Page 45 of My Guardian Gryphon

“Been waiting for you my entire life. No woman I’ve been with in the past compares to what I feel for you. You are what I’ve been looking for my whole life, though I didn’t even realize.”

Her eyes brightened, joy replacing her doubt.

“Trust me.”

“I do.”

Those two words shattered what remained of the walls I’d erected around my heart. She’d broken every barrier and had my heart in her hands. I’d do anything for her. She was more important to me than any fantasy of going home to avenge my family, family that’d been long dead for millennia. Gretchen was my future.

“Just lie back, relax, and try not to scream.”

The wicked smile that flashed across her face only drove me higher and harder. Gods, how had I lived this long without touching her? Fuck Rose’s rules. This was bigger than that. One seer in the scheme of things wasn’t going to ruin the damn prophecy.

I slid an arm under one of her thighs and sank my face between her legs, letting the sweet scent of her arousal fill my lungs. My body leapt from pleasantly interested to full-hard-on. I wanted to bury myself in her sweet pussy and take her until she cried out my name in desperation, but she deserved better than that for her first time. I wanted it perfect, even if it killed me.

Using my other hand, I traced the silky edges of her folds and slid one finger inside her feminine heat. She gasped and tightened under my grip. I waited, allowing her to adjust to the intrusion. Her body shuddered and finally sighed, releasing the tension that had frozen her at first. Moving my finger unhurriedly in and out, foreshadowing what I would be doing with my dick later brought forth gratifying little mewls of pleasure from her mouth.

I added a second finger, curling them up toward the ceiling and against that extraordinary place inside a woman’s body that ignited them. Gretchen’s muscled shivered and tightened, and a low moan slipped from her throat. Then I dipped my tongue to her clit, firming my hold on her hip, prepared for the inevitable bucking reaction.

She did. Her hips surged up, her back arcing from the bed, and her hands flailed in the air until they came to rest on my head. Her fingers grasped for a hold in my hair, but it wasn’t long enough. Instead, her fingers dug into my scalp, and I growled, both myself and my Gryphon, pleased by her pleasure. Pleased by her sweet taste. Pleased that I had been granted this chance to show her what it meant to be with a man who loved her, even if that man had been an idiot for years and hadn’t seen what’d been right in front of him. I was going to make up for it now. She would know how much I loved her, how much I cared.

I slid my fingers from her body and replaced it with my tongue, drinking her deeply as the intoxicating scent and taste permeated my consciousness. I was drunk on her.

“I’m never letting you out of this bed.”

“I—ahhh—”

She trembled and quivered with each drive of my tongue. In and out. In and out. Then I circled that soft bud of pleasure several times, bringing her just to the brink of ecstasy before plunging deep again into her body.

“Alek,” she said, her voice low and husky and needy. “I need—”

I came up for air, kissing her thighs as I went along. “Have you ever orgasmed before?” I asked, sliding two fingers inside her slick hot body.

“I-I’ve p-played with myself, but n-not—” She gasped for air and clutched at the bedcovers, fisting them and pushing her hips farther onto the fingers I was spearing her with. “Gods, it n-never felt this g-good.”

I curled my fingers inside her again and covered her clit with my mouth, pulling it slowly between my lips. She was so close, just a little more. I let the edge of my teeth scrape her clit, and she soared.

Her body clamped down hard on my fingers, locking them into place. Had it not been for my arm wrapped around one of her thighs, she would’ve arced right off the edge of the bed. I held her tight. She dug the heel of her free leg into my back, urging me deeper and closer, and then she screamed.

Not like the loud piercing scream of a banshee, but a strained gasp so completely overwhelmed by pleasure that it’d paralyzed every cell and muscle. She sat up on the bed, my mouth still attached to her clit, and curled over me, trembling.

“Mercy,” she said, finally managing to force out a single word.

A chuckle shook my chest. I withdrew my fingers, relishing the whimper she uttered at the loss. “We’re only getting started, my sweet, sweet Gretchen.”

I got off my knees and scooped her into my arms, moving her to the center of my bed. Then I shucked off my t-shirt and slid off my heavy jeans.

Her gaze lowered to my fully erect cock and her eyebrows rose slightly. I grasped the base of my aching cock and stroked a couple of times, relieving just a bit of frustration. I wanted to be balls deep inside her, but she wasn’t ready. Not yet. I wanted her back on the brink of climax before I claimed her fully.

I crawled to her from the foot of the bed, positioning myself between her long, slender legs. Her scent was all I could smell. All I could taste, and I wanted more. “You doing good?” I was on all fours, hovering over her, my hands on either side of her shoulders and knees between her legs. The tip of my cock slid along her mound and then up to her navel. I leaned down to put my mouth on one of her breasts, taking most of it into my mouth, gently kneading it with my lips until she moaned.

She raised her legs from the bed, grazing my hips with her thighs. She arched her body, positioning herself perfectly.

I could’ve driven straight into her right then, but I held back. It would be better if I waited. The more I could play with her before we joined, the less sore she would be afterward. At least I hoped. At this rate, though, I wasn’t going to let her have much sleep.

“Alek, please, I ache for more.”

I moved to the other breast, lavishing it with my mouth and the edges of my teeth until she writhed beneath me, begging and pleading and panting all in the same moment. Her skin burned, stoking the fire within me even hotter. My cock stabbed at her soft stomach, but I released her breast and withdrew to feast upon her again.

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