Eraser Platinum (7 page)

The next morning, Mackenzie was woken by soft warm kisses against her skin as she lay on her side.  She dropped her shoulder and tilted her head to allow better access.  She moaned sleepily as Nate continued to kiss up her neck, his mouth reaching her ear.

“Papillon,” he whispered, causing her skin to break out in goose bumps and her body to shiver.

She rolled toward him, stretching as she went.  Her eyes blinked open and disappointment overcame her when she saw that he was standing beside the bed fully dressed.  He was leaning over her in a suit.  The scent of his cologne filled her nostrils.  She inhaled a deep breath and let it out with a disgruntled sigh.

“You’re going to work?”

“Yes.  It’s Monday morning.  I normally do.”  He chuckled.  Mackenzie groaned and squeezed her eyes shut, an adorable scrunched up scowl on her face.  Nate allowed his eyes to trail her barely covered body.  His desire for her threatened to overpower him and draw him back to bed.  He cleared his throat and took a step away instead.

“No fair!  You can’t tease me like that and walk away.”

“I assure you I can.”  He bent down again, pushing his hand under her head.  His fingers tangled in her hair and his mouth hovered over hers.  “My teases are always full of promise Mackenzie, you should know that by now.”  He kissed her hard, coaxing her lips apart, nipping her and injecting his tongue.  She moaned into his mouth and his cock hardened even more at the sound.  She lifted her arms to encircle his neck but he pulled back before she could reach him.  “We’ll continue this tonight, I promise.”

Mackenzie groaned with frustration.  Banging her fist against the mattress, she grumbled, “I’m working tonight.”

“After.”  He kissed her forehead.  “I love you,” he said, straightening his stance.

She blinked up at him with a smile on her lips.  “I love you too.”  Her eyes caught on the movement when he adjusted his pants.  “You torturous bastard.”

He laughed his way out of the room and Mackenzie pressed her face into the pillow.  She let out a small, frustrated, but happy, scream.

Not ten minutes later, she was still lying in bed, unable to wipe the grin from her face, when her cell phone chimed with a text message.  She rolled across the bed and collected it from the nightstand.  Her smile broadened when she saw it was from Nate.

If you married me, I would fulfil that promise every day for the rest of our lives.

An involuntarily laughed escaped her lips.  She imagined Nate sitting in the back of the car while Simon drove him to work, in his suit, cell phone in hand and a smug look on his face.  She was beginning to realize these little attempts at persuasion weren’t going to stop any time soon.  He was the master of seduction and he knew how to get what he wanted. 

Seduced into marriage to the most handsome man she had ever known?
  She shook her head.
  No.
  That wouldn’t be her story.  She was tougher than that.  Beautiful messages and his romantic side may be her weakness but if she were to ever change her mind it would be all her idea.  Right? 
Change my mind?
  She groaned.

Go away.  I’m sleeping.

She texted back before tossing her phone on the nightstand and stretching on the bed.  A new message came through almost immediately.  She smiled and rolled back to collect it.

No you’re not.  You better not be pleasuring yourself, Mackenzie.  Delayed gratification, remember?

She laughed out loud and quickly shot him a response.

You know where you can shove your delayed gratification SIR.

She sighed happily, her hand creeping down her stomach in defiance.  A knock at the door interrupted her and she quickly shot up in bed, tucking the sheet close to her chest and running her fingers through her hair before saying, “Come in.”

“Good morning, Ms. Reed.”  Hilda walked in carrying a tray.  “I have breakfast for you.”

“Thank you, Hilda.  You didn’t have to do that.  I’m more than capable.”

“It’s my job, dear.”  The gray-haired woman replied with a smile, placing the tray across Mackenzie’s lap.  “Can I get you anything else?”

“No.  Thank you, this looks delicious.”  Mackenzie’s mouth watered at the arrangement of food in front of her.  “I’ll be sure to get up earlier tomorrow and eat downstairs.”

“Whatever you prefer, Ms. Reed.  Nathaniel requested your breakfast to be delivered at this time, but if you wish to have a later breakfast you just let me know.  We don’t all like to get up at the butt-crack of dawn,” she said with a wink, before walking around the bed to open the heavy drapes.

Mackenzie couldn’t suppress her giggle.

Hilda turned to her.  “It’s true.  Just because he’s been up since five a.m. doesn’t mean you have to do it.”

“What time is it now?” Mackenzie asked.

“It’s just past eight.”

He’s been up for three hours already?
  Mackenzie’s brow scrunched in confusion. 
Why didn’t he wake me earlier? 
Hilda must have misread her expression.

“This is your home dear, I work for you too, now.  You just tell me what you need and when, alright?”

“Okay, thank you.”

“Anything at all, I’m here for you, Ms. Reed,” she said with a small bow of her head, before backing away toward the door.

“Then I insist you call me Mack.”

“Oh no, I wouldn’t feel right.”

“Mackenzie then? 
Please?
”

Hilda contemplated that for a moment before her face broke into a smile.  “As you wish.  Is there anything else?”

“Not that I can think of.  Thank you for breakfast.”

“You’re welcome, Mackenzie.”

She watched Hilda leave the room, closing the door behind her before she tucked into the scrambled eggs.  It would take some getting used to, people taking care of her, this massive house and the benefits that came with it, but for some strange reason she felt at home already.

Slipping into the dark bedroom that night, Mackenzie quietly undressed in the attached bathroom so as not to wake Nate.  It was after midnight and she’d been hankering to get home as quick as possible, with the hope that Nate would have waited up for her.  Which was silly considering he’d been up since five a.m. and had worked a full day.  Even so, she couldn’t help the feeling of disappointment at finding him asleep when she got home. 
Home.
  She smiled around her toothbrush at her reflection in mirror. 
I love the sound of that.

She tossed her clothes in the hamper and flicked off the light before opening the bathroom door, only to find Nate sitting up in bed with the lamp on.

“What are you doing awake?” she asked.

Nate’s eyes raked the length of her completely naked body before latching onto her face.  “What are you doing so far away?”  Her answering smile was enough to light up the whole house.  Nate swallowed.  “Fuck, I’ve missed you.  Get over here.”

“Yes Sir.”  She giggled before walking his way.

He kicked off the covers so she could climb into bed, smoothing the sheet beside him.  She ignored that invitation, instead settling for a place on his lap.  His naked lap.  She straddled him and rocked against him, her core against his cock.

“Oh god, Mackenzie.”  He groaned.

“I missed you, too,” she said before kissing him.  He wrapped his arms around her back and pulled her closer still, kissing her fiercely while she rocked against him until she was breathless.

“You need to go back to your apartment,” he said against her lips.

“
What?
” she screeched, pushing him away.

“You need to go and sort all of your furniture and belongings out, decide what you want to bring here so that your apartment can be let go.  I’ll organise a removalist.  I need this to feel more permanent.”  She slapped him hard on the chest.  “What was that for?”  He laughed.

“Don’t ever start a conversation by telling me I need to leave!  You nearly gave me a heart attack!”

He laughed harder and Mackenzie jumped from his lap and off the bed.  He instantly sobered when she disappeared into the closet.

“Mackenzie, shit, come on.”  She didn’t respond.  “Come back to bed.”

“Okay,” she said a moment later.  She gave him a small shrug, stepping towards him and he scrunched his brow warily.  She climbed back on top of his lap and pushed his chest until he was lying flat on the bed.  Taking hold of his hand, she lifted his arm above his head and leaned in for a kiss, stopping just above his lips.  “But
you
need to be taught a lesson.”

Mackenzie pulled her other arm out from behind her back and quickly attached the handcuffs to both his wrists and the bed post before Nate even had a chance to know what was happening.

“What the …?”

“Payback,” was all she said, before kissing her way along his cheek, down his neck and onto his chest.  She bit at his nipples as her hands roamed lower, rubbing on his cock that went from semi back to fully erect instantaneously.

She licked her way down his torso, dipping her tongue into the lines of his abs and looking up to his eyes focused on her every movement.  Taking hold of his hard cock she watched the hiss leave his lips. 
I will never tire of this man.
  She stroked him while moving lower, licking his ‘V’ before kissing the tip of his cock.  It jolted in her hand and she looked up at him in time to see him closing his eyes.

“Open them,” she demanded in the same way he had done plenty of times to her.  “I want to see you when I make you come.”

“Fuck!”

She kissed his tip again and then darted her tongue out to collect the small amount of pre-cum glistening there.  She licked the length of him while fisting him gently, revelling in the deep breaths he was taking.  She sucked the tip of his cock into her mouth before removing her hand and lips from him altogether.  Then she started kissing his abs again.

Her jade eyes focused on him, mischief playing in them, as she ran her nails up the inside of his thigh causing him to shiver.  Then she bit his chest, hard and he yelped. She did it again and he groaned.  She wrapped her fingers around his cock and squeezed before letting go.  Repositioning herself beside his knees she looked back at him and again licked his cock.

“For fuck’s sake, stop teasing me.  Suck it already.”

“But you enjoy delayed gratification,
Sir
.”

“Mackenzie,” he warned.

“Yes Sir?”  She sat back on her knees and blinked innocently at him.

“Stop being a fucking tease and suck my cock.”  He saw the lust pool in her eyes at his demand and smirked.  That smirk was quickly wiped off his face when she laughed at him and stood up beside the bed.  He watched her walk away, his eyes focused on her bare ass.  “Where are you going?”  She didn’t answer, just disappeared into the closet again.  “Mackenzie?”

When she returned she held a blindfold in front of her.  “Change of plans.”

“You
have
been snooping.”

“Uh-huh.”  She climbed over him, seating herself against his cock.  “I had a little time today.  Thought I’d get acquainted with the place, you know, find hidden treasures … I was left a little aroused this morning and was feeling restless.”