Total pages in book: 95
Estimated words: 90897 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 454(@200wpm)___ 364(@250wpm)___ 303(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 90897 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 454(@200wpm)___ 364(@250wpm)___ 303(@300wpm)
She looked over her shoulder, her thighs trembling against his. “I … I haven’t … before.”
Possessiveness roared through him. “Then that will be just for us. But for now …” Elijah smoothed a hand up her spine and under her hair to grip Echo’s nape in a domineering way he knew she’d get off on. She shuddered, letting out a little moan that drove him crazy. He caressed her in reassurance and then guided his cock between her thighs.
Once he was inside, he gripped her hips and thrust into her tight, swollen heat. Echo’s back arched at his invasion, and as he pulled out to drive back in, she whimpered and undulated into his strokes. Elijah released one hip to coast a hand up her trembling belly to grasp a pert tit. He squeezed it possessively, and Echo moaned, hanging her head in submission.
The sight of her taking him, her back arching, the way she pushed into his thrusts with mindless want sent Elijah too close to the edge too soon. He always wanted her to come first. So he wrapped her hair around his fist and gave it a tug.
“Oh!” Echo groaned as her pussy rippled around him, arching into the next drive of his cock.
Elijah tugged a little harder as he fucked her.
Echo cried out again as her pussy clamped around his driving dick, convulsing around Elijah in tight squeezes. He released her hair to take hold of her hips, pumping harder, faster into her climax. Elijah watched his cock drive into her body, wet with her come, and he lost himself in his release.
26
Sometime during the night, Echo awoke, craving him again. She wondered if this need for her mate would ever abate.
Her mate.
She couldn’t deny it, could she?
The connection between them was too extraordinary.
Never mind the fact that when the sun came up, she could step out at his side and walk in its light.
All because of their mating bond.
She still wasn’t sure how to discuss it. Or how to hope for a true family. How to tell Elijah that in the deepest parts of her heart, she had longed to belong to someone and have them belong to her. For no reason other than that they loved each other. In the dark, violent, vengeful world she’d been raised, she had never dared to admit such a dangerous dream.
Could she now?
With him at her side?
The words trembled on her lips as she awoke to find Elijah sleeping naked beside her. The male had wrung more pleasure from her body than she knew was possible. Echo was pretty sure a human would have had a heart attack.
Smiling at the thought, she moved down his body. His beautiful, hard, sculpted body.
It belonged to her as much as his soul did now.
She might not be able to say it out loud, but she could express her feelings in other ways. Echo wrapped her lips around his cock and slid him into her mouth. It only took a few pulls and licks for him to harden and throb.
For his eyes to flutter open and bleed into gold at the sight of her staring up at him with his cock between her lips.
“Bloody hell, woman,” he groaned hoarsely, his abs rippling as she sucked harder. He hissed and arched into her. “You undo me,” he whispered.
That’s exactly what she wanted. His strong thighs tensed under her fingertips as her tongue trailed along a vein on the underside of his cock. Elijah’s breathing stuttered before seeming to stop entirely as Echo sucked with sudden determination, bobbing her head so her mouth slid with tight suction up and down his length.
“Echo,” he groaned, lifting his hips off the bed to push deeper. “Love, yes, yes, fuck!”
She smiled around him and took him deeper.
“I want to come inside you. Stop, love.” As she kept sucking, his voice deepened as he commanded harshly, “I want your pussy, not your mouth, so get over here and ride me.”
The part of her that hated taking orders from anyone, no less a male, prickled, but her inner muscles squeezed.
She really did enjoy when he bossed her around in bed.
But only in bed, her expression warned as she released him from her mouth.
Elijah laughed softly. “I know.”
Echo kissed the sexy cut of definition at his right hip, her lips tracing a path along his torso as she moved upward. Knees on either side of his hips, she hummed with want as she felt his cock brush against her inner thigh. Taking his nipple in her mouth, tongue flicking, her moan muffled against his body as she felt his rough hands cup her breasts. Echo rubbed into him, eager for his touch. When his thumbs brushed them, she shuddered, panting against his chest.
Elijah made a pleased sound as he pinched her nipples between his fingers and thumbs. She barely had time to recover from the streaks of white-hot lightning that shot between her thighs before his right hand coasted down her stomach.