Page 35 of Knight’s Seduction

“I thought I was coming to you—”

She walked past him into his room, then turned back to him. He was watching her, focused, predatory, inhuman. And it was…so incredibly sexy.

“What’s going on, Meredith?”

She held up the shopping bags stuffed with her clothes and toothbrush, the other bits and pieces Kryos had gotten for her. “Where should I put my things?” He had one set of drawers and they weren’t very big. “You’ll need to make room for my clothes until we can get some more furniture in here,” she said, her voice shaking.

“What?” he whispered.

“I don’t want to sleep apart from you anymore, Kryos, do you?”

His wide chest expanded sharply, then began pumping rapidly. He shook his head as a deep, repetitive sound rumbled from him. Kryos…his demon was purring. There was no mistaking it for anything else.

“I know you’re the first of your brothers to find his mate, and we’ll have to figure this out as we go, but I assumed we’d live together?”

He was moving as soon as the word mate came out of her mouth. He scooped her up and kept walking right to the bed and laid her on it, covering her with his big, strong body, staring into her eyes. “Yes, we’ll be living together.”

“Good,” she whispered.

“You’ll be mine, Meredith? You’ll be my mate?” he asked, emotion making his voice rougher than ever before.

She cupped his cleanly shaven jaw. “There’s nothing I want more.”

His mouth came down on hers with a groan, kissing her deep and wild and so full of need that it stole her breath.

“Want you naked, sweets,” he said against her mouth. “Fuck, I need inside you so badly.”

She yanked at his towel. “I need that too.”

He lifted his hips and the towel slid free, then he was helping her strip off her clothes until they were finally skin to skin. He was hot and hard everywhere.

Meredith wrapped her legs around his hips and her arms around his neck. “I’ve never done this before.”

His trembling body jolted, and he buried his face against the side of her throat with a hiss as he rolled his hips, rubbing his massive erection that was trapped between them against her. “Sorry, I’m rushing you. I didn’t realize,” he said, panting hard. “I’ll stop, we don’t have to do this now.”

She tightened her arms around him. “Don’t stop. I want this. I want you now.”

“I’m not sure what happens when we mate, sweets. This is all new to me. What if I lose control? I don’t want to hurt you.”

“You won’t.” She believed that with everything inside her. He would never hurt her no matter how out of control he was. “I trust you, and I want you.”

He released a harsh breath. “We’ll go slow.” His eyes were blazing hot as he dragged his mouth along her jaw, then kissed her softly, leisurely, despite the way his muscles jumped and trembled from the effort to go slow like he promised.

He kissed his way down and sucked a tight, aching nipple into his hot mouth with a low growl, and Meredith arched and thrust her fingers into his hair, crying out. So good, just that, his mouth on her, and she was desperate for him. Who was she kidding? She’d been desperate for him for months.

He licked and sucked her gently, slowly, until she was whimpering and squirming, then he moved to the other side and started all over again.

“I can’t believe you’ll finally be mine,” he said as he worked his way down her stomach, those big hands gripping her waist. “All mine,” he repeated with a growl.

Oh god.

That growl made her belly tingle and goose bumps dance over her skin.

His warrior’s hands moved over her hips and down her thighs. “Spread your legs, sweets, I need to taste you.”

“Y-you want to taste me…there?”

“Fuck, yes. I promise you’ll love it. I fucking promise you.”