Page 58 of Monsters Within (The Creatures We Crave 1)
Indecision suddenly plagued me, freezing me to the spot, but a second later her bathroom door clicked open and out walked Alexandra, half naked as she dried herself with a towel. The front was open, and I drank in her beauty.
As she spotted me, she startled slightly and lifted a hand to her chest. “You scared me. Is everything okay?”
That was the problem, right there. She’d immediately assumed I was here for a problem, not that I was a man with a fucking hunger so deep that I couldn’t think of anything else.
Dropping my hand, I kept them both clenched by my side as she gazed at me with concern.
“No, everything isn’t okay, love,” I whispered, struggling with figuring out how to start this conversation. But as I considered turning around and saying fuck it, I saw a shift in her.
She was drawing that damned bottom lip into her mouth, nibbling on it as her eyes tracked water droplets falling down my chest.
Was that desire for me?
Taking it as the sign I needed, I pushed the door closed behind me and took a few long strides until I was staring down at her stunning body. As she moved the edges of her towel as if she was going to cover herself, I spoke one word that would somehow tell me so much. “Don’t.”
Her eyes widened, then she blinked a few times as I saw her mind whirling.
She never needed to feel uncomfortable showing her body in front of me—I’d worship the fucking ground she walked on—but I needed her to make the decision to hand that trust over.
This was the moment the tables turned, with just one word hanging in the air between us.
Reaching out, I tugged at the lip that she loved to chew on. It drove me crazy, seeing the move over and over. She looked so damn sensual when she did it, instantly making my cock twitch.
Her breasts rose as she inhaled deeply and dropped the towel to the floor, staying still and quiet, like she was waiting for my next command. The perfect answer.
“There’s a side of me that I’m struggling to contain now.” I breathed the admission out as I ran my thumb against the lip I’d pulled free.
She welcomed the touch by opening her mouth slightly, as if in invitation, and I couldn’t help my own reflexive response. Pushing my thumb into her mouth, I softly commanded, “Close your lips.”
Once more, her eyes widened perceptively before doing what I said. The desire I saw in her was increasing, from the heat swimming in her eyes and the way she shifted her legs, a hand hovering over her pussy like she wanted to touch herself.
God, she really was perfect for me. I had expected some pushback, and I would have understood it with the major shift in our dynamic.
The tip of her tongue flicked at the end of my finger, and it was my undoing. Pulling my thumb out, I cradled her cheek in my palm and asked, “Do you trust me, love?”
She didn’t hesitate for even a second before she nodded, gazing up at me with honesty radiating from her as she answered, “Without a doubt, yes.”
Her confirmation had me humming in delight, and I leaned down to press my lips to her forehead and pulled her into me. Wrapping my arm around her back, I tucked her head under my chin and decided she needed to know exactly what she was agreeing to with that answer.
Blind trust in me was a beautiful thing to see, but I didn’t feel right accepting it on this.
“Love, ever since we’ve been drawn into this reality with you, it’s like pieces of myself I never sensed before are beginning to appear,” I started, trailing my fingers down her soft skin in random shapes. “I want you to know that I will always be your safe place whenever you need me, and I don’t want what I’m about to tell you to change that, okay?”
Her voice was even and strong as she answered, “Nothing could change that. I promise you.”
We’d see about that.
Curling my other hand into her hair at the base of her neck, I tugged until she was looking up at me as I glanced down. “I would do anything for you, Alexandra. Jump as high as you say, whenever you tell me to. I’ll find a way to give you anything you desire, even if it seems impossible. That’s the side of me that you know and love.”
“But there’s more beneath the surface,” she confirmed, looking at me with absolutely no judgment, only curiosity and desire, a heady mixture.
“Yes,” I answered simply. “I don’t fully understand the extent of it myself yet, but I want to explore it with you, if you’ll have me?”
The corner of her lip tugged up in a smirk as she whispered, “You could never scare me off, Elwin. I dare you to try.”
My chest rumbled in response, “Dangerous words, love.”
Shaking her head, she countered, “No they aren’t. I know your soul and the depth of your love for me. I know I’m safe with you.” Then suddenly her hands were tugging at my towel, opening it until it dropped to the floor alongside hers. Looking up at me beneath her lashes, she coyly tempted me. “Now, let’s learn who you are together.”
