“Nature’s law?”What was he talking about?And why did he sound crestfallen?
Understanding dawned on his face.“You don’t know?Gods, Jasmine…” Relief filled his voice.“I thought your attempts at touching me were caused by impatience, but you were simply unknowing.”
“Unknowing about what?”Hope awoke in me.Had I completely misinterpreted his detached behavior?
He cupped my face, his gaze pleading.“Forgive me, my flower, please.I needed you so much I didn’t stop to think this might be different for your kind!”
I placed my hands over his, the hope in my chest flaring.“What is it?”
He lay down beside me, and I turned toward him.He kept our faces intimately close, and his hand never left my cheek, the thumb caressing me with tenderness.“The first time you join with someone on the moss, you have to give Nature its due.An emotion-freeinteraction of the kind living creatures have for the sole purpose of procreation.Touching must be kept to a minimum, only enough to prepare the female.Only then, after you’ve shown respect for the law of Nature, can you turn the act into one of the affection elves and humans are capable of.An act of love.”
“What?”Could it be…?“You mean to say that…”
“I’ll explain differently, with words you prefer.”Karim traced my neck with his fingers, a feathery touch along my skin down and further down, to where the remains of my dress still kept me hidden.“For a flower to blossom,” his voice turned low, “you first need to plant the seed.”He drew closer until his warm breath was tickling my exposed neck, and his fingers continued their fiery path downward.“Only then can you touch the bud,” he circled a nipple over the thin fabric, “water it,” he kissed my neck, “and cherish it.”He drew back to stare into my eyes, his filled with affection, desire, and an unspoken question.
He could show me what he meant, if I said yes.If I gave him another chance.Because what I’d considered coldness in bed had been him following his kind’s strange tradition.While my attempts at touch during our first time must have seemed disrespectful to him.Talk about cultural misunderstanding.
But I had to make sure he understood my side, because I wouldn’t recover from a round two of this.I placed my hand over his heart and held his gaze.“You will not pull away from my touch?You will let mecherishyou–and you’ll cherish me?Because I wouldn’t have it any other way between us, Karim.I’m not built like that; my heart can’t take you being cold to me.The hurt is unbearable.”
“No more coldness, Jasmine.Never again, you have my word.”He laced his fingers with mine, keeping my hand where it was.“I could barely restrain myself from showing you just how strongly I burn for you.Forgive me for making you feel uncherished.Now that Nature’s law has been observed, there will be no holding back, just us and what we feel for each other.If you still want anus.”
The heaviness weighing on my chest lifted to be replaced with warmth.I had thought this might be the end for us, but it was only the beginning.“I want that, with all my heart.”I cupped his cheek.“Will you be mine?”
A smile filled with relief and gratitude spread across his face.“I am all yours.”
“Good,” I said confidently and pulled him down to my lips.“I’m yours, too.”
- 30 -
Feasting
His mouth took mine as passionately as at the very start.No more talking.There was only the feel of his lips on my skin, the press of his powerful body against mine, and the hardening cock pulsing against my belly.
Karim pinned me under him–our upper bodies finally joined as one–and began kissing, nibbling, and delivering teasing bites downmy body.
I tried to touch every part of him I could reach.I traced the battle scars on his back.I ran my fingers over the plains of his chest, taut under my fingertips as he worked to unclasp my belt.I tried to help when he had some trouble with that task, but he pleaded, “Don’t stop touching me.”
Yesss.This was like a dream come true.One I prayed I wouldn’twake up from.
I ran my fingers through his hair as it spilled like a waterfall down his shoulder and onto the grass.The gold beads in his locks felt cold against the skin Karim’s skillful kisses had set ablaze.Those dark tresses seemed to wrap around my fingers to keep them right there.Huh.
My belt finally yielded, and Karim once again instructed me to stay still.A moment later, the upper part of my dress was ripped in two from the neck down to my belly button.The delicate fabric now lay in tatters on either side of me.
“Deidre’s dress!”
I forgot all about the ruined clothing once I saw the raw hunger in Karim’s eyes at the sight of me, now fully bared to his gaze.Being desired so strongly was intoxicating.
My hardened nipple disappeared in his mouth, making me arch my back in pleasure.I cupped his face, feeling his soft skin burning hotter than mine and his mouth working.He sucked me in, tongue circling the taut peak, and I instinctively curled my fingers into the hair at the back of his head to keep that divine mouth on me.Gasps and moans spilled from me, sounds I couldn’t even name in the state I was in.
That’s why I didn’t realize it at first.The soft touches along my wrists and up my bandaged forearm were not from accidentally coming into contact with Karim’s hair.His black locks were moving over my exposed and covered skin alike.Deliberately.
My eyes went wide.No, I wasn’t seeing things.Karim’s hair was moving on its own, and the soft strands were both teasing up my arms and wounding around them to keep me linked to him as he teased my other nipple.
“Umm…Karim?”
He looked up from between my breasts and when he noticed the reason for my reaction, gave me a roguish smile.And I’d thought this man couldn’t be more handsome?I could combust right thenand there at the power of that smile reserved only for me.
“The power of the royal bloodline.”He kissed the space between my breasts, and the tips of his hair slid over my pebbled nipples in perfect unison.It should tickle, but I was so turned-on that it was an exquisite tease instead.“I can’t lift much with my hair nor use it in battle like my father could, but I can dothis.”The locks wound around my peaks, and I gasped at the delicious squeeze.“Do you like it?”
