he offered.
    “I couldn’t have. Sebastian had only bought me an hour of time, and we’d used most of that up. Plus, you could have collared me there, and my father would have hit the roof.”
    “I wouldn’t have… I didn’t know it was you.” He grinned. “Your voice is like a drug, you know that?”
    “No, but I know how yours affects me. I’m practically soaking though your pants.”
    He smirked. “Then take what you want sweetness…and enjoy your power…because you will bleed for me this night and wake with my collar.”
    Harlequin growled as she played with him, enjoying his new concubine. She was smart, dead smart and more so, she knew it. She was beautiful, but it was made so much sexier to him by her mind. He never wanted to be bound to a woman that didn’t understand how his mind worked, and now he wouldn’t need to worry. All that remained was seeing how far her limits went, and if he could coax her to enjoy his kinks with him.
    He stood with her still on his lap and walked them to the bed, kissing her all the while. She moaned, wriggled in his grasp, responsive as all get out to his attentions.
    When they kneeled on the bed, she broke the kiss to give him a sultry smirk, and he gave it right back. She thought he would take her now, but he had something special in mind.
    “Now, pet, we have a third rule for you to abide by. This one you will always enjoy. From