Page 60 of The King is Dead
And still he didn’t stop.
I was gasping, keening, shaking, my skin slick with sweat.
Deep, resonant noises rumbled in Melek’s chest, but instead of clinging andcominglike I thought he would, he drew out of me in a blink and whipped me away from that wall.
For a split second my body was convinced I’d fall. I shrieked and grabbed for him. But as he turned us, snarling, I clung to his neck, trembling.
“Melek—no! Donotleave me—”
“I told you,you’re mine,”he snapped, breaking my grip on his neck and flipping me over. “There is noleaving,Yilan,” he snarled as he bent me over the wide windowsill—the cold stone a shock against my heated skin.
I sucked in a gasp—then stopped breathing as he took me in a single thrust again, this time from behind.
Instinctively, I reached out to grab for something,anythingto give me purchase. But my hand breached that magik shield, and an electriczingsnapped down my arm.
I cried out and Melek groaned because my core tightened on him in the reflex to pull my hand away from it.
“Oh, God,Yilan—”he groaned, then clamped one hand on my shoulder and the other on my hip as he began to pound.
My body screamed with a pleasure so intense it was almost pain as he took me in a fury. I trembled and panted, strange noises breaking in my throat—mindless pleasure coursing through me.
I had lost control and I wouldn’t have taken it back if I could. My limbs twitched and my voice broke on every thrust.
Unable to find any other purchase, I planted one hand on the inside wall of the window, and the other on the flat stone in front of me.
Then, without stopping, Melek bent over me, his chest brushing my back. His hand on my hip came back to my hair and he tugged my head back and scraped his teeth on the corner of my jaw, then his breath rushed against my ear.
“Do you see it, Yilan?” he rasped. “See the world that would fight us?”
Jaw slack, I forced myself to blink my eyes open and take in the sight—the high moon sending a glow over the land outside the Palace—the gardens and grounds inside the wall, the dark forest canopy, then the distant lights of the city in the valley below, twinkling and shining to battle the scattered stars above.
“It’s all yours, Yilan… and you’d give it to me?”
“Earn it,” I gasped, still bracing frantically on the flat stone, utterly at his mercy. “Fight for it. I’ll give youeverythingif you—oh God—”
“I could doanythingto you right now,” he grunted, leaning his weight on me harder so my breath rushed out of me, to prove the point.
“I know,” I croaked. “I trust you.”
With a low rumble in his chest, he thrust so hard he lifted my hips and arched my back. My hand slapped another couple inches ahead on the stone, dangerously close to that external sill that would shock me.
He growled in approval, his lips still brushing my ear. “Do you like that, Yilan?” he whispered. “Like it when I make you weak? Take your control?”
“Yes!”It was only true. Between his strength and the ragged depth of his voice, I could feel another orgasm building within me, making my core muscles pulse.
He gave a deep, tormented groan and pulled out of me, and as I whimpered in disappointment, the world flipped and I dropped and gasped, clinging.
21. Allied Hearts
~ YILAN ~
When everything righted, Melek was sitting on the floor and had me in his lap, one long arm laid up my spine and his hand clamped on the back of my neck, the other hand between us, furiously positioning himself, then pulling me down onto him.
Straddling him like this was new. I’d only done it once before. I had to find my balance and his rhythm. I had to hold onto his shoulders to balance. But he pulled me closer with a low, puttering growl and then we were rocking together. The position pulled me down onto him and my entire skin thrummed with each rolling peak.
I let my head drop back, but wrapped my arms around his neck and pressed my breasts against his chest, holding him, almost weeping with relief because I could feel him—in the bond, and his body—softening towards me.
“Yilan,” he croaked, his fingers digging into the back of my neck.
