Chapter 7
7
TAMARA
I couldn’t sleep. The bed was comfortable, the room was quiet, and the door was locked. But none of that mattered. Not when my thoughts kept spinning.
Every time I closed my eyes, I saw medical charts and redacted files, patients’ names I’d never find again. My chest ached like I was holding my breath and forgetting how to let it go.
I finally gave up and slid out of bed. Padding across the room in nothing but Talon’s shirt, I wrapped my arms around myself and stared out the window. I didn’t know how long I stood there before I heard the door open behind me.
I stared out at the trees as Talon stepped inside the room, quietly shutting the door behind him. When I turned to look at him, I saw that his shoulders were tight, his jaw set, and his hair looked like he’d run his fingers through it a dozen times.
Then his gaze landed on me and dragged down the length of my body. His eyes turned even more intense. Practically burning.
My knees went weak at his look, and I gripped the window frame to hold myself up.
He didn’t say anything at first. Just stood there, fists clenched at his sides as though he was trying to hold himself back.
“I couldn’t sleep,” I whispered.
His eyes were storm-dark now, heavy with heat and something deeper as he took a step forward. Then another.
“I keep telling myself to go slow,” he muttered, as though he was talking to himself more than me. “You’ve been through too much. You need time. Space.”
I swallowed hard. “But?”
His chest rose on a sharp inhale. Then he exhaled through gritted teeth. “Fuck it.”
I barely had time to blink before I was in his arms. His mouth crashed down on mine and stole every thought from my head. My lips parted, and his tongue swept inside.
Nothing about his kiss was soft or tentative. It demanded everything.
It didn’t take long for me to melt into him. As I clung to his shoulders, Talon angled his head to deepen the kiss. All I could do was hold on while he devoured me.
His hands slid down to my hips and gripped hard, dragging me against his chest like he couldn’t stand even an inch of space between us. I gasped, but the sound disappeared into his mouth.
Our tongues tangled, and his teeth nipped at my bottom lip before he lifted his head to stare down at me. “If you need more time, you gotta tell me now, baby.”
I was overwhelmed by how fast everything was happening, but I knew what I wanted. So I didn’t hesitate to say, “I don’t need anything except you.”
A groan tore from his throat, and then I was swept off my feet. He carried me across the room as though I weighed nothing. One of his hands fisted the back of my shirt—the one he’d given me the first night—as though he was afraid I’d disappear if he let go.
He laid me on the mattress like I was something precious, even as his eyes burned with sensual intent. Then he trailed his mouth down my throat, and my heart pounded with need.
When he pulled away, I let out a small whimper.
“Don’t worry, baby. I’m not going anywhere. Been holding back since the second you walked into that bar. Not gonna waste my chance now that I have you under me.”
He stripped his leather vest and shirt off in one rough motion, and my gaze swept down his broad chest to take in the black ink on his right shoulder, side, and hip. When I met his gaze again, his eyes were full of heat. “I’m glad you finally stopped.”
His hands tugged at the bottom of the shirt. The one I’d slept in since I got to the compound.
I arched my back off the mattress to make it easier for him to rip the material over my head. After he tossed it on the floor, his gaze focused on my chest. My breasts ached, nipples pebbling under his stare.
“Fuck, baby. Your tits are so damn perfect.”
He lowered his head, and his beard scraped against my skin as his lips wrapped around one of the stiffened peaks. My fingers delved into his thick hair, and I shivered against him when he sucked my nipple into the back of his mouth.
“Oh, wow,” I breathed.
His gaze locked with mine. “Like that, baby?”
“Uh-huh.”
“Good ’cause there’s a fuck of a lot more where that came from.”
He kissed his way across my chest to give the other side the same treatment, and I felt the tug of his lips all the way to my core.
“This too?” he rasped, nibbling down my rib cage.
“Yes,” I panted, gripping the sheet in my fists.
He scooted down, leaving a trail of heated kisses in his wake. I shivered when he circled his tongue around my belly button.
“Can’t wait to taste you.”
His breath was a puff of hot air against my panties, the only piece of clothing I had on. But not for long.
He ripped them from my body. Then he wedged his broad shoulders between my thighs and lowered his head to lick between my pussy lips before his tongue circled my clit. I’d never felt anything like it before. His touch was warm, wet, and firm. I wanted more…for it to never end.
Bucking my hips up, I rode Talon’s face while he ate me like a starving man. He switched up his licks—long and slow, short and fast. Sometimes hard. Other times soft.
There was no pattern, so I never knew what he was going to give me next except for a lot of pleasure. It built in my body until I was on the edge. Then he pinched my clit, and I flew apart.
He licked me through my orgasm, not letting up until he’d made me scream his name. “Talon, yes! Oh yes!”
My release left me feeling boneless as I practically melted into the mattress, but he wasn’t finished.
“Gimme another, baby,” he growled against my pussy.
This time, he inched a finger inside as my pleasure ratcheted higher. It was almost more than I could bear as he used his tongue, lips, teeth, and hand to bring me to the brink of another orgasm. Fireworks went off behind my eyelids as my release crashed over me, even stronger this time.
“That’s my good girl.” My inner walls fluttered at his praise, and he chuckled. “You like me calling you that.”
I pressed an elbow into the mattress and flashed him a dazed smile. “You could put it that way.”
“I’ll be sure to use it more often.”
Getting to his knees, he removed his jeans and boxer briefs and kicked them off the bed, his hard dick springing free. The piercing on the underside of his shaft captured my attention. “Whoa.”
His lips curved into a smirk as he wrapped his hand around his thick shaft. “Don’t worry, baby. After those two orgasms, you’re ready to take me. And I promise, you’ll like my piercing a fuck of a lot when it’s inside you.”
Suddenly nervous, I licked my lips. “Um, I should probably tell you…”
“What, baby?” he asked, settling between my legs with his dick cradled in the apex of my thighs.
“I’m a virgin.”
His biceps flexed as he stared down at me, his eyes heating even more. “I’m the first man who’s gonna get inside your sweet-as-fuck pussy?”
I nodded shyly. “Yeah.”
He leaned down and captured my mouth in a deep kiss that left me breathless. “Such a good girl, saving that cherry for me.”
Hearing him call me that when the tip of his dick was pressed against my core, and the cold metal of his piercing teased my clit, was even better. But the pleasure was quickly replaced by pain when he pulled his hips back and drove balls deep inside me with one powerful thrust.
Digging my nails into his shoulders, I chanted, “Crap. Crap. Crap.”
“Sorry, baby.” He kissed away the tears streaming down my cheeks. “Figured it’d be better to get the hard part over before you had the chance to tense up and make it worse.”
“I guess you’d know best,” I mumbled before pressing my face against his chest.
“Never took someone’s virginity.” His palm slid between us to cup my breast, his thumb flicking over my nipple. “And it’s been longer than I can remember since I’ve so much as looked at a woman, let alone fucked anyone.”
I loved knowing that I was Talon’s first virgin and the only woman who’d caught his interest in so long. About as much as the pulse of pleasure I felt when I wiggled my hips.
“Better now?”
I circled my hips again. “Yeah.”
“Thank fuck,” he groaned.
He grasped my waist hard enough that I was probably going to have bruises in the morning, but it only turned me on more to know that I’d shredded his control so much. He held me in place while he pulled back, his shaft dragging against my inner walls.
When only the tip was still notched inside me, he slammed back in again. “Fuck! You feel so damn good, baby.”
His pace was slow and steady at first, but as my pleasure started to ramp up, he began to move faster and harder. Any hint of my earlier pain was gone, and I met him thrust for thrust. His piercing hit something inside me that was driving me wild. “Yes! More. Please, Talon!”
“Your pussy is so hungry for my cock. Come for me again, baby,” he demanded. “Be a good girl and give me another one before I fill your pussy with so much come it’ll be dripping down your thighs for days.”
His dirty words were enough to push me over the edge. “So close. I think I’m going to?—”
My sentence was broken off by my strangled cry as a tidal wave of pleasure crested over my body.
“Fucking hell, baby! Your pussy is milking my cock so good.” His hips pumped a few more times before he anchored his dick all the way inside me and groaned with his release.
We lay there for a while, his body wrapped around mine as our breaths came out in ragged pants. My heart beat erratically, but so was his. With my ear pressed against his broad chest, I heard the rapid thumps. Between listening to that rhythm and experiencing three mind-blowing orgasms, I couldn’t keep my eyes open.
The last thing I heard as I drifted off to sleep was, “There’s no going back now, Tamara. You’re mine.”