Chapter 23: A Brat

"Oh? I am frightened by such an empty promise," I said sardonically. But I knew that was a wrong move since challenging Valerian was inviting me to a more severe injury for certain.

He smirked, shaking his head. "Keep making such satirical remarks, Dominixe. I shall make sure that you are going to regret that." With that, he tested his belt's suppleness before reaching for my hands.

"What are you doing?" I asked, wanting to be touched already.

My longing for his touch had infiltrated my whole being. My body was already on fire right now.

"Making you feel helpless," he said huskily before he used his belt to tie my hands together.

My wolf and I were more aroused by what he was doing. Did he say helpless? I did not think that was the case. I did not see that I was helpless. In fact, I found myself being pleased by this man for my own good.

Valerian put my hands on top of my head. "Now, be a good girl for me, honeydew."

I raised my head to bite his lower lip and stretched it out before I laid back again. "Pardon me, Your Grace. But I do not know how to be a good girl. I am a naughty one." I smirked.

I was always like this to him. He would ask me to be a good girl, but I couldn't.

Valerian stared at me, slightly tilting his head. His lazy smile was still on his lips.

I knew that look.

He found me challenging.

"Good then." My breath thickened when he spread my legs and settled in my wet cunt. I shivered as soon as his fingers touched it. "I like to install punishments." I forwarded my hips so I could feel more of his touch, but Valerian, as jerk as he was, teased it only before he would remove his fingers from me. "Shall we plan for your safe word, my honeydew?"

He stood up to remove his trousers and undergarment. I got distracted and held my breath, seeing his big and thick cock that fitted inside me.

I licked my lips, seeing how big he was. I had already seen his cock in my previous life, but I couldn't help but be amazed.

"Well?"

I looked up at him, seeing that he was grinning. I could have sworn my cheeks were red from embarrassment since I had no words coming out of my mouth.

It always rendered me speechless, even though I had seen another man's cock in the past.

"Um..." I cleared my throat. "Lilith." He looked surprised. "Lilith is my safe word."

I watched his reaction change into an interesting one. "Lilith..." He kept nodding his head. "Then, remember that. If you find what I am doing uncomfortable, just say your safe word, honeydew. And I will oblige to halt immediately."

"Yes..."

My heart felt at ease. Valerian was the only man who could make me at ease and put my guard down. To every man I slept with back then, I had to be alert since I was not born to feel at ease. Both parties treated it as getting laid.

However, right now, this man right here was not treating it as simple sex. Just by looking at him, there was love in his eyes.

He cared for me enough to ask for my safe word. He was only the person who could make me feel safe.

He was my only mate... My Valerian Leveaux.

Valerian settled himself in between my legs and leaned forward. He made my hands still in my head before he instantly spun me around and made me stand on all fours. Then my vision was blocked when he covered my eyes with a cloth. I licked my lips in excitement since it had been a long time since I felt helpless like this and being bondage.

"Stay there and be a good slut for me, honeydew." I held my breath when his tone changed into a dominant one. It was husky with a hint of firmness. When I nodded, he went to my ear and whispered, "Answer me properly."

I bit my lower lip, licking what he was doing. "Yes, honeydew." I inhaled sharply when I felt him from my behind as he caressed my arms up and down. That sent shivers down my spine.

I felt more sensation travel around my body when his hands caressed to my flank as he was memorizing my body before he went to my bottom and smacked the hell out of me.

I did not hiss from the pain. Or more likely... I couldn't feel it.

I clenched my hands. "Valerian..." I sat down and removed my blindfold.

"What is it?" He looked concerned as he knelt before me. "What is it, honeydew? Did I hurt you?"

I shook my head. How must I say this to him? "I cannot say that when you smack me is painful. It's... tolerable. Can you make it harder? Or make it extreme?"

His eyes widened. "What? Extreme?"

I averted my gaze and nodded. That was also his reaction when I requested to make it more painful. "I have... high tolerance in pain. When you smacked me, the pain was there, but it was tolerable," I reasoned.

This was the downside of being under vigorous training. I already had a high pain tolerance.

All of the Cantavalle children had the same tolerance as me. Regular exposure to painful stimuli would increase our pain tolerance. It was the same training we experienced when we had to be a high tolerance for drinking booze.

And worse, we had to be a high tolerance was poison.

I might be a high tolerance, but if the poison were made in a high concentration and condensed just as Caroline made me drink back in my previous life, I wouldn't stand a chance. I remembered that it was tasteless, just like what we consumed before, but it was highly fatal.

"How did you develop that kind of pain tolerance, Domi?" he asked, worried. "Did someone hurt you? Any trauma?" He held my face.

I looked intently at his orbs. How I wished I could tell it. "No. It is just that I really have a high tolerance. It is why I want you to go extreme on me. I should have told you sooner."

He creased his forehead. I knew that look. He knew that I was lying. I could see the slight twitch of his eye. He couldn't fool me.

Valerian knew me very well since he proclaimed that he knew my gesture and behavior.

I wonder if he would ask me more.

"I should think about it." He stood up and sat beside me. I gasped when he scooped me up to place me on his lap.

"What are you doing? I thought you were going to take me." I lowered my gaze to see his alive and pulsating cock grazing my skin. "And I am fucking wet." I frowned when I returned my gaze to him.

I flinched when he gently pinched my flank before he drew closer to me. "I can feel it... I can smell it..." He sniffed my neck down to my shoulder. "Your arousal makes me want to slam my cock inside you, Dominixe."

I only scoffed. "Just empty words. No actions." I rolled my eyes.

He smiled sheepishly before he kissed me on my cheek. But his kiss went to my shoulder before I felt his hand cupping my breast. "I am still thinking about your request to go extreme on you."

I glanced at him and saw in his eyes that they had hesitation. I tried to raise my hand to caress his cheek even though they were still tied up. His attention was on me. "I requested it. It is not like it is against my will, Valerian."

It would take a long moment of convincing to make him like this. Valerian could do it, but he was hesitant about my reasoning.

"I can take it for you, honeydew," I whispered seductively, making him hold his breath.

I smiled when he gripped my breast more as if he was holding back. His nose grazed the slenderness of my neck before he sighed.

"You are really such a tease." He glared at me. But his glare hinted at lust and desire on it.

"Why are you holding back then? Are you concerned that I cannot take it?" He remained silent. "Looks like it." I shrugged.

I ignored the sensation when he massaged my breast as if it were his stress ball. I attempted to stand up, but he only gripped my waist and growled at me.

"Stay here," he said darkly while fondling my nipple.

I huffed, pretending that I was not affected by his touch. "Make me." I smirked.

I stood up once more but Valerian was quick to tackle me. He bent me over while my head was on the bed.

I flinched when this time, he smacked with so much force enough to make me feel the pain I was looking for.

"You really do not know how to behave, do you?"

I gasped when he smacked me on my behind again. I bit my lower lip when I finally felt pleasure from the pain.

"Why? Do you want me to apologize? I do not do that," I talked back to annoy him before he blindfolded me again.

"Huh..." He scoffed. He struck me ten times on my left buttock cheek. I felt the pain searing on my skin before I felt the same pain on my right. "It seems we need to expand my lessons from today on."

I felt his breathing fanning over my wet cunt. Anticipation lingered on me.

"So wet... Only for me..." he said darkly as his fingers inserted inside me.

A moan escaped from me. I could feel the cold shivers raining on me. It was making me have some goosebumps.

"Valerian..." I called, breathless.

He moved his fingers inside of me until he moved it up and down before I felt his tongue licking and teasing my clit. It moaned me more. I even shoved my face onto my bed.

"Oh, good Moon Goddess..." I couldn't help the sensation flowing inside me.

Valerian removed his fingers before he made me bend more by spreading my legs. I clutched the sheets when he sucked my clit.

"Val... That is so good..." I moved my hips to ride his mouth, but I flinched when he smacked my behind. "Honeydew..." My nipples were going hard with each suck he would do.

It was making me turn on. He was making me and my wolf aroused.

"Ah..." My chest rose up and down when he kept teasing my clit. It was so fucking good that I was close to reaching my climax. "Fuck... More... More, Valerian!"

But he suddenly stopped pleasuring me when I was close to my peak.

I groaned in frustration. I even growled, offended at what he did.

"Fuck you!" I was annoyed and frustrated, but he only laughed darkly. "Take me now!" I demanded.

"No." I felt the bed suck between my thighs before he hugged me from behind to cup my breasts. "Why would I follow a woman's demand when she does not even know how to listen to her man?" I bit my lower lip when he kept rolling my nipples until they were hardened.

I groaned in protest. "Damn you, Valerian... I am so horny, and I want you to satiate me!"

He chuckled. His chuckle was like an empty one with a hint of amusement. "I did not know that my honeydew is an impatient one." He kissed my bare shoulder. "Pardon me, my lady, but I am in charge here. You are not the one who shall decide when I can fuck you. I am."

This man... He never changed. He would always like this. He liked prolonging things such as this. And I was an impatient one.

"You are going to pay for this."

"You should not have seduced me in the first place, honeydew. I have asked you if you do not want this, but you invited me."

I gulped, knowing that he was right. My breath thickened when he helped me to get up so I could kneel while he was behind me. I gasped when he cupped both of my breasts.

"Mine," he said huskily before his hand lowered to reach for my wet cunt.