He’d never straddled the line between pleasure and pain so closely. He was rock hard, throbbing with the promise of release. The thin sheath of skin over his shaft had never been stretched so tight. All Caleb could think about was getting Lucy on the bed, spreading those smooth legs open and pouring himself into her.
Lucy responded as if she could feel his temperature rise. She gasped for air and crushed her hips to his, her supple lips parting in a moan. Caleb could feel her desire through her gown. She was drenched in heat, radiating through their clothes. If things got any hotter, the woman was liable to scorch the clothes off his body.
Mine.
As they finished the loop of the Y, Caleb caught the end of the Draco Spear and tossed it aside. He knelt, and grabbed the hem of her dress. Then, in a swift move, he stood, taking the gown with him. Lucy’s arms flew over her head and a laugh bubbled out of her as Caleb slipped the dress over her chest, her head, her arms. He flung it aside and pulled her against him.
“Shame on you,” he said, smudging kisses down her neck. Her skin was flawless, smooth like porcelain, and flushing hot beneath his lips. His own chest hummed with warmth, just beneath the etching of Lucy’s name. “Didn’t expect you to be nude beneath your ceremonial gown.”
She leaned back, moaning as his mouth covered her breast. “I had to top the black panties, didn’t I?”
“Mmm.” He groaned as his hand slipped between her legs and found her blissfully wet. “You topped it, all right.”
His fingers spread her tender flesh and swept through her slickness. When he sucked his fingers into his mouth, savoring the juicy-sweet taste of her, Lucy took a ragged breath. She grabbed Caleb by the shoulders and spun him onto the bed.
Surprise forced the air from his lungs as he landed on his back, shoulder deep in fur. “Just when I think I’ve got you figured out, you go and do something like this.”
He tore through the button of his pants and shoved them off as Lucy stood over him, a playful grin pulling at the corners of her kiss-swollen mouth. He’d have fantasies of this night for years to come, Caleb was sure of it. He’d never been this aroused. He’d never had the sensation that he’d tear through his own skin to get at her, if he had to. He wanted to ravish her. Leave her senseless, breathless, and melted over him. Yet, at the same time, he wanted to hold her. Nuzzle her into the crook of his arm and doze off to the pitter-patter of her heartbeat.
“You may think you’ve got me figured out, Mr. Rycroft―” Lucy straddled his lap and leaned over him, dangling her perfectly plump breasts in his face “―but I’m not the same girl I was when you left three years ago.”
Sweet heaven above.
Caleb clenched his teeth and sucked in a shallow breath, waiting with trembling legs for Lucy to descend, and meet him lap to lap. Teasingly slow, Lucy sank over him, drenching him in her heat. Caleb reared up as fiery, lust-driven sensations slammed into him like a sledgehammer. She rolled her hips over him again. And again.
She smiled deviously—a woman in complete control over her man. “There’s even more to me than you’ve had a chance to learn the last two days.”
He gripped her hips and guided her into a rolling rhythm, satiating the hunger roaring inside him. “If this is the way you reveal yourself to me, we can have revelations all night long.”
Lucy moaned, arching back, as his pleasure rose. He could feel her climax, just out of reach, throbbing softly around his cock. What a sight Lucy was—golden hair falling in front of her face, milky-smooth skin, breasts pumping in time with his thrusts, the smooth span of her stomach leading to a juncture between her legs that was sweeter than honey.
As if she knew exactly what his body craved, Lucy fed Caleb’s hunger and sped her pace, rocking her hips faster and faster. She milked him. Squeezed her inner muscles into an erotic embrace and took all of him in. She pounded her hips over his. Harder. With scorching-hot abandon.
Grinding his back teeth to dust, unable to hold back a single second longer, Caleb lost it, seizing into the hardest orgasm of his life. His entire body arrested, muscle to bone. He clutched at her hips, kneading his fingers into her backside as he released every last pulse of seed into her warmth. She toppled over the edge with him, crying out as her core clenched around him, harder and harder.
As Lucy collapsed over the top of him, Caleb wrapped his arms around her back and breathed in the natural fragrance in her hair. He’d already committed her scent to memory and could sense her anywhere. He could see the delicate angles of her face with his eyes closed. As if her face was etched on the backside of his eyelids.
Lucy was his. Now that they’d claimed each other, they’d never be apart.
When she tried to roll off him, he pressed her closer, snaking an arm over her shoulder.
“No. Don’t go.” He clutched her tightly against him. Maybe if she stayed like this long enough they’d really mold into one. “Stay.”
“I’m not going anywhere.” She relaxed with a sigh, going languid in his arms. “Not unless you’re going, too.”
Lucy’s heartbeat echoed through Caleb’s chest as if it were his own.
Da-dum. Da-dum.
His chest...that proudly claimed Lucy as his rider. Forever.
Da-dum. Da-dum.
“You better believe I’m not going anywhere without you.” Caleb stroked Lucy’s silky tresses until she looked up and gazed into his eyes, melting his heart. The soul-shattering spark from one touch of her hand and one kiss of her lips proved to Caleb that he couldn’t live without her.
Lucy was all he needed. She was his world and everything in it.
“There’s nowhere I’d rather be,” she said, and kissed him with more tenderness than his heart could handle.
He couldn’t have said it better.
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Demand of the Dragon
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