Infinite Desire

by Gayle Donnelly, Robyn MacKenzie

  Alex smiled up at him and let the deep timbre of his voice wash over her. “I’m staying right here where I belong. With you.”

  Tre cupped the back of her head in one large hand as he wrapped his other arm around her waist before drawing her flush against him. He pulled her head back with authority. “Be very sure about this, Alex. Because once I cross that line, there’s no turning back.”

  Heat pooled between her legs at his dominant hold and the weighted meaning behind his words. She wanted him more than she’d ever wanted anything in her life. Alex licked her lips and ground her hips against his. “I’m yours, Tre.”

  Chapter Fourteen

  Tre could barely see beyond his own lust as Alex pressed her narrow hips against his straining erection. His dick was about to explode from his jeans and his only coherent thought was to get inside this female as soon as possible. Tre brought his mouth to hers in a brutal kiss and wasted no time sliding his tongue inside to duel with hers. Her lips were full, soft, and her taste exploded through his senses. He felt his beast roar in triumph and fight its way to the surface. He needed more.

  Tre molded her pliant body to his own and her soft moans sent him to the edge of his control. Without breaking their connection, he lifted her and took two long strides until he had her pinned against the old lath-and-plaster wall next to his bed. The force of the movement caused a startled breath of air to escape from Alex’s lungs. He fought for some semblance of control so as not to hurt her but as Alex ran her hands down his bare torso and hooked her fingers into the waistband of his jeans, his control shattered. He needed to taste more of her. Now.

  Tearing his lips from hers, he moved across her jaw and down to the pulse point of her slim throat, fighting the almost overwhelming need to mark her as his own. As he latched his teeth on to the tender skin just behind her ear and began a tugging pull, her strangled moan of pleasure sent frissons of heat to his already straining cock. His body was on fire. His beast was close. And at that moment, he wasn’t going to deny either of them.

  Tre stepped back just far enough to take the collar of her thin shirt and rip it down the middle and toss it aside. He looked into Alex’s startled gaze and saw a fire of need that matched his own.

  “Oh God, Tre. Now. Please,” Alex begged.

  He felt his canines lengthen as his hands molded to her tight, high breasts, her straining nipples visible through the soft lace of her bra. His mouth closed over one tight bud as he took long, sucking pulls before using his teeth to pinch the eager tip through the fabric. Alex hissed at the sensation as she pulled on his hair and ground her hips against him. The sensation on his cock was agony and ecstasy rolled into one and he knew he was out of time.

  Tre used his teeth to cut through the delicate fabric of her bra at the same time he gripped the waistband of her jeans and ripped them from her body. Her panties quickly suffered the same fate as he forced himself to take a step back and admire the beautiful creature in front of him. Alex’s eyes were glazed with lust and her pupils dilated. Her nipples were hard points begging for attention and her breath was coming hard and fast. Tre pulled off his jeans as he inhaled deeply, the scent of her arousal coursing through his senses.

  He heard as well as felt the low growl rumble through his chest. He moved to where she stood frozen, her back still flush against the wall. Tre reached behind her head to gather a handful of her thick, silky hair. He tightened his grip as he pulled her closer. His other hand moved to her hip as he spun her around. Her back was now to his chest and he slid his arm around her waist.

  “Hands on the wall, Alex.”

  He felt her shiver in his hold but she didn’t hesitate to do as she was told. Her palms slapped flat on the wall, her back stiff, her head still turned to the side so he could see her face. He watched as the tip of her tongue slid out to lick her upper lip and his cock jerked in response. Still gripping her hair, he pulled her head back and slammed his mouth over hers, their tongues tangling and tasting each other in a frenzied dance. Her slight moans breached the silence of the room. He pressed himself against her and molded to her body. His achingly hard cock pressed into the cleft of her ass and he felt her push back against him.

  He slid his hand down the smooth skin of her stomach, his fingers reaching the dewy wetness of her slick, bare folds. She was hot and she was ready. Thank fuck. His beast was clawing to break free and he knew if he wasn’t inside her in the next few seconds, he would surely die. But he still had enough restraint to make sure she was ready for him. He fought for some semblance of control, breathing deeply as he continued to push his fingers inside the tightest pussy he’d ever known.

  “Don’t wait, Tre. Just do it now. I need you inside me,” Alex whispered pleadingly.

  Tre smiled and placed his lips on her neck, continuing his ministrations with his fingers. “This is all I’ve thought about for months, baby. I don’t think I could wait another second if I tried. Now spread your legs and pop that gorgeous ass out.”

  Alex was shaking with a need that bordered on pain. Her womb contracted as he curled his talented fingers to hit a secret spot of nerves that had her crying out in pleasure. Tre shifted behind her and she felt the thick length of his cock press against her now-weeping opening. Without any more warning he slammed into her to the hilt, knocking her body against the wall. Her breath whooshed out of her mouth in a scream of ecstasy and she was immediately transported back to six months ago, except this felt better because there were no longer any secrets between them.

  God, was he this big before? She felt completely full, the tender tissues of her sex squeezing in reaction to his invasion. She had to close her eyes at the complete and utter rhapsody racking her body. Tre gripped her hips tightly and began to move, slow and deep at first, filling her and then almost leaving her body completely. Each movement sent a firestorm of sensations through her body. She felt every hard inch of him as he slid his length in and out, his breath coming hard and fast against her neck. Tre wrapped his arms around her, grasping her breasts in his large hands, massaging the aching flesh.

  Alex turned her head and found his gaze. His jaw was tight, his eyes closed. He was holding back and she knew it. She reached back with her right hand to tug on his hair. He opened his eyes to meet her gaze. “You feel so good inside me, Tre. But I won’t break.” She gave his hair another tug. “Please,” she rasped breathlessly.

  She watched as Tre’s eyes darkened almost to black as his pupils dilated, the heat of his gaze scorching in its intensity. “Hands on the wall, baby,” he ordered in a sexy-as-hell growl before taking her lips in a devastating kiss.

  He released her mouth as he shifted his hands away from her breasts and skimmed them down her rib cage to her hips, where he dug his fingers into her skin. He continued to torture her with slow, deep thrusts. “You ready to come, Alex? You want to come for me now?”

  Her body was an inferno and her need to climax was at an almost critical level. The pleasure was too much and Alex was losing what little control she had left. “Yes!” she yelled. “I need you, Tre. All of you.”

  She felt his hands tighten on her hips and his movements quickened. Gone were the long, slow thrusts. He drove into her hard and deep, quickening his strokes and grinding his hips. Alex slid her hands higher up the wall, feeling every hard plunge of his cock. She was becoming dizzy from the pleasure—which was so much more than before—and had to close her eyes against the rush of sensation flooding her system. His breath on her skin, their combined scent in the air, his fingers digging into her flesh—all of it was sending her over the edge. She released all her worries of the past and let go. Gave in to Tre and the life she wanted with him.

  She felt him grow impossibly larger as he continued his heavy thrusts, hitting that bundle of nerves inside her with every hard stoke. There was no warning as his teeth closed around the skin between her neck and shoulder, the pleasure-pain sting sending her body soaring. Alex threw her head back and yelled out her climax as Tre drov
e deep inside her one last time and roared his own release.

  Alex leaned her forehead against the wall, trying to catch her breath as Tre remained inside her body, still hard. He felt her shudder as Tre continued stroking his hands up and down her sides and around to her belly. She tightened involuntarily around his cock and she felt the responding movement in her core.

  “You’d better stop moving, baby, or you won’t get a minute’s rest.”

  Alex laughed lightly. “Who says I want rest? I just want you.”

  Tre snaked his arms around her middle, holding her close. “I like hearing that, Alexandria.”

  “I like saying it, Tremayne.”

  Chapter Fifteen

  Tre kissed the side of her neck where he’d latched on moments ago. He hadn’t marked her and didn’t break the skin but the struggle not to do so had been an arduous challenge. He winced as he slowly began to pull out of her tight sheath, her body still swollen and clinging to his. He missed her heat immediately and wanted nothing more than to slide back into her silken wetness.

  Alex turned to face him and wrapped her arms around his waist, hugging him close. She placed her chin in the center of his chest and looked up, the blue of her eyes almost opaque in the afterglow of what they’d just experienced. Tre bent and wrapped an arm under her legs before lifting her into his arms. He moved to the bed and gently laid her down, quickly joining her and pulling her close.

  The anger Tre feared was buried deep inside him… He never knew when it would rear its ugly head, but now he knew that being with Alex wouldn’t be the cause. She was right. She may have been raised Valta but he sensed no darkness in her. He brushed her hair away from her face and just stared down into her beautiful cerulean eyes. They were a mixture of blue and gray and they reminded him of a rainy morning, fresh and soothing. He saw his reflection in them and he liked the visual. Liked seeing himself in her eyes. He’d waited months to have her again. To find her and get answers. To possess her and not let her go. Well, he had his answers now, and no way would he allow her to run again. Mine.

  Alex curled into his side with her eyes closed and placed her small hand over his heart, her head resting on his shoulder. It wasn’t long before her breathing changed and he knew she’d fallen asleep. Tre absently ran his fingers through her long black tresses as he let his mind replay the events of the last few days.

  He had his explanation. Yes, she’d been raised Valta, but she’d done what she had because of her fear of the Coteri and the poisonous lies her family had fed her since birth. The ways of the Valta were not something she truly believed in—her warped reality had been ingrained in her brain from childhood by two of the most evil beings he had ever come into contact with.

  Valencia was a cold-hearted bitch and to use her own daughter like that was unspeakable. And Luca was even worse. Tre still couldn’t believe their blood ran through Alex’s veins and he wondered once again who her biological father was. Alex had said she didn’t know and he believed her but maybe her father’s DNA had had a positive influence in developing her true nature.

  With thoughts of her family swirling through his brain, Tre suddenly realized just how much Alex was risking being there with him. He placed a soft kiss to the top of her head and held her close. She would now be the number one target for the Valta. With her defection, the Coteri now possessed their head scientist, not to mention the daughter of their queen. He needed to talk to Dev and the team to make sure everyone realized the danger she would now be in, because he wouldn’t allow anything to happen to her. After today, she was his responsibility. His female. And nothing would come between them.

  Tre pulled Alex closer and allowed his eyes to close, needing a few hours of shut-eye himself, after his sleepless night, before meeting with the team.

  Hours later the sun was low in the sky and Tre continued to stroke the silky skin of her back with his fingers, rubbing lazy circles up and down her spine as Alex lay draped across his chest. He liked the feel of her there. It felt right. And his body liked it even more as her slender hand caressed his abs and farther down to stroke his once again fully aroused cock. Christ, he couldn’t get enough of this female. With a sigh, he grabbed her hand and pulled it up to his lips to place a kiss on the center of her palm. She lifted her chin and met his gaze, a small smile curving her luscious mouth.

  He pushed a layer of thick black hair away from her face and smiled. “While I’d love nothing more than to keep you tied to my bed throughout the rest of the day and night and let you have your wicked way with me, I have to go out with the team and scout the other two locations you gave Dev. And I want you to stay here where he can keep an eye on you.”

  He felt her body stiffen in his arms as she frowned, the hurt in her eyes clear. “You still don’t trust me, Tre?”

  He squeezed her closer and smiled down at her before kissing the tip of her nose. “That’s not what I meant, Alex. You’re here with me now. You’re not going back to your other life. But you have to realize that changing loyalties will put a huge target on your back and once he finds out you’re mine, I don’t think your brother will take that quietly. Do you?”

  Tre nimbly rolled on top of her and settled between her legs, this thick shaft nestled against her core. He watched as her eyes widened in surprise before he placed a quick kiss to her lips. “And make no mistake, Alex. You. Are. Mine.”

  Alex couldn’t help but roll her hips into Tre’s erection, ready to feel him inside her again. But she forced herself to focus on what he’d said. And he was right, damn it. Luca would come after her. After learning all that he was capable of, she had no illusions that brotherly love would save her now. He would do whatever it took to get her back, if for nothing else than to force her to continue with his breeding experiments. Tre was right. She had to be on her guard.

  She was startled when Tre suddenly rolled again so she was now on top, his amber eyes alight with mischief. She sighed and laid her head against his chest, his steady heartbeat thudding beneath her ear. Time to get back to the real world. She sighed.

  “You’re right. Luca will be furious with me when he finds out I’m gone, if he hasn’t already realized. And I don’t even want to think about my mother’s reaction, especially when you go after the other two locations.”

  Alex couldn’t suppress the shiver that ran down her spine at the thought of how her mother would react once she learned of her daughter’s defection to the Coteri. They’d never been close—that tight bond had only existed with her brother—but even Alex realized that Luca would see her defection as the ultimate betrayal and wouldn’t rest until he could exact his punishment.

  While she loathed leaving the warmth of Tre’s strong arms, Alex knew it was time to get up and get moving. She rolled to the side of the bed and looked at the floor, realizing her clothes were in tatters. Well, shit. She reached behind her and pulled the top sheet off the bottom of the bed and stood, wrapping it around her and securing it at her breasts.

  “I like that look, baby. But I like you better naked,” Tre said in a husky voice as he rolled to his side and propped his head in his hand, completely at ease with his nudity.

  “You don’t look so bad yourself, handsome.” She allowed herself the luxury of letting her eyes take in his perfect form from head to toe. “But you’re the one who said you needed to get going, remember?”

  Tre let out a low growl of frustration, pushed himself off the bed and walked to the other side of the room. Alex sat on the edge of the bed and tracked his movements.

  “What am I supposed to wear, since you destroyed my clothes?” Alex tried and failed to keep the laughter out of the accusatory tone of her question.

  Tre looked at her over his shoulder, the glint in his eyes impossible to miss. “You saying you didn’t enjoy it at the time, baby? Because I know I sure as hell did.”

  Alex laughed at his teasing and warmth coursed through her body at their easy banter. “I think I’ll plead the fifth on that but I’ll still
need something to wear besides this sheet if I’m going to leave your room…unless, of course, you don’t mind me walking around draped only in a bedsheet?”

  A deep rumbled growl escaped as Tre’s nostrils flared. He clearly didn’t like that idea. He marched over to his dresser, still naked, and pulled out a pair of black sweatpants and a gray T-shirt. He tossed them to her. “Here. Put these on and I’ll send Seth over to your place to pack up your clothes. We need to bring all your research from your home office back as well. Is there anything else from the house that you need?”

  Alex shook her head. “No, nothing I can’t live without. We can always go back later if we need to.”

  Tre nodded and pulled another T-shirt and a pair of faded jeans for himself out of the drawer.

  “Are you familiar with the areas I mapped out for Dev?”

  Tre pulled the T-shirt over his head and maneuvered himself into his jeans. He sat down beside her and placed his hand over hers. “Yeah. I’ve tracked around there before but never found anything. I guess I wasn’t looking at the levee as being something that could be tunneled through and reformed as a hideout.” Tre bent over and began to lace up his boots. “Pretty ballsy of your brother to mess with the levee system down here. Katrina did a number a few years back and I wouldn’t think he would want to risk any added attention by setting up shop in that area.”

  Alex closed her eyes, now seeing her brother in an entirely new light. The realization still broke her heart. “Yeah. Luca has a couple of contacts running interference through FEMA. Most of the surrounding area is still uninhabited so he doesn’t get too much traffic around there, from what he told me. And with his mental abilities as strong as they are, he’s pretty much untouchable when dealing with humans.” She shivered uncontrollably, thinking of all the damage Luca had done to the unsuspecting humans in the area.