Page 20 of Fog of War
Who was I kidding?! Neither of us weresure.We’d crashed together and were now standing awkwardly by the side of the road, brandishing our insurance cards.
I pulled my mouth back, a contrite crease in my brow, and breathed in the powder, blood, and soil that coated his plates. Ineeded to apologize, didn’t I? I’d ruined his festival. His clan’s plans.
“Paladus, I’m s–”
“Don’t you dare,” he growled, pushing his face against mine again, wrapping his talons around my waist. I opened my mouth against his and his bifurcated lips pinched my tongue. His mandibles vibrated like cricket legs against my cheeks, making my lungs clench at the erotic novelty.
Not a single thing about kissing Paladus was human. Not his mouth or his sounds or his textures. I nicked my tongue on one of his fangs with a gasp and he sucked on it with abandon, stealing the swell of blood for himself. His raw hunger consumed me like an inferno.
So much so that when his talons bit into my butt and lifted me off the ground, I opened my thighs and wrapped my ankles around his narrow waist without thinking.Without thinking!Who was I? Who had snatched my body while I was out cold?
Paladus had. That’s who.
He pressed me against the wall, which immediately slid open because it was actually the bathroom door. I shrieked as my hair and hospital gown shot up towards the ceiling with it and we tumbled out onto the floor. Paladus twisted in time to take the fall and my knees hit the ground on either side of his hips.
I propped myself up on his chest with a shocked stare, pushing my dirty hair out of my face. “Oh my god, are you okay?!”
Paladus gripped my hip bones and pressed his erection into my core. Eyelids heavy with lust, he grinned and that piercing stare climbed up my body. He licked his fangs with a purple tongue,hrummingas they glinted from behind his mandibles like the tines of a saw blade.
“The planet could burn right now and I wouldn’t lift a finger to stop it,vira,”he purred, the tone of his abyssalhrumobscuring his words.
He rolled his hips and I felt them.Them.As in the nodes along the underside of his shaft that I’d seen on the toys in the market. They vibrated with hishrumand when my breath hitched, he stopped, grinding his hips up, pulling my hips down. I clutched his dirty plates as my clit swelled, and closed my eyes.
I whimpered, trembling from the wire coiled between my legs, waiting to snap.
“Use me,” Paladus pleaded.
My brows rose together with helpless pleasure. I rocked my hips in tiny bursts, pressing my open folds against the scrap of ceremonial skirt separating his body from mine. I leaned forward, just enough, just so…
My voice broke as pleasure skittered across my skin and my climax thudded through my core. It coated his loin cloth in slippery fluid and I shied away from the vibration, too sensitive to handle it. I squeezed his sides with my thighs, separating our bodies with a moan as my muscles shook and my elbows wobbled like jelly.
Paladus rolled to his feet, hoisting me in his arms in one smooth motion and depositing me on the bed. I bounced, catching myself on my elbows as he kneeled between my knees, the mattress dipping under his weight.
“I need you,” he breathed, reaching for the tie of his skirt.
“Are you sure?” I asked, still throbbing between the legs. Hishrumwas prolonging the feeling, making me whimper and shiver. My teeth clacked together as if I was cold.
Paladus shucked his skirt and threw it across the room, swaying above me to the rhythm of his breath. He paused so I could look at him and my throat constricted. His cock bounced up against his plates, weeping pearlescent bue precum. The fournodes on the underside were swollen and vibrating like speaker cones. If I tried to use my mouth on him, I wouldn’t be able to reach past the first.
“Areyou?”he asked, raising one brow.
I swallowed hard, then pawed at the latches on my care gown with clumsy fingers, trying to get it off me and failing.
Paladus snarled with impatience as soon as he realized what I was trying to do. Rather than help me out of it, he grabbed my knees, slid my butt towards him until they smacked against his thighs, and lifted my hips off the sheets.
I gasped as he forced my legs apart and pressed his face to my slippery pussy. He ran his facial plates through my fluids with a groan.
“What are you doing?!” I squeaked, clutching his wrists with my fingers, wobbling this way and that as he rubbed his face between my legs like I was his favorite catnip toy.
“I want this scent on me every day,” he growled. Then his purple tongue slithered out of his mouth and tasted me from back to front in one long, languid stroke. My toes curled as I tried to slam my legs shut.
Paladus fixed his glare on my wide eyes andhrummedwith a vicious edge, giving me no room to back away.
“If you’re squirming to squirm, then go ahead,vira.I like a fight. But use your words if you don’t want me to fuck you. Do you understand? Because if you struggle like this, all it’s going to do is make me take you harder.”
“Holy shit,”I babbled, shocked at my own language. My cheeks blistered and tingled, every nerve-ending under my skin so raw and ready that even the air lit me up like a sparkler.
Paladus lowered his face to my core slowly, watching to see if I’d tell them no. I snapped my mouth shut and panted through flared nostrils in anticipation, and he pressed his bifurcated lips to my entrance. His mandibles flared open on a monstrous grinas he opened his mouth, dragging his chin through my folds. And then his long, solid tongue speared me.
