turned hungry. Urgent with a need that was almost desperate, the pressure of his mouth just this side of painful.
His hands urged her thighs farther apart, then he was pressing inside her, one slow, tormenting inch at a time. She shoved her hips up, trying to make him go faster, but he only laughed and kept up his maddeningly slow pace. Finally his pelvis rested against hers. As he began to move he braced himself on one arm. His other hand came between her thighs to circle and stroke her clit.
Her arousal ratcheted up another notch. Soon the room filled with the sounds of their breathing, rasping and heavy, joined by the slap of flesh against flesh, sharp cries and harsh groans.
Keira felt her sensual tension rise to a fever pitch, stretching taut like a rubber band, before it snapped, throwing her into a maelstrom of ecstasy. Her entire body clenched and shuddered, and she cried out and clutched onto Finn.
He held her while she thrashed beneath him, his jaw tight with the control he exerted over his own pleasure. As soon as she quieted, he gripped her hips, fitted himself to her more solidly and began pistoning into her. Hard. Fast. His eyes gleamed with yellow demon intensity, and she felt a renewed quickening of her body.
She thrust her hips up to meet his downward plunge and reached around him to grip his tight buttocks. His movements came even faster, then he let out a shout as his completion emptied him.
He collapsed on top of her, his breathing harsh and heavy, his cock giving a final few twitches inside her. When he started to move away she stopped him, wrapping her arms and legs around him. “Don’t move yet.” She gave a soft sigh. “I want to stay like this for a while.”
“Like this?” he asked in a deep voice and canted his hips forward, driving his still semierect cock deeper into her sheath.
Her breath hitched. “Yes,” she breathed. “Just like this.”
They were silent several moments until the laws of physiology took over and his softened shaft slipped out of her body. “All good things must come to an end,” he murmured and turned onto his back. Despite admitting to herself that she was in love with this man, she couldn’t tell him. Not yet. Not while she was so uncertain about so many things—his role in the rogue group, the old way of life he’d seemed to embrace all too eagerly. Would he give it up for her? Would he ever be free of Lucifer even after the group was finished? If he didn’t, if he stayed on as Lucifer’s enforcer, could she accept that?
Once the job was done, would they have something strong enough to keep them together?
He lay there a few minutes and then sat up and put his feet on the floor. With his back to her, he said, “As much as I’d like to stay, we have to get that money to Liuz.”
She wanted to say, To hell with the money. To hell with Stefan. But he was right. She’d forgotten herself in Finn’s arms and had blanked out on the bag of cash sitting on her dresser. The sooner they got this to Liuz, the better. And she would try to get him to show her where the rift machine was so she could go and destroy it. They were running out of time.
She’d hold on to the confession of love she dearly wanted to make and hope once she was able to tell Finn exactly how she felt, it wouldn’t be for naught.
Of all the prets in the world, how had it fallen to her to save the whole damned world?
Chapter Sixteen
Keira and Finn cleaned up after their lovemaking, taking separate showers because bathing together would have served to delay them even further. She knew his self-control where she was concerned was tenuous, and when it came to her self-control, well, it was nonexistent. If she were to be in a hot, steamy shower with him, his big, naked body pressed against her, they’d never leave. Nearly an hour later she walked into the Devil’s Domain with the money bag in her hand and Finn on her heels.
She made her way straight back to the private rooms, where the vamp standing guard let her in. The first door on the right was the room where Stefan had said he’d be. She’d give him his money and be on her way. Adrenaline still