“It’s like that then, is it?”he murmured, unbuttoning her shirt with one hand and exposing her breasts.He cupped one, almost lovingly, making sounds of approval.He brushed her already taut nipple with his thumb, making her shiver and bite back a moan of need.Fuck but he was good at this.“Lovely Arantxa, you know you can’t resist me.”
“Ha!”she spat at him, sounding like a kitten learning to hiss.“Your arrogance exceeds even uhhhh…” She lost her indignant retort to a garbled moan as his lips found the sensitive spot under her jaw, the one he’d ruthlessly exploited before, the one that seemed to be directly connected to her pussy, currently sparkling with a vengeance for the worst possible guy in the world for her.At the same time, he pinched her nipple and her mind went to static like an out-of-commission path box.“Azul…”
“Is that a ‘please, stop, let me tell you what happened?’”he asked, his lips trailing down her throat, which she happened to be arching in offer to his clever mouth.Far from pushing him away, she was eagerly exploring his lean chest, his skin hot through the expensive silk.She wanted to bite and scratch and claw at him in her frenzied need.His shoulder happened to be near her mouth, so she sank her teeth lightly into him.He hissed his pleasure, then raised his head, waiting for her blurry eyes to clear.His were sharp, glittering with determination.“Or, don’t stop?”
“Don’t stop,” she breathed, not above begging now.“Please, Azul, I need you.”
He kissed her, once lightly, then again deeper, then sinking fully into her mouth, feeding her with the sweetness of his taste, the heat.She could kiss him forever.His wing-thumbs caressed her collar bones, his hands teasing her breasts, and he sank down between her thighs, his wings draping around her like a scented, silken tent.She wrapped her legs around his narrow hips, grinding against his exceptional erection.So hot, she could come right then, like a teenager stealing a moment behind the barn, frantically rubbing against him, fully clothed or not.
She clutched at him, the orgasmright there…
He pulled away, removing that essential contact and she whimpered.“Noooo…”
Tsking, he grinned, shaking his head.“Not yet, kitten.You know what you need to tell me.”
Sunshine’s description hovered on Cha’s lips, ready to spill.But Azul would be pissed the moment she told him and then he’d stop.“Fuck me first.Then I promise to tell you.”
Azul’s smiled turned cagey.“I would think you’d know better than make promises to the likes of me.”
The likes of him.She’d missed him and, oh, how she craved him.But she’d also craved Sunshine and that hadn’t been in the least real.She should be much more careful than she was and yet—as always with Azul—she couldn’t seem to resist him.
“I would think I’d know better, too,” she told him with rare complete honesty, “but apparently I don’t.”
His expression softened, a different kind of hunger in it now.“Why did you come after me, Arantxa?I did everything I could to push you away.”
She framed his face with her hands, sliding her fingers into his hair, savoring the silken texture of the purple-black strands.“I’m stubborn like that,” she whispered.“Maybe I’m just another fae-addicted human, giddily chasing her one-night-stand lover for all-time.”
He gazed back at her with a gleam in his eyes she’d call wistful in a mortal man.“You’re not the only one addicted,” he replied, so quietly she almost didn’t hear him.Sliding a hand down her hip, he hummed a short melody and her pants and boots fell away, along with all of his clothes.
She gasped, both in surprise and at the erotic shock of being so suddenly in skin-to-skin contact with him.He smiled, but not in amusement.It was a fierce smile, one that deepened in grim delight as he thrust into her and she sighed out her immense satisfaction.He fit inside her, and along her, sending shimmering pleasure all through her as if she’d been drenched in warm honey.Her heart turned over, raw and needy and soothed all at once.
“Azul,” she whispered, drawing her nails down his naked chest.
“Arantxa,” he whispered back, as if answering a question.
He moved, pushing deeper, then pulling back just enough to dive in harder again.She was so aroused, so on edge—and let’s face it, had gone way too long without—that she began climaxing almost immediately.He didn’t alter his pace, keeping a steady, relentless rhythm that prolonged the climax and frayed her rational thoughts even further.Drowning in wave after wave of ecstasy, Cha could only cling to him and melt into mindlessness.
At least in that state she didn’t worry about any of it—couldn’t even remember what her worries had been.There was only the two of them, melded together, differences forgotten and only their singular focus, to pleasure and be pleasured.He knew exactly how to keep her at that peak, too, understanding her better than any other lover ever had.
And he enjoyed her more than any other lover ever had.He never rushed to his own orgasm, instead milking hers, driving her to peak after peak, watching her with violet intensity, seeming to derive as much pleasure from eliciting hers as savoring his own.Only after she fully dissolved, nothing left in her, did he allow himself release.His wings clasped her close and he worked himself inside her in an uneven rhythm that became hard spasms.Throwing his head back, he bit out a curse in some other language, momentarily and entirely vulnerable.Gone was the insouciant courtier, the arrogant gamesman, the brooding prince.As he came apart, Cha experienced an unexpected tenderness for him.
She held his shuddering form, wondering if there was more here than sexual release.Azul seemed… deeply upset.About more than her being there, although that was part of it.Whatever was going on in this place, he was rattled.She’d been right to come; the rest didn’t matter, not like this.
He lifted his head and placed a tender kiss between her breasts, then met her gaze, the deep twilight shade of his eyes lambent and full of emotion.Opening his mouth, he seemed about to say something lovely.A declaration of feelings?You’re not the only one addicted.
He searched her face, sighed, and said.“You shouldn’t have come.”
~20~
Questions and Non-Answers
Despite her meltedbones, Cha tensed.Here we go again.“But I did come, over and over.I lost count of how many times.All your doing, so you can hardly chide me for it.”
“Ha ha,” he retorted, not cracking a smile.
“Surely that’s my line.”
He still didn’t smile.Nor did he withdraw from her body.Not that she minded.She liked his weight on her as much as she loved the cocoon of his suede-soft wings.His stony stillness was a caution, however.“Time’s up.Tell me who hurt you.”