Page 136 of Tall, Royal and Grumpy

“No. Never.”

“Then why are you touching me like you’re punishing me?”

I held the towel still. “I’m not punishing you, Babble. I just want you to feel as frenzied as I do.” Her lips parted, her lashes dropped, and my dick preened under her attention. With the towel still in my hand, I cupped her chin and forced her to look up at me. “Do you feel it?”

“Yes,” she breathed.

“Really?” I said, arching a brow. “Do you feel so frenzied that you’re desperate for me in a fanatical sort of way? Because that is how I feel, Esmeralda. And I don’t think I have it in me to be remotely nice tonight. So, I need you to tell me if that isn’t what you want.”

I felt the gentle roll of her jaw as she swallowed and, “Yes. That frenzied. So don’t be nice.”

It was the answer I’d craved, but dark fumes spewed inside me. I ground my teeth together as they plagued me. “Are you sure, Babble?” I growled. “I might not let you come all night long.”

Her eyes glowed. “Then I won’t come.”

“What if I change my mind? What if I make you come again and again, so much it hurts?”

Her breath shuddered against my lips. “I’ll beg for more.”

Fuck. “Will you let me do anything I want to you?”

“Anything you want. I’m yours, Kai.”

Just like that, the fumes turned red and hot instead of dark and murky. “No, Babble,” I rasped. “I’m yours. You control me entirely. You know I will only ever give you what you want. And if that is anything I want to do to you, then that is exactly what I will give you.”

Her whimpering moan of agreement was so fucking unabashed and sexy. I plastered my lips over hers, needing to lap it up and coat my mouth in the raw honesty of it. But the moment my lips untangled from hers, I threw the towel caught amongst my fingers aside and hauled Esmeralda up from the floor, my hands cupping her arse.

I slid on my knees across the burgundy silk duvet, flopped onto my backside, and seated Esmeralda high up on my lap. Her thighs cushioned either side of my waist as I pressed my damp hair back into one the pillows, but with a little adjustment I urged her higher. And higher. Until her legs bracketed my shoulders and that cunt… Fuck, my mouth watered as I breathed in her wetness.

Above me, Esmeralda grabbed onto the headboard to stabilise herself and blinked big, round eyes like she had no idea what I was doing. But knew exactly what I was planning.

“Come on, Babble,” I purred, giving her arse cheeks a light squeeze as I angled her hips forward. “Sit your greedy little pussy on my mouth and ride my tongue.”

Her cheeks ignited as she remained adorably frozen in her hovering position. Then she gave the slightest jerk of her head, neither a nod nor a shake. “I—I—Kai…I can’t.”

“Why not?”

“What do you mean ‘why not’?” Her voice came out breathless and shrill. “What if I suffocate you?”

That made me smile. Had she forgotten how small she was in comparison to me? “You won’t. Now sit down.” She shook her head rapidly, and my hands curled over her thighs as a frustrated noise rolled up my throat. “I will not repeat myself again, Esmeralda. Sit down. Now.”

My Babble grasped the warning in my tone and shakily lowered herself. But not like I’d told her to, not the way I wanted her to smother me. And that was disobedience worthy of a punishment.

Lifting my head, I closed my lips around the apex of her wetness and sucked. I tugged her swollen clit into the heat of my mouth and lashed at it unforgivingly with my tongue. I reprimanded her with too much all too soon, but fuck, her perfect, warm taste was a gift for me.

Like coming home. Like making her mine. My wife, my future, my everything. My even death couldn’t do us part.

Esmeralda’s cry rung through the room as her body jerked above mine. Rising and writhing and shaking, fighting and failing to break through the confine of my arms.

She sobbed my name as her legs shook and lost all strength, dropping her right where I wanted her. On my face, smearing her wetness all over my mouth and chin. Her thighs locked around my head like a vice, fingers tearing through my damp hair, and it was so fucking satisfying I chuckled.

“Fuck!” Her flushed face scrunched in on itself.

Power and arousal thundered through my already thrumming nerves, tempting me not to take any mercy on her. But my cramping mouth eased up with a reluctant sigh.

She took a gulping breath as she bent over. “Kai,” she whimpered, her eyes brimming.

Ah, fuck. Every time she said my name, I felt like a livewire caught in a rainstorm. Sparks were shooting out of me, and she was the only one caught in my path of destruction.

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