Mine.
 
 I will never get enough of this.
 
 I groan against her, sheathing my claws as they sink deeper into the soft flesh of her thighs.
 
 She whimpers, her hips jerking, but I hold her down.
 
 “Tharn—!”
 
 Her voice cracks, and something dark andhungryuncoils in my chest.
 
 I don’t answer.
 
 Idevour.
 
 My tongue presses deep, licking into her like I’m trying to memorize every inch, every shudder, every pulse of her body around me.
 
 I don’t know what I’m doing.
 
 But her gasps, her moans—they teach me.
 
 When I flick my tongue here, her thighs tighten. When I suck there, her back bows off the furs.
 
 I learn fast. This is more than just sharing water. This…this is sharinglife.
 
 And Jah-kee is drowning in it. Her back arches, her fingers twist in the furs, her breath comes in broken, gasping cries.
 
 I growl low, the sound thrumming through her, and she shakes, her thighs trembling against my face.
 
 Dust.
 
 I could stay here forever.
 
 Buried between her legs, lost in the taste of her, the way her body clenches for me, the way she shatters when I curl my tongue?—
 
 But it’snot enough.
 
 I needmore.
 
 I needeverything.
 
 I pull back just enough to look at her. Her heaving chest, her parted lips, her eyeswildwith pleasure.
 
 She is slick on my mouth, on my chin. I drag my tongue slowly over my own lips, tasting her again. Sweet. Salt.Mine.
 
 Her breath hitches at the sight, a fresh wave of heat washing over her skin.
 
 Beautiful.
 
 Her skin is flushed, her scentthickin the air, and when my claws trail up her thighs, she jerks?—
 
 “W-Wait?—”
 
 I don’t.
 
 I drag my tongue over her again,slow, savoring the way her whole bodytightens, the way her chest stutters…
 
 Then Isuck.