Page 49 of Redeeming the Angel

“I can’t wait,” I whimpered, arching my hips against his hardness pressing between my thighs.

“Fates be damned.”His low, husky voice gave me delicious shivers.“I can’t either.”

His lips came down on mine with crushing intensity as we slowly descended.As soon as our feet touched the mossy ground in a bower of tall pine trees, Lucian muttered some words of magic in an impatient tone and I felt his magic surge outward like thunder.

Then we let our wings recede and landed on a soft bed, his decadent weight atop me.Although the Yearning demanded for him to be inside me now, I refused to give it voice as Lucian unfastened his doublet, baring his gloriously muscled chest.I drank in the sight of his masculine beauty like something parched while he unfastened my robe with torturous slowness.

Even though he’d seen me naked the first day we met, he looked at my body as if seeing it for the first time.The reverence and desire in his eyes stole my breath and I wondered if he saw the same reflected in my eyes when I gazed at him.

Once more, the Yearning cried out for me to be filled and once more I suppressed it, wanting to savor every moment of our first joining.He kissed me again with that same feral hunger that matched my own.Then his lips caressed my cheek, my neck, my collarbone, and finally my breasts.My hands plunged into his long hair, pulling him closer, and when his mouth closed over my areola and his tongue circled a stone-hard nipple, my breath hitched in pleasure.

I arched up against him, my hands sliding over the hot planes and ridges of his firm flesh, reveling in the feel of him.Lucian’s mouth lavished equal attention on my other breast, making me cry out incoherently before he moved lower, kissing my ribcage, my belly, my hips, then my thighs.

He shifted lower and looked up at me from between my legs, a silent question in his eyes.The sight of his face there, the hunger in his eyes sent a fresh pulse of lust through my being.I managed a nod.

Then, his mouth pressed to my vulva, and his tongue slipped between the crevasse to dart across the swollen apex of my need.

I screamed by pleasure so loudly that a flock of birds burst out from the trees above us.The sight almost made me giggle, but then Lucian’s tongue worked more sensual magic, making me buck my hips and cry out more.

Lucian lifted his head and gave me a rakish smile that made my pulse jitter.“Fates, you taste so good.”

Then he returned to his glorious ministrations.Licking and sucking in alternating pulses that made me writhe.

The climax jolted through me with a suddenness that stole my breath and left me shuddering.But the inner source of the Yearning wasn’t sated.Instead, it was hungry for more and made its demands apparent with a deep, throbbing ache.

“Please,” I gasped when I recovered my breath.“I need you inside me.”

Lucian let out a low growl that seemed to reverberate through my bones as he quickly moved back up on the bed and covered my body with his once more.Feverish with impatience, I grasped his hard length and guided it into the place that burned for him.

When he slid inside my swollen heat, I let out a sound that was so primal in its satisfaction that it shocked me for a moment.Then, liquid ecstasy flooded my being and my arms wrapped around Lucian’s golden body, feeling his heat meld into mine, our bodies becoming one.Magic flickered across my skin, a potent blend of his and mine.

Lucian’s lips breathed fire against my neck, “You feel so good.”

Then he withdrew, making me whimper once more, before thrusting inside me again.My hips arched uncontrollably until he guided me into a rhythm that matched the tempo of our pounding hearts.Our magic built and swelled around us like a solar storm, and the Yearning within surged with triumph while demanding more and more.

Lucian was only too happy to give me what I wanted, and increased the depth and hardness of his thrusts.I rode the crests of savage lust, gyrating against his cock in a rhythm that made my clit pulse in tandem with my pussy.

The pleasure and magic built and built until it coalesced into a cosmic force that was so big and intense that I didn’t know if I could take anymore.Then, my body seemed to explode at the same time as our magic, fracturing my consciousness to a million crystalline facets.Two of the trees near us burst into flames before the sky darkened and thunder shook the ground below us.

I cried out Lucian’s name and clung to him like a shipwreck survivor to a raft as the stormy waves tossed me with merciless ecstasy.Rain poured down on us, thankfully dousing the flames without, but the flames within me still burned, so I continued to move against him, riding the aftershocks of my climax.His voice cried out as well, but was muffled against my neck.I held him as he shuddered within me, his climax feeding mine, and making the hunger within purr, not quite sated, but much alleviated.

“I love you,” I whispered between gasps for air.

His deep voice rumbled against my chest.“I’ve been waiting so long to hear those words.”His lips caressed mine as he whispered back, “I love you too.”

We held each other for fates knew how long, and slowly came back into ourselves, feeling the rain patter on our flesh, soaking the bed Lucian had conjured.The scent of pine and woodsmoke made me gasp in realization of what we’d done.

“Those poor trees!”

“Don’t worry,” Lucian stroked my hair in soothing motions.“Small fires are necessary to create new life.”

New life.I blinked in astonishment.Was he talking about us or the trees?

Because if this yearning did produce a child…a child of my own, a child that would be part myself, part Lucian, and parts of all our ancestors combined into a wonderfully unique being… Joy suffused my being.A joy more powerful than any I’d felt before, even after holding my baby sister for the first time.The warm glow within was so intense that I lifted my arm to see if it was radiating light.

Lucian sat up suddenly and gathered me into his arms.“Oh!You must be chilled from the rain.Let me take you someplace warm.”

I was still too overcome with emotion to explain.Besides, the rainwasgetting cold.So I let him fly me to an empty cottage his clan used when they monitored their creations, hibernated, or just wanted to relax in nature.He built a fire, and once the cottage was warmed up, my yearning returned for a second wave.

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