“You wanted to kill them yourself?” Rafe asked.
Adri shrugged. “I couldn’t back then. Not without getting in more trouble than I could get out of with Viviana. I hated that you could give that to me, and then you started pushing Viviana to move the gym and improve things for my fighters, and it just made me even more mad.”
“Mad enough to avoid me for over a decade,” Rafe said, getting back to his feet and pressing a kiss to Adri’s jaw before heading to the bedroom.
“Only because I knew I’d lose myself to you the second I let you close.”
“Oh, kitten. You’re not going to lose anything. All I want is to give you everything you need to be truly free to be whoever you want. If you lost a part of yourself, it would be like losing a part of me, because you’re the piece of my soul that walks the world outside my body.”
Adri shuddered in his arms where they stood next to the bed. “I’m not ready for that,” he whispered.
Rafe cupped his jaw, pressing a series of gentle kisses along his lush lips. “That’s okay. I’ll be right here waiting when you are, and we can still have all the fun with this chemistry between us in the meantime. You didn’t mention any of the things I told you I could do with my power were a limit. Do you want to add anything to your list?”
Adri tilted his head up, his lips parting to let Rafe plunder his mouth. “No. Do your worst, Doc.”
Rafe’s soft smile turned predatory. “On the bed. Hands on the headboard.”
Adri was all feline grace as he crawled onto the bed, arching his body in long, seductive lines as he stretched to follow Rafe’s instructions.
“Fuck, you’re beautiful,” Rafe said, standing transfixed as he stared at the picture Adri made on his bed.
Starting at his ankle, Rafe set to work worshipping his mate, using tongue and teeth and fingers to draw a symphony of needy moans from Adri’s mouth as he slowly worked his way up his body. His healing power thrummed beneath his skin, begging to be let loose, so he let a tiny trail seep into every spot he touched, knowing it would set Adri’s blood aflame with arousal.
“Knees up, kitten,” he ordered, when Adri’s moans turned to muttered oaths.
“Rafe, please. Hurry up.”
Rafe just raised an eyebrow and stared his mate down until he wrapped a hand around each leg to hold his knees apart, puttingevery inch of himself on display. Rafe groaned, reaching down to stroke his throbbing length that he’d been ignoring to try and give himself some relief.
“Prettiest thing I’ve ever seen,” Rafe growled, watching Adri’s cock kick in response to his voice as his balls sat high and heavy above his perfect, enticing hole.
Adri’s entire body tensed and arched as Rafe dived in to lap at his rim with his long tongue. Sucking and gently nibbling, he’d barely got his first taste with the tip of his tongue when Adri’s whole body tensed and his breathing became sharp and frantic. That wouldn’t do.
“No. I’m not nearly done with you yet, kitten,” Rafe chided, reaching up to roll his balls gently in his fingers and letting his magic soak into Adri’s skin to stop him from coming untilRafewas ready.
“Fuck!” Adri cried as Rafe relaunched the assault on his hole, not bothering to hold back now he knew his mate couldn’t orgasm and the pleasure would just build and build.
Pressing firmly with his tongue, he licked in deep, moaning as he felt the muscle contracting around him. Grabbing the lube off his side table, he managed to squirt some on his fingers, and probably all over the bed, before reaching up to slide his hand up and down his jaguar’s impressive, ridged length as he continued his efforts to lick and suck his soul out of his body.
Adri’s moans grew louder, his hands shifting from holding his knees apart to wrapping tight in Rafe’s hair to hold him close as his legs splayed out across his sheets. His hips jerked up repeatedly in aborted thrusts as he tried to chase the pleasure Rafe’s hand was giving him before pushing back onto his tongue.
“Rafe, please. I need to come,” Adri begged.
“Are you sure about that, kitten?”
“Yes, dammit!”
“Okay, remember you asked for it, though.”
Keeping up his firm strokes on Adri’s cock, Rafe slid two fingers of his other hand in alongside his tongue, crooking them to find the perfect pressure that would send his mate soaring. Stroking with both his power and his hand, Rafe stopped holding back Adri’s orgasm and instead forced him into an instant, overwhelming climax that had his screams echoing off the bedroom walls. He didn’t stop working him over as the orgasm went on and on, nor did he let Adri’s cock soften. When his cries became muffled sobs of need, Rafe paused only long enough to raise his head to meet his mate’s eyes.
“You good?”
Adri just moaned, so he pulled back further.
“I need your words, kitten. Too much, or can I keep going?”
“More,” Adri whimpered.
