The only response I received was a subtle whimper as she let her legs part for me, and heat pooled in my lower abdomen, my cock twitching in response to the stunning sight. As I dipped my head between those lovely, soft thighs to meet what was waiting, I was certain.
All of the torture. All of the waiting. All of the risks be damned.
To see her glistening cunt drip for me like this? The fuckingsoundsshe made as I lowered my mouth to taste her?
Oh, this had been worth it all along.
And perhaps I could have brought myself to regret my impulsivity later, had I not felt her quiver against my tongue—had I not tasted the sweetness of her impending release as she called my name out again into the darkness, those glowing little fingertips pulsating with Light as they tangled themselves gently in my hair. So eager. So encouraging.
“Fuck, Kier,” she moaned. “That feels so… You feel so godsdamned good.”
“Yeah?” I whispered, teasing at her swollen clit with a single fingertip before replacing it with my tongue again, savoring the taste.
“Yeah,” she panted, tossing her head back against the pillows. “Please don’t stop.”
“Who said anything about stopping, Asher?” I growled, taking hold of her hips and tugging her ass closer to the edge of the bed.
I had only just gotten started. I had no self-restraint left, I needed todevourher. Evidence of her arousal was already slick against my chin and throat, and it was somehow not enough. It wasn’t until I felt her buck and shudder, her body teetering on the edge of orgasm, that I finally pulled back, planting a quick bite down on the tender flesh of her inner thigh. Her whimpers returned, and my eyes nearly rolled into the back of my head with pleasure as she fisted both hands in my hair and tugged me up hard so that my chin was now resting on her belly.
“I need you,” she whined, her golden eyes wide and wild as they gazed back down at me. The kohl around her eyelids was smudged, and her lower lip swollen as if she’d been biting down this entire time. “Please, Kieran, I can’t—”
If I wasn’t already ravenous and rock hard, the sound of her begging would have been my undoing. But she didn’t need to beg for me… Not yet.
“Shhh, sweetheart,” I whispered hoarsely, rising to my feet and crawling back into bed with her. “I know.” As soon as I slipped in beside her and pulled the blankets over us both, her hands were on me, small keening noises escaping her lips.
“I need you,” she repeated, tugging me closer.
“I’m here, Ark,” I murmured, burying my face against her neck. “I’m right here.”
It had been damn near an entire year of self-restraint, and after all this time, we had finally given in.
And when I finally slid inside her, shuddering at the sensation of her flawlessly perfect fit, I cursed myself for ever having held back in the first place.
This was rapture. It was ruination. It was everything I had ever fucking wanted, but never once dared to dream of experiencing. Made for me. She was fuckingmade for me.
And she was so. fucking. tight.
“Oh. Oh my gods,” she whispered, tiny tears welling up in her eyes as I sank myself deeper, inch by inch.
“Fuck,” I groaned, feeling her clench around my cock as she took me to the hilt. I slid my hands up her waist, still trying to be delicate where the fresh, pink scar tissue had formed across one side of her ribcage.
“You don’t have to do that,” Arken half-murmured, half-moaned.
“Don’t have to do what, exactly?” I asked. I hadn’t even started moving yet, I was far too content with the feeling of her hot, wet warmth coating my cock. Obsessing over the way she was already twitching, spasming beneath me after one slow, measured thrust.
Those star-flecked eyes of hers seemed to darken and heat beneath her lashes, precious metal going absolutely molten as she held my gaze with confidence.
“You don’t have to be so gentle,Kier. You’re not going to break me.”
“No,” I breathed, extending a hand to caress her cheek. “I won’t break you, Little Conduit. Not tonight.”
She sucked in a sharp breath at the implication, and I smirked.
“But if you want it rough, pretty girl, I will so very happily oblige. Is that what you want from me right now?”
“Please,” she whispered.
Gods. I fucking knew it.Oh, I was going to have so much fun with that little masochistic streak of hers. Another night, though. No matter how well that tincture was working, this woman had been on her deathbed not twenty-four hours prior. She neededtime to recover… and regain some stamina, for the things I had in mind. But I could give her this.