Moisture on his tail glinted from his runes, and the shine kept me enraptured as it moved higher until he placed it into his mouth, sucking the glistening juices off himself. His rounded tail flicked out as I gawked, turned on to a painful extent. He returned to my dripping core.
“Arbol monster,” he finally said in his guttural voice, and I whined as he pushed back inside me.
His steady stride slowed, and he turned into a small rounded entrance, toward the corner of the room I’d collected the thin material I’d covered myself with when I first arrived.
I frowned. That’s right, I was so cold when I originally came, but now, not so much.
He lowered me to the ground.
“We’re sleeping on the ground?” Usually it didn’t bother me, I could handle shit, but the overgrown bug I saw was a problem. Normal-sized ones I could handle, but large ones? There was only so much I could deal with. His response was lying on the pile of the same type of coarse blankets. I took one step back, sweeping my gaze around the room now that I could see what was inside here.
Another step back, and then his tail wrapped around my thigh. I stumbled toward him, losing my balance. My arms flailed, but he caught me and settled me over his chest, with his claws digging into my ass to hold me down. I didn’t bother fighting to get up, because I was sure to hurt myself. My cheek settled between his pecs and abs. Itwasrather comfortable.
Each blink came a little slower.
The tip of his tail lifted my skirt as it sought a way under, and it tickled up my leg until slipping deep inside me again.
I sucked in a harsh breath, rubbing against him. The friction of my nipples against him had me moving my hips in frustration. He swirled inside me, and the side pressed against my clit with each movement. Electricity shot to my toes, and I groaned as he pulled out and moved it to his mouth.
I panted, watching him suck his tail free of my moisture. My thighs constricted, and I ground against him, full-on humping his hard body as he cleaned his tail off.
The orgasm washed over me as my channel throbbed. I scrunched my eyes, heaving as I rubbed against him until I collapsed.
Yawning, I slipped my hands to his sides and pressed them to his rough skin. His purr vibrated my cheek. There was a tickle at my thigh, and then he burrowed his tail back inside me, as if it were its home.
THIRTEEN
BRIDGET
I yawnedand wiggled on the rough surface, but it was much more uncomfortable than Tene’s chest ... the ground. I shot to my feet and brushed at my skin to get rid of any bugs that could be on me. Hugging my chest, I backed up, unable to see anything. My shoulders hit an uneven wall.
“Tene.” My warbling voice echoed off the cavern walls, and I rubbed my arms.
Had he left me here? It had only been a day. Yesterday we spent all day going at it like bunnies, and now he was gone.
A vise wrapped around my heart.
I needed him.
I panted, my chest heaving. “Tene!”
I held my breath but nothing.
Fuck this.I scrubbed my palm across my face and tried not to freak out. He’d come back. So far, he’d protected me and even tried to feed me. That had to mean something.
I pressed my palm to my stomach and frowned. The day before I hadn’t eaten, nor yesterday... today was going on three days. I had confirmation, something was different about me. I hadn’t eaten and was still alive without even a hunger pain in sight.
A soft-blue glow reflected off the jagged wall outside the rounded entrance. Tene. As the light approached, I made out my dress beside my shoes, and I stepped into them while pulling on my dress as I rushed around the lip of the entrance. Tene stopped a few feet away. His features remained stiff and unreactive except for the flaring of his nostrils.
I closed the few feet between us and grabbed his hand. His head turned to the side, and the glow of his eyes fell across our linked hands. My skin against his leathery armor calmed my rampant heart. Questions bubbled behind my lips, but I held them in because I didn’t want to do something that would set him off again. The way his eyes had turned black returned to my memory. Death had never felt so close.
His gaze fell across my face, and I dropped mine. My hand wrapped around two of his fingers and seemed unrealistically small in comparison. I took care not to touch the black talons extending from his nail beds.
Tene’s other palm settled on my head, cupping more than half of it, and he tipped my head back to stare into my face. Even without pupils, his stare felt direct. His head tipped to the side.
“You have not fed, human.”
“I wanted to ask you about that—”
