His eyes shuttered, and his body stiffened. “Don’t say that if you don’t mean it, Cora.”
She released him so she could slide both hands up and around the back of his neck. Leaning forward, she licked a water droplet off the thick muscular column of his neck.
“Look at me,” she ordered, her breath hitching at the beauty in his eyes when he did. “I want to experience all of you, Saiden, and I do meanall. So shut up and make me forget about everything else in this world for at least a little while.”
He shook his head. “I can’t bite you, Cora. The way you taste… What you mean to me… I might not be able to stop.”
“So then don’t bite me,” she offered. “You’re more than just a vampire, Saiden. Show me what it means to be withyou. Just you. Just for tonight.”
He winced, and she didn’t know ifit was because he wasn’t able to separate sex and blood, or if it was something else. She didn’t even have time to ponder it because between one gasp and the next, he wrapped her in his arms and shot them over to a spacious green meadow on the other side of the pool, somehow shucking his briefs in the process.
He lay her out on the soft, mossy ground and parted one thigh with his knee. He stared at her for a long moment, drinking her in like he was a dying man and she was his salvation. She couldn’t think too much about that look though, what emotion was shining through as he possessed her with his eyes.
The last rays of sunlight danced over his skin, casting his features into a mixture of glowing peaks and shaded valleys. The contrast was hypnotizing, like a fallen angel come to claim her.
She let out a whimper when he bent down and sucked one of her nipples into his mouth through the thin fabric of her bra. His tongue flicked and swirled around that taught bud, teasing it while his hand slid down her stomach to cup the space between her thighs. He brushed his palm along her throbbing clit, and Cora rolled her hips against his hand, grinding into his fingers to chase the satisfying friction she’d dreamt of the night before.
When he pulled back, she cried out at the loss of sensation.
“These are in the way,” Saiden growled before tearing her panties off with his teeth. His behavior was animalistic, skating the edge between violent and erotic, and if he didn’t fuck her soon, she might honestly start begging.
Saiden had other ideas though. Ideas she got fully on board with when he licked a line straight up through the center of her core. Back bowing, she threaded her hands through his dark hair, gripping the soft strands as she bucked and writhed against his face.
And then he showed her exactly what it meant to be pleasured by avampire.
She screamed when his tongue kicked into overdrive, practically thrumming against her clit in a way that not even her high-end vibrator could achieve. The intensity bordered on excessive, yet she would die a not-so-little death before she stopped him.
The orgasm exploded inside her, and she cried out in ecstasy, riding his tongue until every last ounce of release had been wrung out of her.
She lay on the ground, spent, weak, and thoroughly satisfied.
“That was…” Her mouth tried to speak, but her brain was so drenched in oxytocin that it hung up a ‘back in ten minutes’ sign and completely abandoned her.
“I’m glad you think so,” Saiden purred as he crawled up her body, leaving soft kisses in his wake. “That was just the beginning.”
Staring down at him, she sucked in a breath as he gripped his impressive erection and rubbed the tip over her swollen clit. Her body shuddered under the overpowering sensation, the lightning under her skin shooting down her body to create another thunderstorm between her legs.
“Beginning?” she croaked out. He was really going to test her belief that dying in his arms wouldn’t be a bad way to go.
Saiden just grinned as he positioned himself at her entrance. “Oh, Cora. I’m going to embed my scent so deeply into your skin that no amount of time will ever let you forget me.”
Forget him? Like that had ever been an option to begin with. Saiden was not someone you forgot. Saiden wasn’t a person; he was an experience. Fucking him was like being swept up into a tornado. All you could do was hang on and hope to survive.
He thrust into her with one smooth motion, sinking himself completely to the hilt. The slightest hint of pain fluttered through her at how wide he stretched her open, but then he started rocking his hips, and there was only euphoria. All-encompassing euphoria that demanded her complete surrender.
She chased that feeling as he pushed himself deeper and deeper, reaching a spot inside her she thought was a myth.
He reached down to flick her clit with his thumb, and a second orgasm rolled through her in a crashing wave of pleasure she would gladly drown in.
Moments later, Saiden shouted his own release to the heavens in a deep roar that felt like he was announcing his claim to the world, and the pure warmth that filled Cora was unlike anything she’d ever felt before. Unlike anything she would ever feel again.
Hope to survive? Talk about naïve.
She was already gone.
Chapter thirty-five
Saiden