Total pages in book: 93
Estimated words: 88265 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 441(@200wpm)___ 353(@250wpm)___ 294(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 88265 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 441(@200wpm)___ 353(@250wpm)___ 294(@300wpm)
It doesn’t take long before she comes, nearly setting off my own climax. Cupping the soft curve of her hip in one hand and a pert breast in the other, I take her with a few shallow pumps until she gets the rhythm.
Soon, she’s following my lead, pushing back with every thrust, urging me to take her harder and deeper until I’m pummeling her ass with my groin. Her moans only spur me on. I tweak her nipple, enjoying the hardness of the little bud between my fingers. She gasps and hollows her back, but she doesn’t try to stop me. If anything, she grows wetter around me. I move faster still, pleasure gathering at the base of my spine.
The threat on her life has set off every protective response inside me. Elsie is mine, and I must keep her safe. The terrifying thought of losing her pushes me to wrestle a confirmation from her.
“You’re mine, Elsie.” I burrow the fingers of both hands in the silky skin of her waist to keep her in place and hammer my hips faster against her groin. “Say it.”
“Yours,” she cries out as her pussy spasms around me, triggering my own release.
I come so violently that streaks of light flash like shooting stars behind my eyes. My release goes on and on, the pleasure lasting for a long time. Thick jets of cum fill up her pussy until her body can’t hold any more, and it starts leaking out.
Unwilling to sever our connection, I sit down on my heels and bring her with me. My cock has gone semi-soft, but like an unsatiable beast, I’m already growing hard inside her again. Only she can have this effect on me.
Her knees are pressed together between mine. I spread them, letting her straddle me with her back against my chest, and then I take her again, spearing into her with sharp upward punches of my hips. I play with a nipple and rub her clit with the heel of my palm while making her ride me until she comes again. My cum is still warm in her pussy, the excess dripping down her inner thighs, when I push her onto her stomach and spread her legs. Securing her to the bed with a palm on her lower back, I give her another orgasm with my hand.
I only stop when she begs me, telling me she can’t take more.
Lying down next to her, I pull her head onto my chest. We’re quiet for a while, catching our breaths. I’m both sated and unsettled, content and wary.
Elsie broaches the subject responsible for my turbulent thoughts first. Intertwining her fingers on my chest, she rests her chin on her hands and looks me straight in the eyes. “Who do you think tampered with the bridge?”
I clench my jaw. “It must’ve been somebody inside the palace.”
“Someone could’ve done it from the side of the cliff.”
“The stairs are guarded. We would’ve known if someone who doesn’t belong in the palace climbed up to the bridge.”
She ponders that for a moment before asking, “Who knew I was planning on taking the humans onto the bridge?”
I brush a hand over her hair, enjoying the silky feel of the short strands under my fingers. “I told Gaia and Vitai you’d need someone to open the waterfall. My parents were present, as well as my cousins.”
“Do you think your mother…?” she starts uncertainly.
“The truth is that anyone could’ve eavesdropped.”
A frown pleats her brow. “What are we going to do, Aruan?”
I like the sound of that—of “we.” Since the day I found Elsie on Zerra, there’ve always been two people instead of one in this new equation of my life. And lying here with her in my arms, I know exactly what I’m going to do. I’m going to take her away from the danger until I can find the person or persons responsible for the attempts on her life. I’m going to take her to Marikanea. At first, when my father brought it up, I thought it was too soon. I was going to say no. But now I think it may be the best decision. I’ll take Elsie there myself to make sure no one harms her.
“We’re going on a trip,” I say.
She eyes me curiously. “Where to?”
“Marikanea.”
“Gaia mentioned that kingdom to me.” Her turquoise gaze brightens. “To meet my biological family?”
My smile is wry. “Actually, they’re already here.”
She shoots upright, sitting on her knees. “Here?”
“I just found out myself. My father told me the news.”
Narrowing her eyes, she scrutinizes me. “Would that have been while you and Kian were giving each other black eyes?”
A smile plucks at my lips. “Black eyes? I’ve been told mine are the color of a gray sky.”
She draws a circle with her finger around her eye. “Bruises.”
“Why?” I tease. “Were you worried about me?”