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A deep, answering tug came from somewhere inside me; it was so fierce it ripped a whimper from me as lightning shot between my fingertips. There was something between us, something I couldn’t quite grasp, but it was growing.
Ryker’s smile was knowing as his fingers skimmed my legs, opening them further. When he bent to kiss the inside of my knee, delicious shivers ran through me as he left a trail of heated kisses down my thighs, up my hips, and across my belly.
Everywhere he touched, he sparked a blaze inside me that only he could douse. When he reached my breasts, he stopped his kisses to look up at me.
“You’re perfect,” he murmured.
“Far from.”
The corner of his mouth quirked into a sexy smile that caused my heart to stutter. “That is true, but you’re perfect for me.”
My laughter died away when he rose to claim my mouth. Before I could grasp the thick muscles of his biceps, he broke the kiss, rolled me onto my stomach, and pressed me deeper into the blankets as the heavy weight of his body settled against my back.
He didn’t put his full weight down on me, but it was enough to remind me of how strong he was and how vulnerable I was in this position. Instead of being intimidated by how small I was compared to him, I relished it. This man could do anything he wanted to me, and he’d decided to worship me.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
Ellery
Leaning back,Ryker’s hands slid over my ass and up my back as he traced every contour with tender devotion. When he bent over me again, his breath warmed the small of my back as he kissed my spine up to my nape, and his cock slid between my legs.
“You’re so wet.” The head of his shaft slid inside me a little. “And sofuckingtight,” he groaned. His other hand slid beneath me to cup my mound as he pushed deeper. “And you’re mine. This belongs tome.”
I whimpered when he rubbed my clit. It was still so sensitive from his tongue that my toes curled in response.
“No one else will ever know how amazing you feel,” he growled. “No one.”
I sensed something more beneath his words, something savage and on the verge of control. The events of last night and whatever he’d discovered today had unsettled him.
While I would never willingly give myself to another, and would fight to the death to prevent it from happening, he was scared of losing me. It might be the only thing that frightened the Scourge of the Ghouls.
“No one,” I vowed.
“I’ll kill anyone who dares to try.”
And I felt the same way about him. If anyone harmed him, I’d pump them so full of lightning their heads would explode.
I would always be his, and he was mine. He knew that as assuredly as I did.
When he stroked my clit, I cried out. He made me feel so strong yet so weak and at his mercy; I loved the delicious contradiction.
His free hand skimmed up my body to my throat. In his large palm, he cradled it while lifting me a little.
He didn’t squeeze, but his hand on my throat was another symbol of his possession of me. He nipped my neck before kissing the place his teeth had marked.
His tongue traced my skin as he thrust deeper until I came apart with a cry that rebounded through the barn. Ryker growled as he drove into me once more.
Deep inside, I felt his cock pulse when he came. The sensation of him taking pleasure from me and the sound he made created another friction of power to rise within me.
This time, I couldn’t control it as lightning encompassed my wrists. I didn’t draw it from the earth or sky; this wave came fromhim.
When his fingers slid between mine, the power swelled as his ability joined with mine, and a white light surrounded us. “Are you drawing it from the earth?” I whispered.
“No. It’s coming from you.”
“No, it’s coming fromyou.”
Awe built within me as the light grew until it spun around us. Our powers had combined before, but this was different. It was almost mystical as little pops of white light danced around us like pixies in a garden.
