Page 58 of Shielded Heart

“Yours is a body worthy of worship,” he said, lifting his hands off hers. “Keep going.”

He smoothed his hands down Samantha’s abdomen as she breathlessly caressed herself. Though her touch wasn’t the same as his, it fanned the flames he’d already ignited within her. His palms left a blazing trail in their wake along her thighs, and his fingers massaged her flesh on their slow journey to her knees.

She whispered his name; it emerged from her lips in a desperate plea. Arcanthus hooked his fingers under her knees and spread her legs wide. She wouldn’t have resisted even if it had been possible.

One at a time, he draped her legs over his powerful thighs, forcing them even wider apart as he spread his own legs. With his left hand, he gathered her skirt and dragged it upward. The fabric glided over her skin until her pelvis was bare; Arcanthus swept the skirt aside and settled both his hands on the insides of her thighs, brushing his thumbs across the thin edges of her underwear.

Samantha trembled. She felt vulnerable and exposed, and yet, because it was Arcanthus, she feltsafe.

“Ah, Samantha, do you know what you do to me?” He tilted his hips and forced her pelvis down; her backside brushed against the hardened answer to his question. “You have hidden yourself from everyone, but I will discover the wonders of your body. I will worship it.” He teased the shell of her ear with his teeth. “I willtasteit.”

Samantha’s breath hitched.

Arc curled his fingers beneath the waistband of her panties. “And I will conquer it.”

He tugged outward with both hands. The waistband tore like paper, leaving only a scrap of fabric draped over her mound. The tip of his tail trailed up the inside of her thigh and slipped around the cloth, brushing over the hairless flesh of her pelvis, to pluck the red fabric away.

Arcanthus slid one hand back to her inner thigh and flattened the other over her abdomen as his tail crept toward her sex again. “Keep those hands moving, little terran.”

Samantha had been so focused on his tail that she hadn’t realized she’d stopped caressing herself. She set her fingers into motion again, but her eyes—and her attention—remained transfixed on his hands and tail. She never would’ve dreamed he could use his tail for…forthis. It was…wicked.

The tip of his tail grazed her sex, and her hips jolted in response. His breath was warm against her ear when he asked, “Do you want me to touch you there?”

She bit her lip and nodded.

“Command me,” he rasped. “Takefrom me.”

Squeezing her breasts in frustration, she released her lip and tried to roll her hips into his touch, but he pinned her in place with his hands. She’d never felt as much desire, as much need, as was coursing through her in that moment. Her limbs trembled, and her sex clenched around its empty core.

“Touch me, Arcanthus,” she pleaded. “Now. I need you, now.”

His tail brushed along her sex lazily, spreading her moisture, while his hand slid down her abdomen. He ran his fingers over her pelvis and covered her mound, parting her folds and slipping his middle finger between them. His fingertip traced a circle around her clit.

Samantha cried out as pleasure pulsed through her. He continued those maddening circles, slow and teasing, steadily building the staggering sensations. Her lips parted as she panted, her brows dropping low. When she attempted to undulate her hips again, he tightened his hold on her, halting her efforts.

She stretched an arm up and wrapped it around the back of his neck. Her fingers delved into his hair, clutching the dark strands in her fist. Her other hand grasped his metal arm. Her thighs quivered with the overpowering sensations, which were still gradually intensifying. The feeling was so strong it was frightening.

“Arc,” she moaned, tilting her head back. She turned her face toward him.

He met her gaze, but his central eye—the most devilish of them—remained focused on her body. His finger maintained its steady pace, circling her clit over and over.

“Please, Arc. It’s too much. I can’t…”

“Oh, but Samantha, youcan.” He spread her folds wider, and something nudged her opening. A second later, his tail filled her, sliding easily into her depths.

Samantha inhaled sharply. She tightened her grip on his hair as her sex clamped around his tail. She’d expected pain, had expected the burn of her tender flesh tearing, had expected the unforgiving bite of his fingertips in her skin as he drove into her relentlessly, but there was onlybliss.

Arcanthus moaned and rocked his hips against her.

“So hot, so soft…so tight,” he rasped.

His tail withdrew from her sex. The hollowness it left behind was agony, but Samantha couldn’t look away as he raised his tail to his mouth and slipped it between his lips.

It was the most arousing thing she’d ever seen.

Arc sucked on his tail, tilted his head back, and groaned before sliding it out. “Sodelicious.”

He touched the tip of his tail to her neck and slowly ran it down her body, trailing between her breasts and over her stomach before returning to her sex. His finger increased its pressure on her clit as his tail reentered her. He pumped in and out, enhancing her ever-growing pleasure.

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