She rubbed her wrists where the cuffs had been before Dane removed them with some kind of device. No matter how she tried not to think about him, no matter how she tried to remain pissed off at him, Kara couldn’t get Adan off her mind. Once she had known he was fine, she couldn’t help but feel betrayed by the fact that he’d been after her crystal all along. “You owe me some answers, Adan,” she said aloud. “And I’m running out of patience.”
Kara let her hand fall away from the pendant and she moved to the shielded picture window. She touched the pane and the shield shimmered and faded away, letting in the gray light of the day. Outside she saw the Tower of Light that Lilli had pointed out, which looked an awful lot like a giant penis, kind of like a larger version of her crystal pendant. She had to laugh. What a strange thing to have sitting beside a frozen lake.
Kids played in the snow around the pillar, having snowball battles, and creating elaborately formed miniature cities of snow and ice creatures. Considering the Clans had been on this planet for a decade, it was no wonder they were so good at ice and snow art. She had wondered why people didn’t ice-skate on the lake, but according to Lilli an underground hot springs caused the ice to be weak in some places, and they didn’t want to chance anyone falling through.
Spacecraft zoomed around and people trudged through the snow, going about their daily duties. Lilli had told Kara much about the colony and how the people came to be on this planet. She had explained what the people were doing as they worked in the snow, and how they survived on what the planet had to offer. There was even a colony of people indigenous to the planet who lived below the ground and fed on fish and plants that grew only in the caverns, and captured unwary snowrabbits that ventured into the caves. Apparently they’d been asked if they would like to come to the surface to join the Clans, but had refused.
She placed her hand to the now unshielded pane and it felt cool to the touch. With a sigh she rested her forehead against the glass and her breath fogged it, obscuring her vision. The memory of the first time she’d seen Adan, when she was looking through her own window, came rushing over her. It seemed so long ago, yet it had been what, mere days? A week, maybe more? She couldn’t remember anymore. It seemed like a lifetime that she’d known him.
Just as she leaned back to wipe the fog from the window, a pair of large hands clasped her waist from behind.
Kara yelped and tried to turn, but a man pressed his length to hers. He buried his face in the crook of her neck, his stubbled cheek abrading the soft skin. Instantly she knew it was Adan, from his unique scent and the feel of his muscled body molded against hers. Her pendant sent more fire through her, stimulating her beyond belief. Oh, God how she needed him to fuck her, and now.
“I have missed you, love,” came his low, seductive voice in her ear. He slowly trailed his fingers down the side of her body that was bare, from the curve of her breast to her hip and back. His calloused fingertips were rough against her soft skin.
“Adan.” She shivered and her nipples tightened against the gauzy fabric of her sarong. Her pussy grew even wetter and her body ached for Adan more than ever. “I’ve missed you, too.”
Slowly he turned her so that she was looking up at him. His chest was bare and she saw that healing wounds scaled his arms, and he had a brutal-looking gash above one eye. It looked like someone had just punched him from the way it was red and starting to darken. She noticed the ice-ghosts’ collar had been removed from his neck, but that his skin had been rubbed raw from the leather.
“Why didn’t you come to see me?” he murmured as he touched one finger to her chin.
“Dane wouldn’t let me out of this room,” Kara replied as she melted at the sight of his injuries. She wanted to caress him, to care for him. To have wild, crazy sex with him. But at the same time she was still angry. “I really should kick your ass, you know,” she said with her best attempt at a scowl.
Adan winced. “Would you mind waiting until my ass has healed?”
The corner of Kara’s mouth quirked and she did her best not to laugh. “Maybe.” But then her features went serious again. “What’s so important about this crystal?”
He sighed and rubbed his stubble in a movement that made her feel like he was stalling for time. “I am not sure I am the right one to tell you.”
“If not you, then who?” She tried to pull away, but he wouldn’t release the hold he had on her.
Again he took a moment to answer. “An advisor to our people,” he finally replied. “She will explain the value of the crystal to you. What it means to our world.”
Frustration welled up inside her. “Dammit, I want you to tell me.”
“I promise that all your questions will be answered.” He tweaked the curl over her forehead. “And if you are not satisfied, you can kick my ass then.”
This time she couldn’t help a small grin. But then her smile turned back into a frown. “You used me, Adan. I don’t like being used.”
His lips set in a grim line before he said, “I am sorry, Kara. I do not know how to make it up to you.”
“I do.” Kara placed her hands on his shoulders, taking care not to touch his wounds. She rose up on her toes and whispered in his ear, “Fuck me.”
Chapter Ten
Adan’s gut clenched as Kara’s soft voice whispered her lustful command. He slid his hands from her shoulders to her elbows and back as he studied her features. Her eyes were dark green and her lips moist and slightly parted. The sarong she wore revealed the curve of one breast all the way down to her hip and his cock ached to take her now.
“Well, come on.” She reached for the fastenings of his breeches. “I’m tired of waiting.”
Adan caught her hands and held them within his own. “Do you think that sex will make everything right between us?”
Cocking her head to one side, Kara looked up at him. “No…but it’ll be fun.”
Adan frowned. “I do not want you to think that I merely wish to fuck you. I want more, Kara.”
“More what?” She furrowed her brows. “You can’t be thinking about a relationship. I mean you live here, in the future, on an ice-planet. I live in the past on Earth. I have a life there, my friends, and my job.”
Adan brought one hand up to cup her cheek. He caressed the soft skin with his thumb, moving it to the moist corner of her mouth and back. “Give it time, love. Give us time. That is all I ask.”
Lost in the power of his words, Kara closed her eyes as he continued to stroke her cheek. Something deep within called to her, more than simply the desire to have sex with Adan. She felt a connection with him that she had never experienced before, with any man.
Was it worth exploring, even for a little while?
No. This is crazy. Go home while you have the chance!
The thought of going home suddenly made her stomach hurt. It felt wrong, somehow. Like that choice would ruin everything, from the past to the present and the future, too.
With a shuddering sigh she opened her eyes. “All right,” she whispered as her gaze met his dark eyes. “I don’t promise anything, but I’ll give you—us—some time to figure this all out.” The thought of leaving him tore at her again, but still she added, “If and when I decide to go home, you have to let me. That’s the deal.”
For a long moment Adan just looked at the beauty before him. He couldn’t bear the thought of her leaving him, but he did not want to force her if she chose not to stay…
Instead of answering, he lowered his head and sought out her lips with his. She opened for him willingly, allowing his tongue to slip into her mouth. He slid his fingers from her cheek into her curls, and cupped the back of her head. With his other hand he drew her body tight to his and pressed his erection against her belly.
Her warmth heated him, the taste of her filled him, and her scent of spring and woman surrounded him. No, he could never get enough of this woman and he would not let her go. He would win her heart, no matter the cost.
Kara’s kiss became more urgen
t and her soft moans fired his loins. He deliberately kept the pace slow, wanting to make love to her, not just fuck this woman who had captured his heart in such a short span of time.
When she placed her palms against his chest, he was sure she could feel the thundering of his heart. She moved her hands to his shoulders and he flinched when her fingers gripped his wounds.
She tore away from his kiss, her cheeks flushed and her lips swollen. An apologetic look crossed her sweet face. “I’m sorry. I forgot.”
With a smile he captured both her hands in his and brought her knuckles to his lips. “You could never really hurt my flesh, love. Only my heart.”
Kara bit her lip at the feel of the sensual caress of his mouth kissing each of her knuckles in turn. She wanted him with a need so fierce that she would have scaled his body and wrapped her legs around his waist if he hadn’t been injured. Instead she let him set the pace, all the while dying to feel his naked body against hers, his cock deep within her core.
With a rumble of desire, Adan scooped her into his arms, pressing her against his broad chest, and she laughed in surprise. She wrapped her arms around his neck, but this time she took care not to grab the wounds on his shoulders. He carried her toward the bed and gently set her down beside it, until her bare feet reached the cool floor.
For a long moment he simply stroked his fingers through her curls and looked at her. The curls sprang back with every stroke and he smiled. Electricity zinged through her belly and straight to her pussy. God, he was so handsome. The fierce spark in his eyes, the straight line of his jaw, his stubbled cheeks and his hard packed body. Everything about him set her on fire.
“You do know you’re about to make me lose my mind, don’t you?” She reached up and caught his hand in hers, then brought it slowly down to her breast. “Touch me, Adan. Feel me.”
“Aye, love.” Adan brought his other hand up and began kneading both of her breasts through the gauzy fabric of her sarong. “I feel you beneath my fingertips, and I feel you in my heart and soul.”
Kara braced her hands on his chest, his muscles rippling beneath her fingertips. It amazed her how much she was enjoying this slow torment. For the first time in her sexual life she was truly experiencing how it felt to be made love to. And she had to admit, it was incredible.
He slid one hand up to the clasp of her sarong and released it. Instantly, the filmy material fluttered over her fair skin, caressing her breasts, her waist, her hips as it fell to the floor, leaving her completely naked. Gripping her shoulders, he brought his mouth to hers while he slowly rubbed his hands up and down her arms.
She moaned, holding back a stronger cry that struggled to break free. His tongue darted between her lips, and her thoughts whirled. She became dizzy with the strength of her need, and she wasn’t sure any more which way was up and which way was down, or even where she was at that moment in time.
When Adan raised his head again, Kara was finding it hard to breathe. She’d heard about lovemaking like this, read about it in romance novels, but had never experienced anything so sensual in all her life. She couldn’t believe this fierce man could be so gentle, so loving, and it tugged at her heart.
Kara brought her hands to the fastenings of his pants, wanting, needing to touch him. Before he could say anything, she put a finger to his lips and murmured, “Shhhh. It’s my turn.”
Adan grunted, He did not want to turn over control to Kara, but the moment she reached for his breeches and brushed her hand across his cock, he could no longer think past wanting her hands and mouth upon him.
With agonizing slowness, Kara pulled apart the closure on his breeches and slipped the material down over his hips. His cock thrust out at her, begging for her attention.
Settling herself on her knees in a graceful movement, Kara traced the fat vein along the bottom of his erection with her fingertip.
“You have the biggest cock I’ve ever seen,” she murmured.
Fierce jealousy slammed into Adan that she had been with other men. He certainly intended to be the last man she would ever be with.
Kara circled the head of his cock with her finger and Adan sucked in his breath. “If you do not stop your teasing, witch, I shall not be held accountable for what I am going to do to you.”
Looking up at him, she gave a sexy grin that did nothing to alleviate the strength of his need for her.
“I thought you wanted it slow, big guy.”
Adan nearly groaned aloud. Instead he tipped his head back, closed his eyes, and simply let himself feel what Kara was doing to him.
Her warm breath blew over the head of his cock and this time he did groan. She gave a soft laugh and cupped his balls with one hand while she stroked his staff with her other.
Then he felt her tongue flick across the head of his cock and he clenched his buttocks, wincing from the pain of his wounds that quickly eased into pleasure. In spite of the Clans’ doctors and technology, and the hypo, his rapidly healing injuries still ached. But the ache became nothing but a slow burn that melded into the heat of his body, the fire of his desire for Kara.
“Sorcerers be damned.” He opened his eyes and looked down to see her green eyes staring right back at him. “I believe I may be forced to tie you to my bed and take you now.”
She raised her eyebrows—looking intrigued at the idea—and his cock jumped in her hand. “Maybe.” With a mischievous smile she slipped her lips over his erection and took him deep in her mouth, to the back of her throat.
“Aye, that’s it, love.” He reached for her head and gripped his hands in her curls as she slowly moved up and down his staff. His own insistence on taking it slow was coming back to haunt him. He wanted her to hurry, wanted her to suck harder and longer and he wanted to come in her beautiful mouth.
Adan watched his staff move in and out of her lips. He loved the picture she made, down on her knees while she was looking up at him. Her green eyes always grew so dark when she was aroused, like the forests he had lived near before the Age of Sorcery.
Kara took her time sucking his cock, alternately licking him from balls to tip and sucking on him with a force that almost brought him to his knees with the need to come. She teased him unmercifully, never letting him get close enough, always backing off before he reached climax.
When he could take no more, Adan let out a low growl, forced Kara to release his cock, grabbed her by her shoulders, and brought her up to face him. He hooked his index finger under her chin and raised her head. “I should turn you over my knee and spank you.”
Kara shivered at the mere idea and licked her lips. “Before or after you tie me up?”
Adan let out another growl, only this time much louder and fiercer. He grabbed her slim waist with his large hands, caught her up and laid her down on the bed so fast she didn’t have time to catch her breath.
She watched him as he kicked off his boots and finished removing his pants in slow deliberate movements that she knew were meant to torture her. Her pussy was so wet and aching, and her nipples were dying to have his mouth and hands on them, sucking, nipping, pinching, pulling. God, but she needed him.
He eased onto the bed at her feet. Her knees were bent and she had been clenching her thighs together just to help ease the ache. He placed his hands on the insides of her knees and pressed them apart, fully exposing her pussy. He smiled and lowered his head and she heard him drawing in his breath, taking in her scent.
Adan’s long brown hair swung forward as his mouth neared her folds. The strands trailed over her belly and she gave a soft moan as he nuzzled her mound. Despite herself she gave a whimper of need that all but begged him.
“Okay, I’m sorry already.” She arched her hips closer to his face. “Just lick my pussy, please.”
It was his turn to chuckle, and she knew he was getting even with her. Paybacks were definitely a bitch.
He licked her slit in one long swipe and she couldn’t help the cry that escaped her lips. “I’m so damn close already.”
She squirmed and tried to raise her hips closer to his face. “Not much and I’ll be there.”
His look was fierce when he met her eyes, and she could tell he was holding himself back from plunging his cock into her. He drove one of his fingers in and out of her pussy while he watched. She gasped as his knuckles pounded against her clit. Damn but that felt good.
Just when she was about to climax, Adan eased his finger out of her and she almost sobbed at the loss of contact. He moved up her body until his hands were braced to either side of her chest and he was looking down at her. His cock pressed against her mound—all it would take was a little shift in position and she could bring him right inside of her.
“Finally,” she murmured as she grasped his erection.
“Not yet, love.” He lowered his head and brushed his lips over her forehead as he removed her hand from his cock. “I am not finished with you yet.”
Kara shivered at the low, husky timber of his words. His warm male scent and the feel of his chest rubbing against her nipples magnified her need.
“From the first moment I saw you, I wanted you, Kara.” The coarse stubble on his face scraped her cheek as he moved his mouth to her ear and murmured, “I saw the desire in your eyes from the window.”
“Yes,” she whispered. She couldn’t deny that the mere sight of him had sent thrills shooting through her belly straight to her pussy.
He lightly nipped her earlobe. “What about your heart?” He slowly trailed kisses down the curve of her neck. “Have you not felt that we are meant for one another?”
“It’s too soon.” Kara couldn’t identify the feelings she had for Adan, couldn’t fathom them. Lust definitely. But love? “Yes, much too soon.”
“Mmmm.” Adan trailed lazy kisses down her chest, circled her pendant and then licked his way up the curve of one breast. “We shall see.”
“Cocky S.O.B.,” she muttered and then gasped as Adan’s hot mouth latched onto her nipple. “Damn, Adan.” She wrapped her arms around his neck and grasped his long, thick hair in her fists.
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