Page 36 of Fae Champion

He smashed his mouth against mine, sweeping his tongue between my lips, and I was lost to his insistent heat, our commingled moans, and the promise of his hard body beneath me.

He pressed our chests together, groaning when my breasts splayed against his muscles. He broke our kiss and bowed his head toward my nipples, but I rose to my knees, preparing to impale myself on him.

“No, not yet,” he said urgently. “You’re a virgin. We need to take it really slowly. I don’t want to risk hurting you.”

Ironic coming from the man who seemed convinced his destiny was to do exactly that.

“I don’t care,” I said.

“You should. In this position, I’ll go too deep, and my girth’ll stretch you too much. In time, you’ll learn to love it, but for this first time?—”

“I thought there was no future for us.”

“There isn’t. It’s just that…” He trailed off as I lined up the tip of him with my entrance, knocking itin place. “El, don’t, seriously. Let me get you dripping wet first…”

Obviously, in the water, the man was oblivious to the full extent of my reactions to him.

Ignoring his cautions, I winked at him cavalierly and lowered myself slowly onto his shaft. My breath hitched at the overwhelming sensation of fullness, and didn’t immediately resume. A part of me was instantly overcome and wanted to stop. Another—more insistent—part wouldn’t allow it. I never shrank from a challenge.

His fingers dug into my hips as he attempted to slow my descent, but I refused to stop until my thighs were flush with his. Until I’d taken all of him.

“Holy fuck,” he groaned, his eyes rolling upward, his mouth slack.

I pinched my eyes shut at the stinging pain so he wouldn’t notice, and swallowed the gasping wince that was rolling across my tongue.

“You feel … you feel so incredible. I had no idea … no idea it’d be like this.”

A warrior never reveals pain, Zako had taught me, and I’d learned the lesson well enough.Pain is weakness. It creates a target for your enemy.

I’d swallowed many agonized groans over the years during my harsh training.

But I’d forgotten how observant Rush was.

He pulled me into his chest again, only this time he kissed me gently, soothingly, as if wanting to take awaymy discomfort. His lips brushed across mine as if we’d been lovers for ages instead of moments.

He hadn’t been exaggerating. The thickness of him pressed against my inner walls as if wanting them to give way, and I might have sworn his dick was an inch from poking my ribs…

Rush brushed kisses across my cheekbones, the bridge of my nose, each of my eyelids. “Are you all right? El?”

Words far out of reach, I nodded, my eyes closed dreamily so he wouldn’t see all that was circling within.

“I need to see your eyes to be sure.”

I let them flutter open.

His brow furrowed instantly, and those beautiful lips of his tugged downward. “I hurt you.”

“You didn’t,” I croaked.

Footsteps padded softly beyond the bathroom, its door slightly ajar. I hadn’t heard anyone enter Saturn’s chambers. I tensed, wondering,Friend or foe?

“Rush?” someone whisper-called. West, I guessed. I relaxed, but only slightly.

Rush groaned nearly silently and allowed his head to fall to the edge of the tub. “Worst timing in the entire history of timing,” he told me heavily before answering, more loudly, “In here.”

My eyes widened. “No, not ‘in here,’” I called hurriedly out to West. “I mean, he’s in here, yes, but don’t come in.”

“Too late,” came West’s voice from directly behind me.

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