Page 36 of Flameborne: Fury
“I’m not,” he rasped. Then, with a tormented moan to compete with the dragon’s call, Donavyn dropped one hand to grasp my hip and hold me as he plunged into me, filling me so fully my breath stopped, and the pleasure shuddered all the way to my toes. Then he took my mouth as surely as my body, and I wasalive.
13. Here with You
~ DONAVYN ~
“Mine,”I rasped.“You’re mine,Bren.”
Kgosi roared, but as I retreated from her body, my mate’s eyes went wide with fear and she clawed her nails into my scalp.“Don’t—”
I plunged back into her, calling for her, her hair in my fist, her body tightening on me, both of us gasping,overwhelmedwith bliss.
I kissed her with the desperation that hummed in my bones. Then, forehead pressed to hers, bodies shaking, our breaths and cries mingling, I locked eyes with her and tumbled deeper as the fire she’d ignited in me flared and coursed, my heartbeat pumping undiluted fire in my veins.
With a guttural groan, I took her again and she rose to meet me, gasping. Then I drew out until I’d left her, and she whimpered, her fingernails digging into my shoulders like she still feared I’d run. Until I took her again.
And again.
Meeting and falling away. Calling, then unbreathing.
We moved together and the world disappeared. Everythingsucked in and tunneled until the only thing that existed washer,and that space in my chest that had ached, and weighed, pressed on my ribs, and spun with fear when I walked away from her. But now the hollowness inside itburned.
With every roar Kgosi unleashed in the storm, the word reverberated through my head.
Mate.
Mine.
And I’m yours.
With every thrust and roll, Bren cried my name and reached for me, pulling me ever closer, begging me not to leave her.
I wouldn’t.
I couldn’t.
She came alive inside that space, a tiny, fragile flame at first, flickering and glowing, but almost blown out in the wind of this world.
Fighting for control, I let my head sink back, closed my eyes and took her again, calling to her. And her gasping response called me closer. When I dropped my chin again, quaking, desperate to gather the shreds of my control, it was to find her staring, wide-eyed and awed, her chin rising as we moved together, but her eyes never leaving my face.
Sucked into that gaze, I hissed her name through my teeth and something in her softened. She reached for me, hand cupping my neck as I took her again and her eyes almost closed, but then her fingers slid higher, clawing into my scalp and holding me there, locked in.
The heat riding my blood washed into that spiraling space in my chest, pooling, filling, expanding. Feeding the bellows of my heart, fueling her flame, and pumping into my limbs, until it seemed every inch of my skin had sensitized to even the whisper of her.
Everything fell away.Everything.I forgot the King. Forgot Emberquell, or my rank. I forgot her age, or the pains she’d suffered. I forgot that we twisted together on a fur in a cave outside the borders because someone had attempted to sabotage her.
Only one clear thought sliced through me:someone had tried to take her from me.
I growled and Kgosi screamed, images coming alive in my head. Kgosi barreling down on Akhane—and a whole new thrust of desire shoving me closer to my mate.
When I arched my back and braced on my hands to look down on her, to drink her in, Bren whimpered and curled up, locking her arms around my neck and pulling herself up to bury her face in my throat, and suddenly even this wasn’t enough.
Kgosi rumbled in my head, but I shook him off.
She wasmine.I had to see her, to know her. Every inch.
Sitting back on my heels I pulled her up with me. She gave a little shriek, her eyes flying open as she fell into my chest, but I pulled my knees up behind her to keep her close, plunged both hands into her hair, and took her mouth with the same vigor I possessed her body.
Mouth open and breath heavy, she wrapped both arms around my neck and rode me, gasping, keening, driving me on, and now from this position I could touch her, kiss her,own her.
