Page 166 of Sky’s Edge

Dear gods.

“Whatever,” I mumbled.

He chuckled and stated, “You’ll get acclimatized.”

Again.

Whatever.

We stopped at the door, and he pulled me into his arms for a deep kiss.

After he ended it, he murmured, “I’ll text when I’m headed home.”

“Good luck, honey.”

He kissed my nose.

Then he ordered, “Stay warm inside. Don’t go outside to watch us lift off.”

“I can survive five minutes of⁠—”

“Stay warm inside,” he ordered, just more firmly this time.

“Oh, all right.”

He smiled at me.

Touched his lips to my forehead.

Told his dog to look after me.

His dog panted his agreement.

And then he left.

I was a very deep sleeper.

But I woke when Tanyn slid into bed with me, and not only because Tanyn slid into bed with me, but because he wrapped his arms around me, and one went to my breast, the other one went to my belly, where he bunched up my nightgown.

“Tanny?” I murmured sleepily.

“Hush,” he whispered in my ear, his silky voice like a caress along the skin there, traveling down my neck, and onward.

He slipped his hand in my panties and his fingers curled in just as he pinched my nipple.

My head fell back and hit his shoulder.

He was still whispering when he said, “Payback.”

Although at first I tried to turn to give as well as get, in the end, I was concentrating too hard on what he was doing to my breasts and between my legs to do anything but feel the wonder of what he was doing to my breasts and between my legs.

And when he finally made me come, I trembled in his arms as he slid one long finger inside to feel my climax in yet another way.

His lips were skimming the skin of my neck as I came down and his finger stroked out. That arm went to round me at my belly to hold me close, while his other hand cupped my breast in a warm grip.

I tried to turn, but he clamped down even harder.

“Now you,” I said.