“Fuck.” I looked down at him, the sight enough to pull a growl out of me.
He smiled, lips stretched around my length, managing to look smug even with his mouth full. And so he should; that clever tongue of his would be the death of me if I let it.
He pulled off to glance up at me. “How you feeling now?”
Ignoring the slow glide of his hand up and down my cock was near impossible, but I did my best to look bored and seesawed my hand. “Could be better?”
“Oh, Talis,” he said, laughing softly. “Be careful what you wish for.” He had his mouth back on me before his words registered, swallowing me deep enough that I felt his throat close as he swallowed around me. Firm hands wrapped around my thighs, holding me steady as he took his time bringing me to the edge over and over. My toes curled, digging into the carpet. I’d lost my half-shift, the concentration required to hold it in place impossible to maintain while Axel was doing his level best to drive me insane.
I had a whole night of plans for him, ways I wanted to worship his body, but none of them would happen if I let him carry on. “Stop,” I breathed, cradling his jaw and gently easing him backwards.
When he sat back on his heels and looked up at me, his eyes were almost black, only a thin ring of purple visible. “How about now?” he asked, voice gravel-rough but cocky in that way I loved about him.
I couldn’t lie, not even just to tease him, not when he looked at me like that, like I was everything he’d ever wanted. “Fucking amazing.”
He laughed, loud and happy, and I pulled him to his feet, wrapping my arms around him, burying my nose in his silvery hair. He smelt amazing, and I gave myself a second to just breathe him in. “Now will you take your clothes off,” I whispered, feeling more of his laughter. “Please.” I needed to feel his skin against mine.
“Yes.”
Now I had him in my arms, I was reluctant to let him go again, so instead of giving him room to get undressed, Ihelpedhim.
Axel stared down at the remains of his clothes scattered about our feet. “Was I not moving fast enough for you?”
“No.” I scooped him up and deposited him on the bed, earning yet more laughter as he bounced a little. I loved this, loved the easy way it was between us. Loved the heat in his eyes when he crooked his finger and beckoned me to him.
“Come here.” Axel might call me bossy, but I knew from experience that he liked to call the shots.
But not this time.
From the minute I’d skidded to a stop in front of his house and seen Zh’alek, everything in me had roared that he wasmine.
Mine to protect.
Mine to love.
Mine to keep forever.
It might have been my animal instinct driving me in that moment, and the feeling had dimmed since I’d shifted back, but it hadn’t gone away entirely. Axel wasn’t a shifter, and I didn’t think he’d appreciate me giving voice to the curl of possessiveness that lurked under my skin, but I could show him in other ways.
With my hands, and my mouth, and my cock.
Show him that I wanted everything too and that I’d never betray him like Zh’alek had. That he wasn’t wrong to put his trust in me.
And so I did.
I crawled up his body, feeling and kissing my way over every part of him. He moaned and clutched at the sheets. Shuddered as I nipped his inner thigh, then licked over the faint mark I’d left.
“Talis,” he murmured, legs spreading wider, fingers finding their way into my hair. He tugged, impatient to get me where he wanted, but I wasn’t nearly done with the rest of him.
“Not yet.”
“Chlah’al.”
“I don’t know what that means.”
He lifted his head to glare down at me. “It means hurry the fuck up and suck my cock before I die right here in my own bed.”
I grinned at him. “I think you’re lying.” Before he could refute that, I took pity on him and did as he asked. I could take my time later. We had all night, after all, and this time I wouldn’t be slinking out in the morning after an awkward goodbye. If I had my way, I wouldn’t be leaving until our combined scents filled every part of this house. Until we’d come so many times, my scent was imbedded in his skin and everyone would know he was taken.
