Page 14 of Alien Knight Teddy Bear Troubles

“That’s not flowers.”

No, it was not.

“I’m going to smell like you.”

Trouble. Danger. Don’t ask. “What do I smell like?”

She leaned into him and buried her nose against his chest. “Good. So good. Like black tea and spice. Yummy.”

He was not familiar with either of those things, but he held his tongue, not because he had nothing to say, but because he could not speak. She had pressed her breasts against his bare chest. Her lips moved against his skin. And she was not moving away.

“Cassie?” he asked, his vocal chords nearly strangled. She was a temptress. He was holding onto his control, but just barely. Only his honor kept him from reaching for her. Responding.

“What are these called? I know the Caldorians have them, but what do you call them?” She lifted a hand to his chest and traced one of his dark blue swirls.

“Markings.” Was that his voice? He sounded like he was about to choke.

“Pretty.”

That was it. No more self torture.

“Hold still.” Setting her away from him, he took the cleanser from her and worked it through her hair. Rinsed. Washed her body, shoving her own hands out of the way when she clumsily attempted to help him. Clinical. Fast. Efficient. He wasnotaware of how soft her skin felt beneath his hands. Of the way her sweet, feminine scent reached him despite the overpowering aroma of the cleanser. She was all female. Her body smooth and muscled beneath skin softer than anything he’d felt in his life.

“Taeger.”

“Hush.” He worked his way down her legs, scrubbed her small feet before setting them back on the wet flooring. Her hand on his shoulder anchored him to reality. She needed him right now, not to ravish her, but to care for her. “Close your eyes.”

He stood to find her eyes closed, as ordered. With gentle fingertips he rubbed the smallest amount of cleanser onto her face, then rinsed, wiped the lingering droplets from her eyelashes with carefully controlled fingers.

When her eyes opened, he froze. Gone was the dazed look. Gone the giggling little girl. Before him were the eyes of a sensual woman who was neither shy nor confused about what she wanted. The confidence he saw there was familiar and more in alignment with the Captain he’d met onboard the Dark Ones’ ship.

“Taeger?”

“Yes,” he rumbled deep in his chest.

“Are you finished?”

His heart skipped a beat as her fingertip traced the markings on his chest again, moving ever lower until she reached the waist of his pants. “Yes. Finished.”

“I want you.”

Every cell in his body burned at her words. “That’s not a good idea.” He’d fought for control, fought to keep his touch light, clinical despite the fact that she was the most beautiful creature he’d ever seen, that her body felt like heaven in his hands, that his cock was so hard he was in physical pain.

She lifted her fingertip to his lips. Traced his lower lip slowly. Deliberately, her sharp gaze completely focused. “I don’t care.”

Resistance was futile. His body craved her. He needed to bury himself deep and make her his. Claim her. Mark her. The instinct drove him hard, the feeling unfamiliar and too powerful to resist when she was offering him everything he wanted.

Two steps and he had her back pressed to the wall and his lips crushed beneath his. She tugged at his hair, wrapped one leg around his thigh to pull him closer.

With a groan that sounded more animal than man, he reached between them and slipped two fingers through her damp folds. She was hot. Wet. Ready.

“Yes. Hurry.”

Her fingers fluttered around the waist of his pants and he quickly freed his cock, the greedy bastard throbbing and hard. Ready. Eager.

Cassie wrapped her small hand around the tip as best she could and locked her ankles behind his back. Teasing them both, she rubbed against his body, exploring, stroking, learning him until he growled, leaned forward, and kissed her breathless.Yes! Yes!She needed this. She’d survived a crash, been stranded on an alien planet for days, abducted, thrown into some sort of holding cell with no way out, made a daring escape, and was now stranded for the time being inside the strangest ship she’d ever seen where one could walk through walls. Yep. She’d earned this. Scorching hot sex with the biggest, sexiest man alive. He was confident. Chiseled. Huge. Everywhere. She was pretty, she knew men found her attractive, and he certainly wasn’t shying away from her.And judging by the size of that rock hard bad boy in his pants, he wants me, too. Definitely earned it.

One hand braced on the wall above her head, Taeger lifted her ass with the other as if she weighed nothing, placing her body where they both wanted her to be. He waited as she moved his cock into position, then thrust up. Fast. Hard. Again and again.

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