Page 71 of Serpentine Valentine
“She forbade me to see you again. She said you were out to get her like you were some vigilante in a superhero movie trying to take her down.” I laughed weakly, but Lex didn’t move a muscle.
“She knew, Lex, about Jerrod Ericht and Delta Alpha. She probably knows about half a dozen other incidents on campus, and she’s been sitting on them because she’s too focused on her fucking career.” I shook my head, still horrified by it, still processing. “Anyway, she threatened to toss me out if I didn’t agree to stop being your friend, but I left of my own volition. How could I stay in the same house with her knowing what I know now?”
Lex didn’t have an answer for me, but I didn’t need one. I shifted to face her fully, kneeling on the mattress and threading my fingertips through the sides of her hair.
“Can I stay with you until I get a more permanant situation figured out? I-I have other places I can go, but I want to be here. With you.”
Lex swallowed hard, once, twice and then cleared her throat. “If people are already talking, it won’t be good for your reputation to stay with me.”
“It’s a bit late for that. I basically told people I like you. I didn’t speak for you, though, so I can still go, and no one will think we’re together. Just that I have a crush.”
“No.” Her hands cupped over mine on her face. “No, I want you to stay. I…well, thank you. No one but my sisters have ever stood up for me before.”
I tipped my forehead to rest against hers. “I’m team Lex Gorgon all the way.”
She didn’t laugh the way I wished she would, but what she gave me was even better. Her kiss was chaste, a soft brush of her lips against my own.
I tightened my hands in her hair, desire sparking in my blood. “Iwant to fuck you. Can I?”
Last night, Lex had taken the lead, but I wanted to lay her out now and explore her. I’d just cast off so much of the weight holding me down. I wanted the chance to experience this lightness inside me. I wanted the chance to love her without the yoke of my mother’s expectations and my reputation around my neck.
I wanted to flex these new muscles and enjoy who I was fighting to become.
Lex hesitated, fear pinching the corners of her mouth.
“I’ve never been so attracted to anyone in my life,” I whispered to her as I placed a kiss on the corner of her full mouth and then another on the hinge of her jaw. “I can’t imagine ever getting enough of you.”
She moaned lightly and let me slowly press her torso back against the bed. I moved slowly so I didn’t spook her because I knew one wrong move would send her sprinting away like a spooked mare. She watched me with wary eyes as I peeled off her tights and underwear and then unzipped her skirt. I left her sweater on because I could see she wasn’t wearing anything beneath it, and I wanted to give her some security.
Joy cartwheeled through my chest when she let me place her ankle on my shoulder, spreading her open to my gaze.
God, but her pussy was pretty.
The skin around it was soft and utterly smooth, a dusky gold that felt like silk. I watched as it slowly bloomed, wet and open as I bit her big toe and then sucked kisses up the length of her leg. When I reached those kissing snakes, I traced their forked tongues with my own and then followed the path of their twining bodies up her thigh with my mouth and hands.
By the time I finally reached the apex of her thighs, she was glistening and as fragrant as honeysuckle.
I never would have thought I could find awoman’s sex so absolutely arousing, but the sight of Lex splayed open like that, gorgeous and trusting, almost undid me.
I shifted her leg over my shoulder as I lay between her thighs, one hooked over my back so she was forced wide open. I rested my cheek against her groin and used one hand to pull at the top of her sex, exposing her swollen clit from its hood. My mouth watered at the sight, but I teased her with the soft back and forth of my thumb instead of using my tongue.
She writhed, but I pinned her still with the hand on her mound and increased my tempo.
“Luna,” she groaned, her hands diving into my hair to hold a little too tight.
My own pussy spasmed, and with a moan of surrender, I bent to taste her.
The tangy-sweet flavor of her exploded across my taste buds, eradicating my control. I sealed my lips around the soft swell of her clit and sucked, abusing it with hard lashes of my tongue.
Lex shouted, back bowing off the bed, hands tugging me even closer to her sex.
I loved to feel her so greedy, to know it was me bringing this woman pleasure.
I could have worshipped her for hours, teasing her mercilessly, but I was too driven by the need to feel her come apart on my tongue to hold out. Two fingers dipped into her grasping entrance, a little more slipping inside her tight hold each time.
“More, more, more,” she chanted, bucking against me. “Goddammit, Luna. Please.”
“Just because you asked so nicely,” I practically purred, and then I hooked those fingers inside her and pumped hard, hard enough she thrust her head into the mattress and cried out in ecstasy.
