In my mind, my own images play out before me. Ever’s body, her breasts, her fingers as she played with herself at my command.
Stars, please. I send up a little prayer because after what we’ve endured, we deserve a few minutes of bliss.
Her hands continue to explore, pulling me in closer to her, but they pause, stopping at each mark or scar she finds. She might have inflicted pain with the sword, but her lips now seek out every single slight against me, and she kisses them away, lapping her tongue over the raised marks.
It takes everything in me not to shudder and cave after the first time. She runs her fingertips, her lips, and then her tongue over every mark, learning to inflict a new torture, one that I’d happily bask in and never leave for the rest of my days.
“You like that?” she whispers over my torso, her breath tickling my stomach before she licks at another wound.
“Fuck, yeah.” I swallow, my breathing laboured as my head falls back on my shoulders, and I tense my jaw, holding myself back.
“What do you want me to do next?”
“Whatever you want. I am yours, completely, and if you command me to stand and do nothing, I will. But I’d much rather you have at me, Little Siren.” I remember the words I said when we were in her room, that first time.
Fuck. My hands loosen the belt and my trousers, easing the pressure on my cock.
My arms are locked at my side. I know as soon as I touch her, I’ll lose it, and I’m not sure I imagined our first time together to be on the wooden floor of her bathing room.
She moves her mouth over my chest, up my neck, and pulls me down to kiss her. Our lips meet, and I let out an embarrassingly loud sigh of pleasure. But who cares? Ever has been kept from me for too long. And for the first time, we can be like this with no fear.
I pull back before the kiss grows too urgent. “This isn’t what I wanted for us. Here. No place to adequately worship you.”
“We’ve waited, Ten. We’ve paid far more than we ever should. Please.”
“Stars, Little Siren. Do you know what it’s taking for me to show any kind of restraint right now?”
“And I’m telling you, there’s no need.” She tilts my head to look at her. To stare at her. There’s heat behind those eyes that only stokes my own.
For the first time, I can be selfish and satisfy this craving for her—the yearning that’s rooted inside of me.
I bury my hands in her hair and kiss her again. There’s no holding back this time. No pretence that this isn’t going to end with anything other than me inside of her, my hand over her mouth as she screams out my name.
Fuck, slow it down, Ciro.
“Ever, I’m going fucking crazy here. It’s your first time, and I want to?—”
“I need you to show me something other than the hurt we’ve shared. Show me how good we can be. Stop the ache in my chest, stop the ache between my thighs.”
“Oh, I can do that.”
I grab her hips and lift her, the bath water swooshing as she wraps her legs around my waist. I knock the water bowl out of the way and ignore it smashing to pieces, as I position Ever on the wooden unit.
Her legs remain wrapped around my waist, and I don’t pretend to hide my eyes as they drink her body in. Every fucking inch of her.
It’s my turn now, and my lips are fucking starving for her.
They devour her skin, painting a path from her collar bone, down her chest and stomach until I can bite the tendons of her inner thighs.
She purrs, a beautifully sexy sound that makes my cock twitch.
“Please, Ten. Please…”
“Shhh. I’ve waited for you, Ever. Let me tease you, just a bit, because I have a pretty picture of me holding your screams from your mouth, the way I’m going to take you.”
“Ten!”
I nudge my hips between her legs and run my fingers up her leg, past her knee and make a lazy trail to her core, slipping my finger inside her.
