rode his leg as Nokx leaned down and once more licked and sucked on her breasts until not a trace of chocolate remained. Which left the traces on her stomach and thighs for him to enjoy.
“Not yet, you don’t,” he grumbled, and moved to slide her onto the mattress once more so he could loom over her and take his time tasting her skin.
She sighed and stretched out, arms over her head, like a contented marmox in the sun. An overwhelming feeling—contentment, happiness, love, some heady and rich combination of all three—rolled through him and nearly unmoored him from reality. It was like he existed outside of himself for a long moment, looking down at a perfect moment. Nokx grumbled and slowly kissed her stomach, pressing his palms against her thighs to give himself access to the delicate pink of her center, and thanked all the stars that she’d stowed away on the Sraibur and snuck into his life.
Chapter 23
EJ
She didn’t last long when Nokx started to nibble and bite his way down her body, or when he breathed against her core and teased her with his mouth and fingers. It was like she drifted through space, surrounded by pure ecstasy and a continuously rising urgency and need... Even after shivers raced through her and a huge release left her body seizing and relaxing around him, EJ wanted more.
How was it possible to feel so addicted to someone after such a short period of time? It sounded like Violet and Gemma hadn’t been swept off their feet by their mates, so maybe there was something different about her and Nokx. Maybe it was just infatuation or some kind of mating madness the Xaravians went through.
She didn’t know and most of her didn’t care, so long as Nokx kept touching her.
And it looked like he’d gotten a taste for chocolate, since not a speck of it remained on her.
EJ smiled and reached for him, wanting to feel his scales against the full length of her body. “How are you the one who got all the dessert when I’m the one who likes chocolate?”
His answer was to kiss her thoroughly, so she could taste it on his tongue. She tried to wrap her legs around his waist as she worked her hands into his hair. “I want to feel you, Nokx.”
He grumbled and wrestled with her just a bit, though it was playful and less about domination and more about maneuvering for position to enjoy the other the most. EJ distracted him by running her fingers up and around the spikes on his shoulders the same way she’d stroked his cock, and while Nokx’s brain seized up, she pushed him back and straddled him again.
She leaned down so she could play with his spikes, which left her breasts right in his face—and he helped himself. EJ closed her eyes and froze over him with the hard, muscular heat of his body between her thighs. He gripped her ass in both hands, growling as he squeezed and pulled at her hips, and nipped her breasts until her arms weakened and she would have collapsed on top of him if she hadn’t pushed up and sat back.
Nokx growled and tried to capture her again but EJ scooted back and lifted herself up. Their gazes locked and fire raced through her at the look in his eyes. Like she was dessert, the best part of his day. Something he’d been waiting for just as long as she’d been searching for chocolate. That look in his eyes... it made her breath catch. It made her eyes sting with emotions she hadn’t expected to feel. Ever.
But she ached to feel him, to take all of him, and couldn’t wait much longer despite that she’d already come apart under his hands and mouth. EJ took his cock and stroked herself with the broad head, and hid a grin as Nokx cursed and his hips punched up and he growled empty threats about how he meant to punish her for teasing him.
EJ kept going, though, pressing the tip into her and then out, in and then up to her clit, until her breath escaped in little pants that almost disappeared as he growled louder.
But he didn’t rush her. EJ expected him to surge up and fuck her, to roll her under him so he could take what he clearly wanted. Instead, Nokx groaned and snarled and encouraged her to move faster and take him deeper, but he let her