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with the
blonde?” she asked, before he got a chance to say anything.
    “What?”
    “The
blonde? The one you were intent on fucking and claiming as
your sub. Tell me, Elijah, Sir, were
you going to tell me before or after you made it official?”
    She was trying to make him
angry. He saw her deflection and hated the fact he’d been the one to cause it.
She didn’t deserve that.
    “I was never going to claim
that woman.”
    “Don’t try and fool me,
Elijah.”
    He cupped her face, staring
into her eyes. The pain reflecting out at him drove him insane. There was a
time, not too long ago, when Amber did nothing but smile and laugh. Those times
were long gone.
    “I’m not trying to fool you,
Amber. Nothing happened between me and Erika. She was talking. I wasn’t doing
anything other than flirting.” He’d not even been tempted by the other woman.
    All he’d tried to do was get
Amber close to him. Instead he’d pushed her away. When Tyler had come to him a
couple of hours after he’d talked to Erika to tell him Amber’s request, he’d
been shocked. Closing his eyes, he took a deep breath to give himself time.
    “I can’t do this,” she said,
tugging out of his arms.
    “Why are you always running
from me?” he asked, following her through her apartment. She stopped in the center
of the sitting room.
    Her apartment was quite
spacious.
    “I’m not always running,
Elijah. You’re always following me around, and I can’t deal with this. I don’t
want a relationship with you. I never did.”
    Her words cut him deeply.
Years of keeping his emotions locked away helped him not to show any reaction.
    “Don’t try and kid yourself.
I know what you want.” He took hold of her hand, bringing her in close. “You
want me.”
    “How big can your ego
possibly get?” she asked, storming to the door. “I want you to leave.”
    “No.”
    “Heather and the girls are
coming. We’re going out, and I don’t want you here when they come and get me.”
    “You’ve never told them
about us?” he asked. He’d wondered for the longest time if Heather’s hatred of
him was because of what he did to Amber all those years ago. The biggest
mistake he’d ever made was putting Amber over his knee. Since that moment she’d
been over his knee a fair few times.
    “Never. We’re a secret, remember? No one is to know about
us.”
    She opened the door,
averting her gaze.
    “This isn’t over,” he said,
seeing no other choice but to leave.
    “It has been over a long
time, Elijah. You’re the only one who doesn’t see it.”
    Amber slammed the door
behind him. Resting his palm against the door, he waited for her to do
something else. He didn’t know what he expected, but he got silence as an
answer.

Chapter Two
     
    Dealing with Elijah outside
of any social setting always unnerved her. He had the power to destroy her, and
he didn’t even realize it. Amber brushed the gloss over her lips giving them a
nice clear sheen before adding more mascara and some blusher. After he’d left
she’d done nothing but cry. Elijah wasn’t wrong when he said she wanted him.
She really did want him. There was no chance for them at all.
    The extra makeup would cover
up the splotches caused by her tears. Standing under a cold shower helped to
numb her body. She needed to be numb, as otherwise she’d go insane. For the
last seven years Elijah and his brand of domination had been part of her world.
From the moment he put her over his knee, he’d cemented their future together.
No other man would ever be good enough. She’d enjoyed his hard spanks more than
she liked to admit. Amber liked his spanks so much she’d gone out of her way to
get them. They’d been alone a few times before she went in search of Club Kink.
    Elijah had helped her when she
didn’t know what to do. Taking a deep breath she stared at her reflection
seeing the six months’ worth of denial written all over her. She’d not been
submissive to anyone or gone on a