and then spread my legs and lifted my hips.
The sound he made would’ve been foreplay enough, if I wasn’t already so wet from his exquisite mouth.
He grasped my hips, his cock sliding along my crease. I pushed against him, whimpering when he denied me. His other hand wound in my hair, tilting my head to the side.
“Show me your face, little Guardian.”
“You’ll need a new nickname,” I said in a breathy voice as I turned toward him. “Pretty sure the council fired me.”
His gaze had never been brighter, bathing me in rays of emerald. “No,” he said as he pushed into me. “I won’t.”
I arched at the intensity of the pleasure. How could this hit me with the same emotional impact as our first time? It shouldn’t, but it did, and I felt lost in the sensations.
“What you are to the council has nothing to do with what you are to me,” he continued with another deep, sinuous thrust.
What was he talking about? I’d forgotten. Nothing existed except his body against mine, the delicious burn from his silver piercing, his girth stretching me, and then his fingers teasing my clit as he reached between us. Between that and each new, rapturous thrust, I was soon right at the edge again.
“I want you to feel this, too,” I said with a moan.
His laugh vibrated through me, punctuated by deeper thrusts that curled my toes.
“How can I not feel this?” he said thickly.
“I mean, I want you to come with me,” I managed between gasps. I was almost there, but he wasn’t. He hadn’t even snapped the bed we were leaning on, and it was made of fragile wood.
“I’m close, and I want you to feel what I do when I come,” I said while grinding harder against him.
He pulled me up until my back pressed against his chest. His arm slid up between my breasts, holding me to him. Then his mouth was at my neck, finding my sensitive spots and devastating them with pleasure. All the while, his fingers never stopped teasing my clit, and those mind-shattering thrusts never slowed. When his fangs finally sank deep, ecstasy exploded, and I came with a shout that made the nearby horses restless.
“I’ll come later,” I thought I heard him say, but I wasn’t sure. I was still drowning in bliss.
He turned me around and flung me onto the bed. The light impact from that was nothing compared to the slam of pleasure when his body covered mine, and he filled me in one stroke.
“But right now,” he said with a wicked grin. “I’m going to shag you until you’re too sated to scream that loudly again.”
Chapter 25
Two hard knocks on the door woke me. I hadn’t intended to fall asleep after Ian made good on his promise to fuck me into a state of temporary muteness, but I had. Then again, I’d done a lot of things I hadn’t intended to do over the past two days. What was that saying about making the gods laugh? All you had to do was tell them your plans?
“Sod off, whoever you are,” Ian said without opening his eyes.
The door burst open in a shower of wood, revealing Cat.
Ian cursed as he leapt up from the bed. “Really, Reaper? Kicking the door in? This isn’t even your house.”
“I know, but this news is important and I drew the short straw, so I’m here and Spade isn’t,” Cat replied, looking anywhere except at Ian. “Figured it was the best time to interrupt since the horses finally quit stomping up their stalls from all the racket. Unless that banging around was you two and not the horses? Wait, don’t answer that. I don’t want to know.”
I got out of bed, too. Now Cat was almost staring at the ceiling to avoid looking at our nakedness. How silly.
“We don’t have anything you haven’t seen before,” I said before adding dryly, “even if I am Death’s direct descendant.”
“It’s not you,” Cat said, her strained tone proving that, if she were human, she’d be blushing. “It’s just his . . . you know.”
“You barged in for a reason, so spare us your puritan modesty and get to it,” Ian said impatiently. “Besides, you must have seen a cock piercing before, and if you haven’t, Crispin owes you an apology for being such an unimaginative lover.”
“Fine, let’s get this over with,” Cat muttered, and dropped her gaze below Ian’s waist.
“Wow,” she said after a stunned moment. “Really jammed that thing in