Page 52 of Fire in Stone

I needed it too. I had to feel him everywhere. I sucked in a breath, slowly parting my legs for him. A moan escaped me as he lowered his mouth onto me. He groaned with satisfaction against my sensitive flesh, the vibration of the sound reverberated in a wave of pleasure through my body.

“Elex.” I tugged at his hair, forcing him to look up at me.

He grinned, licking his lips. The long stubble on his chin tickled and prickled my most sensitive spot. The achy need throbbed between my legs, making me squirm.

Did I really want him to stop? Now?

“Never mind.” I let go of his hair. “Just…carry on.”

Dropping my head back on the pillow, I fully surrendered to him as he dove back in. His tongue slipped inside me. His lips caressed the bud of my clit. Heat spread through me.

I gripped the sheets, rolling my head on the pillow. How did he make it feel so wonderful? How could it be this incredibly good?

He increased the pressure, expertly reading the desperate need taking over my body. I stilled, focusing on that one white-hot spark of approaching climax. He flicked his tongue, setting it free.

My orgasm exploded with bursts of intense pleasure. I fisted my hands in the sheets, riding it wave after wave.

Elex’s caress softened. He slowly dragged his tongue through my heated folds, reaping every last drop of my climax out of me.

“Exquisite.” He licked his lips after placing one last kiss between my legs.

I stared up at the ceiling, my body floating in a warm cloud of afterglow.

He pulled himself up to my face again.

“You have no idea, Amber…” He stared at me in wonder. “No idea how amazing it is to feel everything so intensely once again.”

But maybe I did? No other man had made me feel thisintenselygood before, either. All my experiences before Elex faded and paled after what he’d just done to me. As if I just now experienced sex the way it should be.

He stroked my arm, slowly dragging the tips of his fingers along my skin. The gesture was deliberate, filled with awareness. After being deprived of this for so long, he took no touch for granted.

“How did you make it through the past ten years, Elex? How did you not go insane, trapped inside the stone? How did you stay…you?

He didn’t just stay alive. Elex retained his humor and his ability to care for others. He hadn’t turned bitter, vindictive, or cruel. He remainedalive, despite being frozen in the near-death state for so long.

“How did you do it?”

“You have to love life to survive something like that, Amber. You have to love it fiercely and unconditionally to overcome even the darkest moments. I had faith I’d enjoy life again one day. That was what kept me sane through the years, helping me cope.”

“You knew you’d be free again?”

“I just wanted to live to see another day.” He lifted a thick strand of my hair, then let it trickle between his fingers, hair by hair. “Seeingyouwhen I woke up was a welcome surprise.”

I smiled, thinking back to that morning. “You couldn’t wait to get your hands on me.”

“Still can’t wait to do that.” He slid his hand around my waist. “It’s pure pleasure to touch you, Amber. The best sensation ever.”

He was a pleasure to touch, too. I cupped his face, his short beard caressing my palms. He leaned into my touch with a smile. I slid my hand down the hard ridges of his abdomen and slipped my fingers into the waistband of his sweatpants.

With a sharp breath, he jerked his hips away.

“Wait…”

I halted my hand. “Is something wrong?”

Everything we’d done so far had been formypleasure. But I wished to give him something too.

He tensed next to me, however. “This feels morerightthan anything. But… Just slow down, my spark, please. I haven’t felt anything at all for over a decade. There are so many sensations when I’m with you. So intense. I fear…” he gave me a tender smile. “I fear the pleasure may just kill me.”

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