“You are a sight, Meredith.By the goddess, I have to be inside you.”
She freed his cock and pulled his pants down over his hips.He was big, long, and thick.On impulse, she leaned forward and licked up his shaft, enjoying the growl she provoked.Everything about the way he looked at her made her feel like a goddess, like she could undo him with a wink of her eye.She wrapped her lips around his cock, sucking him deep into the back of her throat.
With a rumble that might have been a purr, he unfastened a few buttons of his shirt, enough to pull it over his head.She held eye contact while she worked.Goddess, he tasted good, the masculine scent of his skin arousing her once more.She stroked the heavy weights between his thighs while he shimmied out of his pants.
“Meredith, you don’t know what you do to me.”
“Please,” she whispered, “show me.”
Lying back she held her arms out for him.He crawled between her legs, pulled her hips off the bed.She was no delicate flower, but the sheer size of him was intimidating.She spread her legs wider.
He pressed against her opening, then worked his cock into her with small circles of his hips.She gasped and tensed around him, each thrust stretching her to the limit.At last, when he was completely inside her, he stopped and closed his eyes.
“What’s wrong?”she asked.
“When I take what’s mine,” he whispered, “I take it slowly.I savor every minute.”He kissed her in a languid, teasing way.“Being with you feels right, like you’ve always been mine and I’ve always been yours.Does it bother you that I say you’re mine?”
Her gaze met his, and her arms and legs wrapped tighter around him.“No,” she answered genuinely.“I feel the same way.”
He thrust into her hard and quick.All she wanted was for him to be deeper.She raised her hips, breaking a sweat as she moved beneath him.Hips rising and falling like a machine, she became more animal than human, working with his movements to meet him thrust for thrust.Everything was sharper, more real.
He reached behind her knees and hooked her legs on his shoulders.In this position, deep and exposed, she lost all control.She gave herself over to the rhythm, screaming his name as another orgasm ripped through her.
The room rippled with light and heat that seemed to radiate from their connection.His body pulsed above her.Slowly, he lowered her trembling legs.Tucking her face into the spot where his neck met his shoulder, she rode out the aftershocks while her fingers stroked along his spine.All her worries about Alex, Nickelova’s heart, and her new job were gone, replaced by this man in her arms.
“I’m glad you became my partner,” he whispered.
“I’m not your partner, remember?”she said breathlessly, a wry smile turning the corner of her lips.“But I’d like to be your girlfriend.”
He answered with a hard laugh.“Done.What a beautiful way to start a relationship.”
ChapterFifteen
They’re awake.The text from Jason had come in the middle of the night, but Silas didn’t see it until early morning.Not that he’d been asleep.He’d turned off his phone to focus on making his little fox whimper with pleasure.She had the sexiest bark, a deep, throaty noise she made at the brink of ecstasy that drove Silas crazy.And as strong as she was and as sure of herself, he reveled in his ability to reduce her to a puddle of need between the sheets.
It had been a long time since he’d been with a woman, and it was never like this.Soleil was too hard to read, and her level of experience always intimidated him, as if he were competing with hundreds of unknown suitors.For a while it was a thrill, an accomplishment to conquer the unconquerable.But then he learned that she’d never truly been his, and the act lost all meaning for him.
Meredith was a different story.In many ways, she was his equal, a shifter and a detective, and she was open to a real relationship.He only hoped that from where they began, they had somewhere to go.
“You look serious,” she said, running her nails along his stomach.
“Jason says my sister and Selene are up.I need to go to the hospital.Laina might be ready to talk.”
“They’re recovered?I’ll get dressed and come with you.”
“You should go into the office.With the shift coming, I’ll need you to be there in case the city needs a supernatural detective in my absence.”
She propped herself on one elbow.“We have this thing called cell phones, Silas.Captain Manahan can call me if he needs me.”
“This is family stuff.No need to involve yourself.”
She sat up, the blanket pooling around her waist.“You’re going to talk to your siblings about the dragon heart, and I’m going to be standing right next to you when you do.As I recall, I was okay helping with family stuff when Grateful extracted the sulfralite from your sister.I think I can handle visiting her.”
“Meredith…”
“You want to raise a dragon from her magically induced sleep.I know you, Silas.You’re already making up your mind not to include me in this quest.You think you need to keep me safe.One night in bed with you and you’ve moved me from the category of coworker to someone you need to protect.But I’m not made of glass.”
“Why shouldn’t I protect you?I thought we established you’re my girlfriend?”
