Total pages in book: 136
Estimated words: 128413 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 642(@200wpm)___ 514(@250wpm)___ 428(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 128413 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 642(@200wpm)___ 514(@250wpm)___ 428(@300wpm)
“No,” she admitted, that pet name making her all warm and silly and happy inside. “That’s why I have to trust you to stop me if I push it too far.”
He kissed her, hard and deep and with such possessiveness that her inner muscles clenched again. They felt a little bruised, but in a good way. A delicious hurt. And that without him ever being inside her. She didn’t know what would happen to her when he pushed his thickness inside her.
The idea made her squeeze her thighs together, the pressure exquisite.
“You are such a sexy bite of woman.” He nipped at her lower lip. “And I do want to see this luscious mouth of yours on me. But I want to lick you to pleasure first. And even if it’s physically safe, you’re not ready.”
Auden trusted his judgment—and given how hard she’d orgasmed after what they’d just done, she wasn’t sure she’d survive the intimacy of his mouth on her most private flesh.
“Please,” she begged, stroking her hand over him. “I really want to try.” Her mouth watered, her breasts aching. “Remi.”
A groan before he put his hand on her shoulder and pushed gently down. But before she could move, he reached behind her to release her hair from its bun. “I need something to hold,” he said on a growl. “So I can show you how to move your pretty mouth on me.”
Her heart was a drum, her entire body electrified.
This time, he didn’t stop her…but he did have his hand in her hair. He didn’t push her when she just looked at him, stroking him with one hand. His thigh muscles had gone rock-hard, however, his breathing jagged.
It did things to her that she could affect him as much as he affected her.
He was so hot and hard in her hand that she felt like she could stroke him forever, but she got a tug on her hair now, a sign that her wild lover didn’t have endless patience.
It made her even wetter, hotter.
Dipping her head, she closed her mouth over the tip of him. His hand fisted in her hair, his body rigid. “Fuck.” A low growl.
Confidence in her blood now, she drew him deeper and sucked a little. She knew she had zero technique, and no idea what she was doing, but he did what he’d said—he directed her. And she loved it.
Hands on his thighs, she found herself coaxed into a stroking motion with her mouth. Still shallow, nothing forceful, letting her get used to him. And oh, she liked it. Loved being able to give him intimate pleasure, loved the scent of him, the feel of him.
“Fuck,” he gritted out again, his hand tight in her hair. “I’m going to come. In your mouth or on your breasts, those are your choices.”
Auden’s brain hazed again.
Lifting her mouth, she said, “Breasts,” even though she wasn’t conscious of making a decision.
Wet heat on her flesh, the intimacy of it searing.
Even more intimate was what came after. Remi carrying her to the shower, stripping her, then stepping into the cubicle with her and soaping her all over. He wouldn’t let her do it in return however. “I need to prepare for the op,” he said, kissing her neck from behind as he stroked the flare of her hips. “I will not be able to do that, beautiful, if you keep putting your hands on me.”
Auden loved how he said those things to her…how he meant them. Even though her body wasn’t taut and trim as she’d seen on changelings. She’d just had a baby, but even before those changes, she’d always been more curves than muscle.
But it turned out that Remi did love her “cuddlier” form.
She saw that in the wickedness of his grin when he toweled her dry, and felt it in the playfulness of his kiss and the little slap he gave her bottom. He enjoyed her body. She’d never known how good such a simple thing could feel.
The happiness buzzed through her even after she’d gotten into some comfortable clothes and sat down in bed with the organizer she’d abandoned earlier. Remi, dressed only in sweatpants, lounged beside her on one arm, his eyes on the screen. “Where are you going to look?”
“First, I have to link into the house system, but that shouldn’t be too hard since I’m on-site.” It only took her a minute, her mind clear on the process. “I was able to get into some secure files before, so I’ll try there first. Might be a clue in old documents they forgot to move to a vault.”
But after touching the screen to bring up the necessary access page, she found herself entering code after code in an unbroken chain. Shimmering, the screen went blank for a moment before clearing to reveal a stark dual S symbol in solid black against a starlit background. Black on black, the symbol erasing the stars beyond.