Endelle was almost tempted to open her voyeur window and have a brief look-see at the couple, but she really was trying to work on her boundaries.Alison kept preaching to her about them, and she supposed she was right.So, instead, she poured another shot of Silver Patrón and savored the moment.
Tonight had been a major victory, maybe not the final one that would end Greaves’s plans for good but a solid step in the right direction.She had no doubt thatthe little peachwould retaliate, but she doubted it would be in the next few hours.Would he want a straight-up battle, now that he’d lost half his force?She honestly didn’t know.
***
“Go beast for me,” Grace whispered, licking at Leto’s neck.
Leto was in agony.She’d gotten him worked up at the palace, but each time she said, “Go beast for me,” he swore he almost came.
Maybe it was the way she said it, kind of pleading with an ache in her voice.He could also feel just how aroused she was, her nipples in hard beads against his palms.So strange to feel her sensations at the same time he pressed his hands into her breasts.
He leaned against the wall by the fireplace, and she leaned into him, her hips pressing upward in a sensual roll, stroking the full length of him with her body.
“Go beast for me, Leto.”
He wanted to, but he also wanted to take his time with her.“You were wonderful tonight,” he said.“You were amazing.”
She stopped licking his neck and looked up at him.Her gold-green eyes glittered.“It was an incredible experience,” she said.“Have I thanked you for supporting me like you did?I’m not sure I would have gotten through it without your help.You calmed me enough to get the fold done.”
He kissed her.“You’re welcome… again.For about the hundredth time.”
She smiled and kissed him back.“Don’t you think I deserve a reward?”
“Oh, I don’t know.”But he pressed her bottom with both hands and flexed his hips.
She hissed, and her hips responded so that she rolled over him again.She licked his neck, but this time she began to suck.A shudder went through him.
Go beast for me, Leto.I want you big… everywhere.
Leto closed his eyes and just let the pleasure of her mouth on his neck ride him.He could feel how much she enjoyed her lips on his skin, and sucking at him.But it was all too much.
The only question he needed to answer was simple:Where?Then he remembered how much she liked water.He groaned and tried to calm down.
He pushed her away.“I have an idea, but you need to be naked.”
She nodded.Her lips were so swollen.She waved a hand, and her flight suit disappeared.
He had to close his eyes again for a couple of reasons.One of them involved how easy it would be to just spill all over the floor, but the other was much more critical.The hidden colony was still covered in mist—Endelle had seen to that, and she’d covered his cabin as well.But not the hot spring.Mentally, he got the deed done.Yep, power was great.
“How about a soak?”
She drew in a deep breath.“Your bathtub might fit us both, but not if you’re in a beast state.”
His woman had a one-track mind.“I’m thinking about the hot spring.”He waved his own hand this time, and his clothes disappeared.
Her turn to shudder.Her knees buckled, so of course he had to catch her.“I’m going to fold us both to the edge.You ready?”
She nodded.“Uh-huh.”Then she kissed him.
He landed on the rocks, and because her lips were still pressed to his, he barely kept his balance.He drew back and smiled.“You’re so anxious.”
“I’m hungry,” she whispered.
“Well, let me feed you then.”
She listed sideways, so he did the only sensible thing: He fell sideways, pulling her with him straight into the pool.
The warm water helped to calm things down.For a reason he couldn’t explain, some inner desperation perhaps, he really needed this time with her to last.He felt oppressed with things he didn’t understand.Yes, they’d had a victory tonight—and yet had they done anything more than just infuriate a tyrant, a man with no conscience, who had a vast army?
