“Youare.”His voice shook as his hands dug into my hips possessively.He was close now, and he couldn’t hide it.“So perfect.Madefor me.”
I put my hands on his chest for balance; my fingers skimmed over his nipples, eliciting a groan.Feeling empowered, I began rocking my hips.I moved slowly at first to test the ground and also give my body time to adjust.Then I sped up.
I watched him as I moved, and he watched me back.His hands traced the ample curves of my body and the swell of my breasts almost like worship.His touches, in combination with the feel of him sliding in and out of me and the emotions written on his face, were overloading my senses, making it difficult to maintain my pace.
More practice is needed.The thought made me grin.
“Temptress,” he groaned when he saw that smile, and pulledme down into a torrid kiss.
The movement of my hips faltered as I gave his tongue the access it demanded.That slowing down cost me.I found myself pinned to his chest by his arms, wrapped like steel bars around my waist.Then he was sawing in and out of me at a speed no human man could match.Drawing mewling cries from me as my clit rubbed against him at every move from this new angle.
My fingers dug into his hard pecs, making him growl.His lips sought mine again, all the while he kept pushing both of us toward the promised rapture.
This was a male who took everything he wanted but also gave everything in return.He was the one I had been dreaming of since as long as I could remember.Someone I could get lost in and not want to find my way back.
I watched, ensnared, how his face went blissful as he erupted with a shout.That intimate sight, his hot release filling me to the brink–I was coming again before I knew it.
I collapsed on top of him with a languid smile.I felt well-loved and as utterly spent as he’d promised to leave me after we’d shared our very first kiss.
There were no empty promises with Karim.
- 32 -
Choice
We stayed wrapped in each other on the grass, his chest my pillow, his hair my blanket, and our legs intertwined for lazy minutes that I didn’t care to count.
“Do you believe in soulmates?”I broke the comfortable silence, fingers gliding along his pec.“A special someone chosen for you by the Gods or Nature?”
“I believe that Nature brought you to me–and that you’re mine, just as I’m yours.”Karim’s hand, which had been running through my hair, paused.“Do you believe?”
I planted a kiss over his heart.“Yes.You’re it for me, Mr.Perfect Feet.”
His steady breathing faltered.
Had I said too much too early?“By the way, the edelweiss isthriving,” I blurted out.
“It is alive?”
I giggled and propped my chin on his pec to look up at him.“Didn’t you notice?The little one was right there when you came home.”
“Youwere right there when I came home.I didn’t have eyes for anything else,” he said softly, his fingers playing with a curl of mine.“When I returned and didn’t find you in the other chambers, I feared you had been taken or had left me.”
He suddenly looked haunted, and my heart ached for him.“Where would I go?To say hi to my guards in the gardens, because I miss Mr.Barky and Pouty McPoutface?”
His smile was a sad one.“You could go to your friend’s homecloud.”
I went speechless.He’d overheard Sue and me, after all.
“Where they have cake and ice cream, no constant danger to your life, no walls to imprison you.Where the sun can touch your skin and make it shine like gold every single day.”
“Karim.”I pushed up to sit so he could see from my face that I meant every word.“If you’ve heard what Sue told me, you’ve also heard that I refused to go with her.I choseyou.”
He sat up, close enough for our chests to be brushing, and cupped my face.“This world is harsh, my flower.You wouldn’t thrive here.You should reconsider your friend’s offer.”
I flinched.“Why are you saying this?Did I disappoint you just now?I know there are differences between our… styles, but we have time to learn–Unless… you don’t want to give us time?”
He shook his head.“Jasmine, the problem is not that I don’t want you here.The problem is Iwantyou right where you are.For as long as I live.”
