Free Janus' Conquest by Dawn Ryder

invitation.
    He left her a moment later. A shiver raced over her skin as she was suddenly cold without his body pressing against hers. The sheet was pushed up over her thighs a second later as Janus knelt at the foot of her bed and pressed her thighs wide. She was fascinated by the shimmer of heat in his eyes. It held her mesmerized as his hands smoothed over her hips.
    “You will wear the harness.” The first strips hit her belly and she flinched. Janus locked stares with her for a moment as he soothed her bare belly with a firm hand.
    “Because I will have you and I will not see your body torn.”
    His voice was firm with his determination. A training harness was something she had grown up knowing about but never truly understood. Maybe it was the difference between the genders but females dreaded the training harnesses and Hunters anticipated the moment they would place one on a female. But the look on Janus’ face as he drew the straps over her bared belly was not one of possession as she had assumed it would be. Determination glittered in his eyes but his lips were set into a hard line as if he was struggling to do what he considered the correct thing.
    She had never entertained the idea that a training harness was for her benefit. The contraption was going to slide and rub against her clit with every move she made, 53
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    pushing her towards climax over and over without any emotion, only pure physical stimulation. Janus stroked the center of her slit before placing the little pleasure beads against her tender flesh. He tightened the straps of the harness and clamped them in place with a small hand tool. It would have to be cut off her body, yet another design aspect that had always made her loathe the idea of wearing one.
    Tonight she was torn between the idea of being a captive in harness and the knowledge that she would not be chaste when dawn broke. Janus stroked her belly with a hand that shook slightly before he looked at her face and grunted with hard approval. Small lines around his eyes showed the stress marking his face as he stood up. He offered her a hand and she stared at his open palm for a long moment. Not taking his hand felt so petty, so she lifted her own and placed it into his.
    “Let us go someplace. I confess that being in this room is more than my control can take.”
    A soft laugh escaped her lips because Janus had never struck her as being overcome before. His fingers tightened on her for a moment as he tugged her forward. Her amusement died as the beads hidden in her slit moved, smoothly gliding over her clit.
    Janus cupped her chin with a firm hand to keep her eyes on his.
    “Have a bit of pity and contain your amusement. I might demand many things but I would never willingly cause you pain. Is that not worthy of love?”
    Swallowing hard, she turned and let a robe slip over her nude body. Somehow, she had become relaxed with his seeing her bare flesh. Whether or not she wanted to trust him was not within her power to control. The emotion was already growing, sending its roots deep into her. So much that she hadn’t worried about standing near him with her body bare. But the way he looked at her made her confidence surge forward. Beauty truly must be in the eye of the beholder because she felt beautiful from looking at the expression on his face.
    She slipped her feet into a pair of shoes then moved towards the door. The beads slipped against her slit as she went, making her nipples contract. She stopped to pull a 54
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    brush through her hair. There was no hesitation because she craved the last intimacy as much as he did. Maybe more because she understood that it would be a single night, stolen before the reality of life shattered their hopes for anything more. For now, she was going to follow him so that the training harness would do its work.
    “You cannot claim to love me, Janus.”
    “I didn’t.” He came up behind her and clamped a strong arm around her