But things begin to change.Alexusbegins to change. I feel it in the way his tongue grows more demanding, his mouth more eager, more starved. It’s in the way his hands move, fingers no longer caressing but digging into my thighs.
“Fuck yes, Raina.” He plunges his tongue inside me, then drags it up the length of my center, that slow, smooth scrape almost too much to endure. “This is mine,” he proclaims. “My clit. My pussy. My ass. All of it.Mine.Do you understand?”
Emphatically, I nod, barely able to summon a coherent thought. If I know anything, however, it’s that I am indeed his. There isn’t a single cell in my body that doesn’t know this as truth.
And he is mine. I’ve felt that way for a long time now, though tonight I feel it on a different level. I’m still just as protective as I’d been that night at the thermal pools, probably more so. But now there’s a special unity between us, something even more possessive and all-encompassing.
He has my heart. My body. My soul. My trust. My love. My devotion. My entire being.
And I have his.
Finally, he takes one last taste and stands. With his hands gripping my ass, he spreads me open and rubs his thumb over the most intimate part of me. I gasp at the contact, waiting and wanting as he teases my slit with the head of his cock, rubbing it around my entrance.
“My little honey hole,” he says in that deep voice, and I swear to the gods I melt across the desk.
Alexus tugs me back into form, and in one swift and punishing move, he impales me, rooting his stiff cock deep inside me. Reflexively, I grip the desk’s rounded edge and try to breathe.
Hard and fast or deep and slow. He hadn’t asked me that question tonight. I usually answerboth,and I suppose our lovemaking is a blend between the two options. But tonight, everything before this moment has been Alexus Thibault’s brand of tender. His brand of gentle. It was wonderful and passionate, and my heart feels so full from the connection we share.
But this shift in the air…
This shift in him…
I don’t know what to expect. I’ve glimpsed his more animalistic side in moments of anger, and to a degree when we’ve been intimate. But I want more than a glimpse. I want him to stop tempering his lust, to unleash that part of his nature on me. To use me. To plunder my body. To fuck me into a state of utter oblivion. I can always feel him holding back, as though I’m breakable.
Slowly, he wraps my hair around his hand and tugs me up, pressing his other hand atop the desk as he leans over me. Gods, he fills me so completely, his cock stretching me.
“I feel what you want along the bond.” My face heats as he trails kisses down my neck before returning to my ear. “Have you done it before? It’s not so simple as what you envision.”
I shake my head because it’s the honest answer. Nephele has, with Colden, and she swears it’s bliss. But as for me, I’ve explored my own body, a little, but Finn and I never ventured into that territory save for touching and teasing. It seemed too much. I didn’t want to let Finn Owyn haveallof me. In truth, I held back so much from him.
And yet the idea of Alexus taking me that way? It seems right, and tonight, I hunger for it. If anyone will ever know me that intimately, it will be him and him alone.
No sooner does that thought strike me, another hits. He knows what I desire isn’t simple because he’s done it before. Of course, he has. After three-hundred years, it would be impossible that he hasn’t.
I shouldn’t be jealous of the woman from his past who was lucky enough to experience Alexi of Ghent giving himself over to such passion and power, the woman—or women—he claimed in the manner I long to experience.
And yet I envy them. Was it Fleurie?I can’t think about that.Can’t let my mind go there. It’s probably wrong of me, but I want to be the sole person to have ever been pleasured by him this way. I want something of him that has never belonged to another. Only to me.
“Remember that the yearning you’re feeling tonight is even more powerful under the haze of the Fever Lilac,” he informs me. “So be careful what you wish for, because I fear I might not have enough restraint to do anything but grant your every desire.”
And I don’t have the control to do anything but beg that he do just that.
Images rush through my mind and along the bond. Images that have tortured me for weeks, in waking and in dreaming. I try to be reasonable. Wise. Careful in what I show him.
Just like our first time, nervousness and anticipation swell within me, but I trust this man so wholly. Hewillgive me what I want, and he will make it divine.
A harsh breath leaves him as he utters my name, that husky voice raw and rough. “Are you certain?”
He presses his cock into my core, and I nod against his grip.
He kisses my neck again, dragging his teeth over my fluttering pulse, licking the sensitive place just beneath my ear. “I’m going to fuck you here then. There’s something about having you spread across this desk I can’t resist. I need to come in you like this.” He brushes his mouth along my cheek. “I’ll give it to you so good, Raina. I’ll give you all you can possibly take.”
Tears of overwhelming pleasure well in my eyes as I angle my face to kiss him, panting into his mouth. I grip my breast and tweak my nipple as he begins moving inside me. The building desire is already that intense, enough that I need all the sensation I can get.
His hold on my hair relaxes, allowing me to brace myself on the desk again. But that’s the only reprieve he offers.
Alexus begins his torture anew, pumping into me, sinking deeper with every thrust, even as his magick begins crawling over me.
