Page 34 of Dragon Cursed
Her hands fisted in his hair.Held him there.Demanded.He gave.He sucked her nipple deep into the heat of his mouth and the world narrowed to that single point of pleasure and the cold-dark current of his magic flowing into her with every place his skin touched hers.
He moved to her other breast.Worshiped that one too.Then his mouth started moving lower.
He kissed his way down her body slowly.The hollow of her sternum — where the pendant lay warm against her skin, where she felt it pulse once when his lips passed over it — and the soft skin of her stomach, to the bend of her hip where her jeans were still in the way.
He stopped at the waistband of her jeans.
He looked up at her over the line of her body.His eyes were green-fire bright in the dim chamber.His mouth was wet from her skin.He looked like a beast at the foot of an altar, and the altar washer, and Poppy felt something inside her own body — something deeper than thought, something her grandmother had whispered to her on her deathbed —recognizehim and answer.
"May I?"he asked.
The formality of it nearly undid her.A dragon.An ancient dragon, asking permission, on his knees on the floor of his own lair, his eyes burning like green fire above the line of her hips.
"Yes."
Her voice didn’t sound like her own.
"Yes."
He slowly undressed her the rest of the way.Reverently.He unbuttoned her jeans with hands that were shaking again.He drew them down her legs an inch at a time, his mouth following the path of bare skin, his lips brushing the inside of her knee and the hollow behind it and the soft skin of her calf as if he were learning her body in pieces and committing each one to memory.
By the time her jeans were gone she was trembling.
By the time he had nudged her thighs apart with his shoulders and looked at her — actuallylooked, his gaze devouring the place where she was already slick and waiting — she was crying, and she didn’t know when she had started.
His voice was a low rasp."Poppy.A chuisle.Why are you crying?"
"Because no one has ever —" Her voice broke."No one has ever looked at me like that."
His face changed.
Something old and savage rose up behind his eyes, and for a moment she saw the dragon plainly — vertical pupils, the slow flare of his nostrils, the way his shoulders rolled with a tension that wasn’t entirely human.
"They werefools," he said.
Then his mouth was on her.
His tongue stroked through her wetness with the slow, savoring patience of a man who had been hungry for too many years and had finally —finally— sat down to a feast.He licked her like he had all the time in the world, like there was nowhere else he ever wanted to be.He pleasured her until her hands were fisted in the fur beneath her and her hips were rolling helplessly up against his mouth.
His tongue circled the bundle of nerves at the top of her sex.Once.Twice.He sucked it gently between his lips and her vision went white at the edges.
"Alsander—"
He hummed against her.The vibration traveled up through her body like a current.Her thighs trembled around his shoulders.He slid one big finger into her wet heat, then another —gods, he was thick, even his fingers stretched her — and curled them against the place inside her that no man had ever found before.
She came apart.
Her first orgasm broke over her like a wave.Long.Slow.Cresting.Her body bowed off the furs, and her hands flew to his hair.She sobbed his name as his tongue and his fingers worked her through it, and when she finally collapsed back against the furs, trembling and wet and utterly wrecked, he kept going.
He didn’t stop.
His mouth gentled but didn’t leave her.He worked her through the aftershocks and then, before she had caught her breath, before she had fully come back to herself, he was building her toward another one.
"Alsander —" Her voice was wrecked."I can’t — I can’t.It’s too much —"
"You can."He pressed a kiss to the inside of her thigh.His finger curled against that place inside her and her whole body convulsed."You can,a chuisle.You will give me everything tonight.Every cry.Every drop.Every shudder of this body that ismine.And then you will give me more."
She came on his hand a minute later.Harder than the first time.
