Page 96 of Casino King

Closing my eyes, I let the most beautiful words I’ve ever heard sink in. Running my hands up the back of his head, I let his mass of silky black hair slide through my fingers.

“I love you, too,” I whisper against his lips, and he silences me with his.

This kiss is different than every other one we’ve shared. It’s still possessive and heated, but it has something else added to it that makes my heart feel like it’s way too big for my chest.

We pour everything into this kiss, and I feel the electricity snap and sizzle through me like bolts of white lightening in a black sky.

I can feel his love for me. I can feel his devotion. I can feel his sorrow for hurting me. I can feel his every emotion passing through this kiss and into my heart.

Alec runs his hand down the side of my waist and snakes it between us. Kissing his way down my neck, he bites down with a groan at finding me already wet for him.

Kissing and biting his way up to my lips, he takes my bottom lip between his teeth and then smooths it out with his tongue while his fingers rub slow circles around my clit. I melt under him.

No one’s ever said they loved me before, and vice versa. But they’re more than just words with us. I feel them. I breathe them. I live them.

Deepening the kiss, I wrap my arms around his neck and pull him as close as I can.

“I need you, Alec,” I pant, then moan when he sucks my earlobe between his teeth. “Inside of me. Now,” I demand, tilting my hips up.

“I’ll always give my queen what she wants,” he says in my ear, his rough voice holding every promise in the world to follow through on that.

“Then you should get inside of me. And don’t hold back. I need you. All of you.”

Grunting his approval, Alec aligns himself at my entrance and kisses me hard as he thrusts all the way into me in a single swift motion. He swallows my cry, his tongue sweeping through my mouth to savor its taste.

I asked him not to hold back, and he doesn’t.

I feel every inch of him with every thrust, my body welcoming him home after being gone for what feels like forever.

Pulling my lips away from his, Alec buries his face in the crook of my neck – kissing, sucking, biting. As my moans and cries intensify, I’m pushed higher and higher until I reach the edge of a precipice.

Alec drags his teeth over my sensitive nipples and my back arches into him on instinct. His mouth latches onto one of my tight peaks and sucks deep, and I feel the pull straight to my core.

“Alec,” I choke out, raking my nails across the breadth of his back.

“Not yet,” he rasps.

Biting around my nipple, he drags his lips across my chest to my other one, and gives it the same torturous treatment that drives me to within an inch of losing my sanity.

I can’t hold on much longer. I can’t take much else.

Looking down at me, Alec’s dark eyes capture mine, and every time he’s fully inside of me, hitting that spot so deep in me only he can reach, his eyes flare. The dark brown now black as it ripples out like a pebble dropped in a still lake.

“Alec,” I beg, holding on by a thread.

“No,” he commands, and tears prick my eyes as I hold back, with little sparks running down my legs and up my spine.

I feel him everywhere.

His mouth marks every square inch of skin he has access to, and just when I feel myself reaching my breaking point, he tells me to let go, and I don’t hear anything else but the raw scream that’s torn from my throat.

White stars dot my vision as I’m thrown from the heavens and plunged straight into the flames of hell – consumed wholly.

My eyes roll back as I burn, with Alec being the only thing keeping me from turning to a pile of ash.

♠♣♥♦

Groggy, I peel my eyes open and see I’m no longer in the makeshift hospital room. I’m in Alec’s bed, but he’s not here, so I curl into the empty spot he usually occupies, inhaling his residual scent.

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