“Answer me, Aeryn. Tell me your mine.”

“I'm yours,” I professed, reaching out, the heat of lust burning off any trepidation I may have once had.

“Fuck yes, you are.”

Nox hissed as my fingers curled around his warm, silky flesh. So hot, so smooth. The softest skin stretched tight over hard steel, unlike anything I'd ever touched before.

Not even the thickness of his girth or intimidating length cooled my ardor. I clenched my thighs together as I reveled in the feel of him.

“Look at me,” he demanded in a tone that had my beast ready to submit.

Nox's jaw was clenched, watching through slitted lids as I continued to stroke and squeeze. Suddenly, I wanted to taste him. I had to.

Holding his gaze, my thumb traced the sculpted tip, then I did the same with my tongue. His hips jerked so I did it again.

“Take me in your mouth, kitten.”

I closed my lips around the head of his cock, humming at the taste of his skin. The wild—my baast—pushed me further down his length, then back again, purring from the depths of my throat.

“Easy,” he breathed. “If you move too much I'll come and I'm not ready for that.”

Nox guided my head back and forth, feeding me with slow, languid strokes. He'd decided to control the tempo, and I wasn't about to argue.

“You like this, don't you?” he asked heatedly.

I hummed again in agreement, glancing up to catch the predatory gleam in his eyes.

“Wicked thing,” he praised, pulling out completely. “Lie back.”

Nox's body followed mine, kissing me with a slow, searching passion that made me feel desired. When he drew back, I slid my hands up his chest, marveling at the display of muscle under smooth, heated skin.

“Are you going to claim me now?”

A wicked gleam lit his eyes. “If my female demands it.”

“Your female demands it,” I said, my voice unrecognizable, husky with longing, driven by instinct.

Nox's smile turned feral. He gripped my hips, lowering so I was pinned beneath the hard length of his body, helpless to do anything but arch into him with a gasp.

“As you wish, kitten.”

He claimed my mouth in a bruising kiss, all restraint gone as his hands roamed my body. I opened for him eagerly, twining my arms around his neck to pull him closer. Our tongues danced and dueled, stoking the fire in my blood until I was dizzy with want.

Nox shifted, his thigh sliding between my legs to press against my sex. I rocked my hips with a moan, craving the delicious friction, and he growled his approval against my lips.

I moved against him in a rhythm as old as time itself. His hand drifted between us, seeking and finding my most sensitive places.

“Before this night is over, I will have wrung every ounce of pleasure from your sweet body, little mate. And you will scream my name.”

Nox lowered his head, lips trailing fire down my throat as his hands cupped my breasts. I arched into his touch with a gasp when his thumbs brushed over my nipples, the sensitive peaks tightening almost painfully.

“I love the sounds you make when I touch you,” he murmured against my skin.

His lips closed over one nipple and sucked firmly, shooting sparks of pleasure straight to my core. I tangled my fingers in his hair, holding him there as he lavished attention on my breasts until I was squirming beneath him.

When Nox lifted his head, his eyes were heavy-lidded and dark with desire. “Your arousal drives me mad. I want to taste it.”

Heat flooded my cheeks even as lust spiked through my veins. I was soaked like never before. I started to protest but Nox shifted down my body in an ardent blur, settling between my thighs before I could form a coherent thought.