Page 48 of The Devil In Blue
I was about to smear the flour across her top when she stepped into me, her hot breath against my jaw seizing my movements.
And then her tongue was gliding up my cheek, licking the sweet honey from my face in one long swipe.
Gods and hell and whatever else I could swear to filled my mind and I cursed to myself as my breaches tightened around my groin.
Fuck.
Briar’s tongue stopped just before my ear and she took the honey into her mouth, breathing deeply as she slowly stepped away.
So she was playing my game. It really wasn’t fair. One move and she had already won.
“You,” I groaned. “Are evil.”
“I am smart,” she whispered, looking up at me with those big, piercing eyes.
“Are you?” I reached down, taking her hand in mine and slowly lifting it between us.
She watched me bring her honey-covered fingers to my lips and slide them into my mouth. The quiver that shuddered through her reached my cock and I loved it. I watched her eyes as I gradually licked the honey off her fingers and dragged them slowly out of my mouth. She was enthralled, her teeth gliding over her bottom lip again but in a much more sensual manner.
She was as hungry as I was.
“That’s not fair,” she muttered. “I’m not as good at this as you are.”
“You’re plenty good, Briar.”
The heat of her body seeped through my clothes and with it came the scent of her sweet, genuine arousal. I took a deep breath to soak it all in and wanted so badly to press my lips to hers. I had longed to feel her mouth on mine since I saw her. I never thought it right. Now, I hardly knew if I could resist.
But I didn’t have to wonder anymore because Briar and her curious mind chose for me. She glimpsed my lips as I licked the remaining honey off the corner of my mouth and rose up on her toes, kissing the edge of my smirk.
I was finished.
“Not good enough, little bird,” I rasped, shaking my head. “I want all of you.”
With a delirious nod, she slid her fingers around the back of my neck and pulled me down to her, her mouth crashing into mine like she’d been just as starved for my kiss as I had been for hers. How long had she been waiting? Wanting?
I didn’t care. I wrapped my arms around her waist, bringing her tight against me. She moaned and I devoured that sensual sound, sliding my tongue deep into her welcoming mouth. There was no hesitation in her. No indication that she was afraid. Nervous. She held me as greedily as I held her, but it didn’t distract from the fact she was untouched. Perhaps in life, she could have been anything. She could have been a whore in a brothel or on the streets for all I knew, but in my realm, her past life was a mere flicker to the roaring flames of what she’d become over the years with me.
She was as innocent as they came, her body pure and untainted by men like me. It had been one of the things keeping me from taking her like I wanted to.
“My king,” she whispered when we finally parted for a breath.
I growled softly at that. “You never call me that.”
I kissed her again, grazing her lip with my teeth and eliciting a sweet little whimper.
“But you are my king,” she said. “And I quiver at the thought of what you might do to me if I said…” She kissed me again, her fingernails scraping over my scalp. “Do whatever you want.”
I swore silently at the temptation, gripping her hips and hoisting her onto the edge of the table. She squeaked when I devoured her mouth in another kiss and tossed her legs apart. Fabric draped between her knees and I desperately wanted to lift it away and feel her, but I bit back those urges, reminding myself that she had always been curious. Curious to almost dangerous extents. Curious, irresistible, and perfect, but untouched all the same.
“You’ve never done this with anyone,” I pointed out.
“You don’t know that.”
“Your mortal life doesn’t count.” I slid my hands down the curves of her sides, my cock straining behind my leathers. “You were relieved of that when you walked through my Labyrinth. Death is the ultimate rebirth, Briar.”
She kissed me again, hooking the back of my legs with her ankles to pull me closer. I held my breath for a moment, doing all that I could to resist stripping her and plunging deep into her virgin body. It was all I wanted.
“So, what are you saying?” she panted.
