Page 51 of Shrine of Fire

“What is with you and bathrooms?” The first night he’d come to me, I’d been soaking in a tub too.

“The image of your wet, naked body is too much to pass up.” He nipped my neck, and I dug my fingertips into his shoulders to keep from moaning out loud.

My head was focused on trying to be quiet, but my body was already heated up and impossibly wet.

“Aki, please,” I whispered into his ear. “Please.”

He rubbed his hard length up and down, each small ridge of his cock dragging along my sensitive folds, and I bit back a groan.

Suddenly, he pulled his hips back and then thrust himself into me without warning. I cried out and he chuckled, pressing me back against the wall behind the counter.

I threw my head back and sucked in a breath, then buried my face into his neck to try to strangle my cries.

“Promise me you won’t deny yourself this long again, and I’ll make it easier on you.”

“I promise,” I wheezed. I had no idea what he was talking about, but the driving pleasure coursing over my body was getting too hard to stifle. He rocked into me, each nerve ending firing like it had been years since I’d had sex, not a few weeks.

While it had been hard to sneak around on the ship, and there had usually been someone in our room, apparently, I should have put in more of an effort. But I’d told myself I wasn’t an animal, that I didn’t need to have sex all the time.

Aki stepped away, pulling out of me, and then gently pulling me off the counter. His hands drifted over my skin as he slowly turned me around. “Beautiful.”

I flushed at the praise. He grabbed a thick, fluffy towel and covered the countertop. “Bend over.”

I shuddered, my nipples peaking. I bent over, the soft towel taking away the cold chill of the stone and giving me something to bury my face in.

Aki ran his hands over my body again, and I shuddered under his touch. I had tried not to think of him as mine, but I couldn’t help but feel connected, possessive, especially as he caressed my back, when he smoothed his hands over the swell of my ass. He repositioned me, and this time when he drove into me, my delta hit the deepest part of me.

I groaned, biting at the towel, unable to do anything more. The slowly darkening, steamy room made everything feel even more intimate, like we were outside of time.

Aki snapped his hips over and over, thrusting without relenting. I cried out into the towel, my body winding tighter and tighter on itself, like an imploding star. It was pure bliss, and I was going to burst.

“Do not go so long again, or you won’t like my solution.” Aki grunted, cupping my breasts. I felt him grow harder inside me, and the perfect joy of knowing he wanted me as much as I wanted him made the bliss rioting inside me all the sweeter.

“I didn’t do it on purpose.” I panted, grabbing at the countertop for leverage.

“You’re denying yourself. Acting like you’re not about to go into heat,” Aki countered, thrusting hard against me, the wet slapping sounds of our bodies obscenely loud in the quiet room. “My ward can only help so much. If you don’t start asking for what you need, then I’ll make sure you get it, one way or another.”

He said it as if it was a threat, but the blinding ecstasy made it an erotic promise. I whimpered, my toes curling.

“Stefan will get over his shyness when he walks into the room and Hashir and I are pounding into you from both ends.”

“Or he’ll flee in panic,” I panted. Now I saw what Aki meant by ‘his solution’. For how quiet he usually was, Aki could be aggressive when he felt the need.

Pleasure curled tightly through me. “You can’t know Stefan wants to bed me. Just because—”

Aki leaned over, covering my body with his, biting my shoulder. I forgot to cover my face in the towel, and I groaned.

“He watches you, studies your body when he thinks you’re not looking. So does your phoenix.” Aki licked where he bit, his tongue lapping at the throbbing welt. My back bowed up, and Aki rutted harder against me until I was twisting against him.

The orgasm crashed into me, and I wailed into the towel, the wet fabric over my mouth adding another layer of erotic sensation.

“Oh, spirits, that was so good,” I sighed.

Aki’s hands snaked around past my hips, his fingertips brushing against my clit. “You’re not done. If you weren’t so shy, I would force you to scream my name all night.”

His hands rubbed against me, pressing as he thrust in and out of me, the ridges of his cock delicious friction that sent me back to twist helplessly on the edge of bliss.

“Promise me you will take what you need, or I’ll make sure you get it.”

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