practice. “Thinking how much I love you.”
It was definitely the right time to be brave.
Nokx stared at her like seeing the sun rise for the first time, then breathed out something that sounded like prayer in Xarav as he went to his elbows over her. EJ touched his face and held her breath. He’d said a lot of things and called her his mate, given her his dagger, but what if he didn’t...
“I love you more than life itself,” he murmured. “You are such a gift.”
“Well, you already unwrapped me,” she said. “So don’t think you can return me.”
Another smile blinded her, and Nokx shifted his thigh over hers. He kissed the corner of her mouth and murmured, “Then I’m going to play with you.”
She shivered in anticipation and wiggled underneath him. “I had some thoughts. I saw this thing in a book once, and figured since you’re strong enough to hold me upside down, maybe we could...”
EJ loved his smile. Nokx looked on the verge of laughing at her again and kissed her until she lost her train of thought. His nose bumped hers. “I want you just like this. I want to see your eyes when you take me.”
She couldn’t hold back the pleased sound, almost a moan but softer, and lifted her hips to slide against his thick cock. She couldn’t wait. The striptease had been a terrible idea. Far too arousing. She wouldn’t get to tackle even a third of the ideas she’d had, and yet...
He moved her leg and sank down and then he entered her, stretched her until her breath caught and her head tilted back as ecstasy returned on the edge of pain. So full. She felt every inch as he groaned and pressed deeper still after easing back. The slow taking felt more erotic, more intimate, than whatever position she’d sketched out to figure out where their limbs went.
This, eye to eye with him as their bodies joined and pressed together... EJ couldn’t breathe and couldn’t look away from Nokx even though she wanted to close her eyes and revel in the sensations that cascaded through her. He fit her perfectly. His body rode over her clit with each gentle thrust, stoking the fire that still burned from her first climax.
She held on to his shoulders and found the spikes standing up, gripping them strongly for leverage to meet his thrusts. Nokx groaned and jerked against her, plowing forward, the moment she squeezed the appendages. EJ repeated the strokes just to be sure, and Nokx convulsed with pleasure on top of her.
Breathing raggedly, he captured her hands and stretched her arms over her head. “None of that. You’ll make me finish and I haven’t had nearly enough of you.”
EJ drew her knees up and let his weight settle even closer. She closed her eyes and rubbed her breasts against his scales until the fire in her burned brighter. “Then keep going.”
He chuckled and began the slow, delicious torture. EJ lost herself in the soft hush of their breathing, the friction of skin against scales, the gentle, intimate connection that felt more real than anything else she’d known. She clung to him as Nokx dragged his teeth down her throat to her shoulder, nipping until the bright spark of pain connected to the waves of ecstasy brewing and threw her over the edge.
Stars filled her vision as tremors raced through her and her body clenched around his. She moved with him, desperate to continue the perfect unbelievable feeling until it was too much and her muscles seized up.
Nokx murmured all the naughty things he wanted to do and rotated his hips until he reached every bit of her. When the shivery spasms slowed, he wrapped his arms around her and sat back. He stayed seated inside her and pressed against her as he arranged them until EJ sat on his thighs and could wrap her legs around his waist. She shivered in anticipation as his brilliant silver eyes found her. Their connection returned, nothing else in the world existed as she moved in a slow undulation in his lap.
He held her waist and moved to meet her as if they’d been loving each other for years. A lifetime, maybe. EJ rose up and sank down but always kept her eyes on his. They could spend a lifetime experimenting with every crazy thing she could imagine and none of it would compare to the perfection of that moment, that connection. She wanted that for