Page 42 of Sins of Seduction
Jax engulfed her—a shadow that darkened the sun so she had no choice but to rely on him for her senses. She couldn’t feel or taste anything but the man who loomed over her with need that made her ache to fulfill.
She gasped at the feel of his hand against her bare skin at her side. Her shirt had risen, leaving her stomach exposed to his touch. His hand traveled up further, grazing the underside of her breast, and on instinct, she locked her legs around his waist, pulling him toward her.
Jax’s laughter felt dark against her skin as he pulled his hand from under her shirt and unhooked her legs. “I love how your body reacts to me, Rave.” His voice was gruff.
He went to work undoing her jeans, and Raven lifted her hips to help slide them down her body. She made quick work of tossing her shirt overhead and ridding herself of her bra. She felt a needy sense of urgency trembling through her.
Raven reached for his shirt, and he batted her hands away, gently pushing her back on the table. She hadn’t worn underwear, and she was completely naked under his gaze. She kept herself upright on her elbows, watching the way Jax took in every inch of her. His breathing had gotten choppy, and she could hear the faint rumbling of a growl being torn from his throat as his gaze snagged on the wetness seeping out of her pussy.
The longer he stared the wetter she became, and that ache she felt turned into a painful throb inside of her. “Jax,” she whimpered and tried to close her legs to ease some of the tension building, but Jax held her legs apart, pushing them wider as his gaze traveled up the rest of her body.
Raven sucked in a sharp breath when their gazes collided. Jax’s otherwise dark eyes were on fire. The blue–black flames burned high, and she felt them lick the base of her spine.
Jax pulled her closer to the edge of the table. “Every time I see you, it’s like the first time, Rave.” He let go of his hold on her legs but stepped into them, keeping them from open for him.
He undid his jeans, pulling his cock out. He wrapped one hand around himself, stroking at a slow and unhurried pace. Raven could see the precum that coated the tip, and Jax took his thumb, coating his finger with the precum and brought it to Raven’s lips.
Raven immediately opened up for him, the second the salty tang hit her tongue, she moaned around his thumb. Her eyes never left his as she sucked on him, swirling her tongue around, and making sure she tasted every inch of him.
“Fuck, Rave,” Jax groaned as his body shook. He pulled his thumb out of her mouth and he grabbed her throat as he hovered over her. She smiled up at him, loving that he remembered how much she creamed on his dick when he choked her during sex.
“The things I want to do to you,” he whispered against her lips, and before Raven could respond with a challenging taunt, Jax slid his cock inside of her.
She let out a gasp that turned into a low moan. Jax readjusted his grip on her neck, cutting off her air as he slid out of her and slowly rocked back into her, filling her up further than he had before. “That shut you up. I knew you were going to say some slick shit.” He eased his hold on her neck, but whatever breath she tried to inhale was stolen when Jax kissed her.
He bit her bottom lip as he started thrusting his hips forward. Raven hooked her legs around his waist and met him thrust for thrust. The kitchen table scraped across the floor just as something was knocked off the table. She should care, but her focus was on the man who was content to get deeper inside of her with each thrust.
Jax quickly reared up, he let go of her throat and grabbed her legs, unhooking them from around his waist. He pulled her legs open wider as he pushed her knees into her chest. His gaze fixated on where they met and Raven’s gaze was fixated on him. The passion and wonderment that flashed in his eyes every time his cock disappeared inside of her, heightened her own pleasure.
“I want to break you apart so I can ease my way inside of you,” Jax growled, his gaze shot to hers. “This way I’ll always be with you.”
He threw her legs over his shoulder as he leaned over. Raven’s eyes rolled as the angle of his thrust changed. Sensations built in her stomach, and her body turned into an inferno. This position was her kryptonite and Jax knew it. He knew all the ways it took to get her to climax and which was the fastest way. She tried to keep her eyes open and on him as he spoke to her between fevered kisses against her skin, but she couldn’t hear anything over the drumming of her heartbeat.
Jax called her name and she moaned in response. She was so close she could taste it in the back of her throat. “Open your eyes for me, my Raven.” It took effort to open her lids, they seemed to weigh a ton, or maybe she was too immersed in the sensations coursing through her body to want to pull away from them.
“There’s my pretty girl,” Jax looked down at her. There was lust and need in his eyes but something else too, something that she hoped matched in her eyes. She saw the love he had for her, like she’d seen it every day they’d been together and what she missed when they were apart.
Something inside of her broke as Jax coaxed her closer and closer to her climax. Her chest had cracked—it started out as a fissure until the walls came crumbling down around her. She had to fight back tears as everything became too much. Her skin felt too sensitive, the pleasure that built became too much for her to handle, and with an ease she never experienced before, her climax ripped through her. She’d been pushed off the cliff, and the drop momentarily blocked out her senses. She was flying in a dark abyss, weightless and free. It felt like she had these beautiful black wings instead of arms that carried her with the wind. For a moment, a peace had settled over her.
When her flight started to ease, her senses came back. She could feel Jax on top of her, hear the kitchen table marking up her floor. She could smell his pine and cedar scent and taste him on her tongue. She could hear Jax’s grunts increase as the speed of his thrusts quickened. He was close, and all Raven could do was hold on as he found his release, which quickly followed. Her name was torn from his throat as he pulled out of her. She felt the warmth of his cum on the back of her legs, and as he collapsed somewhere away from her, Raven still couldn’t open her eyes.
A satisfied exhaustion settled over her body, but just as sleep teased her mind and a new darkness welcomed her, a pair of familiar sad eyes clouded her vision.
Can you see me now?
Am I enough for you now?
Your love is poisonous and you caused this, Raven. I hope you never know peace.
Raven sat in the living room with her laptop on her lap. Jax was asleep in the bed they shared upstairs, and Raven couldn’t sleep, so she came downstairs to work. They spent the past day and a half reconnecting and shutting out the outside world once again. She wished they could always exist like that, wrapped in a bubble that was unbreakable, and maybe this time they could. They seemed to have a better understanding of who they were as individuals and what they wanted from each other.
She pulled the hoodie she wore up past her nose, inhaling Jax’s pine scent. Her body ached, but she felt sated to the point that all she wanted to do was wrap around Jax and find the sleep that should have come, but every time she closed her eyes, all she could see was Lea’s angry gaze.
It had been what felt like forever since Lea had haunted Raven, and now the woman was back, front and center on Raven’s mind. She could still smell the lilac and jasmine scent she associated with Lea. Even underneath Jax’s smell, Raven could faintly make out the lilac, and it was driving her crazy. She no longer owned anything that belonged to Lea except for the portraits that were painted of them, and even if she had, the smell would have faded by now. Lea had been gone for five years, but Raven’s mind was making it seem like she’d only been gone for six months.
Raven brought the heel of her hand in between her eyebrows, trying her best to massage the headache that had come back with a vengeance. The damn thing popped up out of nowhere, and she wasn’t sure she was going to be able to last until her next doctor appointment with the pounding in her head. Raven thought it might be her eyes, and she took out her glasses when she was working on the laptop, but that hadn’t helped and neither had the tea she brewed.
“This is ridiculous.” She let out a frustrated breath, checking the tracker for the groceries she ordered. Her and Jax were burning through calories as quickly as they consumed them, and it had been awhile since Raven had done any food shopping. Danielle had taken care of that for her, amongst other things.
