“I have to know what you taste like.”
And then she’s swallowing me down while using her teeth along the edge of my shaft. Her fingernails scratch my balls lightly, and I can’t help my reaction. I thought I knew pleasure. I thought I knew what it meant to feel good.
I throw my head back and come down her sweet throat.
Then I collapse on the ground beside her and pull her to my chest. “Phoenix, baby. I never thought we’d get to this place. I’ve dreamed of this—of you—forever. You feel so good in my arms. All I want from here on out is to make you feel like this every single day. To worship you the way you deserve. To?—”
But suddenly, she yanks away from me and leaps to her feet.
“What?” I sit up in confusion. My cock is still out and half-hard.
Phoenix looks around wildly with her hands moving down her bare midriff. Then down to her sex. I never did get that bra off. We’ll have to fix that next time. She shakes her head hard while her hands go to her hair.
“What’s wrong, baby?”
She jogs over to where she threw off her dress earlier. That’s when I really take in our surroundings. Did I really just take her for the first time in a back alley? That’s not right. My Phoenix deserves silk sheets and the softest mattress money can buy.
I scrub a hand down my face while still shocked by the feeling of being satiated. For once in my entire existence, I’m full.
“Layden,” Phoenix snaps at me.
I look up at her.
“Make yourself decent.”
I glance down at myself with my cock still out. “Oh.”
She turns her back on me as she yanks her dress on over her head with jerky movements.
I chuckle despite the weird tension. “Well, that was one way to consummate the marriage.”
Phoenix swears viciously. She sounds decidedly less happy than she should be, considering the way I just had her shuddering against that wall. “What’s wrong, baby?”
“I’m not your baby, you fucking idiot.”
That has me snapping to full attention. I get to my feet quickly. “What do you mean?”
“Are you decent yet?”
“If you mean is the cock you were just riding put away, yes. Yes, it is.”
She swings around and glares daggers at me. “Don’t remind me of that.”
I can only stare at her in total bewilderment. I gesture toward the wall. “Were you or were you not just the woman crying out my name as I brought you to an orgasm?”
She stomps toward me. Even in the dim light from the streetlamp a block away, I can see her cheeks flush. She waves a hand furiously. “None of that matters, don’t you get it?”
How does none of that matter? Pretty sure doing something I’ve never done in my whole life matters a whole lot to me.
Then again, maybe this is just another Friday night to her. Maybe she does this all the time with different men. Maybe I’m just another dick to her. I start to close down emotionally. “Yeah, so what am I supposed to be getting?” My voice comes out more gruff than I intended.
She rolls her eyes at me. “Why the hell were we in this alley in the first place?” Her voice goes up an octave with frustration. “Itwas her. Ammit. She did something to us. Like infected us with lust or some kind of spell. To distract us so she could get away!”
Ammit. Fuck. My head whips around to look down the alleyway. I completely forgot about the goddess we were hunting. Which I guess is Phoenix’s point. How else would we both have forgotten about what we were doing and jumped each other like animals? The last thing I remember clearly before we started tearing at each other’s clothes is Phoenix doing that freeze-Ammit-in-place thing. But then she just turned and launched herself at me. Then my dick started doing all the thinking, which yeah, is unusual for me.
“Fuck.”
“Fuck is right,” Phoenix says while pacing back and forth in the alley. Absently she licks at her bottom lip and then swallows. “At least you didn’t—” She looks my way with something like fear in her eyes. “You know. You didn’t finish inside me. At least we didn’t do it in a way that would give Vlad what he wants. That would have been an unbearable ending to this disaster.” She tosses her hands up while indicating the alley around us. Me. Everything we just did.
