The Master's Lessons (9 page)

This was beyond
glorious.

She reached out
for him to finally give him everything he demanded, but to their
joint, bitter frustration, a loud knock on the office door
announced the fact they were no longer alone.

“Damn it!”
Cooper swore furiously, his face contorted with the effort of
controlling himself as his eyes raked lustfully across the flare of
her bare hips. His fists were clenched at his sides, and with a
tiny jerk of his head he gave her his orders.

Amelia’s tongue
darted out across her parted lips, but the repeated knock on the
door made her mind up for her. Pausing only to hurriedly snatch up
the discarded clothes that lay scattered over the floor, she
slipped past him with a low, aching moan as his hand shot out to
brush across her breasts, then concealed herself in the footwell of
the headmaster’s desk as he tempestuously wrenched open the
door.

“What is
it?”

The
ill-disguised fury in his hoarse voice brought a small, secretive
smile out on her lips as the newcomers spoke. “Is this a bad time,
headmaster?” Austin said. “Mr. Thompson and I have come as you
requested to discuss the corridor supervision rotas, but if you are
otherwise occupied...”

“Nay, I did ask
you to attend, though I confess I had forgotten in the face of a
powerful distraction. Very well, come in whilst I search for the
papers.”

Cooper’s
Scottish burr resonated through her even across the distance
between them. Amelia had to fight with all she was to choke back
the low moan of desperation that hovered on her lips, but then he
took his seat in front of her, a warning written in his darkened
eyes as they settled upon her for only the briefest of moments
before he turned his attention to the sheaves of paper scattered
across his desk. As his hands flew across them instead of the bare
skin that silently screamed out for his attention, she realised
that she was invisible to the other two teachers – and a devious
compulsion sparked in her mind that was impossible to ignore.

“There, take a
look and tell me what you think.”

As Cooper
pushed a thin stack of papers forward, Amelia held her breath and
slowly reached up to loosen his belt. His hips instinctively jerked
as he drew a sharp breath, but in the presence of the other two men
he could do nothing to betray his reaction to the way her fingers
were now slipping beneath the waistband of his undergarments.
Instead, he straightened in his chair and moved closer, a clear
encouragement that only urged her on.

Deeply thankful
for the vast mahogany desk that shielded them, she rose up onto her
knees and freed his cock. It was already rock hard, and when her
fingers closed around it and gently rubbed over the pliant head, a
tiny drop of pre-cum glistened there to tempt her yet further.
Amelia’s tongue darted out across her lips, and, overwhelmed by the
force of all she felt, she gave into her body’s furious compulsion
and lowered her head to draw the headmaster’s cock into her
mouth.

Cooper let
loose a soft, strangled groan that only she seemed to hear as the
other two men conferred loudly over the rota he had presented. As
she tightened her lips around the shaft of his cock, he gently
eased his hips forward and she eagerly accepted his direction,
allowing him to fill her mouth as she heard a rustle of papers that
announced the other men had finished their perusal of the rota.
When she drew her head back before taking his full length into her
mouth again, Austin spoke in ignorance of all that was happening
mere feet in front of him.

“I see you have
left young Miss Montague off the night rotas, headmaster. A wise
decision, I think.”

As Amelia set
her hands against Cooper’s thighs and wrapped her tongue around the
head of his cock, she felt him tense. “You think so?” he said, his
voice hoarse. “May I ask why, Austin?”

“Well, were she
my daughter I certainly would not want her walking the corridors
undefended,” the elderly man said. “I am not saying I do not trust
the boys, but it is wise not to place temptation directly in their
path – and Miss Montague walking alone in the depth of nights would
be a temptation, that much is for sure.”

“I could not
concur more, Mr. Austin, and I have the strangest suspicion Mr.
Cooper is in agreement with the both of us. She really is a lovely
little creature,” Thompson said in evident approval. “Too lovely
for an environment like this, I fear.”

“Miss Montague
is beautiful, certainly, but she is also a very skilled teacher,”
Cooper said sharply. “Her beauty does not preclude her from being a
superb teacher, and though certain measures need to be taken to
safeguard her from the interest of those of our boys who are all
but men, I assure you that I consider her fully deserving of the
position she has at Highdown Hall.”

Amelia’s eyes
widened, for the sincerity of the headmaster’s fierce words was
impossible to mistake. She yearned to fly into his arms and
demonstrate the full height of the gratitude she felt towards him
for his heated, unexpected support of her, but all she could do was
show it in the only way now available to them. Her low moan
vibrated through his cock and he tensed further, breathing heavily
as she sucked on his cock and revelled in the salty, intimate taste
on her tongue.

“Are you sure
you are well, headmaster?” Austin asked. “You seem to be running
something of a fever – perhaps a trip to the infirmary would be in
order.”

Cooper snorted
as she pulled back to sneak a glance up at him. Their eyes briefly
locked, and the lust she saw in the depths of his thrilled her
beyond comprehension. “I am perfectly well, Austin. Indeed, I have
never been better! However, if that is all, then I would thank you
and Thompson to leave me in peace now, for there is much I must
attend to before lessons commence.”

“Of course,
headmaster.”

She stilled in
anticipation, but the footsteps she expected did not come until the
headmaster banged on the desktop with his balled fist.

“See yourselves
out, then!” he barked.

Amelia clenched
her lips together to stifle a sudden burst of laughter as the
headmaster pulled his cock out of her mouth, and to her
astonishment a tiny smile twitched at the corners of his thin lips
as the two men finally departed and closed the door behind
them.

“Up you get,
you devious minx,” Cooper said under his breath. “Delightful as it
has been having you down there doing your very best to tear down my
self-control, now we are alone again I want to make the very most
of having you undressed and defenceless against me.”

He pushed his
chair back and held his hands out to help her up, and though she
glanced down longingly at his cock she obeyed him and allowed him
to pull her to her feet, standing before him as his eyes raked
across her and his predatory smile widened further.

“I hope you intend to attend to
me
, sir,” she said, deliberately
mimicking him with a lift of her brow that only darkened his eyes
yet further.

“Damned right I
do,” the headmaster said as he fumbled over the buttons of his
shirt, his face furiously reddened and his breath coming in shallow
gasps. “You are a wicked, glorious little woman, Amelia – and you
are mine. Into my lap, now!”

She scrambled
to obey him, for her body yearned to be joined up with his in every
possible way. She felt no shame, for the desire he so clearly felt
for her emboldened her to share everything with him, and as his
arms tightened around her to hold her near she threw her own arms
around his neck and stretched up to deliver a fierce kiss to the
side of his throat before she spoke again.

“Did I make you
forget you had invited Austin and Thompson, James?”

He cupped her ass in the palms of his hands with a harsh
groan. “Amelia, you have the power to make me forget everything but
how much I want you – nay, how much I
need
you! No other woman have ever had
that power over me, vixen. Hands behind your back,” he said
abruptly.

“Hands -”

“Behind your
back, Amelia!”

The urgency in
his voice could have only one meaning, and Amelia buried her face
in his shoulder to mute her cry of elation as her body instantly
obeyed his command. The scent of musk and sweat was deeply
lascivious, full of the promise of all that was to come, and she
breathed in deeply as he forced his hand between their bodies,
groping roughly at her breasts before he tugged his tie loose and
then deftly bound it around her wrists to restrain them in the
small of her back as she shamelessly straddled his waist and threw
her head back in unbound elation.

Cooper clenched
his jaw, clearly waging a losing battle for his self-control as he
pinched Amelia’s nipples with an appreciative groan before sinking
down lower in his chair so that his rock-hard cock pushed up
against her cock, the tip already entering her as she shuddered and
bore down against it. She had been ready for this ever since she
had first thought of him upon waking, and now she could withstand
no further delay. Though hindered by the fact her wrists were bound
so tightly behind her, she gripped him between her thighs and
sought out his eyes with her own as she pushed down to take the
full length of his cock inside her.

He swore under
his breath and drew back before allowing the full height of his
passion for her to spill through, thrusting deeply into her as the
morning sun shone through the closed drapes of his office window.
Time stood still around them, the world nothing more than the two
of them until she finally found the presence of mind to say what
she had wanted to before he had ordered her back into his arms.

“Thank you,
James,” she said breathlessly.

He wound one
hand through her hair and wrenched her head back as he buried his
cock inside her again. “For this?”

“Yes,
God
yes,
but I meant for what you said to Austin and Thompson!” Amelia
arched and clenched her lips tightly together to bite back a loud
cry of bliss, the constriction of the tie around her wrists the
perfect complement to the shallow thrusts of the headmaster’s cock
inside her. It was all she could do to retain a faltering grip on
her wits and focus on what she wanted to say to him. “I think you
meant what you said, and if that is so then I owe you my thanks.
Despite your evident lust for me, you see me as more than just a
woman – and that means more to me than I think you
know.”

Cooper kissed
her fiercely before he answered with words. “Aye, I do, and I
always have, Amelia. I wanted you from the very first, but your wit
and intelligence was clear even in the letter you wrote requesting
an interview. Few headmasters would take the risk of employing a
female teacher, let alone one as young and lovely as you, but the
moment we met I sensed you were worth that risk. How very glad I am
now that I decided to take a chance on you, my dear!”

She delivered a
lingering kiss in response to the curve of his sinewed throat,
greedy for the scent of sex and sweat on his skin that she had come
to know and cherish. Each stroke of his cock was driving her closer
to the peak of her pleasure, and she no longer had the ability to
force it back. Helpless in the face of all he was doing to her, she
writhed against her bonds with a frustrated sob, desperate to touch
him as she felt her climax begin to descend with unstoppable force.
He shook his head, but his eyes softened as he wrapped his arms
around her bare body to crush her against his chest, delivering a
surprisingly tender kiss to the crown of her hair as she tensed in
his arms.

“Let it come,
Amelia,” he said quietly, the sound of her name on his lips as
powerful a thrill as it had been the first time she had heard it
there. “Though I would gladly spend all day like this making you
wait for the pleasure I can give you, today time is not our friend.
If you want this, then you must come for me now, love.”

Amelia’s heart
missed a beat, but then her entire body lurched and the room spun
around her, the headmaster’s words enough to send her soaring into
the sweetest, most consuming of pleasures. She yearned to touch him
and hold onto him, but all she could do was slump into his
supportive hold and cover his rough skin in a hundred kisses as she
battled with all her might to mute the sounds of her explosive
climax. Only the door separated them from the teachers and students
streaming through the corridor outside, and they could not be
allowed to intrude.

Cooper hushed
her as she rocked against him and choked back cry after cry, and
then issued a strangled groan of his own as his own orgasm clearly
caught him off-guard. He pumped his hips against her, panting for
breath as his seed filled her and she nodded urgently, glorying in
his climax as much as she did in his own. All too soon, though,
their private moment of euphoria receded and the cares of the world
outside the door flooded back into the breach.

Unwillingly,
she glanced over her shoulder to the clock on the wall that
silently proclaimed a warning of how near the school day was to
beginning. The headmaster’s eyes followed hers and narrowed in
acknowledgement, but still he did not loosen his hold on her.
Instead, his face contorted afresh as he roughly spoke. “I do not
want to relinquish you, my dear.”

“And neither do
I want to leave your arms, headmaster, but the school’s demands
cannot be ignored. Friday will soon arrive, I am sure -”

“And this coming Friday it will be
me
you willingly turn to,” he cut in,
fierce jealousy erupting out of nowhere to blaze in the depths of
his darkened eyes. “Say it is so, Amelia!”