His other hand comes up to cup my face, demanding my mouth that I willingly give. A harsh nip, a soothing lick, his plush lips pressing against mine.
The perfect dance.
“You want a friend? I’ll beveryfriendly to you for the rest of our lives.”
He looks at me, thumb brushing over my bottom lip while his other thumb presses even harder against my clit, building the pressure, making me squirm.
“Great Divine...”
Slade takes my jaw, turns my cheek.
“And you want to kiss a stranger?” he adds, the caress of his breath a dark smolder. “Go right ahead.” His touch at my core is pressed harder, a second finger fed in. His thumb moves faster. Deliciously so.
I can’t think, and yet, all I can do is hear him.Feelhim. It’s his words and his touch and everything inside of me wanting to burn and to burst.
“If you need to kiss and fuck and play in order to feel free, then that’s what you’ll do.”
I arch up even more, body begging, seeking...all while my mind spins with his words. His mouth is against my ear, hand supporting my waist, the other using friction to make me ignite.
“But remember, Auren. Your body—your pleasure—you gave it tome. So I will be there, wherever you decide you need to be. At a pub. In a sea. On a bed. I’ll be there with you. Watching you. Joining you. You are mine, and I am yours, and whatever pleasure you seek, I will be there to watch you get it, and I will feed it to you tenfold afterward because you aremine, and I will see that you get what you need.”
His words. His filthy, delicious words.
They’re a balm against the turbulent doubts, coating me with provocative assent.
“Slade—”
“Come for me, Goldfinch.”
And I do. A strike, so hot it feels cold, charges through my body, making me arc. I cry out from the bolt, from the pleasure at his touch, at what he’s said.
It charges through me with pure electricity, until I’m struck and thundering, my whole body flashing from blinding pleasure that makes me tremble head to toe.
It takes several seconds for me to see clearly again, for my eyes to blink past the bliss still dotting my vision. My entire body feels raw, like the charred ground where lightning just hit, and I practically slump in his arms.
But he chuckles.
And I know that chuckle.
“Don’t get too comfortable. We’re just getting started.”
CHAPTER 50
AUREN
The residue of my relishslowly fades away, so it takes me a second to process what he’s said. There’s an impish glint flashing in Slade’s eye that makes my stomach tumble.
Hands dropping from the loop, I shift on his lap. “What?”
“We’re having a very serious conversation, and we’re not quite done yet.”
“Really? Because I’m sure I just finished,” I say with a smirk.
A grin stretches across his handsome face, his dark lines swaying against the skin of his neck.
“And besides, maybe I want to go and try to kiss one of those strangers we were talking about,” I tease.
Shocking the hell out of me, he reaches over and flicks back a corner of the curtain. “Pick one.”
