returned the kiss with a ferocity that matched his own. He knew in that instant that he would never find the right words to express all he felt—and he knew, also, that he didn’t need to say anything.
His body was ablaze, consumed by torrents of desire, need, and lust. He craved his female with every atom comprising him. He needed to be inside her, needed to fill her with his seed, needed to forge his mating bond with her. He needed to make Tabitha his in every way.
But he would not take her here; he wanted her in his bed.
Clutching Tabitha close and keeping his lips against hers, he carried her upstairs and into his room, kicking the door shut behind him. He didn’t break the kiss until he’d laid her atop his bed. He straightened to look down at her. She’d never been more radiant, more alluring, but her dress—which he’d so admired on her earlier—now served only as a barrier to what he wanted most.
Zevris did not hesitate. He extended his claws, grasped her dress, and shredded it down the middle, tearing the pieces apart.
Tabitha gasped, eyes rounding. “Zevris!”
“I’ll buy you another,” he growled as he slipped a finger into the valley between her breasts, hooking it under her bra. He sliced the bra open between the cups, letting it fall atop the tattered dress, and tore it all away to flutter to the floor.
He cupped her bare breasts, squeezing their yielding flesh. Her nipples, already hard, pressed against his palms, begging for more. He caught them and rolled them between his forefingers and thumbs, watching Tabitha’s face as she moaned.
Unable to resist, Zevris leaned down, captured one of the pink buds between his lips, and sucked it deep. Tabitha cried out. She grasped his hair as she held him closer, whimpering when he grazed his fangs over her tender flesh. His palm kneaded and teased her other breast as he sucked the nipple in his mouth, and soon she was writhing beneath him, undulating her hips, and panting.
“Oh God, Zevris, please,” she begged.
He released her nipple and raised his head. Their eyes locked.
He trailed his hands down her sides, wanting to be slow about it but finding that almost impossible. His claws cut through the lace of her panties at her hips, and he tore the fabric away.
Zevris ran his hands down her legs, almost shuddering in his need. He spread her knees wide. His cock was throbbing in his pants, feeling close to bursting, and his chest was so tight he could barely breathe.
Now his mate lay before him, body bare in all its glory. Her eyes were even brighter than before, her cheeks were red, and her sex was already glistening with arousal.
If true perfection were possible, it was lying before him now.
“So beautiful,” Zevris said as he removed her shoes, letting them fall to the floor one by one. He reached between her thighs and dragged his finger through her pussy, gathering her slick. “And already so hot and wet for me.”
Tabitha shivered, her thighs quivering, as Zevris lifted his finger to his mouth and slipped it between his lips.
That taste of her shattered what little control he’d maintained. Part of him longed to descend upon her with mouth and tongue, to devour her as he’d done so often already, but that was not his strongest craving.
Standing straight again, he kicked off his shoes and tore his shirt open, yanking it down his arms. Tabitha pushed herself up onto her elbows to watch with heavy-lidded eyes as he unbuttoned his pants and shoved them, along with his boxers, down. When he stood, kicking his clothes aside, her eyes locked upon his cock. She licked her lips.
Zevris grasped his shaft at the base and squeezed. His tail flicked restlessly behind him. “I can wait no longer, Nykasha.”
Tabitha slowly dragged her eyes up his body to meet his gaze. She smiled, scooted back toward the center of the bed, and spread her thighs wide. “I don’t want to wait.”
He climbed onto the bed and crawled between her legs. Keeping her gaze upon him, Tabitha lay down and smoothed her palms up Zevris’s chest and shoulders as he positioned himself over her. Bracing himself with one arm on the bed beside her head, he reached down, clamped his hand around his shaft again, and shifted his hips forward.
He ran the head of his cock up and down her slit, coating himself in her slick, before lining up