I desperately needed to shed these clothes. Sweat formed a sticky sheen underneath.
“Do you know what I really need?” he growled in my ear.
“A break from work.”
He flipped me over and settled between my legs. His girth strained against his pants and filled the space between my legs as he pushed his body against mine. “Only if that break includes being inside of my mate.”
Glancing up into his fiery eyes, I took a moment to study the way they glazed over as they stared down at me, but there was a hint of something else—like he was holding back. It was as if he were entranced, having wild desires of what he’d like to do, but holding himself back from acting upon them.
Our hearts thudded against our chests, and they beat in sync.
“Rowan, stop holding back.”
He groaned, moving his hands from my wrists, and holding himself up with one hand as the other trailed down my skirt where he hiked it up around my waist.
“You’re a tiny fox shifter, and I’m a big firedrake who could quite possibly break you.” Trembling yet strong fingers moved between my legs, rubbing over my panties in a deliberately slow rhythm.
“Didn’t you tell me that we were made for each other?” I squirmed under him, pressing myself harder against his fingers. “You weren’t worried about breaking me when you made love to me the other times.”
Smirking, he wrapped his hand around the center of my panties. His knuckles rested against my slit. “You’re right, but this time, I don’t just want to make love to you. I want toclaimyou. I want you to feel my cock long after we finish.”
My breath caught in my throat. He yanked my panties down my legs and rose to his knees as he unbuckled his pants.
Freeing himself, his erection bobbed up and down, glistening at the tip. My legs clenched together immediately, and he chuckled. “Thought you said we were made for each other? Don’t tell me you’re still scared of it.”
Embarrassment flushed my cheeks. “We are, but you can’t blame me for my disbelief that you can actually fit it inside me. Like, you say you want me to feel it long after, and I don’t think that’ll be a problem at all. Every time we’re together, I feel it. I mean, how could I not? I swear you stretch me in the farthest possible way.”
“Oh, fledgling… I love filling you up.” He grabbed my thighs and spread them open before falling back down on top of me. “You take all of me so well.”
Rowan was like a wildfire. He came into my life and consumed all of me. I wanted everything he could give me. Every kiss, every touch, and every murmured word.
He pushed inside me with a slow motion, not stopping until he buried himself to the hilt inside me.
“Rowan!” My hands clasped the bed sheets beneath me as I cried out. My walls stretched to accommodate him.
“I love you.” He moved his hands up until his fingers threaded with mine, and then he started to move. He rocked his hips back and forth, and pleasure ricocheted through my bones. “I didn’t know how badly I needed you, my mate.”
My head fell back into the mattress, and his hot lips descended on mine.
I needed to get completely naked, to feel his skin against mine. The heat from the clothes and his body were getting to be too much.
My shadow jumped out of Damien’s mark and sliced down, ripping my uniform and Rowan’s shirt in half. Gasping, my eyes popped open.
Rowan’s thrusts stilled, and he pulled himself up to give my shadow space as it flicked between us. “If you wanted us naked, you could’ve just asked.”
The black tendril sank back into my chest, and Rowan’s gaze followed it before straying toward my breasts.
“It acted before I could.” I sucked in a lungful of air.
I was just happy that it didn’t cut him. I swore that thing had a mind of its own.
“Can’t say I’m disappointed.” He dipped his head and took a nipple into his hot mouth, and my back arched into him.
My fingers bit into his shoulders. “Stop holding back.”
He popped his mouth off my nipple before blowing air on it. “When you say that, it makes me want to give in.”
“You dug your dragon talons into my shoulder,” I growled, and my fox ears popped out of my head.
