She Used Me for a Dare… Now I Own Her Mother Chapter 574: Take What You Came Home For

The pearl-white silk of her robe drifted like liquid over the dark charcoal bedding, its golden sash loosening just enough to expose the delicate black lace beneath. Her dark hair lay scattered across the pillows in damp waves, the faint, intoxicating scent of cold orchids blooming in the warm air.

Victoria propped herself up on her elbows, a breathless laugh slipping past her lips. Her dark eyes, smoky and brimming with an intoxicating mix of aristocratic defiance and pure surrender, locked directly onto his.

"Rough, aren’t you?" she murmured, her voice laced with lazy allure. "Is this how you plan to reward me, Alex?"

Alex didn’t answer with words.

With slow, deliberate calm, he reached up and unbuttoned his collar. His platinum cufflinks were tossed onto the nightstand with a soft click, and with a casual roll of his forearms, he stripped his dress shirt off, tossing it aside to reveal the lean, sculpted lines of his chest and shoulders.

He climbed onto the mattress. The bed dipped slightly under his weight as he loomed over her, his broad shoulders blocking out the amber light and casting her completely into his shadow.

He didn’t rush. Planting his hands flat against the midnight silk on either side of her head, his broad shoulders cut off the amber glow entirely, casting her small, silk-draped frame into deep shadow.

Up close, the heat radiating from his bare chest was suffocating, trapping the cool scent of orchids between them until every breath they drew belonged to each other.

Beneath him, Victoria’s composure was already unraveling. Her chest rose and fell in quick, shallow breaths, the delicate trim shifting against her skin each time she did. Her dark eyes, usually cold enough to empty a room, were wide and luminous, pinned entirely by his stare.

"You have no idea how lethal you look right now, Victoria," Alex murmured, his voice a low vibration that went straight into the sheets.

His hand left the silk and came to her face. His fingers brushed her cheek, warm, then traced the line of her jaw as if he meant to learn it again.

Victoria’s lips parted. A faint shiver ran through her, and she did not look away.

"All I want," he said, thumb resting at the corner of her mouth, "is to keep you like this. Under me. Take my time with every inch of you, until you’re shaking and asking me not to stop."

"Then who’s stopping—"

The rest never left her.

Alex took her mouth mid-word. Victoria gasped into the kiss and opened for him at once, her hand catching his wrist, then his hair, pulling him down.

His tongue slid against hers. She met it, hungry, unashamed, tasting him as if she had been waiting all evening to do exactly that. He groaned into her and kissed her deeper, one hand in her damp hair, the other at her waist, holding her against his bare chest.

She did not yield. A soft moan caught between them as their tongues fought and gave in by turns, messy, warm, too much. The pearl-white robe slipped further open. Her breasts pressed into him through the lace, and still neither of them broke the kiss.

When air finally forced them apart, her lips were swollen and wet, still parted against his.

Victoria was breathing hard. Her chest rose and fell against him, and her eyes were wet at the corners, bright in the amber light. Alex brushed a damp strand of hair from her cheek and tucked it behind her ear, his thumb lingering there.

"You taste better every time I kiss you, Victoria."

A shaky breath left her. She did not look away.

"Then don’t stop."

His hand left her hair.

It drifted lower, slow, over the open collar of the pearl-white robe, until his palm settled on the full swell of her breast. Even through silk and lace, the heat of her filled his hand. He traced the curve, once, then again, feeling the soft weight shift under his fingers and the stiff peak already pressing against the fabric.

"I wasn’t going to," he said, and squeezed her left breast, slow and full, the stiff tip caught against his palm. "There is more of you I want than your mouth."

Victoria’s breath caught. Her chest rose into his hand before she could stop it.

"Alex..."

"These," he murmured, squeezing again, watching her eyes flutter. "They’ve been asking since I walked in. And I love playing with them."

A mischievous smile touched his mouth.

He parted the pearl-white robe the rest of the way and pushed it off her shoulders. The black lace beneath was thin, barely holding her. Alex slid one strap down her arm, then the other, and drew the lace below her breasts. They spilled free into the amber light, full and heavy, nipples already stiff and flushed from his hand.

"So beautiful," he said, almost to himself.

Victoria made a small, helpless sound. She did not cover herself. Her fingers found his hair as he lowered his head.

Alex took her left breast into his mouth.

Warm. Soft. He closed his lips around the stiff peak and sucked, slow at first, then deeper, his tongue circling the tip while his hand held the weight of her. Victoria gasped. Her back arched off the charcoal sheets, pressing herself into his mouth, a broken moan slipping out before she could catch it.

"Alex... ah..."

He did not stop. He sucked harder, then dragged his tongue over the wet peak and took her again, one hand sliding to her other breast, thumb rubbing the neglected nipple in time with his mouth. Victoria’s grip in his hair tightened. Her thighs shifted under him. The cool matriarch was gone. What remained was a woman shaking, offering him her chest, whispering his name like she had forgotten every other word.

Alex finally lifted his head.

A satisfied smile sat on his mouth. Her breast was wet from him, the nipple stiff and flushed. He brushed his thumb over it once, watching her shiver.

"As good as always," he said. "But I’m not done."

His hand left her chest and found the gold sash still knotted loose at her waist.

"Let’s see what else you prepared for me tonight, darling."

He untied it. The pearl-white robe gave way under his hands. He pushed it off her shoulders, down her arms, and drew it out from under her until it spilled off the bed in a pale heap.

What remained was black lace.

The bra was thin, already pulled low from his mouth, her breasts half-spilled above the trim.

Lower, the matching panties sat dark against her skin, a small wet patch already showing at the center. Alex’s eyes stopped there. He hooked one finger under the edge and felt the damp heat of the lace.

"You’ve been waiting longer than you admitted," he said.

Victoria’s breath caught. She did not close her legs.

He drew the panties down slowly, over her hips, her thighs, past her knees, and off. Then he reached behind her, unclasped the bra, and slid it from her arms. Both joined the robe on the floor.

Victoria was bare.

Amber light on damp hair, on the breasts he had just left wet, on the soft line of her stomach, on the dark hair between her thighs, already glistening. She lay open on the charcoal sheets, flushed, one hand still half-raised as if she had meant to cover herself and forgotten why.

Alex looked at her for a long moment.

His hand moved over her as if he meant to learn her again. The wet peak of her breast. The soft line of her waist. The inside of her thigh, warm, already damp. Victoria shivered under every pass and did not close her legs.

"Worth coming home for," he said.

The last of her composure cracked.

Victoria sat up, the charcoal sheets sliding off her bare hip, and caught the front of his trousers. Her eyes were bright, ruined, and still daring.

"I’m lying here with nothing on," she said, working the belt open, "and you still haven’t let me look at you properly."

The button gave under her fingers. The zipper followed. She pushed the trousers and the rest down his hips and off, and his cock sprang free, thick and heavy, already hard, the flushed head wet at the tip.

Victoria’s mouth parted. Her tongue touched her lower lip before she could stop it.

"Look at that," she whispered, almost laughing, almost hungry. "Someone was even more eager than I was."

She did not take him in her hand for long. One slow stroke, enough to feel the heat and the weight, then she lay back on the pillows and opened her legs. Amber light caught the wet shine between her thighs. She was already leaking onto his sheets.

Victoria held his eyes.

"What are you waiting for?" she whispered. "Take me, Alex. Claim all of it."