Vael tore his mouth away from hers. Her head dropped back, her neck suddenly unable to support it, as he arched his spine. She watched him from under her lashes as he peered down at the water between them. The look on his face was harsh, the hard edges of his features pulled into sharp relief as he gnashed his fangs.
“This is killing me,” he ground out.
One hand dropped from her hair to slip under water. She felt his tail coil around her ankle in the same moment that his palm met her waist. His whole body moved in a wave as he rolled against the juncture of her thighs. Hot flesh slid against her backside as his pelvis ground them together. Tingles turned into a burst of pleasure.
“Ah!”Hele’s back arched. Hair-thin streaks of electricity burst from her skin to shower the water.
Vael’s grip tightened to the point of near-pain as his eyes squeezed shut. His hips moved in quick, rolling thrusts. Each one made her gasp. More electricity flew.
All the muscles and cords of his body pulled taut, and then he barked a short, sharp sound. It echoed off of the walls and concrete floor. After several seconds, his erratic thrusts slowed. When he finally opened his eyes, his chest heaved and his wings twitched violently in the water behind him.
Hele arched again, her blunt nails digging into the dense muscle of his abdomen, and whined, “Touch me more. Vael, Ineedit.”
Panting, he replied, “I know,t?ht.I just need a minute to catch my breath.”
“Why?”
A puff of air exploded from between his lips. It was not quite a laugh, but close. “Because, my Hele, you just made me come.”
Hele’s eyes opened wide. Glancing between them, she was disappointed to see only the rippling image of her core pressed against the smooth skin of his abdomen. She tried to twist, her head craning to get a look behind her, thinking that it might give her a view of his cock. “I did? How? Can I do it again? I want to see this time.”
“Gods give me strength.”Vael shook his head hard, a pained look on his face. In a louder voice, he promised, “You’ll see it,t?ht.Soon.But first I want to seeyou.”
Before she could argue, both hands clasped her waist and hauled her up. Even the warm air of the room felt cool against her wet skin when he settled her on the edge. Water slid down her skin to gather in her dips and hollows. The droplets tickled, but were quickly forgotten when Vael stepped between her legs and cupped her breasts in his dark hands.
“You have no idea how many times I’ve imagined this.” His gaze was heavy-lidded and intent on her breasts. Slowly, he rolled her dark purple nipples between his fingers, pinching gently.
The breath escaped her lungs with a softpuhsound. The swooping feeling she experienced when she dematerialized— that was all she could compare this too, though it was woefully inadequate. Flying did not come with that sweet, insistent pressure, nor the ache that pounded between her thighs. It didn’t make her want to squirm, nor to clutch him closer, tobeg.
She didn’t know what to do, so she could only follow her instincts. Shameless, without a hint of modesty or self-consciousness, Hele braced her palms on the edge of the pool, parted her legs, and thrust her chest forward, into his hands. “More, my mate,” she demanded, throaty and wild. “Touch me more.”
Vael pressed his mouth against the soft flesh of her stomach and groaned. “Again. Call me that again.”
A heady sense of power crept over her as she watched his wings tremble, the great span of his shoulders tense.“My mate,touch me. Now.”
Another groan, this time accompanied by the hot swipe of his tongue over her skin, around her belly button, and down, down toward her cunt. His palms slid up her legs to press against the inside of her thighs, parting them until her heels were braced against the edge of the pool. She watched his tail snake out of the water to curl around her waist. It was a comforting weight, holding her there like he feared she was going to dematerialize at any moment.
Hele was willing to grant that the fear wasn’tunfounded,but if he asked her, she would have told him that there was nothing in this world that could have compelled her to leave.
Nerves fluttered in her stomach as his hot breath puffed against her wet skin, but they were the buzzy, excited type born of anticipation rather than fear. Hele tracked his every movement with a rapt gaze, unwilling to miss a single second as he traced the seam of her sex with the pads of his fingers.
He choked out a curse, then, gruffly, “Tell me to stop if it’s too much.”
“I always speak my mind,” she primly informed him. “So I will tell you if you do it badly.”
His eyes crinkled just before he gave the soft flesh of her inner thigh a quick bite. She gasped, shocked and aroused by the feeling of his fangs nipping her skin. Sounding almost like he was angry with her, he muttered into her flesh, “Gods, I fuckingloveyou.”
“I—”
Hele didn’t finish the thought. It was knocked aside by Vael’s fingers, which had reverently parted her, and his long tongue, which swept over her clitoris with aching slowness. Her arms trembled with the effort of keeping her upright.
This is… I do not know the words for this.
The feeling was utterly incomparable to anything she had experienced. It was shivery. Warm. Shocking. Natural. Too much. Not enough. Delicious.Necessary,but also unfulfilling.
Her muscles clenched with every slow drag of his tongue. Her breath sped up until her chest sawed up and down. Lights flashed — the electric current of her skin pulsing in time with the rhythmic spasming of her core. The salty scent of the pool and the haze of water in the air filled her head. It gave the moment a bizarre dream-like quality she had never experienced before.
She’d never really considered the tongue an erotic body part, but when Vael slid his down and speared her with it, Hele decided that it might just be herfavorite.
