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several bamboo utensils.
    “What are those?” She reached out to pick up one of the
utensils, stopping short when his hand landed hard against her thigh. “ Ow ,”
she protested, blinking back a sting of tears.
    “Do you wish to learn the Tea Ceremony or do you wish to
spend the night with your lovely ass bent over my lap turning red beneath my
palms?”
    “You’d like that wouldn’t you?” She smoothed her hand over
her thigh to ease the sting, noting the way his mouth twisted up in
anticipation at one corner.
    “Very much,” he answered benignly. “I intend to teach you
some discipline one way or another.”
    “The Tea Ceremony, please.”
    To still the shaking of her fingers Sakura clamped them down
on top of each thigh, swearing she wouldn’t move them a millimeter until he
practically begged her to.
    “ Hai .” He jerked his head in satisfaction. “First I
will perform the ceremony so you can watch. And it is as much about stillness
as anything else. Shut off that flittering mind of yours and observe.
Experience. Appreciate the stillness that comes with the ritual.”
    “Is that why you like to tie women up? So they can
appreciate stillness?” Sakura sucked in a horrified breath after she’d spit out
the questions without thinking.
    But to her surprise he answered her calmly. “That is why I
promise to bind you, keisei . To force you to fully appreciate your pleasure.”
    “I already appreciate my pleasure.”
    When he grunted in exasperation she knew she was beginning
to push her luck. “You do not understand a thing about pleasure. But I will
teach you, even if I have to gag you as well. Is that what you need?” He lifted
a hand and smoothed it along her hair. “Me to force you into silence?”
    That thought did amazing things to her body. Her nipples
puckered, her stomach flipped—and her sex throbbed with a need that left her
speechless.
    “Or I could think of another way to keep your gorgeous mouth
occupied.” He ran his thumb across her mouth, pressing it through her lips and
working it between her teeth until he had pried her jaw apart. She whimpered
when he invaded her mouth, aroused already to the point where she was forced to
press her legs together. “I can take my pleasure both now and later.”
    Sakura could not keep her eyes from his face as his other
hand reached down and untied the belt to his robe before he shrugged it from
his shoulders. His thumb pushed deeper into her mouth, pressing down to force
her jaw open even more.
    “I have longed to feel your lips wrapped around my cock, keisei .
Dreamed of it a hundred times since our last encounter. In fact, I think I need
to have you suck me now as punishment for your constant jabbering.” He rose to
stand before her, removing his thumb from her mouth as he grabbed a fistful of
her hair and pulled her up on her knees, his other hand fisting the width of
his erection.
    If this was punishment, Sakura thought in defiance, bring it
on! She wanted to taste him. Suck him. Run her tongue the length of his
magnificent flesh. Then she wanted him to do the same to her in full and equal
measure. She hungered for anything he would give her, and if it was her mouth
around his cock he wanted, her mouth around his cock was what he would get. If
some secret part of her noted how complacent she was on her knees before him,
she imprisoned it where it could not be heard, her need to please him much too
strong to worry about something as insignificant as self-respect.
    * * * * *
    Ian had been aching to have her on her knees between his
legs since the first night they had met. While he admired her intelligence and
interest in everything, he’d had enough of her questioning his every move. It
was time she learned he was master, and he could think of no better way than to
have her give him pleasure while postponing her own.
    At least for now.
    Besides, he needed the tension release or he was liable to
toss her facedown on his bed and take her