Page 137 of Monsters in Love: Lost in the Underworld

When I kiss her, she seems to sigh with her whole body, easing her weight onto me and I free my hand from hers, wrapping my other arm around her waist so that I can clutch her tighter.

Ineedher.

And I want her and there’s an urgency within me that has nothing to do with anything outside of us.

The rest of the world could have been sucked to hell… I’m not going after them. I’m not going anywhere when I have Julia like this.

She kisses me like she needs me too. Desperate and deep.

Both of us have longed for too long.

I whimper when she slips away from me, but the disappointment is short-lived. I help her when she drags my pajama pants down my legs, and I pull my shirt off, tossing them aside.

She hovers over me, looking her fill, and I lick my lips… waiting, wanting…

When I reach for her, she sinks down to me, but she spreads my legs again, sharp fingers holding my thighs as she opens me for her.

“You’re perfect, Genevieve.” She kisses my knee and sighs against my skin. “No spell for other people, just us.”

I nod, licking my lips. “Just us.”

She smiles, her teeth still sharp, and descends on me.

I grab her head on a gasp, but I don’t try to take control from her.

What was rushed before is unhurried and I bite my tongue as she takes her time, exploring me with her mouth.

She makes me writhe and I prop myself up on my elbows so that I can watch her, meeting her dark eyes as she takes what she wants from me.

The languid way in which her tongue works makes me want to weep and beg, but I only let a whimper go free.

When her eyes flutter closed and her grip tightens on my thighs, I have to drop my head back and screw my eyes shut.

Demands clog the back of my throat.More… Now… Please…

But I don’t let them free.

Nothing passes my lips until that need and pleasure coil into a tight point inside my belly, and I come, hands twisting in the sheets as that pleasure courses through me.

Julia laughs, her breath fluttering against my damp skin. “Perhaps the next time I go to hell, it will be gluttony that tugs at me.”

“I’m certain lust would show me you and no one else.”

Julia kisses me once more and then shifts up to kiss my mouth. I grind myself against the hard column of her leg, forcing myself not to try to turn her.

“Are you fighting me? Or yourself?” she asks as she takes hold of my wrists.

Her grip is tight, her teeth on my neck sharp, and I wriggle against the weight of her hips. But I’m not trying to get away. I wantmore.I’m always going to want more.

But I won’t take it.

“Too many people have taken from you… I only want to give.”

He smiles and shakes her head at me. “Oh, you’ll take.”

She chuckles as she kisses me and I gasp when her fingers find me again, when they slide through the wetness her mouth left behind and delve inside of me.

“We’ll both take and we’ll both give and I have no doubt the scales will always balance.” She moves over me and her smile iseven sharper than it was before. “But this time, I think I’ll give you what you want… and what you need.”

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