Page 77 of Veil of Shadows

Mouth finding mine, he kissed me again as his hands wandered freely. Boldly. He rubbed, caressed, explored, and owned every inch of me.

With each path his hands traveled, the heat in me built.

He inhaled deeply, my arousal clouding the air, and then his wandering fingers slipped through my folds, my breath catching completely as he played with my heat.

A low sound came from him that vibrated me all the way to my toes. My head fell back as his fingers fiddled and stroked, playing my flesh expertly with every swirl and caress.

His tongue ran along my lower lip, then he kissed along my jaw and down my throat. He slipped a finger inside me, filling me slightly, and I sucked a breath in.

All I could do was pant. Words wouldn’t form. Only feelings. Theseexquisitefeelings.

His mouth trailed down my chest to my breasts. He sucked one of my peaks into his mouth and slipped a second finger inside me, and then a third. He stretched me completely with his fingers, pumping them in and out, and the aura around him grew so potent that it commanded all of my attention.

His lips met my neck again, teasing me just above my collar, and then his thumb found my nub. He stroked me, rubbing my flesh expertly as he worked my body like a master craftsman carving a sculpture.

Throbbing need climbed in my belly with every pump of his digits and swipe of his thumb. I clung to him, feeling feverish with need. Moaning, I rocked against him. “Don’t stop. Oh Gods, don’t stop!”

“Nothing could make me stop. You’remineright now.” His erection swelled near my stomach, growing so hard and big that I couldn’t help but reach for it.

When my fingers closed around him, he hissed. But I didn’t stop. The velvety steel of him had my fantasies blooming to an entirely new level. He was even bigger than I’d imagined. So hard and large. I ran my hand up him more, pumping him like he was thrusting into me.

“Elowen,” he rasped. “Stars,Elowen.”

I continued touching him as intimately as he touched me, clenching, stroking, as his length throbbed in my hands.

“Goddess Above, I want to rut with you,” he growled.

My hand squeezed around him even more at that admission, and my earlier decision to not let this progress fizzled into non-existence. “Rut with me?” I gasped when his fingers withdrew, and he brought them to his lips.

He slipped his fingers inside his mouth, tasting me, and I didn’t think I’d ever seen anything more erotic.

“You taste like honey.” Eyes aglow, his gaze met mine. “My stag instincts are demanding that I bend you over and rut with you, but I promised not to take more than this.” He moved lower, his mouth trailing down my stomach, forcing my hands away from his cock, and I knew exactly where his mouth was headed.

When his body settled between my thighs and his lips closed around my nub, my body arched off the bed. He rumbled low in his chest and positioned himself securely between my legs, refusing to let me lift again.

“You’re going to take my mouth.”

Short, sharp pants were all I could manage.

“Every lick.” His tongue ran up my center. “Every suck.” His mouth latched onto my clit. “Every part of my mouth you will take, do you understand?”

All I could do was nod.

He inhaled deeply. “Your arousal drives me mad. Did you know that?” He licked my nub again, then sucked it and fiddled it with is tongue. I slapped a hand to my mouth to muffle my scream. “Each time I’ve scented it, you’ve driven me crazy with need.”

I gasped when he sucked me into his mouth once more. Words wouldn’t form, and I couldn’t gethiswords out of my head.Every lick. Every suck. I want to rut with you.Everything he said sounded indecent. Wanton. And incredibly arousing.

He licked up my center, lapping and sucking me eagerly. I grabbed his head, tangling my fingers in the dark locks of his hair. A storm of desire unleashed within his eyes, the swirling power in them igniting a faint blue glow.

I nibbled on my lower lip, and the glowing in his eyes increased. “What if Iwantto rut with you?”

His eyes flashed more, and he pulled back from my core just enough to rumble, “Do you know what that means?”

I pictured him bending me over, taking me from behind, rutting with me until we both came undone. I didn’t know if such an act would seal our mating bond, but if I held my magic back, I guessed it probably wouldn’t. “I do.”

The energy around him soared, heating the air around us. His throat bobbed. “And you...want that too?”

I thought again of what giving my virginity to the Dark Raider would mean. There would be no turning back. I could no longer look at him as though we were nothing more than friends in our endeavors. Even if he did release me, despite his fears about Mistvale, and we parted ways in the coming days or weeks or months...even if I never saw him again, a part of me would always belong to him and him to me. He would be my first, the first male to ever feel me on such an intimate level.My mate.

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