“Enough?” he murmured into her ear.
“No!” No matter how she writhed, his strength kept her in place. “Please, John, please!”
Slowly, teasingly, he slid her down a few inches. “Enough?”
Desperate with desire, she tightened around him in answer. He gasped, and the surge of his need swept her over the edge. Abandoning his teasing at last, he drove into the pulsing waves of her ecstasy.
She dug her fingernails into the rock-hard muscles of his back, locking her legs around his waist. Her climax surged higher and higher, drawn out by every thrust of his body, until she couldn’t tell the difference between her pleasure and his.
His sweat-slick torso pressed against hers as he arced up. Body to body, soul to soul, they came together, and were one.
Breathing hard, Neridia collapsed against John’s chest. He held her tight, rolling back himself so that they spooned together on the bed. She closed her eyes, wrapped in his arms, drifting in perfect contentment.
Only for a moment, though.
With a sigh, she opened her eyes again. “We’re going to be late.”
“Mmm.” John pressed his face into the back of her neck, inhaling deeply. “It appears so.”
“John.” She pushed at his arm, which had no effect whatsoever. “John. We have to get up.”
“It occurs to me,” he said, his voice a deep, lazy rumble, “that if one is going to be late, one might as well be very late.”
She let out her breath, half-amused, half-exasperated—and then caught it again, as he started kissing the side of her neck.
We are the Pearl Empress, her inner dragon pointed out. Others can wait on our pleasure.
With a laugh, Neridia surrendered to temptation. Rolling onto her back, she wrapped her arms around her mate.
“This isn’t setting a very good example, you know,” she teased, drawing him down for another kiss. “You’re the Imperial Champion. Aren’t you supposed to put duty before everything else?”
“Probably.” He smiled down at her, his blue eyes shining like sunlight on the sea. “But I’m only human.”
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