Chapter 236

Her eyes widened. “What are you doing?”

He ignored her, managing to slap one cuff around her wrist before she started fighting like a hellcat. But she was too late. He’d already looped the chain around the rungs of the chair and grabbed her free hand.

“You cannot do this.”

He clicked the second cuff into place. “I just did. Now we’re going to talk. Want a blanket?”

He hoped like fuck she said yes because he was getting a full frontal of her under the kitchen lights, and it was impossible to miss her thick, beaded nipples.

Fuck, her body was his weakness.

“What will I owe you for it?”

This again? “Nothing. You’re only borrowing it, not taking it.”

She hesitated. “Fine. Then yes. Please.”

He nodded as he grabbed a quilt from the corner of his bed. When he draped it over her, they both breathed a sigh of relief.

Then Trees turned the nearest chair backward and straddled it, resting his arms over the top. “Let’s start over. Tel