Gravity (Dark Anomaly #1) - Marina Simcoe Page 0,63

intensity in his eyes betrayed how important my answer was to him. He seemed to halt his breath, waiting for it.

“I’ve already told you, Vrateus, I like you. I just...”

“What is it?” He frowned.

A flicker of enduring hope in his gaze pinched my heart with ache. Vrateus longed for affection, even as he hardly could remember what that feeling was.

Was it specifically my affection that he wished for, though?

I was literally the first woman Vrateus had met who wasn’t family. Would he have cared just as much about any female who’d crashed here instead of me?

On the other hand, my feelings for him were absolutely certain. I liked him, and I wanted to see if more could be possible between us.

Did I need to concern myself with other hypothetical women? After all, I crashed here first, I saw him first. He was now all mine to take.

“Is there a problem, Svetlana?” he prompted, carefully.

“Nothing that can’t be worked out between us, with a little time and patience.” I smiled, placing my hand over his.

The soft fur on the top of his hand reached up to his knuckles, leaving his fingers bare. I circled the green stone of one of the huge rings he wore.

“You’ve made me feel so many things, Vrateus. From hate, to rage, to...attraction. No one else has ever made me feel the way you do.”

Clasping my fingers in his hand, he shifted closer.

“What are you feeling right now, Svetlana?”

“Now?” I slid my gaze to his mouth. Often pressed into a firm line in focus, anger or disapproval, his lips were slightly parted right now. Inviting and enticing. “This very moment...I just want to kiss you again.” The words came out, taking my breath with them.

His eyes flashed with heat as he leaned closer.

“Kiss me then,” he whispered, his lips brushing over mine. “Use the moment, Svetlana, because on the Dark Anomaly that’s all there is. Just this very moment.”

Chapter 20

VRATEUS

He claimed her lips. Remembering everything from their previous kiss, he mirrored her actions. His execution was far from precise. His thoughts were on everything at once as he tried to take her in with all his senses.

Listening and touching.

Tasting and feeling...

She gasped softly into his mouth. Her body stilled, then seemed to come back to life with his touch. Wrapping her arms around his neck, she shifted closer, sliding into his lap. Her scent wrapped around him, and he happily allowed himself to drown in it.

Just like she had, he slipped his tongue deeper, searching for hers. A soft moan vibrated deep in her throat.

Desire jolted through his body like lightning, crushing his self-control.

Letting go of her mouth, he trailed his lips down on the side of her neck, instead. Inhaling deeply, he filled his lungs with her scent, breathing her in. She gasped as his canines grazed her skin. The sound went straight to his cock, making it hard as steel.

Fervently moving his hands, he searched for a way to get under her suit, needing to feel her naked body. His claws sprang from the tips of his fingers, raking along the indestructible material of her suit.

“Here...” She whispered breathlessly, yanking at something in the front. The suit opened from her neck down to her navel.

The claws didn’t disappear all the way as he palmed her breasts through her pink harness. She hissed at the prick of the claws, her nipples tightened and hardened under his thumbs.

“Oh God, yes...” she moaned, riding the hard ridge of his throbbing erection through his pants.

Pressing her breasts into his hands, she grabbed fistfuls of fur on his scruff. Intense pleasure coursed down his back from the sting at the roots, making him growl.

More blood rushed to his groin. His cock pulsed hot with need. Hands under her backside, he flipped her down on the fur blanket, grinding himself against her.

Lost in her scent, the feel of her, and her taste, he felt nothing else. Everything ceased to exist. There was just her warm, writhing body under him.

The unbearable, all-consuming need was building up, threatening to explode and tear him apart.

A feral roar vibrated deep in his chest somewhere.

Ecstasy spiked.

Delirious, he bit down on her shoulder, just below her neck, and growled through his teeth as a mind-blowing climax rocked through him.

Again and again.

Brutal pleasure shook his body, rolling through him in waves. He couldn’t breathe, couldn’t think. When the last spurt of his release burst out of him, he no longer knew his own name.

Spent, he released her from