Total pages in book: 139
Estimated words: 130619 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 653(@200wpm)___ 522(@250wpm)___ 435(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 130619 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 653(@200wpm)___ 522(@250wpm)___ 435(@300wpm)
I reach down and stroke it, my hand closing around it, feeling the pulse and heat in my hand. He lets out a low, guttural sound of pleasure, and then he’s kissing me again, a greedy, lusty kiss that has me panting and pressing my body to his, touching him everywhere I can find to touch him. I want to feel every inch of him beneath my palms, beneath my mouth. “I have never needed anything like I need to be inside you right now,” he says. “I need to fuck you, Ember.”
“Yes,” I say. “Yes, please.”
His arm wraps my waist, and my hand wraps his cock, guiding him to my lips. He presses inside me and eases me down slowly, the thickness of him stretching me until I’m flush with his body, until I’ve taken all of him. “Finally,” he murmurs.
“Finally,” I whisper, but we don’t move. We just stare at each other, everything that kept us apart and pulled us together between us, expanding and tugging us closer in ways beyond our bodies. His hand goes to the back of my head, and still, he lingers there a moment, just breathing with me, the pull of our connection a drug and a song, and we begin a slow, steady sway.
Our mouths collide, tongues licking, tasting, and I can’t get enough of him. I will never have enough of him. A frenzy of grinding and thrusting follows slow lovemaking, our hands exploring each other. I have never been so lost in anything or anyone, and I want to live in us forever. But our bodies grow impatient, and passion consumes us. Need drives us. And when he thrusts into me over and over, pulling me down against him even as I grind against him, I’m all but there. He cups my breast and leans in and suckles my nipple, and that’s the end for me. I shatter, spasming around his cock, and dragging him with me. He pumps into me, a guttural groan escaping as his body shudders beneath mine. Time fades as we collapse into each other and just lie there, our naked bodies one, until finally, it’s Micah who breaks the spell.
“Ember, sweetheart,” he murmurs gently.
I press myself upward, and he kisses me, a deep slide of his tongue before he says, “You’re going to beat the darkness. I’m not letting you go. We aren’t letting this go, Ember.” He cups my face and drags my gaze to his. “Understand?”
My heart squeezes with the fierceness of his proclamation that echoes in every part of me. “We aren’t letting this go,” I repeat. “Now, can we go kill him already?”
Hours later, we finally dress and sit down by the fire for a delicious basket of breakfast pastries and coffee. We’ve been naked a long time, and we decide we’ll at least make an effort to keep our clothes on, just in case we hear from Zeke. I’m about to sip my coffee when an alarming thought hits me. “Can I get pregnant?”
“You have to petition the kingdom to become pregnant.”
“You’ve got to be kidding me.”
“No. It’s got to do with the way humans and angels mingled long before our time and broke rules that should never have been broken. There’s a binding spell that’s released upon approval.”
“That’s weird.”
“It’s better than demons and humans somehow mating, which is the fear.”
My eyes go wide. “I didn’t feel the serpent when we were together. I didn’t feel him close to me or you.”
“I didn’t, either, but then, I wasn’t thinking about the serpent. I was thinking about you.”
My cheeks flush with the memories of all the things he has done to me and with me the past few hours. “Me, too. I never even thought about it, not once you started kissing me. But this is good, right?” My brows dip. “But wait. Is this place Elysium? And does that mean I didn’t fight off the demon at all?”
“There’s an abnormality in the two worlds’ barriers that bleed into this location. We’re not there, but we’re there. It’s hard to explain.”
“Oh,” I say, shoving my plate aside. “I see. So, you didn’t have to trust that I could hold him back at all?”
“Don’t do that. Don’t undermine what just happened between us. You know he can’t get to you underground or in Elysium. You were afraid that the serpent could somehow bypass those things and infect me. Now you know, now we know, he can’t. And if he could have, he can’t now. You’re too strong to let it happen.”
“Right. You’re right. I am. I faced him. I drove him away. I almost killed him.” I’m not sure if I’m trying to convince him or me. “This is a good thing.”
“Everything about what just happened is fucking amazing.”
“Yes. Yes, it was. It is.”