Page 48 of Fire Forged

Shit.He was perfect with those broad shoulders, bulging biceps and pecs into a ripped torso to….Her core thrummed in anticipation.His cock, so hard, was bronzed with a darker base, and hairless which made visible the ridges along its length.She almost threw her legs wide and declared he was free to take her.

“Britta,ensa, now is the time to leave…if you have changed your mind.”He kneeled on the bed, his body taut, as he waited for her decision.Not once did he reveal how he’d feel if she up and left him.Honor, Aldur had called it.

“I’m staying,” she said.

His smile crawled onto those gorgeous lips.He landed on top of her but caught his weight on his hands, keeping him inches from touching her.Still, warmth poured off him.He ran kisses along her throat to her earlobe for a quick nibble.She looped her legs around his hips, trying to pull him onto her.When he didn’t budge, she arched into him, pressing her breasts to his chest.A hum slipped past her lips at how incredible his velvety skin caressed her taut nipples.

“Behave,” he said, leaning back with a smirk.He captured her lips in a kiss, plundering her mouth.She clung to him, driving her fingers into his hair to scrape her nails along his scalp.Strands locked around her wrists and yanked her closer.

He broke the kiss to laugh, then, while gazing into her eyes, he grabbed behind her knees and raised them.Glancing down, he angled his hips until the head of his cock pressed at her channel.She moaned, wriggling her hips to hurry him.

“Patience, Britta, myensa.”He pushed in, taking his sweet time to conquer her inch by inch.

“Dammit, Nerx, if you don’t hurry up—”

He thrust into her, shoving her back.She mewled as every nerve in her core pulsed.Incredible heat curled around her belly, traveled up to her chest, and settled in her heart.Something, like ribbons of energy, wrapped around her soul.She blinked at Nerx, his gaze on her.He was so beautiful, his commitment too much yet just right.Nothing made sense yet it did.A rippled of pleasure, of need traveled along her channel.He hadn’t moved, just drowned in her eyes.A sweet smile tugged at his top lip, and that damn dimple peeked.

“Ensa,” he said, his voice barely a whisper.“Do you feel that?”

“I feel your hard cocknotmoving,” she whined.

He laughed but still didn’t budge.Surely by now his arms should be trembling from holding his weight off her.She harumphed, wanting him to sprawl over her, to crush her to the bed with delicious warmth and intimacy.

Grazing her nails down his arms she met a scar from wrist to elbow.She hesitated, then carried onto his shoulders and back, but touching him did nothing to urge him on.She tried gyrating her hips.That didn’t work either.

When she shoved her hand to her sex, eager to finish the job, his breath hitched and he growled at her.“You are mine to pleasure.”

She huffed, retracting her fingers.“Then get on with it, or so help me, Nerxie—”

“There we go,” he said and grinned.

Oh.She snapped her mouth shut then chuckled.“Will Nerxie make little ol’ me scream his name again?”

As he withdrew, those ridges rubbed all the right places.She couldn’t control her hips now, their swirling and tilting.His second thrust arched her off the bed.She keened.It, no,hewas too intense.She almost pleaded with him to stop but would kill him if he did.He kept a steady pace, his focus on her.Rivulets of tingling heat swept through her.Her core tightened, a deep ache growing until she couldn’t think, could only experience.

“Nerxie,” she whimpered, on the cusp of something incredible, then stilled.

Shivers and warmth bathed her, as if he’d dipped her body in pure ecstasy.An orgasm slammed her, so hard, she forgot to breathe.She held onto him, needing his touch, yet too sensitive to it.

“Maker,” he gritted out as each thrust slowed, marked by his grunts until he collapsed on top of her, finally pinning her in place.

She hummed, wrapped her arms around his torso, and pressed her face to a pec.The scent of his skin engulfed her, his body heat almost too hot to bear, but she clung to him, not wanting him to move.

He did, falling beside her to sprawl on his back.But he kept her close, ensuring she was comfortable even as he crushed her against him.His breathing was ragged, and his expression had softened.A smile twitched his mouth when he dipped to snatch a kiss.

“You are mine,ensa.”He brushed a curl off her temple then stroked down to her jaw with the barest of caresses.

The air thickened with tension, and again those white ribbons closed in, like they wrapped around her heart.She prodded them, each poke triggering an explosion of light and color.

She swallowed and forced a chuckle, not willing to address the ‘elephant’ in her chest.“Forgiven me yet?”

“For?”His raised one eyebrow.

Without hesitation, she stroked it, admiring the silkiness and its shape.“For everything, I suppose.”

He grinned.“Would that be blinding me, calling me a kidnapper, or disobeying me?”

Listing it like that kind of looked bad.She scrunched her nose.“All were justifiable actions…at the time.But I want an O.D.I.and maybe you should teach me how to pilot one of these things.”She twirled her finger, indicating the ship.

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