Page 36 of Releasing Darkness

I drew in a shocked breath, then leaned up on one elbow and peered at him. “That must have been frightening for you. But, Varos, why do you look so angry?”

“You were asleep for two days, princess. Two days that I didn’t know if you were going to live or die. I only just found you. How could you leave me so soon?”

I sensed his fear, knowing it had to have been eating away at him the whole time I'd been asleep. Knowing Varos, he likely felt guilt and possibly even shame that I had been hurt while with him. I needed to help and make him see that I was alive and well. I wanted the pain that I saw in his eyes to be replaced by anything else. So I chose to taunt him.

I cocked an eyebrow. “As I recall, it wasIwho foundyou. Are you trying to rewrite history,mate?”

With a growl, Varos climbed on top of me, immediately sealing our lips together in a fierce kiss. My desire rose quickly into an inferno of lust as his tongue swept across mine, tasting every part of my mouth before he finally pulled away. I gasped for breath as he spoke in his raspy voice that never failed to send shivers of delight up my spine.

“You will never leave me again.” He jerked my thighs apart and settled between them as I began to pant. “You will never be injured again.” He bent his head and licked up my center with his wicked tongue. Sensations I’d never felt before fired off behind my eyelids as I relished in the intense tingling of my nerve endings. “Open your eyes!” he demanded harshly.

My eyelids struggled but managed to flutter open to see him glaring at me from his position between my legs. “Please, Varos, I need?—”

“You will take what I give you and you will watch me do it,” he snarled. All I could do was nod my head rapidly, willing to do anything he wanted as long as he never stopped doing that with his tongue.

He ran a finger through my wetness and circled my clit before running it back down to circle my opening. I shifted my hips, needing more. He removed his hand and smacked my clit with his fingertips, causing my back to bow off the bed. As the sting morphed into pleasure, I cried out, never realizing I could crave a male’s touch the way I did his.

Satisfied he had my attention, he bent his head back down. Instead of going to my clit, he pierced my hole with his tongue, licking all around the entrance and as far inside as he could reach. My hands went to his hair, and my hips bucked uncontrollably as he fucked me with his tongue, and his thumb began an assault on my clit.

“Varos!” I screamed as my fist tightened in his hair. An orgasm slammed into me, making stars dance in my vision while I tried and failed to keep my eyes on his. Before I could tell him I needed more, that I needed all of him, he was already there, pushing his length into me.

It was a delicious torture as my channel stretched for his girth. When his hips met mine, we both took in deep gulps ofair. “You’re mine, Sasha. You. Are. Mine. Do you understand me, mate? I can’t exist without you. Where you go, I will follow.”

Tears flooded my eyes as I took in his words. I knew what he was saying. But I could never allow this beautiful, damaged male to follow me into death.

I ran my fingertips over his tightly clenched jaw. “If that means I have to stay alive just so you will continue existing, I will. The world should never be without you, Varos. You’re too beautiful of a soul.”

I watched as emotions overtook him, and he swallowed roughly. “My mate,” he whispered hoarsely. Then he withdrew his cock until just the tip was resting at my entrance. I thought that he would slam back inside, but instead, he gripped one thigh and placed it over his shoulder. “Hold on,” he grinned, flashing his brilliant white teeth at me. “I’ve been aching to do this since that day in the cave.”

Then he finally gave me what I wanted, what I craved. His movements rocked the bed, making the wooden posts creak, and the headboard slam into the wall. I couldn’t bring myself to care if anyone heard. All I could do was wrap my arms around his neck and hang on for the ride.

Over and over, my mate thrust into me so deep that it was impossible to tell where he ended, and I began. My channel was only one part of me that was alive with sensations as the nerve endings sparked to life with every brush of his cock. It felt as if my whole body was electrified.

As he began to tense, my own body shook with another impending orgasm that I wasn’t sure I would survive. “Varos! I can’t!” I cried out as I became overwhelmed by what was happening inside my body.

“Take it! Take me, mate!” he growled, and with his words anchoring me, I shattered, trusting him to keep me tethered. Behind my eyelids, I watched as the light from the pool dancedaround the dark figure, and I knew to my soul that we were truly one.

Chapter

Twenty-Two

SASHA

We lay together in the bed after taking a shower, where Varos finally removed all of his clothing. He’d been so ready to take me that all he’d done was unzip his slacks and pull down his pants and boxer briefs far enough to release his cock. When he’d first climbed off of me, and I saw the state of undress he was in, I didn’t know whether to blush or laugh, so I just bit my lip until he growled and lifted me into his arms. From there, he carried me into the bathroom.

When he began to wash my hair, I really did laugh at the amount of shampoo he pumped into his hand. It was dripping down his arm and onto the floor of the shower. When I showed him the correct amount, he just shrugged and said it worked fine on his hair. I had to admit, his hair looked so much better than it did after I tried to brush it out in the caves. But I noticed that he used quite a bit less afterward when he did his own.

There was a fair bit of touching and groping as we played under the water spray. I enjoyed seeing that side of him. It made my heart happy to see him relaxed and enjoying the moment with me.

“Have you spent much time with your brothers?” I asked as I washed his back. Though, what I was doing could be considered more exploring than washing as I ran my fingertips over the lines of muscles that bunched and moved under my touch.

He glanced at me over his shoulder. “I couldn’t focus on anything but you,” he muttered to my dismay.

I took a step back to let him turn around. “Varos! You have been waiting forever to see them! I would have been fine while you got to know each other again!”

He shook his head as he looked down at me and ran a finger over my cheek and down to my jaw before tipping my head back further with a rough palm under my chin. “Since the moment we discovered we were mates, you were,are, the most important thing to me. Yes, I want to see my brothers. But until I knew you were alive and well, I could never have left your side, and I didn’t want anyone else to come near you. So,” he said as he reached down and picked me up by my thighs and pressed me against the tiled wall, “they waited, just as they would have expected me to if it were their mate lying in that bed.”

I placed my arms over his shoulders, allowing him to adjust me in his hands as he wanted. I felt how hard he was pressing against my stomach and felt myself grow wet for him again. I wiggled my hips until he was lined up properly with my entrance, and we both groaned as he slid slowly inside. I didn’t know if I would ever be able to take him without that initial bite of pain as he stretched me open. Still, I was already coming to love it because I knew what would follow.

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