I steal the smile. Stow it away.
Mine.
“Yours,Milaje.”
His hand that was bracing my thigh spreads across my lower belly, a gentle pressure that takes each thrust to a blinding level of ecstasy. He thrums that sensitive nub between my legs with the pad of his thumb, and my entire body becomes a single exposed nerve—tightly wound and knotted to perfection.
Desperate to unravel.
Flaming.
His girth seems to swell inside me—becoming impossibly hard and heavy—and I whimper, spine arching, knowing I’m about to break.
Wanting him to breakwithme.
My arms buckle, and I fall back into the leaves as he surges forward, driving deep. Planting his forehead against mine. He threads his hand up into my hair, pouring treasured exhales upon my face—an intensity in his gaze that collects every one of my heartstrings andtugs.
“Bite for me, Milaje.” His stare plows deeper, until I’m certain he’s cradling my soul as he razes my body with claiming rolls of his hips. “Bite as hard as you fucking can.”
I clamp down, gorging on the taste of leather and the smell ofhim, a bolt of ecstasy flaring across my palate.
He tips my head, nuzzles my ear, and plows deep, rumbling a single shattering word …
“Come.”
My body locks, decadent waves of pleasure rippling through me, spearing down my spine and powering into my molten core. Fraying my nerves one by one until I’m a messy tangle of taut limbs and clamping muscles.
Bound over me in a knot of charging might, Rhordyn releases a thunderous roar—his thick length pulsing, painting my womb in hot spurts as he pounds into me hard and fast.
I’m blind and quaking from the inside out, toes curled, breath caught in the back of my throat. Half convinced I’ll never recover from the volcanic blows of euphoria coursing through my system.
I claw at him, coming apart at a cellular level.
Recrystallizing around him.
He strikes every ounce of ecstasy from my quivering body until I can breathe again.
Moveagain.
Thrusts slowing, his head drops down to my neck, and he plants a gentle, nudging kiss above my bandage, casting goosebumps across my shoulder.
My muscles melt, lids growing heavy, a sound of deeply seated relish blooming up my throat. My canines sink back up into my gums with an aching tug, and I remove the sheath, tossing it to the side.
I pull his face to mine and press our lips together, inhaling his tapering heaves.
He rocks onto his back, taking me with him, and we thump amongst the dried and crumpled foliage. I nuzzle his chest, still holding him inside my body as he brushes my hair aside and plants a kiss on the tip of my thorned ear. Another farther down.
Another.
My eyes sweep shut, lulled by his rumbling breaths and the delicate tingles ghosting down the side of my neck …
I want to be like this forever—with leaves in my hair, surrounded by nature, full ofhim. Smelling like both of us. So perfectly melded.
Soright.
I feel warm and safe and whole in his arms, my throat thickening with a deep sense ofbelonging.Like our souls just collided in a burst of light and the blackness between stars, and we built ourownsky to nestle amidst.
Fawning over buttery blooms of relief growing through my belly, my core, I drift—
