Total pages in book: 362
Estimated words: 347293 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1736(@200wpm)___ 1389(@250wpm)___ 1158(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 347293 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1736(@200wpm)___ 1389(@250wpm)___ 1158(@300wpm)
Gripping my hips, he lifted me. I wrapped my legs around his waist. His tongue danced with mine as he moved. My back hit the wall near the doors, as cold and hard as his body. I reached between us, grabbing the front of his breeches. Our hands fumbled until he grew frustrated and ripped the flap open. He shoved his pants down, and then he was filling me, inch by inch, his length and girth stretching me. The bite of pain was delicious, and we both shuddered.
There was nothing but an excess of pleasure and ecstasy, intensified by the deep, rumbling sounds he made as he thrust into me. Sinking my fingers into the soft strands of his hair, I reached up and clasped the shelf above me. Our mouths moved together, our tongues mirroring the pace of his hips. I thought I heard Nektas’s deep voice, and then there was a sharp rap against the door.
“Five minutes are up,” Aydun called out.
Holding me against the wall, Ash broke the kiss, his hips grinding against mine. “We’re going to need—” His head fell back as I tightened on his cock. The tendons of his neck stood out starkly. “We need another minute.”
“For fuck’s sake, if they’re—” His words cut off abruptly.
The inappropriateness of this. The ridiculousness. I bit down on my lip, but a short, high-pitched giggle snuck free.
Ash’s head snapped forward, his veins pulsing with eather. “I love that sound.” His hand curled around my chin as the fingers at my hip dug in. “I love your smiles. I love your throaty moans.” His lips brushed mine. “I love how wet you are right now. And I especially love the way your pussy clamps down on my dick.”
Another giggle parted my lips, and Ash captured the sound with his. Passion engulfed us, one not too different from what I’d felt when we were on the bank of my lake right before he took me into the water. I could feel my fangs throbbing. The desire for his blood rose, but that would require me to stop kissing him, and I couldn’t even bear the thought.
This truly was madness.
And maybe how close we came to losing one another and what each of us was willing to do to keep the other safe was what drove us when Nektas and the Ancient waited only feet away. There was no way they didn’t know what was happening, but in that minute, I didn’t care. I was a fire in the flesh then, hungry for each thrust of his cock. Starving for him. He was greedy for each sweep of my tongue, each breath he tasted. He thrust hard and fast, and I met him just as fiercely.
And as the tension built and built until I didn’t think I could exist for another second, and caught on that exquisite precipice, I knew that despite how treacherous our future would be, how uncertain everything was, one thing would remain constant. The tempest within us peaked, taking us both in the same heartbeat, and I knew there would always be us. Together. Always.
Ash’s breathing was ragged as aftershocks of pleasure skittered through us. “Liessa,” he rasped, pressing into me.
Several seconds passed—definitely more than a minute—but no sounds came from the hallway.
His forehead dropped against mine, and he swallowed hard. “He’s going to ask about Sotoria.”
“I know.” I closed my eyes. “There’s no way Kolis still believes I’m her. He would be dead if I was, and he knows that. He…” The look on his face as I drove the Ancient bone into him took shape.
“What?” Ash pressed quietly.
I shook my head. I couldn’t say what I thought I’d seen in Kolis’s expression. Resignation? Maybe even relief. It made me uncomfortable to even think about it. “He doesn’t know where Sotoria’s soul is.”
“And we need to use that to our benefit. He needs to believe that it is still in you,” he said, his body chilling against and inside mine. “Do and say whatever you need to convince him of such.”
I kissed him, knowing how much it took for him to say that. I knew that taking what protection it offered me cut him up and would keep slicing at him. I hated this. All of it.
He gently separated our bodies and lowered me to the floor, ensuring I was steady before he pulled up his pants and then fixed mine. Neither of us spoke as he worked the legging up my leg and then straightened the dark gray blouse and vest I wore. When he was done, he smoothed the sides of my hair back, then tilted my chin until our eyes met.
Ash swept his thumb across my cheek. “Promise me,” he said. “Promise me that whatever Kolis says or does, you won’t let it leave a mark.”