Nokx (The Sraibur Crew #3) - Layla Nash Page 0,117

resist, and jumped forward to grab his face and kiss him. Nokx made a hungry noise and tried to drag her into the sheets, but EJ resisted. She closed her eyes and savored the soft give of his lips, the slightly rough texture of his scales against her palms, and the heat he radiated as she stood between his thighs. He squeezed her ass until her breath caught. EJ let her head fall back as Nokx traced and teased a finger under the edge of her panties. She worked her hands into his hair and sighed, moving her feet apart so he could run both hands up the insides of her thighs.

She wanted him. She wanted him so much it hurt.

Somehow having the shirt between them, the tail of it hiding what his hands did, intensified everything. Nokx stroked between her thighs and up, teasing around the hem of her panties with the very tip of his finger. EJ held on and spread her feet more. She desperately wanted him to really touch her, to slip into the moisture that already drenched her. Nokx chuckled and kept up the teasing as she murmured with pleasure.

Getting her back for the stripping, no doubt.

EJ’s knees wobbled as he continued to explore every hem, tracing each line, and her skin prickled. She tugged on his robes and the fabric fell to pieces. He shrugged out of them, wearing only his trousers, and dragged EJ closer against the hard planes of his chest. It would be so easy to just fall into bed, let him rip everything away so they could finally feel each other...

She untangled herself and stepped back, ignoring Nokx’s disappointed groan, and tried to collect her scattered thoughts. So much for the plan. She’d meant to draw it out so much longer. But there were still a few more pieces of clothing to get rid of and she wanted to see how intense Nokx’s kaleidoscope could get.

Chapter 53

Nokx

It took every minute of training he’d had in his life to keep from just grabbing his mate and ravishing her. Worshiping her body and heart. Showing her, finally, how much he loved and needed her.

And EJ seemed hell-bent on killing him by stopping his hearts and making his head explode.

She bounced with energy, anticipation crackling in the air between them, as she started taking off her clothes. Every inch of soft, kissable skin drove him wilder. Need vibrated through him. But EJ looked so pleased and intense as she watched him and touched herself that he didn’t want to end her game.

He loved every minute of it. Even if it would definitely kill him.

She danced back and out of reach. Nokx wished he had laser vision and could disintegrate her clothes with a blink. Instead he had to wait as she drew her shirt up from the bottom in a tantalizing sway that finally revealed the rest of her thighs and ass. He could practically taste her already. He loosened his belt and adjusted his cock as it throbbed.

His Earther sighed and slid her hands up her stomach underneath the shirt, touching her breasts and then down her sides, and Nokx lurched to his feet before he knew he’d moved. EJ laughed more and scampered away. “You have to wait!”

“I can’t wait,” he growled, wanting to stalk her and corral her in the corner so he could steal a kiss. Or more. Her running away and giggling fired up the need to chase.

She pointed a warning finger at him. “Three more pieces.”

“Three? I see only two.”

EJ pulled the ugly plain shirt all the way off and threw it in his face “Now there’s two.”

He tore it to pieces in frustration to see something else hiding her breasts, as well as those damned panties. She bit her lip and tugged at the waist with one hand, and traced the top of her breast at the same time. “Which one should be first?”

Nokx’s entire brain filled with static. He hungered for her. He hungered for the funny, confident, sensual, chaotic female in front of him.

“Hmm,” she murmured, close to a purr, and bent over at the waist once more to shimmy the panties down a bit. “I guess that...”

He couldn’t take it. Nokx caught her up and tossed her on the bed as EJ squealed and laughed. He ripped both scraps of fabric away so he could finally feel her. He stroked her slit and EJ sighed, pushing her hips to meet his fingers, and