Page 26 of Between Realms

I tilt my head up and dare to look at his hungry expression. His stormy-blue eyes are magnetic, triggering all my latent sexual desires. His tongue darts out, licking his lush lips.

I pulse with excitement.

The prince circles around me, sizing up my flanks like meat for dinner while I stand still for his assessment. His hand grazes lightly over my waist, dipping down under the silky fabric of my braies and trailing his fingers over my round buttocks.

I gasp for air, realizing I have been holding my breath.

Coming back around to my front, the prince squeezes my curvaceous hips with both hands. He gently trails his fingers up around to the sides of my breasts, groaning with pleasure. “Your skin is so soft, especially here.” With a quick glance to show his intent, he takes a breast in each hand and bounces their weight. He nods approvingly. “Beautiful. So full.”

From his handling, my nipples ache for further stimulation. Between my thighs, my sex smolders with his attention.

Prince Eldrin gazes into my eyes and smiles reassuringly. He brushes aside my long hair to expose my delicate neck. His fingertips dance along my throat and jaw, and then his thumb skims my lips. “You are a true beauty.”

When he notes my flushed skin, he runs his thumbs back down and over my peaks. “Open your stance.”

“What?” I say before I can stop my mouth. Of course, he wants to seeallmy mortal parts before the deal is done. But how far is he going to take this? How far doIwant to take this?

I believe my body wants all of it. All of him.

Then I scoff at the idea he actually wants to have intercourse with a human, withme.

I move my feet apart.

The prince’s hand slides down under my underpants and between my thighs. I shiver when his fingertips graze my sensitive flesh.

“You like being touched like this.”

I look into his blue eyes but can’t find the words to respond. I enjoy his touch, yet I yearn for more. It never felt like this good when I’ve touched myself there. But that was only to clean my body while bathing.

“Your sex is wet for me already.”

What does that mean?

But as soon as he explores my silken folds, I feel how I have slicked, and I whimper with pleasure. My body relishes his touch. Oakes holding me the night before triggered a longing to be held, caressed. Aneedto be touched like this. It feels so wrong and so right.

“On the bed,” the prince whispers into my ear.

My heart thumps wildly. My mind spins with both confusion and desire. I crawl onto the bed, watching him for his approval and my next instructions.

The prince’s eyes are fascinated by my every movement. When I fall back onto the bed, my body is stiff with anticipation and nervousness.

The prince moves closer to where my feet almost hang off the bed’s edge.

Oakes and Jaden are not far behind him, but they continue to turn their attention away from the scene.

The prince reaches up over my body and slowly slides my underwear off. “Open yourself to me.”

I slowly spread my thighs so he can peek at my center.

“More.”

At his command, I jerk my legs open. His hands grip my inner thighs to hold me wide, even wider than I have moved.

I cry out with the sting. My mind flashes to what Merlara said of men taking and killing females for their own pleasure. What if elves do the same thing?

“Did I hurt you?” the prince asks, looking concerned.

I nod. “My legs are stretched too far.”

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