Page 79 of Prisoner of Steel and Shadow

“You keep making noises like that, you’ll draw a crowd, kitten.” As if that’s exactly what he wanted her to do, he shifted his stance, grinding the steely band of muscle along her center and pulling another needy moan from her. “Or is that what you desire? Do you want everyone out there to know what I’m doing to you? How good I make you feel?”

Shadow bit down on her lip, trying to contain her whimpered pleas as he continued to rub against her, setting her blood on fire with her need for him.

“I think that’s whatyoudesire.” It was harder to form the words than she’d expected, her breath hitching as he hit just the right spot once more.

He grinned against her neck. “So what if it is? So what if I want everyone to know that while you may walk at his side, it’smyname you cry out?” He kept one hand anchored in her hair while the other roamed down her body. When his fingers did little more than graze the tops of her breasts, she couldn’t contain her protest.

“Ronan,” she panted.

“I know, kitten. I wish there was time for me to explore you properly. Next time, I promise. Tonight we’ll have to make do with you coming on my fingers. I know you want me to peel you out of this dress so I can lavish each of your perfect breasts with the same attention I’m giving your lips. That you want me to bite and suck and lick my way down your body until I’m kneeling before you, worshiping your exquisite fucking cunt with my tongue. I want that too. I want to make you come so hard the only thing keeping you upright is my hands on your body.”

His palm ran the length of her torso until it hit the exposed skin of her thigh. Shadow was so lost to sensation, she couldn’t form a coherent sentence. “Please... I... darkness... Ronan...”

“Have I told you yet how gorgeous you look in this dress?” He slid his hand between her legs, his fingers replacing his thigh as he ran them along her slick center. “You’d look fucking edible in anything, but what I really love about this gown is that it’s so...convenient,” he breathed as those nimble digits pushed aside her undergarments and spread open her folds.

She gasped, her eyes rolling back.

“Look at me, kitten.”

Shadow forced her eyes open, her pulse racing in her ears as she locked gazes with him. As soon as her eyes met his, he slid two thick fingers inside her.

“Fuuuck, you’re already dripping for me.”

“Oh, stars,” she cried as he curled his fingers before dragging them back out, the invasion everything she craved but still not enough.

“I wish it was my cock you were gripping so sweetly, but my fingers will have to do for now.”

“Ro-nan,” she brokenly moaned as he thrust in and out of her.

He released her hair so he could press his hand over her mouth, muting the sound of her ragged moans. “Fuck, I have to taste you.”

She moaned against his palm as he pulled out and then sucked his fingers clean.

“Fucking delicious,” he growled in approval before lifting his hand and bringing his mouth to hers. “Taste yourself.” He licked into her mouth, swallowing her cries as the thrust of his tongue against hers echoed the rhythm of his fingers between her legs. His breaths stuttered out of him as he dropped his forehead against hers. He wrapped his hand over her mouth once more, continuing to play with her as he confessed, “I wish we didn’t have to be quiet. I want to hear you scream for me. I want you shouting my name while I fuck you so thoroughly your body never forgets the feel of me buried inside you.”

“I want that too.”

Muffled as she was by him, she didn’t think he could hear her actual words. But he seemed to understand the sentiment, because he grinned.

“Will you scream for me, Shadow? If I was to remove my hand, would you shout out my name so loudly that even the heavens above know who owns this pussy?”

She nodded, tears pooling in her eyes from the intensity of the climax building inside her. Shadow couldn’t remember the last time someone other than herself had gotten her off, let alone one who sent her hurtling toward the edge so quickly. But with every dirty word and sweep of his fingers, her orgasm loomed closer. A tidal wave about to break.

“Should I do it? Shall I release your mouth? I hear footsteps. People are walking by right now. They don’t know what I’m doing to you here in the dark, but all it would take is for me to lift my hand and they would.”

As if the words alone conjured them, Shadow could suddenly sense eyes on them, peering into their private alcove from the other side of the darkness. But instead of fear, the sensation only ramped up her pleasure.

Ronan’s breathing grew labored, as if he was just as affected by what he was doing to her as she was, but somehow his voice never lost its sensual rasp. “They’d hear your cries and imagine a thousand scandalous scenarios that could cause a woman to lose herself to her pleasure so completely. And they’d know I was the one to give it to you. That I own you. Do you want that, kitten? Do you want to be owned by me?”

“Yes!” she screamed against his hand, her body shaking as her orgasm slammed into her. An hour ago, Shadow didn’t want to be owned by anybody, but the mere suggestion of belonging to Ronan sent her toppling off the cliff.

“That’s it. Give it to me.”

He continued to fuck her with his fingers, sending her climax through wave after wave until she could barely stand. Then he held her quaking body tightly against his, lending her his strength while she fought for breath. Once her heart had returned to a somewhat normal rate, he tipped her chin up and feathered one last kiss over her lips.

“Your body always knew you were mine, kitten. Now you know it too.”

Erebos

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