Page 22 of Hers to Keep

“I thought then that it would be my only time with you.I was very restrained.”He tightened his fingers around her throat.“The next time I have you under me, I will not be so gentle.”

The bottom dropped out of her stomach, and a whimper fell from her lips before she could stop it.In a flash, he took her mouth in a kiss that shook her to her core.She arched up into him, offering herself to him.Reaching between her legs, he cupped her sex, growling into her mouth when he found her wet and eager for him.His thick fingers slipped past the edge of her panties and dipped into her slick heat.

Mari cried out against his mouth when he fondled her roughly.Every cell in her body screamed that she washis.She wanted every bit of the feral claiming he promised.And she wanted it right fucking now.He pulled back an inch, his fingers still buried inside her.“Tonight then.Come out to me under the stars, and I will service you as you require.”

She fought the urge to beg and barely won.“Anything else?”Her voice shook with the question.

He curled his fingers slightly as he considered.“None of the others may have you before then.I want you desperate and aching for me.”His slow smile and the implication behind it almost undid her.

The feather-light threat of his claws inside her made her clench around him.The lust etched into his face went from banked embers to raging inferno in the space of a heartbeat.He withdrew his fingers with agonizing slowness.“You test my resolve greatly,” he said in a rumble, as he wiped his fingers on the fabric of his skirt.“But I can wait another few hours to have you mewling under me as I breed you.”

She groaned all the way to her soul.It wasn’t fair how he could melt her so thoroughly with nothing but words.

With a tilt of his head, Dohal glanced toward the door.“Your gargoyle is playing guard dog outside, chasing away anyone who might disturb us.”He rested a hand on her bare thigh, sending another pulse of magic into her.“Take all the time you need to collect yourself.”

Collect herself?As if he was completely unaffected by her.She wanted to slap the smug smile off his face.He would pay for that disrespect.The goddess cackled in her head.

She rose and dropped to her knees between his legs.

Looking down at her, he raised an eyebrow.“We don’t have time-”

Mari cut him off by grabbing him through the silken fabric of his skirt.In contrast to his outward demeanor, his cock was hard and eager for her.“We have time if I say we do.”

His hissed intake of breath was extremely satisfying.

She maintained eye contact with him as she slowly pushed his long skirt up over his knees.His tongue darted out to moisten his lips as she exposed him to the air.Looking away from his gaze, she took in the magnificent length of him, heavy and full in her hand.Glittering piercings crossed behind the crown of his immense cock.She dipped her head down for a slow, luscious lick around his broad head.

His choked moan was the sound of delicious retribution.

She explored him with her tongue and lips, lingering over his piercings until he shivered.He gathered her hair behind her head with one hand, but didn’t try to direct her.

When she tilted her head to look up at him again, the red glow of his magic filled his eyes, and the arcane markings under his skin shone.His expression was one of rapt attention.She parted her lips to engulf him, stretching wide to take as much of him as she could.He tasted like smoke and electricity, and she wanted to devour him.

Dohal moaned again, lower.“You have made your point, bavi.I shouldn’t have teased you.”

She pulled back, letting him fall from her mouth with a slurp and smiled.“I don’t think you’re sorry enough yet.”She gave his head another slow and dirty lick, wrapping her fingers around his wide base.Near his body, along the underside of his cock, her fingers encountered what felt like a series of raised bumps.She didn’t remember them from the last time they’d been together.

He noticed her attention and used his free hand to move hers, angling his cock so she could see better.“These are my crests.”Smooth mounds covered him from where his cock joined his body at the bottom nearly all the way down his length.“This is my true form, but if you are bothered by it, I can assume the other, more demonic, form again when I am to service you.”

Something guarded in his expression told her that this was important to him, though he hadn’t indicated that with his words.Without saying anything, she lowered her head and traced her tongue lightly over a few of the crests, feeling their texture against her tongue.He groaned and had to steady himself by reaching for the table.

She smiled up at him mischievously.“No, I like them.”She kissed one, and then another, and then one more, until he exhaled an explosive breath.“I like them very much, in fact.”

He chuckled, low and dark, as he ran his fingers through her hair.“Of all the filthy things I imagined holding you down and doing to you over the years, why is it that none of them compares to the sweet, insistent heat of your mouth moving over me of your own accord?”His voice was a deep bass rumble filled with reverence.

The answer was an easy one.“Because you find my consent intoxicating.”

“I do, indeed.”He watched her without blinking.“Are you done proving your mastery over me from your knees, or will you continue to torture me with that willful mouth?”

That admission made her feel powerful and sexy.She gave him one more long lick of his entire length along his sensitive crests up to his crown and then pulled herself up into his lap, her knees splayed wide across his thighs.She rose until they were eye-to-eye and grabbed him by the throat.“Tonight, when you take me, you will not hold back.You will give me every inch of that magnificent cock with as much fierceness as you crave until I am shattered.”

Staring into her eyes, he inhaled a slow and shaking breath.“I find the way you rule me so easily mortifying.”

The goddess preened inside her.To have such a lover as this—so powerful and at the same time so compliant for her—was a thing worthy of celebration.Mari leaned into him and claimed his mouth in a biting kiss that was an act of war—and this time it was he who surrendered.He let her take everything she wanted with only a hand on her hip to steady her, and when she finally pulled away, he sighed.

She relaxed against him, basking in the scintillating touch of his magic and his desire against her skin.While she wasn’t satisfied yet, she was appeased—she had been clear that she would accept nothing less than all of him, and he had relented.Once they had both calmed enough that letting others in wouldn’t be awkward, she went to the door and told Cisco they were ready for the meeting.

Chapter 8

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