Page 92 of Queens and Monsters

“She’s settled. I think she wanted to stay with baby Jorge longer.”

“She’ll have more chances after Mrs. Luciano leaves.”

Rei began to remove his shirt. “Madrehas an entire wing for her and her guards, but I have the feeling she’s going to want to spend time with us.”

“That’s good.”

“It is?” he asked.

“Out on Bella” —I sighed— “before everything happened, Josefina told me that her favorite job was being a mother.” A smile came to my lips. “I don’t think I realized until I learned my mom was out of prison, but I’d like a mom around. Since Josefina is available, it works out.”

After depositing his array of weapons, Rei slipped out of his boots and dark jeans. Forgetting about my book, I scanned from his wide shoulders to his toned abs and all the way down to the noticeable bulge in his boxer briefs.

Tugging my lip between my teeth, I said what had been on my mind since before we arrived to the place we could call home. “I want you inside me.”

Rei’s eyes opened wide. “Well,SeñoraRoríguez, I appreciate your straightforwardness.”

“It’s just that you said it was up to me, and…”

The last few nights we’ve mostly held one another. There was kissing and petting, but also the sense that we needed to grieve. Jorge’s birth brought spirit back to this family, the hope that life continued even in the darkest of times.

I was ready to move on if Rei was.

After stepping into the bathroom for a minute, Reiwas back, wearing only his boxer briefs. He didn’t need to say he was ready. The way his dark gaze was set on me left my flesh covered in goose bumps. Beginning at the end of the king-sized bed, he crawled toward me. Hand, knee, hand, knee. His gaze never left mine. With each progression, my pulse increased.

Rei was a man deprived of the one thing we hadn’t done, and I’d blurted out my permission. The fresh scent of soap and mint of toothpaste preceded his contact by a millisecond. Our lips crashed together, two people starved for what only the other could provide. His kiss sizzled and bruised my lips, stealing my breath. Noses bumped and our hands roamed until his settled in my long hair, twisting it and tugging my head back.

His lips came to my neck, igniting flames from the embers that had been lying dormant. Lying over me, his erection probed my stomach as he continued his torturous assault from my neck to my collarbone and lower. Pushing the straps of my nightgown away, his lips sought my breasts.

Electricity shot through me as he sucked one nipple and then the next. I wove my fingers through his mane as his facial hair abraded my sensitive skin and dampened my core.

Rei’s approving hiss filled the room as his fingers rubbed over the crotch of my panties. “You’re fucking soaked.” He crawled lower, dragging the waistband of my panties down my legs. Sitting up on his heels, his tenor changed. “Spread your legs,preciosa. Let me see that virgin pussy.” His lips curled. “It will never be virgin again.”

His commanding tone had my circulation on fire. I spread my legs.

“Move your knees up.”

He helped direct me until I was holding each knee.

“Your pussy is so wet, you’re dripping.” Without warning, he lowered his face.

I called out his name as he lapped my folds. Instinctively, I let go of my knees and tried to close my thighs, an impossible task with his wide shoulders blocking my movement. His actions were determined. Rei was a starving man, and I was his meal.

The pressure within me began to build. “Rei, I’m going to come.” I reached for his head. “Please, I want you inside me.”

All at once, his lips were on mine, sharing my own taste. I wasn’t certain when he’d taken off his boxer briefs, but as his tongue sought entrance between my lips, the hardened rod of his penis pressed between my folds.

I gasped at the new pressure.

Rei lifted his body until our gazes met. “Breathe, Jasmine.”

Biting my lip, I nodded.

“Look at me.”

His intense dark stare became my focus.

“I meant what I said before. I want you to like this.”

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