Chapter 54
CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR
NORA
“This is chocolate,” Nora said, holding one of the shelled candies between a forefinger and thumb.
Airik’s hands skated up her thighs, which straddled his lap, before settling on her hips. They sat against the fountain, his white hair haloed by all the colors of its lights. “Chocolate,” he repeated, in an accent arguably more delicious than the treat.
“I was saving this for an emergency.” She glanced back at the rubble that had been their shelter. “I feel this qualifies.”
“I think so.” His fangs slipped out as he smiled.
A warmth unfurled in her chest. She had no right to feel this safe and good now that they knew they’d likely die on this planet.
Airik cautiously watched the candy in her hand, leaning back on the fountain wall’s edge. With his eyes locked on hers, he opened his mouth. An order.
The moment she placed the candy on his tongue, his lips closed around her finger, giving her a slow lick before pulling back his head to chew. Nora held still, watching as he swallowed, his face expressionless.
“Well? What do you think?”
Grabbing the water flask beside him, he took several long swigs before setting it back down.
Fuck. He hated it.
He bit back a smile as he lifted her face with one hand and slipped the other between her thighs. “You should know by now…I only like one thing that is sweet.”
She leaned into him, her nipples hardening against his chest as he slowly began to circle her with his thumb. “If you don’t like chocolate, I don’t think we can be friends.”
“Friends?” He scoffed as if insulted. “How sad for me. That we can’t be…
friends.” He dipped two fingers into her, and she felt the thickness of each knuckle spread her wide.
“I don’t want to be your…fucking friend.
I want to be whoever can do this to you.
” His other hand closed on her ass, squeezing and pushing her harder on him.
Nora let out a moan, feeling herself clench on his fingers.
Encouraged, he moved faster, rolling his thumb on her clit with excruciatingly light pressure. “Do you want me to only be your friend?”
Grabbing hold of his shoulders to allow her to thrust against him, she shook her head vigorously. “I want you to be my lov—”
He pulled his fingers out, leaving her distraught at the loss of him.
But then he brought his fingers to his mouth, gaze firmly on her as he sucked them clean. “No sweetness in this universe will be like you. Friend is not enough—for what I want from you.” He moaned with pleasure, licking between his fingers.
He lifted her off his lap and set her on the grass.
“Get on your hands and knees, demon eyes. I want to fuck you. To show you why we can’t be friends.” Impatient, Airik flipped her onto her stomach in the grass, then lifted her hips. He yanked off her shirt.
With his legs on either side of her thighs, she felt the tip of his finger trace a burning trail down her spine, then cup the curve of her ass. Squeezing to make her more plump, he pressed his lips to the fullest part of her, planting a line of kisses until he reached the other cheek.
“Even this part of you is mine. So round. So…” His voice trailed, lost in what seemed to be reverent thought.
If it had been anyone else, she would have died of embarrassment under scrutiny. But it was Airik. And he touched her as if he’d made it his mission to make up for all the lost caresses in their lives.
Wanting to entice him more, she wiggled her hips.
“Are you trying to tempt me?” He bounced her ass up and down, making her laugh. “You don’t have to try at all. It makes this pretty movement when you do that. It makes me want to—”
She heard and felt a loud smack, immediately followed by a sharp burn as his palm connected with her skin. Her heart stuttering, her body fell flat onto her belly. She couldn’t move, surging with unexpected desire and wanting more.
Airik held incredibly still, his hand still on her. For a second, neither of them made a sound.
“I’m sorry,” he gasped. He dropped to her side, turning her face to his.
“Are you hurt?” Panicked, he looked down, then began to rub her skin, and when that wasn’t enough, he planted kisses where the stinging had just started to give way to a prickling warmth that spread to her core, making it difficult to talk without moaning.
“Do it again,” Nora heard herself ask.
He froze, his lips still on her ass.
“I…liked it. A lot. I want you to do it again.”
When he didn’t move, she raised her butt against his face, wiggling it again. “It’s called spanking. And don’t make me ask you twice.”
His lips lifted away from her. A second later, she heard him unlatch his belt and toss his sword aside. His pants flew through the air, dropping on top of her shirt ahead of them.
Gripping her hips, he resumed his position over her thighs. His hand came down in a hard slap. A long moan came from her throat, a rush of slick desire flooding between her legs.
Again, he spanked her—harder, accompanied by a resonant groan. She wished desperately that it would leave a mark, a perfect imprint of his hand. The sting throbbed deep in her body. A forceful giving that she wanted to accept.
Airik caressed where he’d just slapped, the other hand coming around her and stroking her clit. With his chin on her shoulder, he licked the shell of her ear. “You are weeping for me. Do you want me to do more?”
“Yes,” she whispered.
“You’ll tell me if it’s too much? I will give you anything you want. And stop the moment you say.”
“I know. I’ll tell you,” she promised.
Tightening his knees around her hips to keep her still, he spanked her.
This time with such intensity, tears gathered at the corners of her eyes, and for the first time, they meant something incredible.
Because she could learn something about herself with someone who had earned her trust. Airik would take care of her life, body and heart.
He dropped a sweet kiss onto her backside, and she felt the prick of his teeth. “My beautiful human,” he said. “Your pain is now mine. You will only ever feel it like this. When you want it. When I can soothe it for you after.”
As he entered her from behind, he gathered her hair and wound it around his fist. He sank in slowly, murmuring praise. “Yes, demon eyes. Take all of me.” He pulled her hair tight, tugging her body back until he was fully sheathed within her.
With her body arched into his, he spanked her again. “My beautiful, good girl who takes me so well.”
Both of them let out a moan as she squeezed him, drawing him deeper. He lifted her by the waist to ease pressure on her back, then rammed back into her, knocking the air out of her lungs.
“I—oh, fuck,” Nora gasped. “You’re—so deep.”
“I know,” he growled, pulling her hair taut so she was arched against him. “Your body is begging for mine, and I will never tell it no.”
He fucked her rough and hard, spanking her until her backside was tender and she rode the edge of what she knew would be the most powerful orgasm of her life.
“Please, Airik,” she begged, backing into him. “I’m so close—please, don’t stop.”
Dropping down to one arm so that his front fell across her back as she held herself up, he squeezed her breast, rolling her nipple with a hard pinch.
“What else will I learn of you?” He viciously circled her clit.
“In this forever that is now ours. I want to know everything. Every touch that you want. Soft. Hard. I will never deny you any of it.”
Ecstasy ripped through Nora’s body at his words and motions.
His hand came around her throat, pulling her back against him—not so much that she couldn’t breathe completely but enough to cause her love-rattled thoughts to float around her like twinkling stars. As her pussy throbbed around him, shuddering with all he did to her, she sagged to the ground.
“Not yet,” he growled, pulling her back up by her braid. He slammed into her once more, pushing so far that it felt like his cock was in the back of her throat.
And then Airik’s body curled over hers, and he released with a fierce cry.
A howl reverberated through her as he came, and his teeth sank into the fragile flesh where her neck met her shoulder.
On impulse, she tugged on his hair, keeping him in place, wanting him to sink as far into her as he could.
Everything. She took everything of him. His bite. His howl stifled against her throat. The pounding he gave her as he plowed through his climax, filling her with thick come that dribbled down her thighs.
Carefully, he lowered her to the grass, keeping himself firmly seated within her. His sharp teeth on her neck were quickly replaced with a soft tongue and lips, suckling her as they came down together.
“This will leave a mark,” he said quietly, stroking her skin. “For many days.”
Nora giggled, resisting a yawn. She nestled back against him, full and satisfied. “Good,” she said before letting herself fall asleep.
Tomorrow would be another day of their new forever.