When we finally break apart, I feel lightheaded, punch-drunk on the taste and scent of her surrounding me in an intoxicating cloud. Annie doesn’t pull away, instead cupping my face in those gloriously soft hands and searching my gaze with piercing intensity.

“We should get ready soon... signing the treaty...” she murmurs, even as fresh desire kindles in her now, distracted, liquid azure eyes.

I growl low in my throat, nipping at the tender curve where her neck meets shoulder. She whimpers, fingers tangling in my hair to hold me against her thundering pulse as I brush my stubble over her fevered skin.

“There’s still time, starlight. Time to remind your knight that he alone gets to worship his goddess in the ways that matter most...”

To emphasize my point, I slide my thigh between her parted legs, bracing her deliciously against the rigid length of my swelling arousal. Annie sucks in a ragged breath, eyes fluttering shut as she grinds down instinctively to chase that delicious friction.

“Crux...” she exhales in a pleading whimper.

That’s all the encouragement I need. With a sharp tug, the flimsy lingerie falls away in a tangled scarlet puddle around her bare feet. I drink in every lush, naked curve displayed for mystarved gaze, branding each decadent detail into my memory like a weapon schematic.

My fingers trace the generous swell of her breasts, mapping the constellations of silvery stretch marks she’s self-conscious about. I pause to brush feathered kisses across each marking of the struggles she’s endured long before I ever swore this oath to shield her light.

“Beautiful...” I rasp against her thundering pulse. “Every divine inch of you, Annie.”

When I finally claim her mouth again, the urgency has kindled into an inferno of blazing want between us. She melts against me in utter surrender, arching and writhing with needy desperation as my hands roam, kneading the lush curves of her backside to pull her ever tighter against me.

A whimper escapes her swollen lips as the blunt head of my swollen cock grazes those slick folds, seeking its home in her scorching depths. I tease us both with languid strokes, coating every exquisite inch in her dewy essence before finally breaching that first sublime ring of velvet heat.

Annie positively keens into the heated crash of our mouths fusing, her nails scoring rapturous lines down my back as I fill her with one slow, controlled thrust. We both freeze for a breathless heartbeat, simply savoring the closeness of being joined as one.

“Stars above, Crux...” she gasps playfully. “This negotiation tactic is delightfully... persuasive.”

Then her legs lock around my waist, those lush curves undulating against me with blatant—no, wanton—demand for more. I groan aloud, slanting my mouth over hers in a searing kiss as I rock into her with long, powerful strokes.

“Cheeky minx,” I rumble in response, nipping at the thundering pulse in her throat. Annie shivers deliciously, arching into me as I trail a blazing path of open-mouthed kissesdown the elegant column. When I reach the generous swell of her breasts, I pause to lavish the taut peaks with scorching reverence from my lips and tongue.

“You’ll pay for that impertinence when I make you scream my name over and over...” I growl against the velvet softness, punctuating the deliciously wicked promise with a slow undulation of my hips that sheathes me even deeper inside her molten depths.

Annie’s back bows in ecstasy, a broken whimper escaping those swollen lips as her inner walls flutter greedily around my impaling length. “Stars above, Crux...”

I capture her desperate keen with another searing kiss, rocking into her with firm, controlled strokes that have her nails scoring down my back. When I finally tear away, I’m rasping against the glistening curve of her breast, “You feel unreal. Every secret cove and crest of your perfect body made to fit my cock to the hilt.”

In response, she rolls her hips with wanton demand, drawing me impossibly deeper into her velvet glove. I groan at the sublime friction, increasing the punishing tempo of my thrusts until she’s moaning my name like a benediction with each rapturous stroke.

She whimpers out something wordless and needy as I rock into her again, savoring the velvet grasp of her inner walls rippling and clenching around me greedily. Those honeyed curses only spur me onward, driving us hurtling toward that shattering crescendo of rapture.

But as my climax nears, as my vision hazes with the maddening crest of pleasure, I force myself to slow. I can’t surrender fully to blinding oblivion just yet, not before I chase every last gasp and whimper from her lips.

Cradling Annie against my chest, I shift my stance. The new angle allows me to impale her to the throbbing root, gravitylending extra weight to the ecstatic grind of our bodies joining. Her eyes fly wide, pupils blown to black discs rimmed by a thin ring of blazing blue. She’s delirious with want, the delectable peaks of her breasts flushed and swollen from my ravenous mouth, her sex straining around my cock.

I release one wrist to cup that glorious face, thumb brushing over her parted lips with an exquisite tenderness that’s at odds with the scalding tempo of my thrusts.

“You are mine,” I rasp, awestruck by the sublime rapture etched across her beautiful features. “Every sigh, every gasping plea... the way your silken depths clench around me, begging for more. It all belongs to me, starlight.”

Annie releases a sobbing mewl of pure sexual torment, her hips grinding in mindless desperation to chase the edge of the climax just out of reach. She’s wrecked, every muscle seized taut and quivering in exquisite torment.

I stop completely, buried inside her, savoring the silken heat clutching at me in visceral, rhythmic pulses. Annie cries out her frustration, thighs tensing against my flanks in a plea for blessed friction.

“Look at me, my radiant salvation,” I command in a low, guttural rumble.

When her lost gaze finally locks onto mine, I bare my teeth in a possessive snarl as I surge forward once more. My swollen cock batters against her quivering inner walls, spearing so deep I swear I can feel her heartbeat echoing around my throbbing length.

Annie throws her head back, lips parting in a breathless scream of rapturous release. I low growl rumbles up from my chest as she spasms and clenches around me in liquid, blissful orgasm. But I refuse to crest just yet, hammering into her with short, sharp snaps of my hips that just wring more agonized ecstasy from her with each thrust.

“That’s my radiant one...” I grate out, voice gravelly. “Writhing on my cock, taking everything I give you and hungry for more. So fucking perfect...”