Kalder didn’t know what it was about her, but she touched something inside him. Some alien part he’d never known before.
Right now, he needed a physical connection to her. Needed to feel her wrapped around him as he physically lost himself to the softness of her body the way he’d lost his heart and soul to her already.
Cameron moaned as he buried his lips against her throat and teased her skin with his tongue, his teeth. Overwhelming chills ran the length of her body. She was on fire from his touch.
Kalder pulled his shirt over his head.
Cameron ran her hand over his sculpted shoulders. They werehard and filled with strength. And the way they rippled when he moved…
It was more than she could stand.
He laid himself down between her spread thighs. The material of her gown trapped her legs while he loosened her pantaloons.
“Are you afraid of me,ma petite?”
She shivered at his use of French as his breath tickled the skin of her cheek.
“I’m not afraid of you.” It was herself that scared her. The intensity of these feelings that made her tender and weak toward him. Because she knew how much control he had over her when she’d vowed to never allow anyone else any form of sovereignty when it came to her well-being. Yet Kalder made it easy to rely on him and he didn’t make her pay for it. Didn’t make her feel weak for needing help. She was strengthened by his presence.
Made better.
No one had ever made her feel like this.
He brushed her top aside to bare her breast. Heat stung her cheeks as he dipped his head down and took her taut peak into his mouth.
Hissing in pleasure, she cupped his head to her and held him there while he tasted her. She felt every flick of his tongue deep inside her body, all the way to her stomach, which contracted with each nibble.
Kalder growled at the taste of his Cameron. Her hands were buried deep in his short hair, stroking his scalp and making him harder than he’d ever been in his life. The satin of her gown caressed hisskin, but was nowhere near as soft as her pale, tender skin that he wanted to nibble on for the rest of his life.
The mere taste of her made him drunk and left him craving more.
Suddenly, he hated the gown that kept her body from him. Kissing her nipple, he quickly undressed her until she was bared to his gaze.
“You are beautiful,” he whispered.
Cameron bit her lip while Kalder undid his breeches and she became aware of where they were. Just how “exposed” they were.
Suddenly nervous, she glanced about. “You don’t think the others will come back, do you?”
He wrinkled his nose at her. “I’ll kill them if they do. Gouge out their eyes and feed them to Strixa or Savitar.”
She laughed at that. “I’m serious, Kalder.”
“So am I.”
Kalder returned to dip his head down to tease her breast while she explored the part of his body that was so incredibly different from hers. “I promise, I’ll hear them, and give you warning.”
“You better.”
With a roguish grin, he sat up on his knees and cupped her face in his hands. “You’ve no idea of how badly I want you to ride me right now, Cameron. How much I want you to ride me.”
“Ride you how?”
“In ways that would shock you.” His eyes tender, he kissed the corner of her mouth. Then he moved lower. This time he barely flicked his tongue over her breast before he moved down toward her stomach.
He pushed her back on her arms while he trailed his lips lower and lower.
“Kalder?”
