He pumped his fingers in and out of her tight velvet sheath, setting a leisurely rhythm as his thumb circled her swollen bud. Midori writhed and whimpered beneath him, her hands fisting the sheets as her hips undulated against his touch. The soft whimpers and cries spilling from her parted lips were the sweetest melodies to his ears. He curled his fingers in a beckoning motion, stroking her satin-slick inner wall as his thumb continued its insistent circles around her swollen pearl. Midori's thighs trembled, her head thrashing from side to side as her pleasure built in dizzying waves.
"That's it, my love," he purred, his voice a low, heated rasp. "Let me hear those pretty sounds."
Withdrawing his fingers, he leaned down and lapped at her glistening folds with broad, hungry strokes of his tongue. Midori cried out, her fingers burying in his hair to hold him against herthrobbing center. The taste of her, a heady blend of sweet nectar and musky desire, flooded his senses and stoked the flames of his own arousal into an all-consuming blaze.
He caressed her before focusing his attention on the taut bud of her clitoris. Swirling around the sensitive bundle of nerves, he relished every desperate buck of her hips and keening moan torn from her throat. Slipping two fingers back into her molten depths, he set a steady rhythm, curling them against her spongy inner wall with each thrust. Midori writhed, whimpered, and clamped her thighs around his head, her heels digging into his back.
When at last her climax crested, Midori arched her back in a taut bow as she cried out his name. Her inner walls fluttered and clenched around Cael's fingers as she rode out the shockwaves. He gentled his touch, lapping up her sweet release as she drifted back down from her euphoric high.
Cael gazed down at Midori with naked adoration, drinking in the sight of her flushed features and tousled hair fanned out across the pillows. She was the most exquisite creature he'd ever laid eyes upon—strong, passionate, and resilient. His heart swelled with a fierce protectiveness and a bone-deep need to show her the depths of his devotion.
Leaning down, he captured her lips in a slow, smoldering kiss, which banked the flames of desire still simmering between them. Midori melted into his embrace with a soft whimper. Cael growled low in his throat, his hands roaming the lush curves of her body in a reverent caress.
Breaking the heated kiss, he nuzzled along the slender column of her throat, his tongue darting out to taste the saltiness of her skin. "You are so beautiful," his voice rumbled against the sensitive hollow beneath her ear. "Exquisite in every way."
Midori shivered at the heated praise, her fingers tangling in the lengths of his hair. He relished the way she arched wantonlyinto his touch as soft mewls of pleasure spilled from her parted lips.
"You are mine now, Midori." His words were both statement and question, a silent plea for her assent.
Midori's fingers threaded through the hair at his nape as she met his heated gaze. "Yes." Her voice was thick with need and a wealth of unspoken emotion. "Yours. Only yours."
A low, rumbling growl vibrated up from the depths of Cael's chest as he drank in the truth of her words. Moving with a predator's grace, he blanketed her body with his own in one fluid motion, his arms braced on either side of her head. The hard planes of his muscular form pressed deliciously against the soft give of her curves, sending sparks of white-hot friction dancing across his overheated skin.
His lips hovered a scant hairsbreadth from her own, his quickened breaths mingling with hers in the heated space between them. Midori's thighs fell open in blatant invitation, allowing his rigid spiral length to nestle against her molten core. With a low growl, he allowed the blazing tip of his stiff cock to brush against her slick folds in a maddening tease. Midori whimpered, her hips undulating in a desperate bid for more intimate contact. But Cael held himself in check with the last fraying threads of his control, determined to commit every moment of this to memory.
Leaning in, he captured her lips in a searing kiss, amassing the simmering flames of their desire into an inferno. Midori melted into his embrace, her fingers tangling in the lengths of his ebony hair as their tongues danced in a heated duel. Cael growled approval deep in his throat, savoring the taste of her, the scent of her arousal surrounding him in an intoxicating haze.
Trailing a blazing path of open-mouthed kisses along the slender column of her throat, he nuzzled into the hollow beneath her ear. "You are mine," he murmured in a low, heated raspagainst the saltiness of her skin. "And I am yours. For all of my days."
Midori shuddered, her fingers tightening their grip almost painfully in his hair. "Yes." Her dark eyes were luminous with her own unspoken emotions. "Always."
That was all the encouragement Cael needed. Capturing her lips once more in a fierce, devouring kiss, he allowed the head of his cock to nudge insistently against her entrance. Midori's back arched as she mewled into his mouth, her hips canting in wordless invitation.
With one powerful thrust, Cael sheathed himself to the hilt in her welcoming depths. They both froze for a breathless eternity, savoring the sensation of being so intimately joined. Then Midori shifted her hips, drawing a strangled groan from Cael's lips as her tight walls caressed his aching length in sweet torment.
Bracing his weight on his elbows, Cael withdrew almost fully before driving home once more in one long, powerful stroke. Midori cried out at the exquisite friction, her nails scoring more delicious lines down his back as she clung to him. He set a relentless pace, each powerful thrust jolting her body and dragging her slick folds against his swollen shaft as it thickened to fill her.
The entire universe narrowed to this heated joining, to the slick slide of their bodies moving as one. They both groaned at the exquisite contact, their hips undulating in a timeless dance as old as the cosmos itself. Midori whimpered and cried out with each punishing thrust while Cael drank in every beautiful expression which crossed her features, committing them to memory for all eternity.
The taut coil of his impending release grew stronger with each powerful stroke, but he stubbornly held himself back. Not yet. Not until he could send her shattering over that blissful edgefirst. Angling his hips, he allowed the thick ridge of his cock to grind against her inner wall with each inward thrust.
Midori's eyes flew open, her mouth parting in a breathless cry. "Cael!"
His name tumbled desperately from her lips, sweet as any prayer.
He was undone.
With a low, guttural growl, Cael buried his face in the slender curve of Midori's neck as his hips snapped forward in a frantic, almost punishing rhythm. Midori cried out as her release crested in a blinding wave, her inner walls fluttering wildly around his pistoning length.
The exquisite clench of Midori's orgasm sent Cael hurtling over the razor's edge a scant heartbeat behind her. He froze, buried to the hilt as his own climax tore through him in a bone-deep shudder. Thick ropes of his release pulsed deep within her welcoming depths as he lost himself to the throes of ecstasy.
Long moments passed before either of them stirred, content to bask in the afterglow of their joining. Cael nuzzled the soft skin of Midori’s neck, placing a reverent kiss against her racing pulse.
When at last he shifted to roll onto his back, careful not to crush her, Midori curled against him with a contented sigh. Cael's arms wound around her slender form, holding her close. For now, they were sated. At peace. In this moment, they had each other—and that was enough.
But in the back of his mind, he couldn't help thinking they'd just made love as if they'd never see each other again.
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