“Not really,” I said. “I felt you there—I felt your magic inside me. Theirs wasn’t strong enough to get past it.”
“Good.”
“But I could see how much that took out of you. So more rest. That’s an order.”
“You’re a renovator, not a doctor,” she protested. A sly smile crossed her face. “Besides, maybe it’s not sleep I really need to recover.”
I was tired too, but somehow that one look from her sent a bolt of desire right from my chest to my groin. I raised an eyebrow at her. “Is that an invitation?”
She shrugged, still grinning. “If you want to take it as one.”
Oh, I did. And I knew she was more drained of magic than anything else after everything she’d done to protect us and get us out of that prison. Helping her replenish that energy came with the extra bonus of getting to enjoyherin one of my favorite ways.
I traced my fingers across her cheek and into her hair, tugging her into a kiss. She kissed me back hungrily but not forcefully. Her hands balled against my chest. I had the sudden feeling that she was holding herself back, holding her needs in check—worried about me. My heart swelled with a wave of love.
I eased back half an inch, just enough to speak while our breaths mingled. “Hey. You take everything you need. I want this. I always want this.”
“Seth…” She drew in her breath as if to say something more, and then the van rocked with a dip in the road. It tipped her toward me, and I let our mouths collide again.
Rose relaxed against me with a pleased sound in her throat. She kissed me back harder, her hands slipping up to run over my short-cropped hair and then down the front of my chest all the way to the fly of my jeans. My cock sprang to attention.
But we didn’t need to take this interlude quite that fast. If she needed the energy our coming together could give her, then I wanted to stretch that coming together out for as long as I could, and to bring her every imaginable pleasure along the way.
I teased my fingers down the side of her neck as we kissed again. They stroked over the curve of her breast, bringing her nipple to a point through her bra. Rose hummed encouragingly and pressed closer. Her hand slid up under my shirt, drawing sparks over my skin.
I’d almost forgotten Jin was in the back of the van with us until I heard his intake of breath. He knelt by Rose’s back. “Speaking of hungry,” he murmured, sounding amused.
Rose kissed me once more and turned her head toward him. As he leaned in to press his lips to hers, I eased down her body, tugging her shirt up and her bra aside. Jin’s hand teased over her stomach, and my mouth closed over the tip of her breast. Rose whimpered and arched into me. She yanked more insistently on my jeans.
Oh, fuck. How could I deny her? My woman. My consort. MyRose.
I fumbled with the button, and she was tugging my jeans down the second I released it. Jin eased his hands down her body to peel off her own jeans. Rose’s fingers closed around my cock, and somehow it got even harder than it had already been.
“Rose,” I said hoarsely, and maybe it wasn’t just her who needed this. I hadn’t been with her, beeninsideher, in days. Suddenly it felt like years.
My lips crashed into hers. She moaned into my mouth as Jin stroked her breasts, and her grip on my erection tightened. I groaned in return.
She wrenched my boxers down after my jeans. The naked head of my cock rubbed against the dampness on her panties. The floor of the van quivered beneath us, but in that moment it only added to the sense of urgency.
My mouth slipped down to taste the skin of her neck as my hand dipped beneath that last scrap of fabric. “Yes,” she said breathlessly. The heel of my hand pressed against her clit. I dipped a finger right up inside the hot center of her, and she gasped.
Jin claimed her mouth again, still fondling her breasts. Rose reached behind her to tug at his pants too. He paused for a second, catching her eyes, and when she smiled, he unzipped them. As I added a second finger to pulse inside her, her other hand closed around Jin’s freed cock. She pumped both of us at an accelerating rhythm. Then she hooked her leg over my thigh.
“I need more of you inside me, Seth,” she said around a whimper. “I need to feel all of you.”
I kissed her hard and pulled her panties aside at the same time. She guided my cock straight to her slick center. I let out another groan as her tight heat closed around me. It was bliss, just like always.
I set a steady rhythm of my own, plunging in and out of her in time with her panting breaths. Her fingernails dug into my shoulders. I kept my hand on her hips, helping keep us in sync as she bucked into me. Then my thumb slid lower, working over the little nub right above the place where our bodies joined.
Rose quivered, rocking faster. She caught my mouth with hers, and right then I could feel it: the crackle of energy we were generating together, her and me and Jin. It seared between us and sank into her skin.
Jin’s breath stuttered. He pressed his mouth to Rose’s shoulder as his hips jerked. I kept my own release under tight control. I could give Rose even more. Take her over the edge and then right back over it again, if I kept my self-control.
“Oh!” she cried out as I thrust into her deeper. My thumb swiveled over her clit, and she clenched around me, so tight my balls squeezed and I almost lost it.
Almost. I caught myself just in time, clenching my muscles against that release. Oh, God, it was hard not to let go while she shuddered against me. The heat I’d felt between us before flared even hotter.
Her rocking slowed. She looked at me through her eyelashes as I continued to thrust gently into her. The flush of her cheeks against her pale skin was so beautiful it sent an ache through my gut. “You didn’t finish,” she said softly. “More?”