He leaned down and pressed his lips across a darkening bruise over her knee. “You have no idea what I’ve wanted to do to you, Rhia. What I’ve imagined between us.” He fisted the material of the blankets on either side of her thighs, his head pressed into her midriff.
He moved to the other knee, tracing the bloom of black and purple with his tongue.
She softened under his touch, swallowing tightly. “Why don’t you show me?” Her words were gentle but held the weight of his world. If he did as she suggested, could he hold back enough to enjoy her body and nothing more?
Not likely.
He chuckled darkly. “That’s a dangerous question you don’t want the answer to until you can fully take me.”
She rested her hands on his shoulder then ran her fingers through his hair. Her touch forced his eyes shut and the monster he kept at bay inside howled with a deep desire that sent a rush of heat barreling through him.
She went to move, but he tightened his grip.
When he felt her flinch, he released the pressure and pulled back.
The ones responsible for putting the bruises on her arms would pay with their blood. He would rip out their throats and let them die in the streets.
“Don’t move. Don’t push me right now. If you do, I won’t be able to control what happens.” He wanted to kiss her, place kisses up the stretch of her delicate thighs but he didn’t dare. He was way past capable of being the gentle lover he wanted to be for her.
He leaned forward and pressed his forehead against the soft skin of her abdomen and inhaled through his nose, letting the air out slowly.
If she were to run, push him away right this minute she wouldn’t get away.
A snarling growl grew in his chest and he released it, causing her to jump when she tried to step away.
He moved his lips over her quivering stomach and ran the tip of his tongue over the skin just above the band of her silk panties.
She tightened her grip on his hair with a tiny moan that hit his ears, clenching his senses in a vise.
Wrestling his beast under control, he rose to his feet and placed a tender kiss on the darkest of bruises over her left shoulder just below her bird tattoo. Nipped and licked his way to the shell of her ear before stopping. “You need to know when I take you. I won’t be a gentle lover. You’ll need Lucian for that.”
Between them his considerable length grew heavy with need, pressing into her soft stomach.
He watched her intently. Her hands moved to his shoulders, to the buttons of his shirt as she worked them loose until the material fell to the floor at their feet.
Flaring desire took over her expression. Her pulse ratcheted up and her breathing came erratically.
“Do you hear me?”
“I want all of you, Sevastyan. All. I can handle anything you can give me. If I can handle Matteo and Roman, I can handle what you need from me.”
She moaned a sound of appreciation and he recognized the primal hunger in the sound when he buried his fingers into her hair and tightened his fingers. It was almost like a physical caress, and he liked it.
Her eyes flashed with a hint of arrogance in the dim lighting. “And how do you know what kind of lovers I’ve had, Mr. Volkov?” she asked quietly. “Before you four that is.”
Tiny nails scraped over taut pecs, the disk of his nipples, and farther down until her hands rested on his belt at first then lower as she spoke.
Fuck.
He liked the way she teased. Made him hungrier for her.
He arched into her hand, groaning when her fingers wrapped around his aching cock. “God, that feels good. What did I ever do to deserve such a sweet bird in my arms?” He wanted a taste of the hot liquid he knew spilled from her tender folds.
“You know so little of me and me of you yet I feel like I’ve known you for a lifetime.”
He tilted her chin and waited until her gaze met his. “I know you’ve had no other lovers like us because you’re here. If you’d had them, trust me no sane man would have let you go. Lucky for you, no other man is looking for you. If there were, Matteo would have already put them in the ground for us. Leaving you all to us. To take our seed, swell with our babies, and hopefully not hate us too much for loving you endlessly.”
He seized her chin when she tried to pull away. “You’ll learn just how serious I am about all that in time. I’ve got endless amounts of it where you’re concerned.”