Page 142 of Master of Storms
“I wish I’d never met you,” she whispered, grabbing a fistful of his hair, but her thighs parted and he was sinking between them, tearing at the buttons of her breeches.
Such tight, bloody breeches. He almost tore them down her legs, tangled in her drawers, and then she was naked beneath him, her sweet, wet quim bare to the sky.
“You’re such a liar.” Kneeling over her, he kissed her, capturing her bottom and forcing her thighs to part around his shoulders.
She tasted of musk and sweat and forbidden delight.
And she was so wet, she was slick beneath his tongue.
“Oh,gods.”
It was music to his ears. And the sensation of her fingers clenching in his hair drove him wild as he tongued her deeply. Solveig writhed. She was so close it was surprising she hadn’t come already. Harder droplets of water struck them. Maybe the sky could feel his longing.
Marduk lifted his head, and kissed her thigh. “If you hadn’t met me, you wouldn’t be here right now.” He lowered his head and traced his tongue over that pulsating bud. “If you hadn’t met me, then you wouldn’t feel like you were about to fly apart.”
Her spine arched. “Justdo it.”
“Do what?” he whispered, letting his breath stir the curls of her mons. And then his tongue was flickering over her, like a cat lapping at water.
She came with a ragged cry, her thighs clamping around his head. The heavens opened, and she melted beneath him, slumping bonelessly to the floor as if he’d wrung her dry.
Marduk kissed his way up her body, licking the rain from her skin. He rubbed his cock between her wet folds, feeling her body open around him like some sort of lush flower. “Do you know what I think?”
Her gaze met his, as he rested his elbows on either side of her face.
“I think that you love this.” He drove inside her with one firm stroke. Her body fit him like a glove, but it was the way she arched her head back with a moan that made every inch of him tight with need. She was beneath him. He was inside her. And he never wanted this moment to end.
“If you tell yourself you hate me, does it make it easier to surrender to this?” He thrust again, feeling her clench around him.
Nails dug into his back and she hissed with pleasure.
He couldn’t take his eyes from her face. She was glorious and wild and so beautiful it broke his heart a little. “You hate the way I make you feel, because it leaves you vulnerable.”
An anguished moan tore from her.
“And you hate the way you don’t hate me,” he whispered. “Not even a little bit.”
Their eyes met.
“Tell me a secret,” he whispered, slowly rocking his hips into her.
“I don’t know if I can ever be what you want me to be.” The words blurted from her, as if she couldn’t let herself think about them too long or she’d never say them.
There was a long moment of silence.
And then Marduk brushed a strand of wet hair from her face, where it had stuck to her lips. “You’re already everything I want. You don’t have to change.”
“I’m not talking of changing. Being with you feels like I’m losing some part of myself.” She swallowed. “I swore on my mother’s grave that I would never, ever let some male do to me whathedid to her. And I think some part of me meant it. Mydrekimeant it. She… She doesn’t want to surrender. ” The look she gave him broke his heart. “How long would you wait for me?”
“Forever,” he replied, simply.
“I’m being serious.”
“So am I.” The yearning in her eyes gave him some hope, and lightning flashed in the distance, highlighting the sharp lines of her face. “There’s something you don’t know about me, my love. If I want something—want it with my entire being—then nothing is going to stop me from having it. I won’t falter, Solveig, just because you’re struggling to give into this feeling between us. I will wait for you. Forever, if need be. Because you are mine.”
“I am not some object that somedrekimale thinks he’s going to claim, just because—”
“Mine,” he repeated, grinding against her. “The thing I’ve been yearning for my entire life. My hopes. My dream. My sense of belonging. Myhome. You’re everything I’ve ever wanted. And that’s what that means. Nothing else.
