Page 48 of Hellfire & Tinsel
“Invisible?” Kassel asked again, coming to kneel next to Beau on the mattress, running a hand over his body but not touching. Just… gliding it through the air over Beau.
It still felt like the most intimate touch Beau had ever experienced. It made him desperate for more, the tease too much for his touch-starved body.
Once. Twice. The third pass took Beau’s clothes with it.
He gasped.
He was left naked. Exposed for Kassel to look at. Vulnerable in a way he’d never been before.
His hands rushed to cover himself on instinct, grasping for a blanket and pulling it over half of his body and up to his chest.One leg and one arm were left exposed, and he froze before he could cover them as well, meeting Kassel’s burning gaze.
He watched, hypnotized, breath caught in his throat as Kassel leaned down slowly and kissed his bare thigh. It was a damp, rough brand against the virgin skin. Exploring. Enticing.
Beau’s eyes fluttered shut, heat climbing from his chest to high on his cheeks. The fingers holding up his blanket trembled. He could feel his body reacting, pushing against the blanket. Even coming in Kassel’s arms hadn’t felt like this. Nothing could have prepared him.
Kassel kissed every inch of bare skin, finding the joint of his hip and scraping his teeth over the bone. Beau shivered, knowing he should feel like prey under a huge beast, the definition of a virginal sacrifice ready to be defiled by a thing with wicked intentions.
It only made him hotter. Made his heart beat faster.
Kassel moved to his arm to work his way up to the curve of his shoulder, tongue dipping into his armpit before going higher still.
“You shine,” Kassel said in a deep rumble before kissing him behind the ear.
“What?” Beau asked, blinking his eyes open to half-mast and finding Kassel staring at him with every single one of his. Unblinking. Completely focused.
“Brighter than anything I’ve seen before,” he said. He placed his clawed hand over Beau’s clenched one in the middle of his chest. “You’re not invisible, Beau. Humanity is blind.”
His insides melted and his heart threatened to drum right out of his chest. Nobody had ever said anything like that to him before. Nobody had ever made him feel like he was worth the air he was breathing and the space he was taking up on this planet. He always felt like he was intruding, stealing from someone more worthy of it all.
Kassel made it seem like it was all meant to be his. Like he deserved it.
Beau let the blanket drop.
“Kiss me,” he whispered.
Kassel descended on him like he was starved, his tongue in Beau’s mouth, his huge body pinning him to the bed. Beau fell back in wanton surrender, fully giving himself over to Kassel.
The leather of his clothes stuck to Beau’s naked skin, catching and scraping. He wanted purple and scaly skin, molten hot, brushing against his, fusing them together, touching every inch of him.
He needed it, he needed it, he needed it.
“Off,” he begged through the kiss, tugging weakly at Kassel’s clothes.
Clothes that, between one breath and the next, were nowhere to be found.
Kassel was on top of him, naked and warm and so heavy Beau was struggling to breathe, but he’d suffocate before admitting to it. He moaned, overstimulated by so much skin to skin, but he never wanted Kassel to move.
Kassel’s chest was echoing Beau’s heartbeat, the rough skin teasing his hard nipples. Beau’s legs were wrapped around trim hips and the length digging into his stomach was…
“Oh…” He gasped, rolling his hips into the enormous length seemingly without his control. The precum made the glide easier. He didn’t know who it came from, but there was a lot of it spread all over his lower stomach, seeping into his skin.
His cheeks flushed but he did it again, something else driving his lower body. He couldn’t see straight. It was so hot he was sweating. Goodness, he was so empty. He could hear himself moaning, feel himself writhing on the sheets, but it felt like it was a million miles away.
“Kassel, Kassel…”
Kassel wrapped his fingers around Beau’s hip and stilled his movements. It felt like a punishment, and Beau could feel tears gathering. He didn’t understand.
He wiggled against Kassel’s hold, stomach burning with the need for more. Kassel wouldn’t fit. That was more than obvious to him because the length and the girth of him was out of this world. Quite literally. He was over ten inches and girthier than a closed fist. And yet his rational mind was nowhere to be found, jumping that hurdle and careening straight into begging for it.
