Page 95 of Ruby
“More, when you wake.” He promises, pulling my naked body into his embrace and settling me against him. It takes me less than a second for my body to succumb to slumber, my consciousness drifting as soon as my head hits his chest.
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He’s still humming as I rouse from my nap. It takes everything I have not to giggle and blush like a schoolgirl who’s just had her first with a crush. Or I assume this feeling is what that’s like.
It’s heady and a bit uncomfortable, but every bit as exhilarating.
Without the threat of impending doom or hunters nipping at our feet, the feelings that I seem to have developed blossom between us, birthing a new feeling of raw lust and desire. I want him more than anyone I ever have.
For once, it’s more than sex. I want to feel his body melt into mine, even if I’m not quite sure how we can make it happen.
“Is all well?” Szhe’ka’s voice pulls me away from my reverie and my eyes meet his, spotting the worry in them.
“Yes. Let’s rinse off and then I want to do more,” I tell him, levering myself up and darting off to the water, eager to be back in his arms.
He lumbers behind me as I take in the water, wondering why there seems to be a cage of logs a short way from the shore. I shrug it off and hop the rocks between sand until I am in the water, eager to rinse off.
I turn to Szhe’ka, just in time for him to slip on a rock and slash water all over me as he gains back his footing.
“My regr—”
He doesn’t get a chance to finish his song before I am splashing him back, cackling in glee when he starts sputtering.
I only have the upper hand for a few moments before he gets his footing and puts all his body into action. I screech out a laugh as he uses four large hands to splash a torrent of water all over my body.
“Cheater!” I say accusingly to him and he rolls his large eyes—a gesture I’m sure he got from me,
“Not cheating to have more arms,” he barks in Thivoll’s language as he splashes some more.
“You win,” I say with a laugh, eager to get back to what we were planning.
His contented hum is all I get in reply.
And his hot gaze.
He is staring at me as I run my hands through my wet hair, gathering it in my hands and squeezing the water out of the tip. I don’t take my eyes off him, despite how it makes warmth spread straight down from my face to my chest and then my pussy.
I start to rake my fingers through my hair but Szhe’ka has other ideas. Picking me up like I weigh nothing, which I probably do to him, he pushes his mouth against mine, more passion in his kiss as the very tip of his tongue fills my mouth.
He walks us back to the hut, hands roaming faster the moment we move through the tall door.
My jumpsuit recedes the moment we are out of sight and three hands supporting me in the air become one when his talons rake down my back and across my ass. I groan into the kiss, both of my hands burying themselves in the feathers at the back of his neck and slightly tugging.
A grunt leaves his mouth and he pulls away, large teeth grazing at my neck but not pressing down hard enough.
“I need you, Ani,” is all he can let out and I look up at him, my eyes begging him to take me.
“First I’m going to have to see what you have down there… or wherever you have it.”
He seems to understand exactly what I need and is eager to give it to me. He takes me over to the bed of leaves and lays down so that I am straddled on top of him.
We stay motionless in this position for a few seconds before I realize that he has no idea how this will work any more than I do. I mentally crack my knuckles and decide that we will deal with this. Somehow.
Getting off him, I trail my hands between his legs and find a small gathering of feathers that reminds me of pubic hair, which I take as a sign that I am in the right place. I part the feathers and lock eyes with a penis tip that shocks and intrigues me at the same time.
“You want coil now?” he pants out.
Coil? My mind blanks as the tip keeps coming out… in a spiral. My jaw drops and then I imagine how that movement will feel inside. Fuck…
