My eyes were closed, my whole being hanging onto the second his tongue would press against my clit. I didn’t ask him to hurry again—I didn’t make a single sound. He needed this, and I wanted to give it to him. I needed this, too.
I also needed to see him.
Pulling myself up on my elbows when my arms shook so badly was torture, and my wound throbbed even harder with new pain, but I didn’t care. I looked down at Dominic between my legs, kissing his way around my hips and thighs, licking and biting and enjoying every second and every taste. It was something else to hear the words from him—you have no idea what you do to me—but it was another thing completely to see it written in his eyes, in the way he moved and kissed me, in the way he savored every moment. It was as beautiful as it was heartbreaking.
He took one leg and put it over his shoulder, then the other. He looked up at me for a moment then, as if he was making sure I could see. And I could.
Then, he dove down and grabbed my folds between his teeth, making me throw my head back instantly. He had done this before, but it had been so long ago, it felt like a dream. There were times when I’d doubted my own mind, thinking I’d only made it up, because no way can someone know how to touch you even better than you touch yourself. But, no, it wasn’t made up. Because he was here now, head buried between my thighs, kissing me and licking me like he was the one whomademe himself.
I tried to keep my eyes on him, tried to memorize the way his face looked as he licked the sense out of me, so peaceful, so beautiful, but I couldn’t. My arms gave up on me and I fell back on the pillow, but I could have been lying on hot coals and it would still be the same. He didn’t ask me to hold back now so I didn’t. I was at my very limits, anyway. I came so fast, it wasn’t even funny. His tongue slid inside me, then came up, flicking over my clit fast, and I was a goner. The feeling exploded between my legs and took over my entire body within a second, making bright stairs explode in my mind, taking away every ounce of energy in my body to replace it with the most blissful feeling I had ever felt. My hands still shook, and my hips still moved as I rode the wave, and he didn’t stop taking everything he needed from me, either, until I was sure I was about to pass out. It all came to a halt—time, the world, my thoughts, my worries. Nothing reached me in this state. It was the perfect break from the universe and from myself, and it reset my entire mind like with a press of a button.
When he finally stopped licking me and trailed kisses up my stomach, I couldn’t even keep my eyes open. I’d needed him so much, it was ridiculous. And now I’d had him. All. The. Way.
And wasn’t that supposed to make me feel calmer, peaceful,fulfilled?
But all it took was for his arms to wrap around me as he pulled me to his chest, and that need returned, twice in size, like having a taste of him was only ever going to make itdeeper, and it was never going to go away. Letting out a sigh, I pressed my cheek to his chest as he kissed my head and I forced myself to stop thinking. There would be plenty of time for that.
ChapterFourteen
Dominic Dane
I kept expectinghim to take over my mind. I kept expecting him to start whispering in my ear, filling my head with demands, with images, with a need so great it was impossible to ignore it.
She lay in my arms, just like it was meant to be since the day she was born…
And that thought should have beenhis—my wolf’s—or so I’d thought since I first met her. I always believed that most of those thoughts, most of that need that shouldn’t even be possible, came from him. But here I was, all on my own for the past three days, in blissful peace, alone in my head. And I still wanted her with every ounce of me.
“Wake up, Teddybear.” I pressed my hand on her soft cheek, my hungry eyes on every inch of her bare skin, as if I were afraid if I didn’t look at her for one second, she would disappear. How fucking ridiculous. Completely absurd to know that this was allme. No supernatural being, no amount of magic was guiding my thoughts or my body. It was all me.
She stirred, raising her head slightly at the sound of my voice, her eyes open just a bit. “I wasn’t sleeping,” she muttered, making me smile. Nobody in the world made me want to smile like she did.
That was all me, too.
“Yes, you were,” I said, biting back a chuckle. I don’t know why I bothered—it was very clear to me by now that she wouldn’t care. She wouldn’t mind how I sounded or what I looked like. She would want me anyway, and I’ll be damned if that wasn’t going to ruin the both of us. If I only knew what she saw in me, it would maybe make a little more sense, but every time I wondered, I came up empty-handed.
She sighed against my chest, just the warmth of her breath making my cock twitch. I would have thought she cast a spell on me or lured me in with magic, but the memory of her when she was far away did the same, too.
“It’s just so peaceful,” she mumbled lazily, pushing herself closer to my chest, pressing her gorgeous tits against my skin. Once more, I expected the beast to come crawling out from whatever darkness he hid in, but he didn’t come.
And the need for her grew with every breath I took.
I gently pushed her back on the bed and she moaned her complaint. She obviously didn’t know what she did to me, how she played my body like I was a puppet attached to her strings; otherwise she wouldn’t have moved the way she did. She wouldn’t have let out those sounds that made me want to fucking eat her raw.
She lay on her back, eyes half closed, a lazy smile spreading her beautiful lips. Fuck, that smile. I kissed it off her like a savage, and she still didn’t complain. She wrapped her arms around my neck and pulled me to her with so much urge it was impossible to hold back. The idea that I could even have her like this, all on my own, made my mind explode into fireworks. I could kiss her, take my time with her the way I couldn’t do in San Francisco for fear of losing control. And I’d be a damned liar if I said I didn’t love it when she begged me. When she wanted me so much she lost control of her own body. Just like I did because of her, over and over again…until I’d heard about Crackdown. The thought of the drug coursing in my veins made me shiver, but I pushed it away. I was with Teddy. Icouldbe with Teddy. Nothing else was going to have the privilege of my attention, at least for tonight.
“Are you going to make me wait again?” she whispered as I kissed her neck then moved down to her chest, so hungry for her tits even though I’d had them in my mouth minutes ago. The thirst didn’t quench. If anything, it became deeper.
“Maybe,” I teased, flicking my tongue over her pert nipple, so perfectly pink I couldn’t decide whether I wanted to keep away from tainting it with my tongue and just stare at it forever, or if I wanted to suck all the pink out of it.
As much as staring at it was tempting, I closed my mouth around it and sucked. Her back arched instantly, and her hands on the back of my neck pressed me to her until I couldn’t breathe. I didn’t need air, anyway.
I didn’t really need anything more than this. Nothing had ever made me feel fulfilled before. I hadn’t even known Iwasn’tuntil San Francisco. Until I had her spread in front of me to do with as I pleased.
I wondered what it would be like to have this every day. To have her in my bed, every inch of her pressed against me, naked, all day every day, until we both withered away into nothing.
What a life. I’d imagined it, but I never actually believed it would be possible. Except now…with this drug in my system that I loathed as much as I needed it, it didn’t seem such an impossibility anymore. If I was careful, and if I took enough of it regularly, maybe I could keep my wolf at bay for good. Maybe I could keep it from coming out and making claims. Maybe I could actually be with her…
Shaking my head, I let go of her nipple and dove into the other, and my hands roamed over every inch of her naked skin, burning. I was rock hard already, and she was dripping like a fucking waterfall, too. I didn’t have my full senses right now, but I knew her scent well enough to know how she was feeling, even if her moans and her desperate pulls weren’t obvious enough.