When he slowed, I fisted the back of his hair and pulled back to see his eyes.
“No.Do not be gentle.” I shivered as I watched his pupils elongate into slits, the midnight blue of his eyes brighten with god-touched magic. “Make us both burn, Trajan,” I commanded, begged. “I want tofeelit. I want to feel everything.”
The woman I’d been—a shell, numb and listless, weary, blocking any emotion at all so that I could survive—was truly gone.
While his features grew tight with desire, his arms holding me tighter, he asked, “Do you want my blood? So that you know you are safe.”
Only Trajan would offer me his blood, knowing I could kill him with it, knowing it was a way to give me control.
“No, I want you to have control,” I answered breathily, nipping at his bottom lip, relishing the hardness of his cock against my belly, “I know I am safe.”
He swooped me off the floor into his arms and stalked quickly back into the large parlor facing the sea. After setting me down, he jerked his tunic over his head, while I wrestled with mine. He ripped it the rest of the way over my head and threw it across the room, wrapping the front of my throat with his hand and easing me back to the cushion.
Latching his mouth around my nipple, he sucked and bit while he slid his hand between my legs. I squirmed as he stroked two fingers along my slit, finding me wet and ready.
“Fuck,” he breathed before nipping the fleshy top of my breast, “I can’t go slow.”
“Then don’t,” I urged hastily, clawing my nails into his shoulders.
On a groan, he slid to his knees at the end of the sofa, gripped my hips, and dragged me to the edge.
“Spread wide,” he ordered, upright on his knees while he took hold of his cock and nudged my entrance.
I let my legs fall as wide as they’d go, my heels on his buttocks. Once he’d slipped in the head of his cock, I moaned. His gaze snapped to mine and he curled his fingers into my fleshy hips, holding me hard while he thrust all the way inside me.
I cried out, mouth falling open at the intense pleasure.
His eyes brightened as he pulled out and thrust in again, rolling his hips to go deep.
“Yes,” I whimpered, gripping the back of the settee with one hand, the cushion beneath me with the other to hold on.
Growling, he held me still and stroked into me, my slickness easing his entry, intensifying the ecstasy. His gaze roved my face as I moaned in pleasure with each deep stroke. His muscles bulged, his fangs elongated as the sizzle of magic trailed across my skin.
I laughed, knowing he was fighting not to shift into half-skin,knowing he could fuck me to death if he did. The danger only escalated my arousal, the slickness from my pussy dripping.
Though Trajan barely held on to control, his mouth tipped up on one side as he reached one hand between us. He laid his palm on my belly, stroking his thumb along my clitoris, gently.
“I think you want it harder,” he rasped.
“Yes,” I told him. “More.”
He pinched the swollen nub of my clitoris. I cried out, on the edge of my climax. But he pulled his cock from inside me.
“No,” I gasped, reaching up.
But he swiftly flipped me over, my knees landing on the floor. Nudging his legs between mine, he spread me wider and leaned over me, his chest brushing my back. He leaned his mouth close to my ear.
“How do you feel, Lela?”
“Divine,” I answered honestly, curling my nails into the cushion.
He thrust back inside me, and I moaned, arching my spine so he could go deeper. He reached a hand beneath my belly until he slid a finger over my slick clit.
He stroked faster, hitting that perfect spot inside me, all while holding me hard, pressing his chest to my back, nipping at my shoulder. He licked his tongue along my shoulder, along the curve of my neck until his mouth was at my ear.
“You are mine, Lela.” He pounded harder. “No matter who you find when I’m gone. You are only and always will bemine.”
A flood of pleasure tightened my body as I came. He growled and groaned, thrusting one last time and holding hard, his cock pulsing as he spent inside me. Unparalleled rapture gripped me, making me tremble with the release, all while Trajan ground his cock inside me.
