Chapter 79
CHAPTER 79
JULIET
A s Valaric’s powerful body pins me against the door, his lips devouring mine with ravenous need, the broken threads of my past weave back together. He is mine and I am his.
“I thought I would go mad without you,” he whispers as he trails a line of suctioning kisses down my neck. “Your scent is intoxicating,” he growls low in his throat. “I long to taste you.”
My heart hammers as he walks us to the bed. He sets me on the edge of the mattress and drops to his knees. His hands skim up my thighs, and he follows them with his lips and his tongue as he pushes the hem of my dress up to my hips and parts my legs.
I gasp when he slices away my lace underwear. He wraps his strong hands around my thighs and fits himself between them.
“Mine,” he growls and then his mouth is on me, hot and insistent.
I cry out his name, arching against him as he swirls his tongue over the small bundle of nerves at the cleft. When he begins a gentle suction I thread my fingers through his hair, begging him to never stop.
I dig my heels into his back as he continues to lave at the sensitive pearl of flesh. My entire body goes taut a moment before my release crashes through me.
I’m still coming down from my climax as he slips two fingers into my channel. I’m suspended on the brink of desire as his fangs pierce my inner thigh—a slight pinch of pain followed quickly by intense pleasure. Heat blooms deep within.
“Valaric, please,” I beg, although I’m not ever sure what I’m asking for.
He curls his fingers against my inner walls and finds a spot deep inside that makes me see stars.
He removes the last of his clothing, discarding his pants on the floor. I’m breathless and panting as he crawls onto the bed and pulls me into his lap to face him, my thighs straddling his hips. He crushes his lips to mine in a devouring kiss.
Pulling down the neckline of my dress, he cups my breast and then guides it into his mouth, laving his tongue across the sensitive bead.
I hold him close as he begins a gentle suction that drives my desire even higher. I’m balanced on the edge, intense pleasure rippling through me as he lavishes my other breast with the same attention as the first.
I guide his mouth back to mine as my hands explore the broad expanse of his chest and the delicious muscles lining his torso. Reaching between us, I wrap my hand around his stav.
A sharp hiss escapes him as I lightly stroke his length and then trace my fingers over the bulge of flesh around the base that is his knot.
His gaze holds mine as I rise up on my knees and position his crown at my entrance. He groans and the breath stutters from my lungs as I slowly lower myself onto his length until he is fully seated inside me.
“So tight,” he groans as he strokes deep within.
He makes love to me like a man possessed, locking one arm around my waist as his other hand grasps the back of my shoulder to hold me in place as he thrusts up into me.
Everything within me tightens and then I’m falling again, tumbling over the edge as desire rushes over and through me.
Without warning, he twists in the bed, flips me onto my back, and then thrusts back inside me. His eyes are raven-black as he stares down at me, his gaze full of fire and possession.
“You are mine.” He captures my mouth in a searing kiss, stealing the breath from my lungs.
Overwhelming pleasure ripples through me as each stroke becomes longer and deeper.
He rips his mouth from mine, and I moan as his fangs graze over the artery along my neck. “Need to mark you,” he rasps as his lips brush my skin. “Tell me you are mine.”
I tilt my head to one side, giving him better access. “I’m yours,” I whisper. “Now, and always.”
His knot expands, locking us together as he sinks his fangs into my flesh. Intense pleasure rushes through me like a giant wave. Heat surges in my core as he erupts deep within, filling me with his seed, and we fall over the edge together.
I’m still breathless and panting when Valaric rolls us onto our sides and folds his wings around me. I nestle into his embrace. This is where I belong. In his arms, I am home.