Page 41 of Assassin's Mark
One big hand cupped my jaw, his rough thumb running over my skin. “Yougave me…something…back there. Let me return the favor.”
Something?I'd given him not just something; I'd given him a part of myself. And he'd taken it, enjoyed it. So what else was new?
I frowned beneath his touch.
He made this sound in his throat, almost like he was clearing it, then, “Let me give you something now.”
“What kind of something?”
Instead of answering, he spread his legs in avee, his knees pushing my legs wide. Cool air hit my overheated folds.
“Some of us were built to take control,” Levi said, his voice like gravel as he stared down at the most vulnerable part of me.
I flinched. “And I was built to be controlled; is that what you’re saying?”
My voice quivered, damn it. I’d spent years honing my skills until every last molecule of emotion was hidden from my father,every uncertainty and fear buried until I was the perfect hostess, the perfect daughter. And yet here, now, with Levi, I revealed far too much—and it felt far more dangerous than it ever had with Derrick.
Maybe Levi heard it, that note of vulnerability I couldn’t seem to hide. His big body lowered, blocking out all light, and covered mine, his breath whispering over my skin, my breast, my nipple.Sharp teeth grazed the hardened tip.
I flinched again, this time at the zing of pain along too-sensitive skin. A punishment.
“You enjoy what I can give you,” he said, his lips rasping my throbbing breast. “That’s not the same thing.”
It felt like it was, but I didn’t want to argue. “What can you give me?”
“Escape.”
My snort had a corner of his mouth curving the tiniest bit before it hardenedback into a determined line. "Think about it: how hot can you go, little bird?" He ducked his head and dragged the tip of his nose down the slope of my breast, down my rib cage, my hip, across the line where thigh met torso. When he came to the crisp curls protecting my mound, he nestled deep. "How bright can you burn? How hard can you explode?"
My fists tightened in frustration, my jaw clenchingagainst my answer. "I don't know." But I wanted to. God, I wanted to.
Levi’s firm hands gripped the undersides of my thighs and lifted, up and out. "Then let me show you."
I locked eyes with his across the expanse of my own body. Fire burned like molten metal in his gaze. I don’t remember choosing, but one minute I was locked in the secrets behind his eyes, and the next, my legs relaxed intohis hold. Still, when his warm breath hit my naked lower lips, I instinctively tried to close my legs. The fact that I couldn't move an inch in his grip sent a wave of heat straight to my core.
You like what I do to you.
God forgive me, but I did.
And then his tongue was on me, right there on my most intimate place. Lapping, laving. He traced every inch of my vagina, a murmur of pleasure escapinghim when he reached the cream spilling from my core.
He speared inside.
“Levi!” My head fell back, my body clenching on the slippery invasion. “Levi, please!”
His tongue retreated, then advanced again. My hands went automatically to my breasts, squeezing down, needing more, now. I panted his name again.
“That’s it, little bird. Pinch those nipples for me.”
I did. Levi replaced his tonguewith his fingers in reward, his mouth moving up to surround my clit. When he sucked it inside, laving me with heat and wet and the most glorious pressure I’d ever experienced, I couldn’t hold back anymore. I squirmed, writhed, cried out beneath him, my body on fire, my need so high it hurt. I knew in that instant I would give him anything, promise anything, if he would just keep touching me.
And if a part of me deep down, where I couldn’t even admit it to myself, wanted more?
It would be disappointed, but my body wouldn’t. That would have to be enough.
My walls tightened around Levi’s fingers until pain shafted through me with every thrust, and then it was there, the pinnacle, the oblivion I so desperately needed. It shattered me from the inside out, tore me into a thousand pieces.A high wail escaped as I crested the peak, Levi’s hands and mouth throwing me over. Long before I hit the bottom, everything went black.
