Sphinx Transformed (The Sphinx Warriors Series Book 3)

by Christine Murphy

  Approaching the edge of the bed, he started to pull the covers back when he noticed she was missing. He froze in place, not moving a muscle, and quickly called upon all of his senses. He detected no danger, but he definitely felt he was being stalked. Slowly, he dropped the covers and carefully turned around scanning the room as he maneuvered. The shadows were deep but he made out her outline against the wall across from him. He was entranced when he saw her dark blue eyes glowing mysteriously in the dark. “Alexandria…” he breathed right before she pounced knocking him flat on his back onto the bed.

  Chapter Seven

  Joshua just laid there sandwiched between the firm bed and Alexandria’s soft-skinned body not moving one muscle. He wasn’t sure of her intentions or if she was fully aware of what she was doing. Who knew what condition her mind was in with the suppressant running through her system. She was enticingly positioned over him with her hips straddling his and her hands bracing her upper body above his chest. Sitting there a moment, she just watched him with an expression he couldn’t read, the glow in her eyes slowly fading.

  Raising an arm, she swept back her long main of luxurious midnight black hair out of her way and leaned down near his neck, she inhaled deeply and purred. He was surprised by the sound since supposedly her Sphinx was no longer within her but either the Wraith was putting on quite the show or they were all wrong. He hoped for the latter because it would mean there was hope for his Lexi.

  Alexandria didn’t stay where she was perched on him for long. She wiggled closer against him pressing every inch of her body against his. Joshua groaned and he could feel her nipples pearl against him through his thin oversized t-shirt she had on. The breath left him in a rush when she rubbed her core against the erection he was already sporting. The friction was exquisite and drove any sane thought right out of his head.

  “Damn, woman. What are you doing to me?,” he rasped nuzzling into her hair.

  He had kept his hands away from her, knotted in the blankets so as not to cause any aggression from her if the Wraith wasn’t completely suppressed. Luckily, that didn’t seem to be an issue because he couldn’t stop himself from touching her now. Unclenching his hands from the fabric, he tentatively touched her sides and was rewarded with a feminine sigh. She rubbed harder against his throbbing cock like she was in heat and Joshua had to grab her hips to stop her grinding.

  The shirt rode up with her movements and the feel of her bare hips was a shock to him. Alexandria normally wore string bikinis which he had discovered when he walked in on her a time or two when he thought she had needed him. Now she had none on at all and his hands started shaking with the thought of how accessible her sex was to hima thought which inflamed him even more. His grip tightened on her in an effort to keep his hands from roaming.

  “Lexi, you’re playing with fire. You’re going to get burned.”

  “I don’t care.” She whispered breathlessly in his ear. “I’m already burning up. Come join me, Josh.” The sensation of her licking down his neck and across his collarbone lit up his nervous system. Lightening shot down to his groin making him throb with need. His hands slid to her bare bottom and he squeezed pressing her tighter to him. Partly to make his point and partly for his own pleasure, he rolled his hips just enough to rub against her clit.

  His plan backfired though. Not only did he think he was going to come with the friction he had caused, but Alexandria clamped her legs tighter against his hips and dug her nails into his arms. She feathered kisses along his jaw and to his chin, panting and moaning as she went. While nipping at his lower lip, her hands smoothed over the stinging marks on his arms. Joshua felt warmth tingle momentarily and the sting went away. Slowly, she caressed up to his shoulders and then down his chest brushing over his nipples. By the Ancients, I want this, but is this Lexi?

  When she finally kissed him, he indulged her for a moment letting her explore. Alexandria’s kiss was tentative for only a moment and then she ran her tongue along the seam of his lips. He was more than willing to let her taste and touch him, but how far would she go? How far could he let her go before being lost himself? He knew this was dangerous. Not so much for himself but for her if he got out of hand and lost control.

  Joshua cupped her face in his palms and pushed her away. “Alexandria, slow down. I only have so much control when it comes to you.” He was just admitting that to himself and realized all these years he had kept her at arm’s length because of his increasing need for her. Telling her was opening himself up to more than he was ready for but for her he would take the risk.

  “Lexi, I want to Join with you…I mean join you, but now is not the time. You’re still…hell, I don’t even know what to call it. I don’t want to hurt you.” Fuck, did I just say Join. Is that what I want?

  Alexandria gave him a secretive smile. “You won’t hurt me, Josh. I trust you.” She massaged his bicep and curled one of her legs down and around his. The angle of her pelvis against his was incredible and she rolled her hips this time showing him what true friction was.

  She sighed, “I’m burning up Josh. I want you to stoke the flame. Please.”

  Just her whispered words were almost his undoing. “Alexandria, do you know what you’re asking? If we start this, I won’t be able to stop. I won’t want to stop. Fuck, I don’t want to stop.”

  He pulled her down kissing her lips, running his tongue along her lower lip. When she opened to him, he dipped his tongue into her honeyed mouth, tasting her, deepening the kiss.

  He tunneled his hand in her hair wrapping the thick strands around his fist holding her in place. His other hand returned to her smooth bare bottom and he squeezed her against him again. He wanted more and couldn’t stop himself from roaming. He pulled her slightly up higher on his body so he could slide his fingers down the crease of her bottom. With her one leg already wrapped around his, he pushed his other leg outward, spreading her legs so she was more accessible to him. Now that she was open and exposed, he trailed his fingers farther down until he touched her sex.

  Joshua moaned into her mouth when he felt how wet she was. She was so ready for him, his entire body shook with need and he tried to hold himself back. He fought himself to go no further. She was untouched tenderness and he didn’t want to barrel in without some type of control. In the end, when she wiggled against him trying to get closer to his touch, he couldn’t deny her what she needed. His fingers slipped across the opening of her sheath brushing back and forth until she was thrashing against him. Knowing what she needed, he slowly slipped a finger inside her.

  Alexandria was so tight and hot, he could only imagine how she would feel around his cock. He didn’t think he would last long as hard as he was and ready to go. It would only take but a few slides within her body and it would be all over with. But this was not about him and all about her, so he began to slide his finger in and out of her causing little gasps and purrs to come from her.

  Gently, he added a second finger spreading her inner muscles a bit more. When she breathed seductively in his ear and then nipped his earlobe, he rewarded her with several deep fast-paced pumps of his hand. She threw her head back and gave a soft little cry.

  “More, Josh, more. Oh, please, faster.” Her nails were digging into him again so he knew she liked what he was doing. He plunged into her faster as she requested while his other hand moved from her hair and started massaging her soft bottom. When she started to buck against him, he swirled his fingers slightly while still plunging into her. The enthralled look on her face almost made him smile but he was sure he probably looked just as entranced by her, his own climax so near and he wasn’t even inside of her.

  “Come for me, Lexi.” He stroked faster behind and up into her swollen hot core and couldn’t stop himself from arching his own hips in matched rhythm rubbing his cock against her. The material of his sweat pants was starting to aggravate him. He needed skin to skin contact but Alexandria was so near her orgasm, he didn’t dare throw her off with a change of rhythm
or angle.

  He thought she was ready to come when she arched away from him and froze in place for a moment. But she didn’t, not yet. Instead, she completely took him unaware. In an instant, her dainty hand found his engorged cock wrapping around him and squeezing the head just the way he liked it. How had she known what he liked? Had she been reading him? Perhaps, he didn’t know and at the moment he didn’t care. His eyes closed and he knew he was in trouble, his will-power giving way.

  “Josh, I can’t…I need. Please!” She cried, her frustration showing in her voice. “Now, damn it!” She started stroking him, he guessed trying to bring him along with her into the spiraling tension of stimulation he was giving her. He suddenly knew she wouldn’t come without him going over the edge with her. She growled, her upper body leaning back down on him, and the next thing he knew, she had bitten hard into his shoulder.

  Before the realization of her claiming and marking him completely hit, his inner Sphinx rose to the challenge. Joshua’s mind became hazy as the demands of his Sphinx took over. Alexandria was his Mate and he would Join with her. He would claim her as his love and his Power Mate. Removing his fingers from her welcoming heat for the moment, he grasped her around the waist and flipped both of them over so her body was now trapped under his.

  The weak Life Power within him had been sluggishly spinning up. Now that he was beyond inflamed and his Sphinx now at the surface, his Power burst out surrounding both of them. Joshua grunted from the discomfort of the bluish appearing energy which he vaguely knew should have been a glittering gold and silver.

  The energy brushed along their bodies and caressed its way over Alexandria. Hers should have answered in kind, but with her Sphinx being gone, he didn’t expect it. He didn’t care, though. She would still be his no matter what she had become. She restlessly moved underneath him, fluttering her hands over his bare chest, and wrapping her legs around his waist. He looked down upon her beautifully flushed face.

  “Yes, Lexi. I warned you and now I know what you need. You need me and you are mine.”

  ****

  Alexandria could taste Joshua’s blood in her mouth. She knew what she had done. Claimed him and left the mark on his shoulder for the world to see. Admitting to herself she had gotten carried away was an understatement, but with the heat burning her up she didn’t care. He was hers and she wanted him to know it.

  The incredible heat was still burning her and just wouldn’t stop. She wasn’t sure what the sensation was doing to her on a deeper level or what it meant, but it had started soon after she had balanced out from the suppression. After Warren had given her the extra dosage, she had definitely gone through some discomfort, but after the Wraith faded then this incredible heat had started. It burned throughout her body, through her veins and her nervous system, and focused in on her sex, making her want to rub even harder against Josh.

  Her Josh who was touching and kissing her everywhere. Her heat had become his heat and now they were on fire together. His touch left sparks along her skin making her glow and she wanted more. Holding him tightly with her legs, she basked in his sensual attentions and let her hands roam down his strong muscled back until she reached the waist of his sweats. Growling, she wanted them off him so she could feel more of his heated skin against her. She ran her fingertips under the edge of the material and was rewarded with his moan and his kiss.

  By the Ancients, his kiss was incredible. He knew exactly how to brush his lips across hers, how to demand entrance, and how to drive her crazy with the thrust of his tongue. At the same time, his hands massaged and tantalized. Joshua explored under the shirt she had borrowed, trailing his fingertips along her side and to the side of her breast. He paused, teasing her she knew, and then with the next thrust of his tongue in her mouth, he palmed her breast and swirled his thumb in a circle around her sensitive nipple.

  Gasping in his mouth from the new flood of heat between her legs, she pushed her hands further under his sweat pants squeezing his rock hard ass. He answered with a moan, gyrating his hips into hers. She could feel his erection rubbing against her harder and faster. The friction was satisfying but built up the heat even more. The only thing keeping her from igniting was his Life Power swirling around them, touching her with a crystalline coolness.

  Her attention fixed for a moment on his Power. The medical side of her mind took note he was in trouble. His energy was even bluer than before indicating it was turning more dionic and tearing up his system. She had to help him now but what little focus she had was lost when he brushed his fingers across her clit. Whimpering with need, she pushed on his sweats to get them out of her way and Joshua obliged her by lifting his hips away from her.

  Using her thumbs, she jerked the material out of her way and felt his heavy erection against her skin like a hot brand. Joshua flexed his hips, the tip of his cock sliding against the inside crease of her leg and hip. He groaned and Alexandria arched against him. She broke the kiss gasping, “Josh, help me. I’m burning up. I need…I need...”

  “Lexi, I know what you need.” He whispered in her ear and nipped her neck. Whatever this was she had never felt before in her life. What was happening to her she just didn’t know, but Joshua did know what she needed. He grabbed her leg, cranking it up farther along his back and reached between their bodies. The slow slide of his fingers inside of her was exquisite torture and she moaned against his neck, grabbing his hair in one hand.

  Closing her eyes, she concentrated on the in and out glide of his fingers and the pulsing of his Life Power around her. She wanted him inside her not just physically, but energy wise. Something in the back of her thoughts whispered to her to use her gifts to make both of them feel even better. Reaching out with her Life Power, she aligned her Power with his and brushed along it.

  Joshua groaned and gasped, “Fuck. That’s incredible. Don’t stop, Lexi.” Joshua slid his fingers deeper and faster inside her. She smiled knowing she could give him just as much pleasure as he was giving to her.

  Gently, she drew some of his energy into her leaving behind a part of hers. Her medical side kicked in slightly again detecting the blue dionic energy and her gift delved into the patterns. Finding the misaligned structure, she altered it changing the energy to the normal form and pushing it back to him. As soon as the changed Power entered his system, he sighed and kissed her with such intensity it brought tears to her eyes.

  Alexandria held on to him pulling his dionic energy from him and pushing the normal form back in to his body to the rhythm of the thrusts of his fingers. The faster he moved within her, the faster she pulled and pushed his energy. When he started trailing nips and kisses away from her mouth to her neck and collarbone, she opened her eyes seeing the blue was almost gone from his swirling Power and was now a glowing gold sparkling with silver.

  Her theory was working and she eased up letting him push his own energy into her. Her focus was gone anyway with the magic his fingers were working. The heat in her spiked and she dug her nails into his back pressing her hips up against him. His breathing became ragged and returned to her lips. His tongue was in her mouth thrusting in time to his fingers again with the added dimension of his Life Power flowing into her closer and closer to her Life Force.

  She was so near to coming but couldn’t quite make the edge to fall on the other side. Joshua was doing everything right and he was so caught up in it himself she could feel him rubbing his thick shaft against her clit. The edge was right there and she could see to the other side what incredible ecstasy was waiting for her. She wanted it so bad, needed it. “Josh, please.” She begged against his lips almost sobbing.

  Joshua shuddered against her and withdrew his fingers. He grabbed her wrists and Alexandria found herself entrapped by his strong grip. He seated his hips firmly against hers and slid his cock along her wet throbbing sex. Back and forth, he tempted and teased groaning and nipping at her ear. Each slide brought him closer and closer to entering her, and she tried to tip her hips to the perfect
angle so he would enter her.

  Not being able to help herself, she drew Joshua’s energy faster and faster into her body returning it just as quickly trying to entice him into entering her. Every inch of his body felt like steel up against her, his muscles bunching as if he was holding himself back. She thought if she enticed him just a little more, she could have her way and he would come inside her. He was so close, the head of his shaft alternately sliding and pressing against the opening to her sensitized sex.

  Completely giving in, she opened herself to his Power and Joshua slid his energy deep inside her touching her Life Force. She gasped and froze at the sudden change she felt. His masculine thoughts of needing her so bad but not wanting to hurt her whispered in her head. The thoughts became clearer of his inner fight to control himself and his losing battle. His Life Force was coming closer and closer to hers and she was enthralled by the incredible beauty of it.

  Fire spiraled higher in her system with what he was doing to her. Joshua was coming undone and gently thrust his hips against hers, slowly inching his way inside her. Yes, this was what she wanted, but just before his Life Force touched hers and his shaft fully entered her, she felt the presence deep inside near her Life Force.

  An awakening of something that wanted Joshua and his Life Force to be with her forever stirred. The Wraith stirred within her and she panicked. Bucking against Joshua, Alexandria tried to get away from him. She slammed down on the Link she had established with him pushing him out.

  Struggling violently, she cried, “Joshua, stop. Something’s wrong.”