Page 53 of Fire in Stone

I exhaled a soft laugh, placing a kiss on the tip of his nose.

“We’ll take it slow, then. Let me just touch it for now. I’ll be gentle.” I moved my fingers in a feather-light tickling motion along his hard length.

He closed his eyes, relaxing a little under my touch. His trust excited me.

“May I see it?” I tugged at the waistband of his pants.

He nodded, opening his eyes enough to gaze at me through his thick eyelashes.

I pulled his pants down, freeing his erection. It was as hard as rock, darker than the rest of his warm-brown skin, with the thick, raised veins that made me want to lick it.

“Impressive,” I purred, tracing a long vein with my finger.

I was his first woman in so many years, I wished to make it special for him.

I wanted him to remember me.

Ready to take him in my mouth, I made a move to shift down his body, but he stopped me.

“We only have this one time, Amber. There won’t be another. Please. I want to be inside you.”

He rose over me on his arms, and I opened my legs for him. Taking him in my hand, I guided him inside me. His chest expanded with a deep breath as he eased into me, slowly, inch by delicious inch. I raised my hips, taking him in, my body stretching around his sizable girth.

He stilled over me, his dark eyes focused on mine.

“Come with me, Amber.”

Breath caught in my chest when I realized he wasn’t talking about sex. He wanted me to come to Nerifir with him.

“Elex.” I wrapped my arms around his neck. At that moment, I wished for nothing else but to stay like that, connected to him forever. “It’s not fair to ask me that right now.”

“I know. But I don’t want you to think too long or too hard about this.”

Right now, his “long and hard” thing was buried deep inside me, severely impairing both my judgment and concentration. I wasn’t fully in control of my emotions.

“I have no idea where and when I’ll end up later today,” he said. “But I hate to think that you won’t be there. I want you to come with me.”

Need spread through me from the way our bodies were connected. I shifted my hips, making him moan. He pulled back a little, sending a rush of desire through me.

“I can’t…” I managed.

I struggled to gather my thoughts to muster a coherent reply. I knew I couldn’t come with him to Nerifir, but it was so hard to remember the reasons why not.

It was not a fair game he was playing.

“Come.” He thrust back inside me.

I shivered with another rush of pleasure.

He moved inside me with hard, punishing thrusts. “Come with me, Amber.”

Orgasm rocked through me, far more intense than ever before. Pleasure still rolled through me as he joined me with his release. I flexed my arms and legs around him, riding it with him.

He collapsed on the bed next to me, looking spent but far from relaxed. A fervent fire burned in the darkness of his eyes.

“Come with me, Amber,” he repeated, cupping my face. “I want you with me.”

I took his hand in mine, catching my breath. He deserved an explanation, and I tried to give him one.

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