Page 46 of Escaping Wonderland

Shadow leaned his head forward, capturing her lips with his again, and pulled her down onto him. The head of his cock entered her smoothly, eased by her slick, but it quickly became a tight fit as more of his shaft slid in.

Alice squeezed her eyes shut, her brow furrowing in concentration as she panted against his mouth. Shadow groaned, settled both hands on her hips, and lifted her only to pull her down again, flexing his pelvis to press deeper. He repeated the action again and again, stretching her a little more—and forcing her to take in more of him—with each pump. She felteveryridge on his shaft as it stroked the inside of her channel.

When she’d taken nearly all of him into her body, Shadow tightened his grip on her hips and yanked her down the rest of the way, burying himself in her to the hilt.

Alice gasped and clung to him, pressing her face against his neck as she breathed raggedly. His scent—oakmoss and amber—filled her senses. Shadow’s palms smoothed over her sides and back, soothing her, as he brushed his nose in her hair. He didn’t move otherwise. She felt him,allof him, inside her, felt every pulse, every twitch. Her core tightened in response. The faint sting of her being stretched faded, and was replaced by that urgent need for more, by the need tomove.

She rose on her knees, causing her sex to slide up along his shaft, and lowered herself again. A shiver ran through her.

“Alice,” Shadow hissed, his hands swiftly returning to her hips.

She moved again, lifting herself higher. This time they both moaned when she eased back down.

Tilting her head back, Alice met Shadow’s eyes. Desire burned in their depths, but it was paired with a lucidity that she hadn’t quite seen before. It was as though Shadow—allof Shadow—was there with her, like in these precious moments he was both the unstable, unpredictable being he showed this worldandthe broken man she’d glimpsed beneath the surface.

Like he waswhole.

Thatwas the Shadow who took control.

And she surrendered to him.

The feel of Alice’s tight, desire-slickened heat around Shadow’s cock was euphoric, divine, and intense—it was almost too muchfor him to bear. Yet despite the overwhelming pleasure, he craved more,neededmore.

Alice offered it freely.

Keeping firm hold of her hips, he set a quick pace, lifting her up and slamming her down again, bucking his hips to meet her with increasing strength and speed. She moved sensually upon him, her body flowing easily, her skin radiant with passion. He held her gaze as he moved, fighting the building sensations threatening to force his eyes shut. He needed to stare into her eyes, to see his pleasure mirrored in her expression. He needed to know, without a doubt, that they were linked to one another in these moments.

Her blunt little nails dug into the backs of his shoulders. She further quickened their pace as soft pants and moans escaped her parted lips. A crease appeared between her brows, and her eyelids fluttered as though they would close.

His chest vibrated with his deep purring, which gave his voice a gravely undertone when he said, “Keep your eyes open, Alice. Look at me.Seeme.”

She brought a hand to his face and cupped his jaw. “I see you. I—ah!” Her chin tilted up and she shuddered as her sex clenched around his shaft.

She was so beautiful—more so than ever before, with passion burning in her eyes and her cheeks flushed with pleasure.

Shadow raised a hand to cradle the back of her head, tangling his claws in her golden locks. “See and know that you aremine.”

The convulsions of her inner walls intensified, and whatever control Shadow had maintained up until that point shattered. He pounded into her frantically, using the springiness of the bed beneath him to increase the force of his thrusts. His conscious thoughts were swept away by a gale of pleasure that blasted outward from his center.

Alice pressed her forehead to his as she cried out, her breathy moans escalating in volume with every thrust. Her body went rigid, and she trembled, but her eyes remained locked with his.

His fingers flexed as the pressure within him reached a breaking point. He forced his hips and hands to keep moving as he exploded inside her; his movements were made stiff and erratic by the tension his climax produced in his muscles. Though his eyes strained, he would not allow them to close, would not allow himself to look away from her—not while the same intensity, the same intimacy, he felt in himself was blazing in Alice’s gaze.

His cock pulsed in his release, and her sex coaxed more and more out of him until there was nothing left to give. Shadow threw his head back, his body shuddering in the aftermath of his climax. Alice sagged forward, leaning against him, and he eased his back onto the bed, wrapping his arms around her.

They lay like that for a long while, their breath ragged, their skin slick with sweat, as they slowly descended from the heights to which they’d climbed.

Alice drew in a deep breath and released it in a contented sigh as she snuggled against him, rubbing her cheek on his chest. It was followed by a yawn. “I don’t think I’ve ever felt so…sleepy before.”

“I don’t believe that’s quite the feeling I was aiming for,” he said, smiling softly as he idly traced the pads of his fingers up and down her back, “but I suppose it will do.”

She chuckled; it made her body shake gently, but that was enough to send another flare of pleasure through him. There was a soft moan—Shadow wasn’t sure if it had come from him, from Alice, or from both of them at once.

“Whether this world is real or not, dear Alice, I willneverforget this.”

“I won’t either,” she murmured. Her body went slack a few seconds later, and her slow, even breathing suggested she was asleep.

He remained in place for some time, continuing the slow slide of his fingers from her shoulders down to her hips and back again. He couldn’t deny his reluctance to withdraw from her body—she was warm and soft, and even as she slept, the faint movements of her inner walls sent tingles of pleasure through his cock. There was nowhere else he would rather have been.

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