Page 75 of Smoke and Lure

Truthfully, she didn’t want him to stop.

Liekki took hold of her braid, wrapped it around his hand until it was wound tight, and his fist rested at the back of her head.

With his grip on her hair, he angled her head back before slowly licking along her full bottom lip.He licked like he had all the time in the world.Then he went back the other way.

His large hand hoisted up her thigh until her knee pressed into his side and settled her just right against the bulge at his groin.

She pulled her hands back.There was too much heat under his skin.It pulsed like a heartbeat under her touch and made her heart want to follow its rhythm.

No.Because of his hold on her, she couldn’t lean away from him, but she still pressed her palms against the cool steel of the table—to ground herself.

Grounded or not, lightning struck when Liekki took her mouth, and she was its target.The searing heat happened along her tongue first, then traveled to her heart and set her blood to boil, only to scorch the inside of every one of her veins on the way to her pussy.When Liekki curled his tongue around her tongue, stroking along the shockingly sensitive underside, her clit was set ablaze and instantly became the conduit of her pleasure.

She moaned.She needed more, and he gave it to her.

Liekki was no gentleman, tentatively brushing her tongue and trying to coax her to play.Hell no.He demanded she join him in building their desire and wasn’t gentle about it as he captured the tip of her tongue between his lips and sucked hard, drawing it deeper into his mouth.

His hands held her firm but didn’t move; neither did he grind or thrust his hips.Even in that way, he ruled her, commanded her body by denying her his touch that would take her to the brink but purposely left her to hover on the edge of satisfaction.

She could have sworn she felt and tasted fire inside his mouth.But she had to be losing her mind because that didn’t make sense.However, before she could decipher the truth of what she encountered, Liekki drove their oral coupling back into her mouth.

There, he caressed her thoroughly as if he could stroke every one of her tastebuds before the tip of his tongue made a path behind her teeth, tickling the delicate skin there before grazing the rough of her mouth.He was everywhere.

Then she sighed as she became aware of his taste.Like his smell, it was intoxicating...more so.He tasted like hot-honeyed midnight and as potent as a rye-whiskey-induced wet dream.

Oh, god!She hungered for him.

His tongue thrust in and around, painting her mouth in the delicious, sweet fire.

He didn’t have to move because she was bucking, drunk on his fiery flavor.She knew it had to be impossible.No one could taste this good, and no one could make her body melt with a kiss.

Avalore moved her hand off the table, trusting him to hold her but not caring if she was falling.

She was falling.She became aware of her spine against the table and the icy press of the steel touching the bare flesh of her back between the top and skirt.Maybe with someone else, it would have been possible that the shock of the cold would have jolted her back into their senses.It reminded her she didn’t like the man, that she was trying to flee and get as far away as possible from the large, broad-shouldered beast, but not while the very overbearing dragon-shifter she wanted to leave was hovering above her.And she wanted all his considerable weight on top of her.She gripped his sides, holding him against her where she needed him, even though the insufferable man remained still.

Liekki’s growl vibrated along the recesses of her mouth.He began to thrust deep and deeper into her throat, and she was sucking hard on the length of his impressively long tongue while she pressed and rubbed her swollen, needy clit against his hidden hard length.She didn’t care that she was making his pants as wet as her throbbing folds were.Avalore cared about nothing but reaching the oasis at the bottom of the cliff as she swallowed down more and more of the hot, sweet fire.

Faster and faster, she humped his covered length, needing to get there.Unsure of wheretherewas, she knew she’d find paradise when she arrived.

Then it happened: the seal on her lust broke, and she felt the explosion between her thighs first before it rocketed up into her core and set off a lightning storm.Her body bucked and shook below him, scraping her short nails over the firm, muscled flesh of his waist as his kiss smothered her screams and cries of pleasure.

Little fires were everywhere in her body, and she knew only Liekki could bank them.She wanted him to tear off her clothes, touch her aching, taut nipples, use his deft fingers to stroke her pussy, and drive his stiff cock inside of her.

Instead, he tore his mouth away.

That’s exactly how she felt when he ended the kiss like something she needed to survive was ripped from her.

“Myhnn.”

“Liekki...what—?”

He pressed his forehead against hers, and she felt his labored breath pelting her swollen, sensitive lips.

She kept her eyes closed because the humming in her body was too strong for her to take in another sense.She may be forced to beg him if she saw the blue illumination or the deep, dark-blue flames trapped in his eyes.

That she had sense enoughnotto do right now.

“Little lure, be warned.”His fingers flexed tighter in her hair.“If you tease with another man, allow any other to flirt with what is mine...you have consigned him to his death.I promise you I will take my broadsword to his neck and deliver his head to you at our bedside.Here me in this.”

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