Chapter 30
CHAPTER THIRTY
The moment the word passed her lips, Evelyn realized just how much restraint Aiden had been employing.
He surged out of his chair and was kneeling in front of her in the blink of an eye.
He took the pillow from her unsteady hands and flung it behind his head, where it ricocheted off the view screen and fell to the floor.
“Just put that anywhere,” Evelyn said. She was transfixed by the gleam in his eyes.
He looked like a hungry tiger she’d seen in a zoo once.
Ready to pounce. She felt warm all over, like the heat in the room had suddenly been cranked to the max.
The trembling sensation that had abated after her shower was returning, but she could no longer blame the energy she’d consumed for the unsteadiness she was feeling.
Aiden slowly stroked his finger down her cheek.
The zing she always felt when he touched her surged through her body.
When he reached her chin, he tilted her head slightly.
Their eyes met, his blazing emerald irises darkening.
She felt the flush rising in her cheeks and fought to keep her eyes on his.
She was unaccustomed to being the center of a lover’s attention.
Dark rooms and muffled moans were the hallmarks of most of her sexual experiences.
I could drown in that look.
Lowering his lips to hers, he kissed her gently.
Unclenching fists — that she hadn’t even realized she’d clenched — she reached up and cupped his jaw, the wiry strands of his beard tickling her palms. Needing more, she opened her mouth in invitation and was rewarded with his tongue dancing against her own.
His other hand found the back of her head and tangled in her hair, making her gasp against his mouth.
She felt the smile on his lips before he tore himself away.
She was about to protest, but then his mouth was on her again, kissing along her jaw, down her neck, and ending with a firm bite in the crook of her shoulder that threatened to turn her bones to liquid. Evelyn felt herself go limp against him as heat pulsed between her legs.
“Do I have plans for you, dollface,” he whispered against her ear. “I’d ask you to crank me up, but you already have.”
A choked laugh escaped her mouth. Evelyn licked her lips and flicked her eyes down Aiden’s body.
His cock strained against the fabric of his sweatpants.
She returned her gaze to his face and shifted forward in the chair, swinging her legs to cage in him in against her.
She recaptured his jaw in her right hand and bit her bottom lip. The heat in his eyes flared again.
“You’ll tell me if it’s too much?” The last thing Evelyn wanted to do the first time she got to sleep with Aiden was fry his psychic senses with her Amplification.
She wasn’t even sure she could do that, but the unexpended energy thrumming around in her system was a factor she’d never had to account for before.
He nodded. “Safety first.”
Evelyn closed her eyes as she focused on Amplifying Aiden.
If the goal of their romp was to expend as much psychic energy as possible, she would need to pull hard and leave the connection open for as long as she could.
The moment the energy of the universe began to flow through her, she felt the little hairs on the back of her neck stand on end.
The shudder that went through Aiden’s body reverberated in hers, and she knew he’d felt it, too.
She opened her eyes and was greeted with a feral grin.
“I’ve been thinking about this for weeks,” he said.
Leaning back on his heels, his eyes went to the buttons of her cardigan.
Soft black wool gently worked itself around the mother-of-pearl disks, unfastening one at a time, until the sides of the cardigan hung limply.
His hands palmed her knees and slid up her thighs as his mind guided the left side of her sweater off her shoulder, and then the other side.
Evelyn leaned forward. At first she thought it was an instinctual need to be closer to Aiden, but then she realized she was bowing to the pressure of the sweater at her back.
He had turned her cardigan into a soft wooly sling, gently nudging her to the edge of the chair while continuing to caress her thighs with his hands.
Aiden rose up on his knees again to nip her ear.
“Do you know how crazy this stupid sweater makes me? You all buttoned up like a demure librarian, and all I can think about is unwrapping your prim and proper costume and wrecking you.”
Anticipation surged in Evelyn’s body, and power surged across the connection she’d forged with Aiden as her control lapsed.
His fingers flexed against her knees, and he gave a satisfied chuckle.
She steadied her breath and bit her bottom lip again.
If he was determined to slowly drive her over the edge, she was going to make sure he was drowning in desire right along side her.
She met his eyes. “Get on with it, then.”
His hands moved up to grasp her hips, and in one fluid movement, he rose from the ground and scooped her up off the chair.
She wrapped her legs around his waist as his mouth captured hers.
Kissing him with a desperation she hadn’t known she possessed, she tried to wrap her arms around his neck, but they were still tangled in the cardigan.
Within moments, the fabric slid down her arms to the ground, freeing her, and she instantly buried her hands in Aiden’s hair, giving a firm tug.
He groaned against her mouth, and his hands gripped her more firmly as his hips thrust up, grinding his cock against her center.
She gasped into his mouth at the delicious friction of his body against her throbbing core.
She felt the fabric of her tank top sliding up her stomach, bunching up under her breasts, but she was pressed so firmly to Aiden’s chest that the fabric had nowhere to go.
Aiden nipped her bottom lip and broke the kiss.
“Arms,” he said.
Evelyn removed her hand from Aiden’s hair and raised both hands above her head. She felt a hand at the base of her spine and leaned back into the support as her tank skimmed slowly over her breasts, the slide of the cotton grazing her hard nipples causing her to shudder.
Absolutely the right move to forgo the underthings. You’re a genius, Evelyn.
Aiden manipulated the shirt over her head without grazing her face. Her hair tumbled over her shoulders. Before she could move to tie it back, she felt it rise and spiral into a knot on the top of her head.
His eyes raked down her body, and for once she didn’t want to crawl into a cave and die at the attention. Aiden looked at her like she was the center of the universe, and she could easily get addicted to the waves of sheer lustful appreciation radiating off of him.
Aiden leaned in, his tongue laving a hot trail along the crook of her neck again.
She grasped his shoulders, unsure she could stay upright while his mouth on her neck somehow activated every nerve ending in her pussy.
He kissed up her neck to her ear, his soft lips contrasting with the coarse hair of his beard and threatening to turn her completely boneless.
“Can’t have anything blocking access to this pretty neck.
You shudder so sweetly when I touch you here.
” He blew down her wet skin, and she writhed against him.
She was sure if she looked down, her pants would be dark from the wetness between her legs.
His hands trailed up her sides to her waist, and for a moment, she panicked, afraid she’d fall without the support of his hands on her hips.
She jerked back, but the gentle pressure of his telekinesis held her in place.
Relaxing into the pressure of his telekinesis, she arched her back as Aiden’s hands trailed up her stomach and cupped her breasts. He teased her nipples to even harder peaks before his hands drifted back down and unhooked her legs from behind his back.
Evelyn reached out to Aiden for support, but he’d already stepped back from her and she found herself suspended in the air.
A brief trill of panic threatened to seize her, but his power tugging at the drawstring of her pants refocused her attention.
She opened her eyes to be treated to the sight of Aiden removing his T-shirt.
Bare-chested, he paused to gaze at her, eyes wide and hungry as she felt the drawstring loosen and the fabric rush off her legs to pool at her feet.
She saw the muscle in his jaw twitch when he realized she had no panties on.
With one stride, he was standing next to her as she reclined fully in the air.
With the tips of his fingers, Aiden traced a gentle path up her leg from her ankle to her knee.
“Good God, you’re beautiful. So soft and perfect.”
His fingers gently skated up her thighs, and as they approached her soaked pussy, Evelyn shuddered in anticipation. She groaned in frustration when he abruptly changed course, moving his hands toward her hips instead.
“Tease.”
“It’s only teasing if you don’t follow through, dollface,” he said.
His eyes raked up and down her body, dark delight at having unfettered access to her clear on his face.
“This is taking my time. This is memorizing every little moan and shudder and twitch for the next time I get to play with you.” He bent his head and licked the inside of her ankle.
She squirmed at the feel of his tongue on her skin, marveling that such relatively innocent contact had revved her up as much as it had.
He kissed up her calf, continuing the soft, torturously slow exploration of her body.
Evelyn heard an undignified little whine and was briefly mortified to realize it had come from her own lips. Then he slowly dragged his tongue up her shin and she decided she was entitled to whine.
So close, too far. Horrible, hot tease.