“How about now?” I ask with just a little bit of seduction in my voice. I trail my hand down his shirt and he snatches it.
“No,” he says. “Don’t.”
I pull my hand away, stung. I had already jumped on board with seducing the pants off him. Hell knows it is the best way to get any man to do anything, but I wasn’t expecting rejection.
“You don’t want me?” I ask with a small pout.
“Oh, Aefre,” he says. “I do, but the time is not right.”
“What better time than right now?” I ask.
“You aren’t on your Heat. It wouldn’t be productive,” he says.
I bite the inside of my lip to stop myself from laughing out loud at him. Productive indeed. “We can practice,” I say, unable to keep the smile off my face.
“Practice?” he asks, confused. “I don’t understand.”
I let out a huff and say, “We can have fun, Remiel. Sex doesn’t just have to be about making a baby!” My gods, you would think I was the only woman he had ever been with.
“Fun?” he chokes out with a flush. “No, Aefre. You are to be treated better than that. I won’t use you.”
“Who said anything about using me?” I ask and flick a couple of his shirt buttons undone. “I want you. I want to show my love for you.” I nearly gag on the words, but I am this close to getting him where I w
ant him. I pull on his shirt and tilt my mouth up for a kiss.
He hesitates, but then he presses his lips to mine and it is the same icy pleasure that I felt in the dream reality. I shiver despite myself and I feel something stirring at his touch, or should I say someone. V.A. is enjoying this, and she wants more. It kind of makes it easier as I let her take over. I slip my tongue into his mouth and he twirls his around mine. His strong hands grip my upper arms as he pulls me up closer to him. I fumble with this shirt and soon I have all the buttons undone as he just kisses me with one of the most sensual kisses I have ever felt. I let out a moan, unable to help myself, and he wraps his arms around me, crushing me to him so my hands are pressed against his rock-hard chest. The V.A. part of me wants this to last, but the Aefre part wants to hurry it along a bit, so I reach up and push his shirt off his shoulders. He breaks the kiss and looks deep into my eyes. He cups my face and he whispers, “I have waited so long for this.”
“I am yours,” I murmur. “Take me.”
And it really doesn’t take any more encouragement on my behalf.
He strips me with magick, and I fight the urge to cover myself, but when his eyes rake over me and he strips himself, V.A. dives on him, knocking him to his back on the clearing floor. I straddle him and take him in my hand. He closes his eyes for a second, but then sits up.
“No,” he says. “You are not a whore here to pleasure me.” He lifts me up and turns us over.
“I want to pleasure you,” I say to him.
He ignores me in favor of dropping his mouth to my nipple. The ice runs down my spine again and my back teeth tingle as I feel myself get wet. I can’t help it. I can’t fight this way that he has. Although, some part of me knows that he isn’t using his power over me, at least not at full strength. I want this deep down, because in the World where Tiamat is my mother, Remiel is my Chosen One. It has nothing to do with feelings or love; it is a blood-to-blood bond. Simple as that.
He moves his mouth down my body, lightly brushing his lips over my skin and I tremble as he places his mouth on my clit. He sucks gently and I come in a sudden rush, crying out loudly.
“My body needs you,” he whispers to me as he rises and settles himself in between my legs. “Can you feel the pull, Aefre? Can you feel how we belong together?”
“Yes,” I breathe before he plunges his cock into me. “More,” I rasp as he withdraws and does it again. A few more vigorous thrusts, has me coming again and he groans as he feels me.
His fist tightens in my hair as his lips brush mine. It is time to end this now, though, as satisfying as it has been to my traitorous body. I push us over again and this time he lets me ride him. His hands are on my backside, encouraging me to ride him harder. He sits up again, pushing himself even deeper into me and I wrap my legs around him. I feel him tense and with a soft grunt he comes inside me as I lean in to kiss him, and to my absolute horror, he shudders again, flooding me with a double orgasm that I have only ever experienced with CK. And that CK swears is an anomaly that he has only ever experienced with me.
Remiel gasps and his eyes fly open as he realizes what has just happened to him. I want to climb off him and run away from the look of awe and adoration on his face, but instead I smile softly and cup his face with my hands.
“Perfect,” I murmur. “Just perfect.”
“Say it,” he croaks out. “Say the words, Aefre.”
There is nothing left but for me to comply with his demand.
“I love you,” I say, looking into his eyes.
“Oh, I love you,” he answers as he kisses me.