Page 123 of Infernal

Another flick of his tongue and my grip on his shoulders tightened.

“Should I stop?” he asked, torturing me to the point that I was a hairbreadth away from begging him.

Apparently, he’d gotten his wish after all.

“Only if you want me to hurt you,” I said, my voice shaking with frustration.

He grinned and straightened to his full height.

Before I could follow through with my threat to seriously injury him, he was walking me backwards across his room, matching every step I took with his own forward march until the back of my legs hit his bed. I fisted my hands into his dress shirt to keep myself from falling backwards.

“You’ll like it more if you lie back and relax,” he said, his voice coaxing my hands out of his shirt and down to my sides as I carefully lowered myself to his bed.

Apparently, it wasn’t the right spot, because he quickly reached down and gripped my waist before gently tossing me further back on the bed. My heart felt as though it were going to beat a hole right out of my chest as I watched him unbutton his shirt and then peel it from body.

I pushed up on my elbows, my gaze lingering on his torso as I took in the lean, taut muscles that bulged and flexed at all the right places. And then my eyes were back on his as he climbed on the bed and dragged his body over mine, covering me like a blanket before pressing a teasing kiss against my lips. I tried to trap him in my arm, to deepen the kiss myself, but he was already lowering himself back to my happy place.

My breathing turned ragged and labored as he teased the inside of my thigh, gently kissing and nipping my skin before moving his mouth to my core. Every nerve ending in my body came alive as he flicked his tongue along my center, each movement slow and deliberate and designed to rouse a response from me. The more breathless my responses, the faster his movements became, like a game of chess that I was inevitably going to lose. Back and forth, back and forth, teasing and touching and licking until my entire body arched with anticipation before exploding into a blazing storm of fireworks.

A pleasure-filled scream ripped out from me as wave after wave of ecstasy shot through my body, making it buck and weave every which way. Dominic’s tongue continued his assault, riding the waves with me as he softened his movements into barely-there touches, stopping only when my body settled with a tremble and then slowly drifted back to shore.

“Oh. My. God.” My legs were still quaking as I dropped back on the bed and tried to catch my breath. I had never, ever, in my entire life felt anything quite likethatbefore.

“You’re welcome,” he said as he licked his lips and gazed at me from between my legs.

I couldn’t help but laugh. Mostly because I felt giddy, though I had no idea why. “You’re entirely way too good at that,” I said, not allowing myself to wonder just how much practice he’d gotten to getthatgood.

He lifted himself from between my legs and then lay himself down beside me, propping himself on his elbow as he stared down at my naked body. The need in his eyes was palpable.

“I could look at you like this forever,” he said, soaking up the satisfied look on my face.

Biting my lip, I reached over and started to unbutton his pants—which were being stretched beyond their limits—but he captured my hand and held it.

“You’re not obligated to repay me, angel. You can just enjoy it.”

“I know, but what about you?” I asked, confused because you know, blue balls and all that.

“I’ll be alright.” He winked.

My gaze skirted away as I mulled that over. A moment later, my eyes boomeranged right back to his. “Don’t you want to sleep with me?” I asked, trying not to sound offended.

“Youarekidding, right?”

“Right,” I said, except that I wasn’t.

My face must’ve shown it, because he quickly took my chin in his hand and angled my face to his. “Of course, I want to sleep with you, angel.” His eyes flared with heat and then with something else. Restraint. “You couldn’t possibly imagine the things I want to do to your body or the ways in which I wish to possess you.”

Heat rippled across my cheeks at his words. “Then…I mean, why aren’t you…?” I asked, wanting to know more about these things he wanted to do to me. Obviously, I was missing something here.

“Because, angel,” he said, his eyes brightening with something that looked a lot like love. “You’re still grieving, and I don’t want our first time together to be tainted.”

“Oh.” My heart swelled in my chest, wondering when the hell he had become so…sweet.

“Besides, I already told you. I have all the time in the world to wait for you,” he said as he stroked my cheek with the back of his hand. “However long it takes.”

The icy film around my heart melted just a little more for him.

“You may not feel it now,” he said as he propped himself on his pillow and then pulled me into him so that I could rest my head on his chest. “But you will heal, and you will be whole again someday, and when that day comes, I’ll be there waiting to collect my prize.” He waggled his eyebrows, and I smacked him in the stomach.

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