Page 37 of The Mirror in the Mountain

A faint smile flickered across her lips. “I’m with you.”

My stomach turned over at the trust in her voice. Like being with me somehow ensured her safety when I had so utterly failed her.

She was everything I didn’t deserve. But I was going to keep her anyway.

“Do you want me to get you something to eat? Some tea?” I was suddenly desperate to do anything to erase that lingering despair. “Breakfast in bed?”

She gave me a little smile that never failed to make my heart pound, her one-sided dimple winking at me. “A little late for that, no?”

The sunlight streaming in from the window did seem to hint that morning had almost passed. I hadn’t realized how long we slept.

“But I can think of something I’d like to eat,” Eva said, her fingers trailing down my chest. That dimple deepened.

I let out a garbled noise at her lowering touch, utterly aware of the sinful curves wrapped around me. “We should really go downstairs and—” I nearly groaned aloud when her hand brushed against my rapidly hardening length. “—find the others.”

Eva only shook her head, a small smile on her lips. “After.”

It was less a want than a need, this endless longing for her. What we had already done should have taken the edge off, andyet it remained unquenchable, this thirst for her. The depth of my desire was a bottomless ocean in which I would happily be dragged beneath by her siren’s song and drown.

“Sometimes I want you in a way that’s almost too much to bear, hellion.”

She smirked knowingly. “Sometimes?”

Pulling her on top of me, I kissed her, hard. She moaned into my mouth, squirming against me as I hardened, each unintentional movement quickly driving me insane.

I didn’t think I could ever get enough of her. And I knew from the flush on her cheeks, the need burning across our bond, that she felt the same. She sighed as my lips moved down her neck, ghosting over the scar that encircled it and the new healing line to match. I pressed a kiss in the hollow between her collarbones, and she let out that breathless moan I was utterly obsessed with.

“Tell me you want this.”

Eva made a small, inarticulate sound of pleasure as I gripped her ass, grinding her against me; cherishing the feel of her curves beneath my hands, the strength of her thighs as they gripped my hips, the way her pulse quickened under my tongue.

“Bash.”

There was that perfect little whimper again. “Is that a yes?”

“Yes,” Eva breathed. “I need...more. More of you.”

I smirked against her skin. “I want you to come on my fingers, my tongue, and at least twice once I’m inside you. Unless you have any objections…”

She made a desperate little noise deep in the back of her throat as I fisted my hand in her hair, bringing her mouth to mine like I could capture everything I felt for her into this one kiss.

Flinging the covers away, I spun her under me in one smooth motion, my fingers slipping inside that warm wet heat as she gasped. I grinned as she ground against my hand, even as Ireached across our bond for any feelings of disquiet. But there was only that want, thatneed, that only served to intensify my own.

“So needy,” I teased, feeling her clench around my fingers. My middle and ring fingers curled inside her as she rolled her hips against me.

“For you?” She let out a breathy laugh. “Always.”

My shadows wrapped around her thighs, tugging her legs open wide to bare her entirely to me. When my mouth found her center, she was already shuddering, moaning so loudly I hoped our companions had the sense not to choose the adjacent rooms…or the ones next to those. I groaned as I tasted her, my tongue slipping inside her before licking up her slit, circling that bundle of nerves. My fingers moved in tandem, and I felt her thighs start to tremble as I sucked and nipped, my tongue moving in steady circles.

Eva’s hips bucked as I lightly bit down, making her shatter with a cry, her hand fisting in my hair as her back bowed off the bed. My shadows held her in place as I felt her orgasm tear through her almost violently, my name a chorus, a plea, before her knees fell limply apart.

One hand tightened into my hair, dragged my mouth away from her as I licked my lips. Her eyes fluttered open, the gold at their center glinting.

“Bash,” She whispered as I crawled over her. “I need all of you.”

My tongue delved into her mouth, letting her taste herself as I plunged into her. I moaned as that tight, wet heat enveloped me, her nails pressing into my shoulder blades so hard I knew they would leave a mark.

She pushed against my chest, and I followed her lead, lying against the pillows as she straddled me. We both lost our breaths as I slowly pushed inside of her, letting her feel every hard inch.Her hips undulated, those inner muscles squeezing with every lift as her ass slapped loudly against my thighs.

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