“So you are,” he said, staring down at me. He slid the hard length of his cock along my seam, igniting my nerve endings in one easy roll of his hips.
I let out a groan, already wet and slick from the moment he’d gathered me into his arms.
“Don’t tease me if you know what’s good for you,” I said.
He nipped my chin with his teeth and rolled his hips against me, the head of him butting the sensitive nub of my clit. I shuddered and clutched his biceps for an anchor in a storm I knew would grow to consume me.
After a few more masterful slides of his length along my clit, he finally reached between our bodies and notched himself at my entrance. He paused for a heartbeat.
“If you ask me one more time if I’m sure I’m going to hurt you.”
He chuckled and eased into me a tiny bit at a time. Through gritted teeth he said, “If you hurt me, who is going to pleasure you?”
“I can do it myself. It’s more fun with you but I can definitely handle things on my own.”
He released the grip on his cock and brought his hands up to capture my wrists. “I guess it’s a good thing I’m not saying a thing except how lovely you are.”
I smiled and then hissed out a breath as he spread me further, finally pressing all the way inside me. He let me get used to the full feeling of him, let my body ease around his.
The urge to move beat at me from both my body and my brain. The hard clench of his jaw and the steel in his eyes as he locked down his control didn’t help mine any. I loved nothing more than seeing all the careful control unravel while he was inside me.
“What next?” I asked and let out a long exhale to gather the frayed ends of my own discipline.
“Repeat after me,” he said, his lips grazing my jaw. “From today we are one.”
I wiggled my hands from his hold, cupped his face, and brought his eyes to mine while I spoke. “From today we are one.”
He swallowed, his breathing coming faster. “From this moment you are mine.”
I matched him inhale for inhale. “From this moment you are mine.”
“From now until forever we are mates,” he whispered, his lips so close to mine I could feel his breath in each word.
“From now until forever we are mates.”
When he closed his eyes, I followed suit even though I didn’t want to lose the beautiful sight of him. I was surrounded by him. His wet mouth on mine, the silky strands of his hair falling around my face. Magic surged between us, and I didn’t know if it was his or mine. I simply tried to match it, grasping my power in whatever way I could and thrusting it between us, offering it up to him to take and do whatever he would with it.
He hissed against my lips, but it was too late. The power doubled over between us, rolling and writhing and then resettling. Once it lay around us like a down blanket, I popped my eyes open to look at him.
“Is it over?”
He arched his hips into me, surprising me enough to gasp as my body lit up from the inside. It wasn’t just the pleasure of him being inside me physically. It was as if his magic, his mind, every part of him surged through me, loved me, pleasured me.
I wrapped my fingers into his hair and dragged his mouth to mine for a kiss. Anything to curb the edge of this feeling. Any moment I might shatter and there was no safety net to catch me.
“I’ll catch you,” he whispered, and then he took my mouth hard.
His teeth grazed mine as he threaded our tongues together. He let out a growl, drew our mouths apart so he could brace his weight off my chest, and swiveled his hips up.
The sensations felt amazing, so much better than before. Like I felt my own pleasure, and his, and something else that mixed the two between us. It wasn’t just sex; it was a joining of our hearts, our souls.
I slid my fingers down to his chest, loving the silken feel of his skin under my hands. “Don’t stop.”
He set a furious pace, as if he were seconds away from his own end despite the few moments we’d been entitled.
I wrapped my legs around his hips, digging my heels into his ass as he slid in and out of me. Each pass elicited another wave of desire.
I matched him, raising my hips to meet his, and then we broke. The world around us turned crystalline and fragile as we shattered together. I held onto him, using him as a shield in the storm. When uncertainty flared bright inside my chest, he smothered it with his own, taking my mouth, riding out my orgasm, and every doubt that threatened to drag me under in the wake of it.