Not exactly a vote of confidence for my abilities and desire to gnaw on them—and I really wanted to gnaw on them.
I liked being able to talk to Elio like an (almost) normal human being. To hear the different inflections in his voice when he was angry, or happy, or even sad was something that I had never been able to pick up on when we would communicate via sign language.
There was no longer any struggle to understand him because, even if his face was completely neutral, I could feel and hear how he was feeling in my head now.
It had also made me realize just how anxious of a person Elio was.
He was constantly worried and it didn’t take me long to realize that the thing he was worried about was me.
I wished I could soothe him somehow, but the things he was worried about I had no control over.
We had been allowed to take this ‘honeymoon’ for the express purpose of fulfilling my father’s desires. There was the unsaid pressure that, when we left here in a month, I would be pregnant and ready to pop out the next Amante heir in eight or nine months.
But hey, at least I got a vacation out of it.
With a sigh I dropped down into the water up to my shoulders and let the waves push me back and forth.
Arms wrapped around me and I turned to find that Nico had joined me in the water.
“So,” he mouthed, his dark eyes lit up mischievously as he grinned at me.“Does that mean we aren’t going to kiss?”
Despite my lingering worries about the men on the porch watching us, I couldn’t help but smile at him.
Leave it to Nico to keep things light.
Cupping the back of his neck, I pulled his mouth to mine, deciding to throw caution to the wind.
I had been waiting for years for this moment and I was done pretending like I didn’t want it.
‘Elio,’I gasped through our connection as he pressed my back to the wooden wall that made up the little outdoor shower next to the house. Lukewarm water rained down around us, creating a deliciously slick friction between our bodies.
After playing in the ocean with Nico for another hour I had gone to rinse only to find the alpha waiting for me.
‘I thought we were supposed to be careful in front of the guards?’I asked dryly as his hands slipped underneath my bikini top. His fingers were burning hot compared to my water-chilled skin and he twisted my stiff nipples, drawing another ragged breath from my mouth.
Elio didn’t answer me as he pressed his mouth to my neck where his bite mark was and my insides clenched in response.
‘You called me bossy,’he said after a while, his hands moving down to my bottom.‘So I’m going to show you bossy.’
In a flash, Elio had me flipped around with my palms against the rough wood of the shower stall.
I felt it then. Instead of the stiff linen of the pants he’d been wearing when he had dragged me inside of the outdoor shower, I felt the hot length of him drag across my cool ass.
It left a blazing trail in its wake until he was pressing it into the entrance of my pussy.
The first time we had sex on our wedding night things had gone much slower, as if we had all the time in the world to explore each other for the first time.
But this time, he was pushing inside of me in one hard, brutal stroke.
The sudden intrusion burned and a moan rose in my throat that would have definitely tipped our watchers off to what we were doing if not for the hand that was suddenly clasped over my mouth.
I moved to pull his hand away, but his deep voice filled my mind, stopping me.‘Hands on the wall, Luscinia, or I’ll stop moving.’
Despite the initial discomfort from the lack of foreplay, I had been dreaming about doing this again for days since the wedding and I wouldn’t be doing anything to ruin it.
I put my hand back onto the wall and braced myself, tossing a look over my shoulder at the alpha whose dark features were twisted in concentration as his hips snapped against mine again.
‘Good girl,’his words came in a purr that made my insides clench. I had always known that an alpha’s purr would have an effect on an omega, but I never thought that I, with how fucked up my designation was now, would ever be able to feel the same pleasure from it.
