Hide and Seek by Alyssa Brooks Read Free Book Online

some sort of future. He didn’t intend to have a future with any woman.
    He just needed a break from his normal lifestyle.
    â€œMy God. Maxim, it almost sounds like you’re going to say you’re in love with me.” Elisa swallowed deeply. “But of course not. That’s ridiculous.”
    Love?
    â€œNo!” He leapt to his feet and started pacing. “NO. Of course not.”
    â€œThen you are here for sex.”
    â€œYes,” he spat out without thinking. “No. I mean…crap. What am I saying? I thought maybe…maybe you could give me a second chance on that date I blew.”
    He’d be lucky if she didn’t boot him back into the snow.
    For a second, she looked pissed again. “Why?”
    â€œJust to see. You know…” He stopped pacing and knelt down next to her. Taking her chin in his hand, he looked her in the eye. “I don’t care about the sex, okay, Elisa?”
    â€œNo.”
    â€œNo?”

    N o? What was she saying?
    Elisa hesitated, not sure how to answer, not even positive what she’d meant. When Maxim had kissed her hand, he’d done her in. He hadn’t been here an hour, but all of the old feelings she’d had for him had come rushing back. The desire. The interest. The way she tingled when they touched.
    The way she wanted to smack some damn sense into him.
    What now? Did she take her “no” back? Pretend she’d made a mistake?
    Or stick with her initial, gut reaction?
    What did she want from Maxim?
    She’d promised herself she’d be strong, bitchy even, and strong, bitchy women didn’t run. They faced their weaknesses. Smashed them down.
    Even when their weaknesses were currently wearing a robe half his size and they didn’t know how to cross their legs.
    God, he had a big dick.
    Maxim’s fingers moved along her jaw, making her shiver with white hot need. “No, Elisa?”
    Oh yeah, her flame had been relit. Fire sparked between them, combustible. After seeing that cock, her dildo seemed like a joke.
    Elisa nodded slowly. “No.”
    â€œWhat do you mean, no? You want to have sex with me?”
    Yeah, she wanted him. And why shouldn’t she have him?
    Wasn’t it weaker to avoid men, to avoid her feelings, to run and hide away? Screw those sex toys. She needed to learn to control her feelings, to control men. Most importantly, to control them without letting them control her .
    What better victim to practice on?
    She pulled his hand away, moving onto her knees. Her chest brushed against his and sensations shot through her nipples. She exhaled deeply and squeezed her eyes shut.
    Her interest in him was too piqued to turn back now. She wanted, needed, to know what Maxim had to offer. What she’d missed out on all those years ago.
    â€œI meant no , no sex between us, but I do want you to touch me, pleasure me, just me.” She felt as if someone else was speaking the words, feeling incapable of following through with them, but knowing it was do or die; play or be played. “Make me climax. Any way I ask for it.”
    â€œPleasure you?” His face lit up as he reached around her and seized her ass, squeezing as he pulled her tight against him. “Happily.”
    A nervous shudder shook her. She was so in over her head, but she refused to sink. Not this time. Not with this man. Not again.
    Nope, this time she wasn’t the fool.
    He was.
    She grabbed his hands and yanked them from her ass. Rising to her feet, she stood and looked down at him. “But if you really, truly want to prove yourself to me, then you give me orgasms without having any yourself. You cannot fuck me. You cannot attempt to relieve yourself. You obey my rules, or—”
    â€œWhat?” The look on his face said it all. “Rules? Are you kidding?”
    â€œAbsolutely not. Men are pigs. Selfish, greedy, betraying swine, and I’m through with them. Think you can convince