“How strange,” she murmured, her ravenousgaze running over me while she slid the shirt further off myshoulders. “Will it hurt us?”
“No, we will only be staying for a bit, notlong enough to become caught within its trap.”
“Are we safe here?”
“Safer here than almost any other place inHell. Violence is not tolerated within the forest without brutalretribution from those who live here.”
A seductive smile curved her mouth as herfingers flattened against my chest. “Then I think we should feedit.”
“River—” My words broke off when she bent tokiss my chest. “Things can become mindless within these woods,” Iforced myself to say, and again I tried to step away from her, butfound myself moving closer.
“I would love to be mindless.”
Her tongue licked over my nipple. Shelightly pulled it between her teeth before releasing it. She roseon her toes to run her tongue over my throat and up to my ear.
“I’m already wet for you,” shewhispered.
Those words were my undoing. I dragged heragainst my chest and bent my head to take possession of her mouth.She raked her nails over my skin; her hips undulated against me asher tongue entwined greedily with mine.
As I lifted her up, she wrapped her legsaround my waist and rubbed invitingly against my aching cock. Icontinued to kiss her while I walked her off the road and deeperinto the shadows of the forest. The taste and smell of her floatedaround me as it filled the air around us. Out of the countlesstimes I’d been in this forest, never before had I been asenthralled by the spell these woods cast over all those who enteredit.
I was out of control, mindless for her.Pulling away, her breath came in pants as she gazed at me, and herfingers played with the hair against my neck. Her eyes smolderedwith passion; her lips were enticingly swollen from my kiss. Sheunwrapped her legs from my waist and slid to the ground.
She smiled at me as she bent to untie herboots. Rising back up, she stepped closer to me, a seductive smilecurving her lips as her fingers traced over my shoulders. Leaningforward, she kissed my chest before spinning away from me. Laughtertrailed behind her as she plunged into the woods.
CHAPTER 31
Kobal
“Catch me if you can!” she called over hershoulder.
I stood for a moment, too stunned to responduntil she grabbed the bottom of her shirt and tugged it over herhead. She waved it in the air before tossing it behind her. Then Irealized she may stumble into a pack of nymphs who would be morethan happy to welcome a half-naked woman into their midst.
Breaking into a run, I followed her throughthe trees as she continued to leave a trail of clothing behind her.I had no idea how she did it, but she somehow managed to kick offher boots without missing a step. Her pants soon followed. Shethrew her bra into the air, and I snagged hold of it.
I caught her at the edge of a fire pool. Shesquealed in delight when I wrapped my arm around her waist andlifted her off the ground to pin her back against my chest. Itdidn’t matter if the forest fueled us, didn’t matter that I shouldbe concentrating on other things right now, all I could think aboutwas being inside of her.
Her head fell back, and her laughter fadedaway when her eyes locked on the pool before us. “What is that?”she breathed as she gazed at the three-foot-wide circle in themiddle of the forest. Red and yellow light swirled throughout thesmooth-as-glass surface.
“A fire pool,” I murmured and dipped my headto nibble on her ear.
Her hands stilled on my forearm as shestared into the pool giving off a dim radiance that lit the treesaround it. “It’s beautiful.”
“Not as much as you,” I said as I watchedthe light dancing across her supple body.
Her eyes closed; reaching behind her, sheslid her hand up to clasp the back of my head as I nipped at thesensitive flesh of her neck. My hand trailed up her stomach tofondle one of her breasts. She pressed her ass back into myerection and rubbed her silken flesh over it.
Pulling slightly back, I turned her in mygrasp. The sensation of her breasts flush against my chest causedmy hands to constrict. Being with River had always been far morepleasurable than any other woman, but the forest heightened ituntil she was all I could see, smell, taste, and feel. Nothingoutside of her body against mine existed.
She whimpered when she rubbed her nipplesagainst me. I drank in the sight and sounds of her, unable to getenough of her reactions and the scent of her arousal. Her hands ranover my shoulders to push my shirt the rest of the way down myarms. She took a step back, giving me a good view of her body asshe stood before the fire, completely bared to me.
My gaze fell hungrily to the triangle ofblack hair between her thighs. The curls were already wet with herneed for me. Slipping the button free on my pants, she slid themdown my thighs. She licked her lips when my cock sprang free to jutout from my body. Stepping back into me, her hands traced the linesetched into my stomach before she took hold of my dick. I groanedwhen she ran her hand up my stiff length.
My claws lengthened as I skimmed them downher sides and over her rounded hips. I managed to get them toretract before I slipped my hand between her thighs and across herwet flesh. I rubbed my finger over her swollen clit until her legswere shaking and she could barely keep her eyes open.
Moving against her, I slid a finger into herhot recesses. My breath caught when her muscles clenchedexquisitely around my finger. Her head tipped back as I parted herfolds further and dipped another finger into her. Her hand workedme faster as I pulled her forward, thrusting against her with myfingers until she could no longer stand on her own.
Sliding my hand around her waist, I liftedher up when her legs gave out and brought her down until we werekneeling before each other. Her hand stroked faster and semenswelled up my shaft until it was almost painful, but there waspleasure in the pain. I would not come now; I would be inside ofher before I allowed either of us to go over the edge.
