Chapter Thirty-Eight
Kade
“Moons,” Kade hissed.
Hidden under bedsheets, Evelyn’s moan vibrated against his length as she took every inch of him into her mouth.
With her tongue and lips, she worshiped him like some god, but truly Kade prayed to her.
He’d forgotten they were on a boat, the sea’s up and down waves no match against the pleasure she wrung from him.
He ripped the sheets off of her, and the sight of her tongue twirling over his tip as she fisted his length almost had him coming undone right then and there, but he refrained.
Her heated gaze sent him a silent warning: Don’t.
And with her mouth wide around his length and her need perfuming the air, what sort of man was he to deny her?
Kade smirked—he loved his mate’s sounds, skin, and body, but he also loved her unabashed want during their entanglements.
Outside their cabin, waves knocked against the pirate ship’s underbelly, but Kade didn’t care, nor did his wolf. Not when he and his mate lost themselves in the sheets of their bunk.
A growl rumbled through Kade’s chest, need of his own coursing through him. He grasped her hair and held tight, encouraging her rhythm as she continued to suck, drawing him deeper than ever before. Stars above, save him.
“Ev . . .”
His warning did nothing but quicken her pace. He shut his eyes, his control at the edge of bursting at the seams, pleasure tingling to his toes.
“Love.”
That got her attention, and Evelyn slowed, easing him from her mouth. Hair amiss. Teary eyes. Glowing flush across her cheeks.
She still wore her tunic and trousers, and Kade couldn’t bear it, craving the sight of her naked curves.
She straddled him, and he leaned forward, dragging her shirt up and over her head.
Evelyn screeched as he yanked and snapped the bralette hiding her breasts from him.
She didn’t have time as he took one nipple in her mouth, sucking, twirling his tongue, and bit down.
“Oh.”
Evelyn wrapped her arms around his shoulders, falling into her pleasure, toes curling as he moved to the second nipple and worshiped it the same way.
Kade moved, placing Evelyn on her back. Eyes wide and panting, she smiled up at him. He unbuttoned her trousers, taking her undergarments off with them in one swoop. Kade gripped her hips and twisted her beautiful bare body onto her hands and knees.
Evelyn gasped, peering over her shoulder. “Kade.”
“Hands on the wall,” he said—guttural, his beast sitting on the surface.
Evelyn swallowed but obeyed, planting them firmly with fingers splayed. A tremor ran up her spine, anticipation thrumming between them. They’d been here before, lying with one another, but there was always something to explore.
Kade yearned for Evelyn, and he cherished these moments alone, and lately, they felt more precious—her three weeks had dwindled to two. Sometimes, he felt like a selfish bastard, needing her like this, but then Evelyn gave him a particular look, and he knew this was a shared desire.
Kade dismissed his agonizing, wretched thoughts and traced his fingers over Evelyn’s pale, moonlight-like skin until he found her clit.
Kade’s touch slicked through her sex, and his length twitched—his mate was so ready, so needy, and stars above, he rallied his control so he could worship her, too.
Evelyn arched, her fingers digging into the wooden wall. Kade drew circles at a slow, deliberate pace. He memorized the flush on Evelyn’s cheeks deepening, the way her toes curled as he quickened his circles, and how breathy she became.
“I’m close—”
“Don’t. Wait.”
Kade positioned himself behind her and kicked her knees wider with his, granting himself more access to her glistening sex.
He drew their hips flush together. Evelyn pressed back, her wetness coating his aching length.
A growl rumbled through his chest, and he pinched her clit, and Evelyn writhed against him.
He released her, palming his length as he lined it up with her entrance.
“Keep your hands on the wall.”
He thrust inside her fully, and Kade cursed all the gods for creating such maddening perfection. A moaned, yes, gasped out of Evelyn. Her arms shook, but she braced against him and took what he gave her. He drove into her. Again and again. Rough. Teetering on the edge of control.
Her small waist fit so perfectly into his large hands, and those muscular legs of hers trembled as she kept her hands on the wall, mewling as her release built through her. If Kade could bottle up the sight and sounds of his mate taking him so utterly well, he would.
“Kade . . . I can’t . . .”
He grabbed a fistful of silky hair and yanked, making her look back at him. “You can, and you will, love.”
He brought her flush to his chest, widening his knees. Evelyn whimpered as she sank farther onto his length.
“Fuck,” he hissed as drove deeper than before, her sex choking his cock.
Evelyn’s head fell back against his shoulder, and she peered up at him with silvery eyes, and the sight almost undid him there. He loved this woman. Unconditionally. For eternity. His heart, mind, body and soul belonged to Evelyn, and he hoped he conveyed that through his body to hers tonight.
Kade dipped his hand between her breasts, brushed against her strong stomach until he found where they meet.
“Kade,” she cried out as he drew two fingers over her clit. He did it again, but this time alongside a deep thrust. Her sex clamped around him, and he scented her release on the horizon, the tightening grip on his length telling enough.
“Come for me, love,” he whispered.
Evelyn shattered in his arms, her body arching, stiffening, and clamping all at once. He swallowed her release with a bruising kiss. Kade’s inner beast took over, and he lost control as he pounded into Evelyn.
His release ripped through him. Fierce, harsh, and unrelenting.
Stars burst into his vision, but as he blinked and came to, panting with Evelyn in his arms, it was her beautiful face and sleek body tangled with his that overcame his sight.
The gleam in her eyes almost pushed him over the edge again, the power within that silver his undoing.
“I love you,” she whispered, breath tickling his face.
He ran his nose up hers, inhaling the vanilla-and-cedar scent.
“When we visit the Otherworld, I’ll be thanking the gods for creating you,” he whispered into her ear.
Evelyn sighed into his hold, and for a moment they remained still and joined as they came down from one another.