Page 57 of Rising from the Depths

Shewas everything.

“I love you, Eva,” he said, and it feltright. “It was not long ago that I did not understand what that meant, but I do now. I love you.”

Eva made a small sound, something between a whimper and a sob, and brought her lips to his. She kissed him hard, desperately, as though she needed him in order to breathe, and Kronus returned it, dropping his hands to wrap his arms around her waist to pull her close.

“Join with me, Kronus,” she pleaded against his mouth. “Be my husband, my mate, in every way, and never leave me.”

“I willneverleave you.” His hearts thundered, and his blood ran hot through his veins. “I am yours, Eva, in every way possible.”

Her hands smoothed down his back, and she clutched at him. “I need you. Now.”

Kronus cupped her backside with his palms, arms pressed along her outer thighs. He rose, lifting her along with him, and she wrapped her legs around his waist as he carried her to the bed. He laid her on the covers and followed her down, holding himself aloft with arms on either side of her.

Her eyes opened and locked with his. She skimmed her fingertips down his chest and abdomen. His arousal was instant, and as soon as her fingers stroked his slit, his cock extruded into her waiting palm, aching and throbbing with want for her. She closed her fingers around his shaft and slowly moved her hand, up and down, twisting in the way she knew he liked. His hips pumped in time with her strokes.

Kronus bared his teeth and growled. Each stroke flooded him with sensation, threatening to steal his strength. Her touch was too much pleasure for him to bear for long.

Dropping a hand, he caught her wrist and stilled it. “Not yet.”

He needed to be inside her.

Eva pulled her hand away and shifted, forcing Kronus to draw back. She turned onto her hands and knees, crawled farther up the bed, and peered at him over her shoulder. Her eyes were dark, their blue nearly engulfed by her pupils.

“No waiting.” She tugged her skirt up over her waist. “Now. Take menow, Kronus.”

Kronus fixed his eyes on her backside. This position was new. Her underwear molded to her slit, and the dampness of the fabric served as a visual confirmation of her arousal — not that he could miss her scent.

He stretched out his tentacles and drew himself up onto the bed, positioning himself behind her. She parted her thighs. He hooked a claw on either side of her underwear and pulled. The band offered only a moment’s resistance before tearing. He tossed the tattered fabric aside and shifted his gaze to her glistening sex, releasing a low groan. She’d been right; there could be no waiting.

Keeping one hand on her hip, Kronus reached between her thighs and touched her scalding flesh, mindful his claws, to seek the little bud that provided her so much pleasure. She moaned and closed her eyes as he stroked it. Her hips undulated, grinding against his hand. He listened to her quickening breath and her soft sighs and soon felt the trembling in her thighs that signaled she was close to her peak.

Before she reached it, he pulled his hand back, bringing it to his mouth to lick her nectar from his fingers. Her flavor burst on his tongue and made him crave a deeper taste, but his need to be inside her was stronger. He needed to feel her sex clench around him, to feel her heat, to feelher.

Whether it lasted for a second or forever, he needed her to be theonlything to exist in his world.

“Kronus,” she rasped.

He took his cock in hand and pressed the tip to her entrance. She eased back, taking that little bit of him inside her. He growled, set his hands on her shapely hips, and thrust into her as deep as she could take him.

Eva gasped as her body rocked forward with the force of his entry. Blissful heat surrounded his shaft; her tight walls squeezed him, drawing him deeper still. Pleasure spiraled up his spine. He drew back and looked down at where they were connected, and another wave of pleasure speared him. His cock glistened with their combined oils.

Kronus watched, enrapt, as he pushed forward and fed his erection into her body. He groaned again; this new position had altered the angle of their joining completely, creating stimulation he hadn’t imagined before. Gripping her hips tighter, he raised two of his tentacles and coiled them around her legs. He swept the tip of one over her sex to tease her clitoris as he gradually increased the pace of his thrusts.

Eva grasped fistfuls of the bedding and inhaled sharply. Her body suddenly tensed as she came, her inner walls fluttering around him as a rush of liquid heat flooded her. She leaned down, hiding her face and muffling her cries. But it wasn’t enough.

He slid two tentacles forward, slipped them beneath her shirt, and pulled them outward, ripping the fabric from her body and baring her back to him. He bent over her and caught the front of her throat in his hand, thumb and forefinger pressing against her jaw to tilt her face upwards. Wrapping his other arm around her middle, he pulled Eva back and forced her to lean against him in a kneeling position, adjusting the angle of her hips to allow him to push even deeper into her. She lifted an arm and cupped the back of his head.

Kronus pressed his face into her hair and skimmed his lips over her neck. “You are mine, Eva,” he said huskily, nipping her ear as he moved a tentacle up her chest to cover her breasts, caressing her nipples with his suction cups.

He quickened his thrusts. “You are my mate.”

His building pleasure was so concentrated that it formed immense pressure inside him; it nearly hurt, but it feltsogood.Shefelt good. “You aremywife.”

Panting through parted lips, Eva tilted her head back. Her pulse ran wild beneath the pads of his fingers as she gripped his arms, blunt nails biting his skin.

“And I willnever—” he pounded into her as deep as he could go “—ever—” another powerful thrust “—let you go.”

He slammed his hips forward on each of those last three words, and the final thrust was the one that sent him over. The pressure within him burst with enough force to lock up all his muscles while simultaneously sapping all his strength. He threw back his head and groaned low, loud, and deep. His seed pumped into Eva as she was swept away by her own release. Her sex quivered around him, and Kronus willed his seed to take root, to fill her womb with a youngling of their own.

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