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“Why didn’t we ever…”
A blush heats my cheek and I trail off, catching my lip in my teeth. I normally wouldn’t be so shy about this, but for some reason I can’t get the words to cross my lips. Taraven’s shoulder nudges mine gently, his scales smooth and cool against my arm.
“Why didn’t we everwhat, Frankie?” he asks.
His voice is low and dark. It isn’t like him. I raise my eyes to his and find them spinning with magenta lights, his tail resting behind me and twitching slightly. The tip of that tail—which I know can unsheath to brandish a deadly barb, injecting all kinds of poisons—tickles the back of my ankle.
He wants to kiss me.
I can tell.
So I don’t answer his question.
Instead, I tilt my head and close my eyes.
Our lips meet. A jolt of excitement rushes through me. Anticipation fills my chest and shoots down to my fingertips, into my breasts, arousal coiling in the pit of my stomach. My hand finds his knee and presses into the soft, draped fabric around his legs, clutching at the taut muscles underneath.
He breaks away, taking a deep, heaving breath. For a moment, I think he’s going to say he’s not interested—that this is a mistake, that we didn’t fuck before because he wasn’t into me. He opens his eyes and stares at me for an infinite second, blinking slowly.
Then he grabs me by the waist and kisses me again.
I wrap my arms around his neck and let him lift me to his chest, so tall that I can barely even reach him. Standing at his full height, I have to wrap my legs around his waist to stay aloft—and it makes it clear just how into this he is. What were once uncomfortable, painful feelings turn into pure lust, and I force myself to make this about my need, my hunger, my desire to turn him into an object and not the person I know…
But my chest is burning with affection, and I know I’m a damn fool for thinking this could ever just be sex.
We should really move. Our position by the hatch is right out in the open, people still strolling around in the grass between thezephtan. I want to tell him as much, but he breaks away to press sharp teeth to my neck, his long, pointed tongue drawing circles across my collarbone.
Fuck, the things he could do to me with that tongue…
“Stop kissing me,” I murmur.
He halts right away, putting me down with a jolt. “You don’t want this?”
His eyes flicker with fuchsia light, along with a flash of auburn. He’s embarrassed, I think. I take him by the hand, gripping so hard that it has to hurt.
Heat races up my arm, flickering over my shoulder, making me gasp. I lick my lips as Taraven frowns down at me, his brow furrowing between the black hair and scales scattered above his eyes.
“Come with me,” I say.
I keep a hold of his hand and walk around Jaya’s hull, rounding the corner around her tail. The aurora overhead glimmers on the waving white grasses of Azoth’s surface as I drag Taraven after me, his heavy footfalls disturbing the plains.
“Frankie, what are you—”
I turn and shove him hard into the grass, catching him by the ankles with my foot. I’ve knocked him down enough times before to know how at this point, and he goes down with anoomph, his tail curling around him. He lies in the grass in surprise as I shrug off my tank top, leaving myself in only a bra and camo pants.
Taraven opens his mouth, his eyes dancing with magenta light. He’s turned on—I can see it in the way he looks at me, in how his cock juts up underneath his loose black tie-pants.
“You down?” I ask, raising my eyebrows.
A pause hangs between us, our silence punctuated by the cry of an animal somewhere in the distance and voices from the encampment.
“Yes,” he says. “By the Divine, yes.”
My hands fly to the waist of my pants, unbuttoning them, shoving them down over my hips to step out. Taraven scrambles to get himself undressed, pulling the black ties free at his hips, and I leave my clothes in a crumple as I step over him. His tail twitches beside him, glowing deep magenta, his eyes matching.
He looks at me like I’m perfect.
Which is crazy, because there’s a hell of a lot more to look at on him.
