Valen sucks on my clit again and curls and then circles his fingers inside of me. His demand bounces around my mind as I pinch my nipples and happily fall over the edge into a toe-curling orgasm. Valen doesn’t stop fingering me, but his mouth takes mercy on my clit, and he moves his face from between my thighs and nuzzles my hand away from my breasts. He pulls a nipple into his mouth and sucks hard, and I ride his hand, the end of my orgasm stretching out inside of me before fluttering away.
“Valen, please,” I beg shamelessly as he moves from one nipple to the other.
“Please what, my love?”
“Please get inside of me,” I growl, and thank fuck, he pulls his fingers out and replaces them with his cock.
Valen pulls my hips forward off the desk and thrusts into me so hard I scream his name in encouragement. His big hand is splayed on my lower back, and he tilts my hips up as he pulls out and then slams back in.
Fuck.He feels so good, and I have no choice but to throw my head back and beg for more. He pumps into me harder and faster and then slows his pace as he leans forward and claims a kiss. I taste myself on his tongue, but I can’t focus on anything other than how incredible Valen feels inside of me.
“You feel so fucking good,” he tells me, echoing my exact thoughts.
Our foreheads press together as we fight for air and chase release. I wrap my arms around Valen’s back trying to pull him impossibly closer to me. I want his soul to wrap itself with mine. For us to fuse together in every possible way so that we’re never without each other andnothingcan ever change that. He reaches down between us and plays with my clit, and I fracture into a thousand pieces. Pleasure slams through every inch of me, and I swim in it and feel Valen slam inside of me a couple more times before he shouts out my name and buries himself as deep inside of me as he can go. We pant for a minute, reveling in the feel of each other, and let the tail end of our orgasms cover us like a tingly blanket.
“Well done,” I praise and pat Valen on the back, and I lean forward and nip at his chest.
He looks down with a proud smile, and we both start laughing. He grinds his hips against me again and sucks on my bottom lip.
“Now don’t go starting things you can’t finish,” I warn.
“Who says I can’t finish?”
“Well, being that you have about twenty minutes, give or take, before you’re writhing around in pain, I’d say another round is welcome but unlikely.”
“Raincheck then?” he teases against my mouth.
“Yes, please,” I whisper at his mouth and kiss him hard until we both have to come up for air. “Let’s get you to the room so you can transition there on the mattresses instead of here in the dirt,” I tell him as I look down to where we’re still connected.
Valen’s smile is contagious, and we both press against each other, beaming like fools. “Beautiful and wise,” he tells me before pulling out of me and searching for clothes.
He hands me my leggings, bra, and top before collecting his own clothes and pulling them on.
“Should I let Bastien know what’s going on so he doesn’t get the same scare you did?”
Valen chuckles and gives me a quick kiss. “No, fair is fair. He should live through the same panic I did. Helps us appreciate the other more, especially when one of us is being a stubborn ass.”
“Bastien, being a stubborn ass? I don’t believe it,” I snark, and we both head out of the barn and back out into the cool night.
“Did you find anything suspicious in there?” I ask, jerking my head in the direction of the barn behind us.
“No, just the spells he mentioned, some maps, and one very sexy Sentinel,” he tells me and slaps my ass. “What were you thinking you were going to find?”
“I don’t know. I didn’t have anything specific in mind. I was just hoping to find something that would put all of the pieces together.” Valen follows me out of the cut in the barrier. I reach my hand out to where my magic coats Silva’s and pull it back inside of my center.
“You’re getting good at that,” Valen tells me with a nod. “But you should close the access point behind you, or at least set a trip-cast inside of the opening so you know if anyone comes in behind you.”
I nod and shoot him a smile, and I make a mental note to practice more protective casts. He grabs my hand and intertwines our fingers as we walk back to the house. The intimacy of it is so simple and yet it feels so huge at the same time.
“What do you mean by put the pieces together?” he asks.
“Like where Lachlan and them got the lead that had them flying to Europe in the first place. Or why Silva has a barrier around this barn to begin with.”
“Well, that last part might be easy to answer. They were tracking lamia, so this could just be a precaution in case the lamia caught on and started tracking them. This barrier would have kept the lamia out of the building and prevented them from hearing any plans made inside. Lamia have really good hearing, among other things.”
I have to admit that he makes a valid point, but I still can’t let go of the doubt and suspicion that there’s more here that I’m just not seeing. We stay in the trees and skirt the others who are still training hard behind the house. The sight of them working to master their runes feels amazing, but I shut out the pride that fills my stomach and focus on getting Valen back to the house. We sneak in, and I pull blankets back from the mattresses on the floor.
“You might have time to get a quick shower in, wash off the sex before you’re wishing you could black out instead of feeling the runes sear themselves into you.”
