The walk across the lawn,through the foyer and up the stairs gave Stella plenty of time to resume her sanity but not once did she come close to saying no. The light touch of Aleki’s hand on her back as he escorted her acted as a touchstone, keeping her grounded on the mission even as her hormones whizzed around her in overt glee and her brain warned against following them into the blissful abyss.
He’ll never love you. He’s told you as much.
Shut up, Stella scolded her dour brain. We’ve had plenty of sex without love before. Let me have this. Just once more.
“Holy shit.” The gasp tumbled from Stella’s lips on impact as her back hit her bedroom door with a thud. Aleki’s body covered hers, hard and unyielding, his breath hot on her throat.
“Still with me, little star?” He sucked a scorching open mouthed kiss onto the delicate skin of her neck, his fingers tunneling under her dress and grazing up her thighs to grasp at her arse.
“Still with you,” she managed, bucking her hips forward into the glorious bulge in his pants.
His groan echoed through the high ceilinged hallway. “Stella.” Her name rang out like a benediction as he kneaded her flesh, his strong hands anchoring her to him as he rubbed himself against the silk of her underwear.
“Stop teasing me, Aleki. I need you.” She’d have been embarrassed by the admission if she were capable of feeling anything beyond blind lust.
Aleki dropped his face to the curve of her shoulder once more, the scrape of teeth over her collarbone sending sparks of urgency shooting through her, her nipples like diamonds against the smooth lining of her dress.
“You need me, little star?” His question rasped over the hollow of her throat. “Do you need to remember how it feels to have me inside you? To be filled so completely you can’t think, can’t speak, can’t do anything but take the pleasure I give you?”
“Please, Aleki. Please.”
He moved one hand from her body and to open the door, Aleki’s lips parted from her bare shoulder and hungry, obsidian eyes.
“The bed.”
She moved quickly, desperation hurrying her steps.
“Stop.”
“But-”
“Stay there.”
Stella shifted her weight from foot to foot, one hand already on the headboard. Blood roared through her as the ache to be filled pulsed beneath the thin silk of her underwear.
Hot awareness throbbed low in her as Aleki swept the soft fall of her hair over towards her exposed shoulder. His lips brushed the opposite side of her neck, sending goosebumps skittering across her chest. He kissed and nuzzled the tender flesh, teasing her with a swipe of his tongue, the scrape of his teeth. The hand holding her hair fell to the discreet tab of the zipper under her arms, and he lowered it slowly, the sound of each dainty tooth sawing open filling the air like the rumble of a Formula One race. The dress dropped slowly, a tangle of sequins at her heels.
Strong brown arms pulled her back against the naked planes of his torso. His navy suit was gone, she realised, along with the white shirt she’d grasped during their dance floor kiss. His body was hot and strong at her back, the crisp hair on his chest and the powerful thighs bracketing her legs tickling deliciously against her skin. She rubbed backwards gently, and was rewarded with a growl.
“You make me forget myself.”
“Good.” Stella panted. “Forgetting you is one of my hobbies.”
He laughed, low and wicked in her ear as his hands stroked slowly up her ribs to fan along the underside of her breasts.
“You never really forget though do you, little star?” Talented fingers tugged at a nipple and she moaned. “That’s why you’re here now. Because you know what I can do to your body. If someone else could do it, you’d be with him. But here you are, back with me, wanting what only I can give you.”
“Hurry up and give it to me, then.” Stella’s voice was as husky as his as she arched her back, thrusting out her chest and grinding back against him. “Because for someone who promised me action, you’re doing an awful lot of talking.”
“That mouth is going to get you into trouble one day.” The callused fingertips of one hand trailed down her stomach, the slight abrasions firing through her even as his touch gentled below her stomach, travelling in teasing circles over her hips and the top of her thighs.
Jesus, she could barely breathe, the anticipation had her strung so tight. He slipped his hand under the thin barrier of her underwear, one long finger swiping through her folds up to the sensitive bundle of nerves and circled it slowly. She whimpered - whimpered - and jerked her hips forward, seeking more.
A ragged breath razed her ear. “Oh, my star. Do you think you can control this? That’s very sweet.”
Fuck this.She spun in his arms, twisting their bodies so the prince was situated next to the bed. One firm shove and he fell to a sitting position on the mattress.
“Is that what you think, Aleki? That this will be like the last time?” Stella mocked, throwing one leg over his heavy thighs and straddling his lap. Hunger licked at her from the shadows of his eyes, the challenge apparent. She ran her fingers across the breadth of his shoulders, the tight muscles bunching under her touch. “The worldly prince and the sweet little virgin?” Her laugh dripped like poison as she rocked her hips against the erection straining the front of his boxer briefs. “Have you learned nothing about me this week?” Bending her head, she tugged Aleki’s earlobe between her teeth, lightly pulling the tender flesh in time with the rhythm of her thrusts. A tortured moan filled the air as his hands came up to grasp at her cheeks, settling her more fully onto his lap.
“I control everything. You want inside me?” She swiped her tongue up his neck, exalting in the tang of sweat that coated her taste buds. “Then listen to me when I say stop fucking around and get there.”
She was on her back in an instant, the comforter cool at her back as frenzied hands ripped her underwear down her legs and over the black heels she still wore. Aleki shoved his own underwear down, fisting himself roughly before he fell on her, licking, sucking, biting her breasts, thrusting his erection into the vee of her thighs and rubbing the crown through her slick folds. Holding his dark head to her chest, she bucked her hips against his as the tip of his cock rubbed against her sweet spot.
“Like that, fafine aulelei? Like that?”
“God, yes. Condom. Hurry.” Her words came fast, desperate as he pushed her closer to the edge.
He was gone for a second and she could hear him rifling through his pockets as one hand drifted down between her legs to settle against the hard knot of her desire, before her hand was knocked away.
“I would give half the kingdom to watch you take your own pleasure, little star. But right now I’m too close. When I come tonight, it will be inside you.” The sound of ripping foil followed in the wake of Aleki’s growled - promise? Threat? - and then he was there, the luscious weight of him pressing her to the mattress as he notched himself at her entrance and sealed his mouth to hers.
Then slowly, slowly, slowly, he eased into her, each inch of him dragging through her, thick and purposeful. A delicious torture, sliding deep and deliberately until he was seated fully inside her. Easing up onto his hands, he held his weight above her and trapped her with his eyes.
“Is that what you wanted, little star?”
Aleki. Staring at me, hair flopping over his forehead, muscles tensed. Inside me, filling me.
“Yes.” Her words were tight, high, born from the tension coiled down where their bodies joined and leaking out through her lips, unfiltered and real. “Yes, that’s what I want.”
“Good. Then that’s what you’ll get.” Aleki began to move, sliding almost out of her and then burying himself to the hilt, grinding his pelvis against hers when he seated, brushing his crisp curls against her nub.
Bliss rolled over her, a thick golden blanket, as he pumped inside her. She raised her hips, matching him thrust for thrust, triumphing in the knowledge that the bite of her heels were digging into his arse even as he lowered his head to deliver a deep, pulling suck to her nipple. The haze doubled, the line between pleasure and power as they fought together, pushed and pulled together, chasing euphoria. One of Aleki’s hands dropped, grasping her butt cheek with bruising fingers as he knocked her knee upwards with his own, opening her up and tilting his hips and gliding up to hit her perfectly. The change of angle blinded Stella, and she squeezed her eyes shut, every thought in her head falling out of her mouth in one long continuous gasp as she rocketed towards the edge of the cliff. “Oh my God, like that, please Aleki, don’t stop, I need it, I need you, just like that, right there, right there, please.”
With a final swirl of his tongue around the tender flesh of her nipple, she felt Aleki’s head raise up from her chest.
“Stella.” Her name on his lips was harsh, guttural. “Open your eyes, little star. Look at me.”
Wrenching her lids open, Stella met his gaze, hot and desperate. Fire flashed in the depths of his eyes as he stared down at her, his breath ragged as he bore down, twisting his hips as he drove home. Caught in the web of his stare, Stella could do nothing to stem the tidal wave of pleasure that rose up inside her, ruthless and twisting, coiling tight behind her abdomen. Aleki tightened his grip and surged forward and the dam broke, a thousand sparkling pieces shattering behind her eyes as she flew, pleasure shooting like stars under her skin. She cried out and from somewhere beyond the rainbow in her head heard her name being chanted in rough pants as Aleki followed her into the void.