Page 41 of What Hunts Inside the Shadows

I sank into his kiss, rising into his embrace and deepening it. He possessed my mouth just as he possessed my soul, angling me the exact way he wanted as he slanted his lips over mine and drank from my soul.

“I love you, Little One,” he murmured, pulling back just enough that the words were murmured against my mouth. The words crashed over me, the meaning behind them burrowing deeper into my soul and plucking the thread of our bond as if it were his to play with.

I couldn’t speak the words in return, couldn’t seem to voice what he could already feel coming from me, thanks to the access I’d given him to my mind. He smiled, his eyes knowing, even if I didn’t give him the words back.

He knew. Without a doubt, he knew exactly how I felt for him in the moments when I rolled my hips against his, seeking the heat I knew he would give me. “Tell me what you want, my mate. I’ll give you anything.” Grinding his hips against me, he notched himself against my entrance, gliding through my tender flesh until the head of his cock brushed against my clit and sent a shudder rolling through me.

“I want you,” I murmured, lost to the sensation as I dragged rough nails down the skin to either side of his spine. “Please,” I begged, reduced to only my need to feel connected to him. Opening my mind had only made me crave the rest of him and the connection that could deepen—both inside our minds and outside of them. I needed to explore one final entanglement of our bond while our minds and emotions danced. To take him inside me and see if he felt even more right than the moments when he’d joined his mind with mine.

“You’ll have to be more specific, otherwise I am likely to wander,” he whispered, a chuckle lightening his voice as he moved farther down the bed. The movement drew his length away from where I wanted it, and he only laughed when I whimpered in protest.

His mouth covered my nipple in the next moment, nipping at the flesh lightly as his free hand worked my other breast. He kneaded it in the way I had only minutes before in the bath. The first stroke of his tongue against my nipple sent a wave of heat flowing through me, then he curved it around tightened peak and sucked until my back arched.

I ground myself against him, seeking the friction he seemed determined to deprive me of as he kissed his way down my stomach. He paused as he spread my legs wide, placing his shoulders between them and staring down at me. “You need your rest,” he murmured, leaning forward to lick a clean line from my entrance to my clit. He wrapped his tongue around the bundle of nerves at the top of me, maintaining eye contact the entire time as he tormented me. “But I’m afraid there won’t be any sleep for you tonight, min asteren.”

He hooked his arms around my legs, pressing a firm hand into my lower belly and using that hold to pin me still. He worked my clit with soft, torturous strokes of his tongue as his eyes held mine. Just when I thought he might give me enough to bring me to that edge of an orgasm, he drifted lower and slid his tongue inside of me with gentle pressure. I groaned, plunging a hand into his hair and trying to guide him back to where I wanted him.

His laughter rippled through my body, sending pulses of pleasure that made my legs twitch. “Greedy little thing,” he said, trailing gentle kisses over my flesh. He left no part of my pussy unexplored, reacquainting himself with it as if he’d been separated from it for years instead of a matter of days.

The torment seemed to last forever, building the heat inside of me to a crescendo and then easing off just when I thought I would spiral into the heavenly abyss. “Caelum!” I begged, using my grip on his hair to tear his head back. “Either make me come or get out of the way so I can do it myself,” I ordered, the darkness I’d danced with earlier in the night bleeding back into my voice.

Caldris’s gaze turned black, his lips twisting with a cruel smile as he watched me balance between the two versions of myself. With the access I’d given him to me and my mind, he knew we were not separated as far as he’d initially believed.

I didn’t know her; didn’t understand where she’d come from. What I did know was that the monster who danced beneath my skin was me without inhibitions. She was me without fear, knowing she was terrifying enough to destroy any who thought to make her face the consequences of her reckless behavior.

“If you’re going to play with yourself, perhaps I should fuck your pretty little mouth while you do it,” Caldris mused, leaning forward to lick another path through my flesh.

“Make me come, and you can fuck whatever you want,” I said, pushing his face closer to my pussy. He grinned into me, licking and sucking and tormenting me to the brink of madness.

“There’s something I want to hear before I let you play with my cock, Little One,” he said, dropping his thumb to my clit while he fucked me with his tongue.

“What?”

“Tell me you love me,” he said, rising from between my legs. He rubbed his face against my belly, spreading my own arousal over my skin as he leaned over me. His cock hung between us, so close that I could reach out and take it in my hand. I did just that, rubbing my thumb over the tip where his own arousal had gathered and smearing it onto his skin.

Using it to lubricate him as I worked my hand up and down his shaft.

“That’s not very nice. I thought you were trying to prove to me that you aren’t a monster,” I said, lifting my hand from his cock to my mouth. I licked my thumb clean, watching the way his eyes narrowed on the movement.

Just a day before, I’d have been horrified by my actions. I’d have been appalled to be so demanding and carnal, much preferring to let Caelum take charge when it came to our sexual encounters.

But something new had awakened within me, and I was wanton in a way I had never been before.

“Fuck,” he groaned, gliding his hips forward until he brushed against me. He shook his head as if snapping himself out of a trance, guiding his fingers to the space between my thighs as he stroked me. “I’m not a good male.” His fingers filled the void his mouth had created, plunging inside of me and pumping slowly as his thumb continued the assault his mouth had begun. “But I’myourmonster, my star. Now tell me what I want to hear. I want to hear you say the thought that is rattling around inside your beautiful, twisted little mind.” He hooked his fingers forward, stroking over a place on the inside that made me see the stars as my eyes drifted closed. “Give me your truth,” he ordered.

“I love you,” I gasped, the words coming out strangled. I hated the truth in them, hated knowing that he was aware they were far from a lie.

He plundered my mouth with his, the taste of me washing across my senses as he pressed more firmly with the thumb on my clit. His fingers left the tunnel of my body, leaving me suddenly empty until he replaced them with the head of his cock.

He thrust forward, uniting us suddenly as he pushed through the quivering flesh waiting for him. His groan matched mine, vibrating between us as I looked down between our bodies to stare at the place where we’d joined. Watching as he disappeared inside of me, pressing forward until he filled me completely.

He raised my hand to where his thumb stroked me, replacing it with my own dark-tinted fingers as he grabbed my hips and raised them up, lifting my ass off the bed. “You want to watch me fuck you? Is that it?” he asked, his hips rolling as he worked himself in and out of me. He thrust forward sharply, filling me quickly as I watched his flesh disappear inside me, and then retreated slowly. “Come on my cock, min asteren.”

I stroked my clit, working myself closer to the peak of my orgasm as he took me. My body obeyed the command, primed from his seemingly endless torment and the way he stroked over that spot inside of me carefully, with precise control.

I came, my fingers falling away from my body as he continued to move within me through my orgasm. His strokes became rougher, his body taking what it needed with my pleasure obtained and my confession of love given.

Caldris lowered me to the bed, letting my ass rest against the surface as he covered me with his body. His mouth claimed mine, devouring and uniting us in yet another place as I wrapped my legs around his waist and lifted my hips to meet him stroke for stroke.

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