Fueled by Lust: Severus (Siren Publishing Classic)

by Celeste Prater

  “I love you. You know that. I want you to keep an open mind about Severus. Don’t sell yourself short, Cassie. Will you do that for me?”

  “Sure. I’m going to cut you lose now. I’m going to enthrall him with my culinary skills. I need to feed the big lug after the gymnastics I put him through last night.” Lina laughed.

  “You do that. Call me later, okay? Love you.”

  “Love you, too.” She tossed the cell on the counter and focused back on her original agenda of breakfast in bed. She opened the ridiculously large refrigerator and drooled at the options. He had everything she needed for a Denver omelet. Fifteen minutes later, she had two plates full of yummy omelet, hash-browns, and toast. She was pulling two matched (thank you very much) cups from the cabinet when she heard, “Oh, hell yeah!” from the doorway.

  She practically melted at the vision. His hair was damp from a recent shower and hung a little past his shoulders. He didn’t have a shirt, which threatened to put her in immediate cardiac arrest, but the dark blue shorts clinging low on his hips and falling a little past mid-thigh were about to launch an aneurysm. He reached up and ran his hand through his damp hair and she watched, mesmerized, as his biceps and pecs jumped and bulged with the movement. She was toast and her legs were jelly. She wobbled back to the counter and poured two healthy glasses of orange juice and slid them in front of each plate.

  She gave him a mock pout. “Awww, Severus. You ruined my surprise! I was going to serve you in bed.”

  He gave her a panty-melting smile and prowled around the counter, came up behind her, and wrapped his arms around her waist. He nuzzled his face against her neck, giving her immediate chills when he breathed hotly against her skin.

  “Sweetness, you just say the word and I am so back in that bed. I only got out of it because you weren’t there.”

  She was glad he was holding her up because she immediately turned into a bag of goo. He kissed her on the side of the neck and headed back around the counter. He pulled out a stool and plopped down, his eyes wide in expectation of the meal in front of him.

  “This looks incredible, baby. Come over here and sit with me. I’m starving.”

  She pulled a chair out and hopped onto the seat. She started laughing when he reached over and dragged it closer to his. They were practically bumping elbows as they devoured the food. She was extremely relieved at how easy things were between them. She didn’t feel that “morning after” awkwardness. She could tell he wanted her there and she definitely didn’t want to be anywhere else.

  All too soon, the food was gone and she got up to clear the plates. He put his hand on her arm to stop her.

  “Let me, sweetness. You cooked me a fantastic breakfast. I want to clean up. Okay?”

  She lifted her hands in surrender and smiled. “Have at it! You’ll get no argument from me.”

  He bent down and gave her a quick kiss and started gathering up the dishes. She sat back down, propped her chin on her palm, and enjoyed watching him move about the kitchen. When he’d finished loading the dishwasher and turned around, she pointed to the necklace hanging between his pecs.

  “That’s an interesting necklace.” She couldn’t help but blush at her next words. “I remember it moving across my skin last night. It was very warm.”

  He looked down and ran the tooth between his fingers. He glanced back up and smiled. “Yes. I definitely remember watching as it moved across your breasts. It’s made from a mineral only found where I come from. It brings me good luck.”

  She swallowed hard and nodded as he walked around the bar. She squeezed her legs together at the sudden flash of heat behind her clit. “I saw a lot of the dancers at the club, even Drusus, were wearing one.”

  He smiled and lifted her hand to his lips and placed a soft kiss to her knuckles before pulling her up from the chair. “You’re very observant. I like that. Where I come from, we all believe in the mineral’s ability to bring us good fortune, so you will see many variations of the necklace. Each tooth is shaped or colored to ancestral lines.”

  She was mesmerized by his low words and the feel of his thumbs caressing the back of her hand and wasn’t aware he’d been walking her backward until her butt came in contact with something. She glanced back and saw he’d moved her over to the dining table and she was flush against one of the chairs. When he reached down and yanked the chair away from the table and pushed it roughly to the side, she moaned and felt a gush of moisture flood her channel. She looked up and told him exactly what was on her mind. “Baby, you have no idea how sexy you are to me right now.”

  Cassie felt like she would hyperventilate when he picked her up by the waist and set her down on the table. He leaned forward and shoved whatever was on the table to the side. She heard some things rolling and falling off to the floor and knocking into the chairs. Her heart started pounding frantically in her chest. She swore it stopped for a few beats when she glanced up at him. His narrowed eyes were practically glowing behind his thick fringe of lashes and he was beginning to breathe heavily. She moaned when he gently pushed her flat on the table and looked down at her.

  “I didn’t get nearly enough to eat, my sweetness. I want to satisfy my hunger on your beautiful body.”

  She swallowed hard again and barely got her words out on a whisper. “I’m all yours, baby. Do your worst.”

  Chapter 23

  Severus gifted her with a salacious grin and said, “Be careful what you ask for, sweetness,” before leaning forward and pushing her shirt up over her breasts.

  She cried out as his warm hands enveloped both mounds and pushed them together. Her back arched from the table when his hot mouth surrounded a nipple and drew the tip between his teeth. He very gently bit down then began swirling his tongue back and forth across the sensitive flesh. She grasped both sides of his head and buried her hands into his silky hair. “Oh god, Severus. Yes. That’s good. You’re going to make me come.”

  He drew his mouth away and attached himself to the other nipple, giving it the same hot treatment as the other. He rose slightly and looked her in the eyes as he caught both nipples between his forefinger and thumb and lightly squeezed. “I want to watch you come for me, baby. I want you to get off from just me touching your beautiful breasts. Come for me, sweets.”

  She cried out again when his warm tongue began licking and swirling around her nipple. She felt like there was a cord attached from the puckered flesh directly to her clit. With each lick and humming groan against her skin a similar throbbing beat upon her clit. She came before he ever moved to the other breast. She whimpered his name and felt his stomach press hard against her clit as he allowed her to ride his body to the downward slope of her orgasm. She was breathless and panting when she felt her shorts being pulled down her legs. She thought she would feel his thick cock start to push inside. Instead, she felt his mouth latch onto her sensitive nub and start sucking furiously. She cried his name again and undulated against his face as he pulled a second orgasm from her before the first was completed. No sooner was she on the slide down from the second when she felt two thick fingers slide into her pussy and begin searching and rubbing on the area behind her clit. She jolted when he hit a spot that shot ribbons of exquisite electricity throughout her body. She began shouting and mumbling without thought.

  “Oh my god…oh my god…oh shit…oh fuck that feels good…” She shivered and clutched his shoulders at his husky words.

  “There it is. I got you, baby. Come for me again. Ride my face.” Then he latched on again and sucked her swollen clit back into his mouth while swirling his tongue in a hard circular motion over the bundle of nerves. Fingers still lodged deep inside her, he began tapping hard against her sweet spot. She jackknifed up from the table, dug her heels into his back and rode his face like he was a huge vibrator that had been set to “blow the back of my head off.”

  Her third orgasm left her crying in a stupor and flooding the table with her juices. She could feel him lapping and sucking at he
r as if he was sitting before a banquet. It turned her on so much she came a fourth time and started beating on the table like a wrestler tapping out from a no-win headlock.

  She felt him grab her hips and pull her further down the table until her butt hung over the edge. He slid easily into her sopping cunt. As big as he was, he had gotten her loose and wet and had no trouble filling her up to the brim with his long, fat cock.

  “I’m not done with you yet, baby. I want another one,” he rumbled. “I want to feel you come on my cock. I want that beautiful pussy sucking the life from me.”

  “Severus…fuck me, baby. Make me come. Help me.” Her body was a loose bag of flesh. Her muscles ignored her wishes and lay inert against the smooth wood of the table. She was his to command and loving every damn second.

  He lifted her trembling legs and locked them behind his back. She thought he would begin to pound furiously into her, but was surprised by the excruciatingly slow push and withdraw. He lazily dragged his thick length of flesh back and forth across her inner flesh, gradually ramping her into a frenzy of need. He pushed one hand down over the top of her mound and angled his hips to the point where he was dragging across that exquisite area he had found earlier with his fingers. When he reached down and rubbed his thumb twice against her clit, her vision blinked to a pattern of brilliant white and she barked out a weak cry as the inner muscles she’d thought were hopelessly done clamped down hard on his cock.

  He hesitated briefly, and she watched as his head lolled back onto his shoulders. His neck muscles tightened as he clenched his teeth. To her delight, he continued the relentless push and pull as her awakened muscles responded and grasped greedily against his flesh. She heard a low, drawn-out moan as he undulated in short strokes and shot hot cum deep into her body. She lay there in a stupor as he softly pressed his heaving body against hers. She vaguely registered that he was holding his arms as if he were going to do push-ups in order to keep from crushing her.

  The man had the stamina of the gods, because all too soon, in her mind, he was lifting up and scooping her up from the table. He walked them calmly to his bathroom and got them both under a wonderful spray of hot water. She stood there, barely, and let him hold her up and wash her body. She finally found enough strength to help him dry her off before he gathered her up and headed to the bed. Her back met the coolness of the sheets and she felt the mattress dip slightly as he rolled in beside her. He pulled the covers over them both and clasped her close to his chest. He must have finally run out of steam because he began mumbling in a husky voice, “Must release this energy…cannot stay awake…too much,” before he fell into a hard sleep.

  * * * *

  Cassie woke beside Severus, again. This time they were facing each other and he was wide awake. She grinned and he grinned back. She lifted her head and stared at the clock on the nightstand.

  “We’ve been asleep for two hours. I need to get my car and my purse from the office. You mind taking me over there?”

  Severus reached up and touched her cheek. “Sure, sweetness.”

  They lay there and stared at each other for a few more moments. It was bizarre how comfortable she felt in his presence. She felt very connected to him. She tried to interpret the look in his eyes and could only assess it as peaceful. It was the look one would get when watching the sun rise in the morning. She liked it. She leaned forward and placed her lips against his. He slowly opened his mouth and licked lightly across her bottom lip. She leaned back and licked the same spot his tongue had just traveled.

  He closed his eyes and groaned. “Damn, woman. You better get out of this bed. This is your last warning.”

  She laughed and scooted off the mattress as he rolled out from the other side. They both stood on opposite sides of the bed and stared at each other. They were both nude. Any other time she would have been scrambling for cover, but he was looking at her like she had the body of a goddess and the face of an angel. She hadn’t been the pudgy teenager for several years now, yet had never lost the body-conscious reaction to being assessed. She stood still and let his eyes rove over her flesh at his leisure. She sensed her nipples tighten just before his eyes flipped up to hers.

  He smiled and she smiled back. Silently, they moved around the room and started putting their clothes on.

  His gaze was intense as he watched her pull a red thong up her legs and smooth it across her hips before sliding on faded jeans and shoving her feet into a pair of flat sandals.

  Her eyes remained locked to him as he slipped on dark socks and pulled black jeans over his massive thighs and narrow hips. She let loose a giggle when he grimaced and struggled to zip the jeans over his impressive erection. Her heart melted when he shrugged and gave her a lopsided smile.

  His hazel eyes roamed her body as she expertly clasped a red bra around her waist then twisted it to the front to pull it up over her arms and breasts.

  He walked slowly over to her and motioned for her to lift her arms. He pushed the Metallica T-shirt over her head and caressed the skin on her belly as she shoved her arms through the sleeves.

  He bent down and waited while she gently slipped a gray T-shirt over his head. He kissed the top of her head when she wrapped her arms around his waist and pressed her cheek to his chest as he worked his arms into the sleeves.

  She stepped back and pulled the shirt the rest of the way down his torso.

  They looked at each other for a moment then silently stepped into each other’s arms. They stood that way for several minutes before clasping hands and leaving the room.

  Cassie sighed in contentment as he drove her to the office. If she hadn’t loved him before, she would have fallen for him hard the second they began that same silent dance she had witnessed between Drusus and Lina in their kitchen. She didn’t care if he ever loved her back. This was a feeling she didn’t want to lose. She’d never thought that another soul could have ever matched her rhythm.

  * * * *

  Cassie felt like it had been forever since she had stood at this very spot and been gassed. She shuddered at the memory and was immediately comforted by the gentle squeeze from Severus’s hand. She bent down and opened the bottom drawer to her desk and pulled out her purse. Darla had been kind enough to stash it for her when she realized Cassie had left it behind. She turned and smiled at the group of people standing around with expectant looks on their faces.

  “I’m okay everybody. I’ll be back as soon as I can. I’m going to miss you nuts.”

  Everyone seemed to breathe a collective sigh of relief and started talking at one time. Eventually, Sturdivant’s voice overrode everyone’s.

  “Hey, come on now. Give her some breathing room. Cassie. Take all the time you need. I don’t want you worrying about this place, or your job. I’m just glad you’re okay. The partners were horrified to hear what happened to you and want you to take it easy and come back when you’re ready. Let the cops handle the investigation and hopefully we’ll get this nut off the street so you’ll feel safe enough to return.”

  Cassie thanked everyone and watched as they all drifted back to their areas. She felt Severus stiffen when Victor worked his way through the departing crowd. His eyes were wide and his face pale.

  “Cassie. I’m glad you’re okay. You scared us all.”

  Cassie gave him a small smile and nodded. “Yeah, I scared myself as well. I’ll be fine, Victor. Thanks for your concern.” She turned to Sturdivant.

  “Are you going to be okay? You have someone to help you with the cases?”

  He nodded and smiled. “I’ll be fine. Jacqueline has a little free time since Scofell is in Italy, so I’ll keep her busy until you get back. I do have a favor to ask, though.”

  She gave him a knowing smile. “You messed up your laptop again, didn’t you?” At his sheepish grin, she rolled her eyes and laughed. “Okay, I’ll take a look. Where’s it at?”

  “It’s in my office. I have to go back to Washington tomorrow and I can’t find one of the folders. I kno
w. I know. You told me a thousand times not to drag anything around with the mouse.”

  Cassie squeezed Severus’s hand. “I’ll be right back. This shouldn’t take long.”

  Severus reluctantly released her. “I’ll be right here, sweetness.” When she left the room, Severus turned and glared at Victor who was still standing by Cassie’s desk. “Drexler.”

  Victor nodded. “Severus? It’s Severus. Right?”

  “Yes. Severus Faal.”

  They stared at each other, neither one giving ground. Severus just wished Drexler would go away before he did something stupid like picking him up and tossing him into the wall.

  “Are you dating?”

  Severus gave him a curious look. “Pardon me?”

  “Are you dating Cassie?”

  Severus felt his blood heating. “Yes. She is mine.”

  Victor leaned back against the desk and studied Severus for a few moments. “That’s an odd way to put it. It sounds very possessive.”

  Severus took a step forward and was thrilled to see Victor’s slight flinch before he held his ground. He was scared. This was good. “I don’t see where that’s any of your concern, Drexler. Cassie knows what she is to me, and I to her. You can view it any way you want. Bottom line, she’s mine.” Severus was puzzled by the look of sadness that crossed Drexler’s face.

  Victor stood and nodded his head. “You’re a very lucky man, Faal. She’s a very special woman. Just don’t hurt her.”

  Before Severus could respond, Cassie walked back into the room.

  Victor gave her a small smile then turned and walked down the hallway.

  Cassie asked, “What was that all about?”

  Severus shrugged. “I have no clue. He’s strange.”

  Cassie nodded. “I have to agree. He’s a good actor. He looked legitimately concerned about what happened.”