“Hmm.” Resting my hand against my mouth, I stifledanotheryawn.
“You should rest some more,” he saidgruffly.
I nodded, but after that nightmare, I doubted I would get any sleep tonight or today or whatever time it was. Reluctantly, I detached myself from his arms and lay on the ground. I instantly missed the heat of him, but I would never let him know that. I curled into a ball and rested my hands beneathmyhead.
Dirt and rock scraped when he shifted. Then he was lying beside me and wrapping his arms around me. “What are you doing?” I demanded, even as my body sankintohis.
Damn,traitorousbody!
“You can’t be so stubborn as to deny you’re freezing.” His breath stirred my hair against my ear, but hereleasedme.
I couldn’t deny it. However, it was one thing to take comfort from him, but to snuggle up next to him while I slept?You’ve done it with countless others to keep from freezing todeath.
The only difference was he was a demon, yet I liked some of the demons. Bale was about as welcoming as a rabid dog most of the time, but I admired her ferociousness and dedication to her king. The skelleins were amusing. Shax was friendly enough, so was Hawk. And Magnus, though smug, protected those he caredabout.
I also liked Corson, a little. So why was I always so snippy and jumpy around him? Why did he always make me feel like I teetered on the edge and if I leaned too far over I’d plummet to mydeath?
Okay, maybe not my death, but I’d plunge into something I couldn’t handle, and I had to keep control at all times. Allowing my control to slip even a little could spell my death and the death ofothers.
But sometimes, I would give anything to loosen my hold on my restraint, especially now when I was aching for his armsagain.
“Is it okay if I hold you?” heinquired.
“Yes,” Iforcedout.
When his arms slid around me again and my chill eased, I realized I could no longer deny that I liked him a lot more than alittle.
ChapterEighteen
Corson
I tried to ignore my throbbing erection as Wren slept soundly in my arms, but the woman had draped herself across me and burrowed her head beneath my chin. Her breasts were pressed firmly against my chest. One of her hands rested an inch above the head of my cock, while the other was beneathmyneck.
The infuriating woman knew how to drive me mad even in hersleep.
When she murmured and shifted, her mouth ended up in the hollow of my throat. My dick became impossibly harder as her breath whispered over my skin on each of her exhalations. She may be a form of torture, but I didn’t dare move and chancewakingher.
It was a first for me to put someone else’s needs ahead of my own. The only one I’d ever put ahead of myself was my king and later River when she became my queen, but not a bedmate. When morning came, I parted ways from my partner and rarely returned to the same woman again. I didn’t hold them after sex, but I found my arms drawing Wrencloser.
I would return to her. I didn’t know where the knowledge came from, but it blazed across my mind and lodgedinsideme.
My heart beat faster than it ever had with a woman, and I couldn’t begin to count the number of women I’d been with over the years. I didn’t recall most of them, but I did know none had affected me as much as this prickly bird in my arms did. I frowned as I pondered why she affected me as much asshedid.
Before I could delve too deeply into it, she murmured something before going rigid against me. I didn’t have to feel the flutter of her lashes against my skin to know she’d woken. I expected her to bolt away from me, but she remained unmoving inmyarms.
Afraid she might jerk away from me, I leisurely rubbed my hands up and down the cloth covering her arms. She didn’t move an inch when I caressed her sleeves before sliding a hand up to clasp her nape. I lifted my head and placed a kiss on herforehead.
When she still didn’t pull away from me, I slid my lips lower over her cheek. Her heartbeat thundered in my ears, and she stopped breathing when my mouth found hers. I ran my tongue over her lips, tasting them as she remained still against me and the warmth of her soft mouthbrandedmine.
Then her lips parted enough to allow my tongue to slide into her mouth. I flicked my tongue over hers as her body stretched out on top of me and her tongue hesitatingly entwined with mine before becoming more assured with herthrusts.
My hand rose from her nape to cup the back of her head and draw her closer. Her fingers dug into my shoulders. Her other hand dropped down and brushed over my dick. She stiffened when she discovered how hard I was, but when I nipped at her lower lip before sucking lightly on it, she relaxed against meoncemore.
She moved her hand to grip my waist, and then her hips shifted and her legs opened to let my shaft slip between the junction of her thighs. For a moment, she froze, and I became convinced she would stop this, but then she rose before sliding down the length of myerection.
Running my hand along the side of her slender body, I traced the lithe muscles of her abdomen before clasping one of her breasts through her shirt. The hardened bud of her nipple burned my palm through her shirt and bra. When I ran my thumb around her nipple, she moaned and pressed closertome.
My excitement rising, I released her head and grabbed her hips to guide her faster against the length of my erection. The sensation of her body riding mine caused me to growl as she rotated her hips in such a way that she was fucking me without ever pulling my cock from mypants.
