Little Red Riding Crop (Spice) (Prequel to The Siren: Book 1 in The Original Sinners series)

  Praise for Tiffany Reisz

  ‘A beautiful, lyrical story … The Siren is about love lost and

  found, the choices that make us who we are … I can

  only hope Ms Reisz pens a sequel!’

  —Bestselling author Jo Davis

  ‘Mind-bendingly original and crammed with more sin

  than you can shake a hot poker at. I haven’t read a book

  this dangerous and subversive since Chuck Palahniuk’s

  Fight Club.’

  —Andrew Shaffer, author of

  Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love

  ‘Tiffany Reisz is a smart, artful and masterful new voice

  in erotic fiction. An erotica star on the rise!’

  —Award-winning author Lacey Alexander

  ‘Daring, sophisticated and literary … exactly what good

  erotica should be.’

  —Kitty Thomas, author of Tender Mercies

  ‘Dazzling, devastating and sinfully erotic, Reisz writes

  unforgettable characters you’ll either want to know

  or want to be.’

  —Miranda Baker, author of Bottoms Up and Soloplay

  “The best erotica either leaves slut-marks on your back

  or a bruise on your heart. The Siren does both and I wish

  I’d written it.”

  —Scarlett Parrish, author of By the Book

  About the Author

  TIFFANY REISZ lives in Lexington, Kentucky. She graduated with a BA in English from Centre College and is making her parents and her professors proud by writing erotica under her real name. She has five piercings, one tattoo and has been arrested twice. When not under arrest, Tiffany enjoys Latin dance, Latin men, and Latin verbs. She dropped out of a conservative seminary in order to pursue her dream of becoming a smut peddler. If she couldn’t write, she would die.

  Little Red Riding Crop

  Tiffany Reisz

  www.spice-books.co.uk

  Rookies.

  Nora rolled her eyes as she lifted her handcuffed wrists and pretended to scratch her ear. Most days she cursed her unruly black hair for its mass of waves and curls that took an hour to tame. But she loved it on days like these.

  With a quick flick of her fingers she removed a hair pin and surreptitiously bent it into the perfect shape. In less than five seconds she’d popped the handcuffs open just as Detective Cooper dropped into his chair behind the desk.

  Flashing her dark green eyes at him, Nora threw her booted legs up onto his desk, crossed her feet at the ankles, and tossed the cuffs at him.

  Cooper hadn’t walked the beat years but he still had his street reflexes. The wickedly handsome detective caught the cuffs with the tip of his fingers.

  “Seriously, Nora.” He held the handcuffs up, “do you want to get locked up?”

  She cocked her head to the side and smiled at him.

  “Isn’t that the question I usually ask you, Coop?” With a groan, Cooper rubbed his forehead. She’d never seen a black man blush so thoroughly before. Part of her wanted to crawl over his desk and kiss him just to make the public humiliation complete. A petite but stacked white Dominatrix in red leather knee-high boots, a red and black mini-skirt with a matching corset crawling across the desk of a six-foot-tall tough-as-nails police detective and giving him a kiss on the tip of his nose? The temptation to out Detective Cooper as a secret male submissive nearly overwhelmed her. But she restrained herself. Number one, she liked Cooper and wouldn’t do that to such a nice guy. And number two, she was a professional. No freebies for anyone.

  “Nora …” He sat back in his chair and studied her with a mix of half-hearted disgust and barely disguised amusement. “You can’t take off the cuffs yourself. It’s considered resisting arrest.”

  “Then tell your damn rookies that when they arrest a professional Dominatrix they might want to cuff her hands behind her back instead of in front.”

  “Would that have really stopped you?”

  Nora thought about it a moment.

  “Probably not. But it would have slowed me down. Can I go now?”

  “In a hurry?”

  “Places to go. People to beat. And you and I both know I didn’t do anything wrong. S&M is not illegal in the state of New York.”

  Cooper opened a file nearly as tall as his coffee mug–her file.

  “The maid who stopped by the house to pick up her cell phone and heard ‘gut-wrenching screams,’ as she called them, would beg to differ.”

  “The maid wasn’t paying to get the shit beat out of her. My client was. Only he can press charges, and he won’t because he’s scared of me. He pays extra to be scared of me. So I’m going, right? You’re letting me go, aren’t you? Say, ‘Yes, Mistress.’”

  Cooper sighed heavily.

  “Coop. Say it,” Nora ordered.

  “Fine. Yes, Mistress. You’re free to go,” he said and Nora pulled her legs off the desk and started to stand up. “The boss man is outside waiting on you anyway.”

  She collapsed into the chair again.

  “Cuffs, put them on me. Now. Slammer. Lock and key. Never let me out. Please, please, please, Coop. This is me begging you. Record it. You’ll never hear it again.”

  “That bad, eh?”

  Nora sighed dramatically, put on a pout, and sunk deep into the chair.

  “He’s going to yell at me.”

  Cooper rolled his dark eyes at her.

  “Nora … grow up. You’re a Dominatrix. Have some dignity.”

  “But he’s got the sexy French accent and the whole ‘I’m very disappointed in you’ thing, and I just can’t handle that right now.”

  Nora turned pleading eyes to the detective.

  “Go. Out.” He waved his hand at the door. “Scoot before you embarrass me even more.”

  With a growl, Nora rose out of the chair and glared down at Cooper, giving him her best Dominant stare.

  “We still on for Thursday at eight?” she asked.

  “Oh, hell yes,” Cooper broke into a smile.

  She grabbed her toy bag from the floor by his desk and flung it over her shoulder. “Later, Coop. Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.”

  “We figure out what that was yet?” he called out after her.

  Nora hit the police station hallway.

  “Nope.”

  As soon as she walked outside a raindrop hit her forehead. Not wanting to ruin her leather, she skipped nimbly down the front steps toward a silver stretched Rolls Royce idling in front of the station. A driver stepped out and opened the door for her. Throwing herself inside, Nora landed across the lap of a man reclining on the wide back seat.

  The man raised his eyebrow and looked down at her as she pulled herself into a sitting position. Slowly the Rolls pulled away from the curb and still the man didn’t speak. Fine, if he wanted a staring competition, he’d get a staring competition. Nora locked her eyes on his and waited. She could do this forever if she had to. After all, there weren’t many men in New York, hell, even the world, more fun to stare at than Kingsley Edge. Long dark hair held back tonight in a ponytail, deep brown eyes, olive skin … In his long military coat, embroidered vest, and riding boots he looked so damn handsome she wanted to slap him for it. But she refrained. Kingsley would like that too much.

  “What?” she demanded when he still hadn’t spoken after a whole thirty seconds of their staring contest.

  “Ma chérie … I do not know what to do with you.”

  Even
worse than being handsome, he had that fucking French accent she had to put up with.

  “Do with me? I didn’t do anything other than my job. Not my fault the maid overheard the ambassador screaming like a banshee.”

  “You broke the skin.”

  Nora shook her head and looked out the back window. Behind them she saw an SUV with a nice, normal-looking husband at the wheel and a perfectly plain wife pointing out something from the passenger seat. Their two-point-five kids probably sat in the backseat with little baggies of Cheerios and their crayons. Normal people, Nora told herself. Normal people did not have these kinds of conversations with their bosses.

  She was glad she wasn’t normal people.

  “He tips better when you make him bleed.”

  “You went too far tonight,” Kingsley said, crossing one long leg over the other. “I want to know why.”

  With reluctance Nora turned her eyes back to his.

  “I’ve just been … stressed. Guess I took it out on His Ambassadorness.”

  Kingsley reached out and rested his hand on her knee right where the top of her boot met her thigh. The feel of his fingers on her skin caused her to take a quick breath, a quick breath that Kingsley clearly heard.

  “Stressed, ma chérie? Or frustrated?” He let his hand trail an inch higher up her leg.

  “Frustrated,” she confessed. “I work all the time, King. I don’t have any time for … myself.”

  Nora’s stomach tightened as Kingsley’s low sensual laugh filled the back of the car.

  “How old are you?” Kingsley asked.

  “You know how old I am.”

  “Answer me, chérie.”

  Nora exhaled noisily.

  “Thirty-one.”

  “Thirty-one years old … and the most beautiful woman in New York. There’s no reason you should be sleeping alone.”

  “Other than the fact that a certain someone works me constantly so I can’t get a single day off.”

  In a good week Nora could make ten to fifteen thousand dollars off her rich and kinky clients. In two years Kingsley had turned her into the most in-demand Dominatrix in America. Some clients flew in from across the country or even in from other countries for a few hours of her time. With Kingsley getting fifteen percent of every penny she made, he kept her dance card as full as possible. And she was starting to get sick of it.

  “I haven’t had sex with someone other than myself in two months.”

  Kingsley’s eyes widened in shock. If Kingsley went even two days without sex … no, pointless line of thinking. Kingsley would never go two days without sex.

  “Two months? Quelle horreur, ma chérie. Surely there’s something I can do to make it up to you …”

  “A day off would do. Or two. Or …”

  “Or …?”

  Kingsley brought his other hand between her knees and eased her thighs apart.

  “King …” Nora said in a warning tone, a warning Kingsley didn’t heed. He brought his mouth down and kissed her bare knee. Slowly he pushed her skirt higher with his mouth.

  “I’m at your service, Maîtresse,” he whispered against her skin.

  Nora groaned at the back of her throat. Damn that man. All of New York’s Underground considered Kingsley Edge their King of Kink. Sexy accent, handsome face, beautiful body, mysterious past … he was born to be the perfect Dominant and would have been but for one small thing–secretly he was a Switch.

  Just like her.

  “Your orders, Maîtresse?”

  “Just keep doing that. I’ll think of some orders in a minute or two.”

  He slipped her panties down her legs and Nora’s thighs fell open.

  “You don’t let me do this with any of my clients,” Nora reminded him as he parted her folds with his fingertips. He kissed her clitoris gently at first and then with greater force and hunger.

  Kingsley paused for a moment to answer, “I hadn’t planned on paying for this.”

  “Good. Because I’m out of your price range.” She threaded her fingers through his hair and pushed his head back down. When Kingsley laughed his rich French laugh into her, Nora gasped. One booted ankle landed on the back of the seat. There. That would give Mr and Mrs SUV behind them something to talk about.

  Nora clung to the leather interior as Kingsley pushed two fingers into her and found her g-spot. She clenched around his hand as her hips rose up. He worked all the magic his French tongue had on her. The muscles in her lower back tightened. The pressure built hard and high. After a few minutes of the Kingsley Edge treatment, she came with the force of two miserable months of celibacy behind her.

  Panting, she lifted her head and watched Kingsley sit up and run the back of his hand over his wet lips. She wanted to kiss him, to taste herself, to thank him for the pleasure and the attention. But he was her boss. And she’d hardly thank the man for one orgasm when he was the reason she’d gone two months without.

  “Lovely,” Nora said as she pulled her leg out of the back window. “But that only makes up for about a week.”

  Kingsley gave her his best French pout.

  “Oh fine. Two weeks then. But it’ll take more than a backseat …” Nora paused, realizing she of all people couldn’t come up with the female equivalent of blow-job, decided to make one up, “a backseat v.j. to make up for two months of nothing.”

  Kingsley sighed as he sat back and adjusted his trousers. Clearly he was in the mood to knock out another week or two.

  “Please …” Nora stared at him and let the mask of the infamous Dominatrix fall off her face. “I’m tired, King. And I’m …” She couldn’t quite get the word out. Kingsley had said “frustrated.” The more accurate term would have been “lonely.”

  He studied her face in silence. He must have seen the truth in her words, in her eyes. She sensed his resistance give way.

  “You are a dangerous woman, Nora Sutherlin. This is the last time I employ someone more manipulative than I.”

  “I learned from the best.” She smiled at him, a shallow hollow smile that covered the loneliness they both felt for the one man who could twist them both around his perfect fingers. But she wouldn’t think about him today. Or ever again.

  Nora said nothing more as she watched Kingsley wrestle with what little was left of his conscience.

  “One month vacation.”

  Nora sagged in the seat. She could have cried with relief and kissed the French out of the man with gratitude but …

  “But.”

  “But? I should have known there would be a but.” Nora sat back up again and gave Kingsley’s “but” the attention it deserved.

  “But I need you to do an errand first. Complete the errand successfully, and I shall tell the Underground that your services have been engaged in Europe for the next month. I’ll even send you to Europe, the country of your choice.”

  Nora raised her eyebrow.

  “What sort of errand is this?” To earn an entire month off plus a trip to Europe on Kingsley’s dime, Nora knew she’d probably have to kill somebody. Two months without sex and she was about ready to.

  “Black Forest. I need you to go there.”

  Nora’s eyes widened.

  “Kingsley … that’s—”

  “They are more afraid of us than we are of them.”

  “Then why are you sending me instead of going yourself?”

  Kingsley crossed his arms over his chest and threw his booted feet up on the seat by her thighs. His every move seemed designed to show how relaxed he was, how laid back. She didn’t buy it.

  “They would never let me in. I’m the enemy.”

  “And I work for you which also makes me the enemy,” she reminded him.

  “Black Forest is poaching my employees. They took Mistress Irena last month.”

  “I know but—”

  “Hunt quit today.”

  Nora had heard about Irena, Kingsley’s Russian Dominatrix, defecting to Black Forest–the only BDSM club in Manhattan tha
t could give Kingsley’s Underground Empire a run for its money. That had hurt. But losing Hunt, the sexiest male submissive in all of New York and one of Kingsley’s many bedtime companions, that was personal.

  “So I’m supposed to go there and what? Ask for Hunt back?”

  “Black Forest is a mystery even to me,” Kingsley said. “No one ever gets to meet La Grande Dame. She won’t return my calls, answer my notes …”

  “She’s smart then.” She’d heard of La Grande Dame or just The Dame to the Underground. The Dame was something of a shadowy figure. Kingsley positioned himself as the King of the Underground, the face of Kink. He had no shame and lived so publicly he would have traded shares of his empire on the stock exchange had the businesses been legal. But The Dame had no face and no name Nora had ever heard. She couldn’t be touched, couldn’t be influenced and, most importantly, couldn’t be seduced by Kingsley Edge.

  “Too smart. I don’t like not knowing my enemy. Go in if you can, find out something, anything for me. A name. A face. Or at the very least get her to stop stealing my people. Anything and you’ll have your month off in Europe. If you can get Hunt back, you can take him with you.”

  “Now that is a serious offer.” Nora knew she really didn’t have anything to lose. Worse came to worse, they wouldn’t let her in, she wouldn’t get her month off, and life would go on as usual. No real danger involved except for failure. No real danger but for … but surely not. He wouldn’t be there … would he? “Brad’s not still there … is he?”

  Kingsley didn’t answer.

  “Shit.” Nora collapsed onto her side.

  “One month, chérie. Yes or no?”

  Nora straightened up again.

  “Fine. Fine, fine, fine. I’m going. I’ll go. Maybe Brad won’t be there today. Am I going today?”

  “You’re going right now.”

  Kingsley nodded at the window. The Rolls Royce had pulled up to a dark alley shrouded by two overhanging trees. The trees had inspired the name of Black Forest. One didn’t see big trees often in New York except in Central Park and yet these two seemingly had sprung from nowhere to serve as guardians of Black Forest.

  As she gazed down the dark alley, water started to pound on the roof of the car as the rain turned to a storm.