Page 8 of The Hellhound's Mate
If there was a next time.
As Ambrose sighed in my arms, I reached over and turned off the water. Cradling him close, I leaned my back against the wall and rested, Ambrose loose and warm in my arms. The possibility that this encounter might be just once, an experiment on his part, hurt my heart. That burst-open part tried to close and protect me from the chance that he hadn’t meant to stay.
But then Ambrose sat back enough to look me in the eyes and gently traced his fingertips over my face. He smiled and touched my eyelashes, the top of my snout, my nose, lips, and even one fang. “My beautiful hellhound,” he whispered and kissed me.
I didn’t know what possessed me, but I found myself licking Ambrose’s nose. He laughed, so I did it again. I licked every bit of him that I could reach while the man giggled and wriggled in my arms. Then Ambrose caught my jaw and pressed our mouths together, making me purse my lips and do my best to kiss him back.
This couldn’t be the only time we might be together. I never wanted this to end.
CHAPTER
FIVE
Kissing a hellhound wasn’t easy,but that didn’t mean I was going to stop doing it. Saph looked so cute with his lips pursed and concentrating on his aim. Our kisses were little pecks, but they meant something to me and that was all that really mattered.
Saph set me back on my feet, and I immediately noticed the towels stacked on a sheet-covered piece of furniture. I grabbed one and turned back to start buffing his fur dry.
The cascading water had made it abundantly clear that Saph was all muscle beneath the fluff of his midnight fur. Being held in his arms had shown me how strong he was. And now as I ran the towel over his chest and abs, I could practically count the muscles.
Saph’s long pink cock peeking out from its hiding spot was also a beautiful thing. I licked my lips and tried to stay on task, but I really wanted to handle that monster again. Was the bulge near the base a knot? The kind that would swell and lock us together? I bit my bottom lip as I stared and wondered how amazing that might feel.
“I’m sorry,” Saph said above me.
“Hmm?” I asked as I realized I’d stopped drying him off.
He held a big hand in front of his cock. “It’ll go away.”
For a moment, I didn’t understand, but then I saw the way that Saph was avoiding looking at himself or me.
“Oh, I don’t want it to go away! I’d actually love to get to know it better. If that’s alright with you?”
Saph studied my face like he didn’t quite believe me. One furry eyebrow even rose up quizzically.
I took his hands and kissed each rough palm. “I loved what we just did, Saph, and I’d love to do more with you. I want to learn all about you, both intellectually and physically. What do you think?”
More staring, those big eyes of his seeming to catalog everything he could see of me. And I knew the second Saph’s gaze landed on my cock and the way that it was reaching for him all over again. I couldn’t help a little laugh, the two of us standing there with boners pointing at each other.
A grin quirked up the corner of his mouth as he said, “I think we should be dry before we get into bed together.”
I sprang back into action, moving around behind him to rub the towel over his back and down to his tail. What a curious part of him… It was about two feet long and as fluffy as the rest of him, but with a definite stiffness and strength to it. He could beat someone to death if he wagged it too hard. And why did handling it make desire slither through me?
“I can dry myself,” Saph offered, “if you want to?—”
“Oh, no. I’m doing this. I get to touch every bit of you.” I crouched down and attacked his long thick legs. “Besides, I’ll probably air dry before I’m done anyway.”
“Youwantto touch every bit of me?”
Was Saph unused to anyone taking an interest in him? It had sounded like he lived a solitary life, but maybe he didn’t want to?
I came around to stand in front of him and reached up to dry his head. “I find you absolutely fascinating, Saph. I bet you canhear a pin drop with these ears, and the talons on your toes are dangerously incredible. I’d love to find out how it feels to let you knot me, but I also wouldn’t mind petting you for a while.”
Saph blinked at me from beneath the towel. A moment later, his shock melted into something wolfishly wicked. “You want me to knot you?”
I couldn’t speak as I stared up at Saph’s face, seeing the confidence he must’ve been feeling right then. That was so very sexy! I felt a shiver of desire go through me as I nodded up at him.
“I’ll change the sheets later,” Saph said as he took my hand and led the way to the bed.
I dropped the towel and crawled up onto the queen-sized bed with rumpled sheets and springy pillows. I was about to turn over when large hands grabbed my hips.
