Page 84 of The Fallen
My thighs shake with the power of my orgasm, my cunt dripping wet and so scorching hot it feels like there should be heat waves coming off it. I’m like a new fawn, unable to hold myself up. I collapse on top of Lilith, and she takes me without hesitation. She wraps her legs and arms around me as I bury my face against her throat, still resisting the urge to sink my teeth into her.
For a while, we just cling to each other in the dark. Lilith strokes my feathers and my back, soothing me until I can breathe easily again, and my body stops feeling like it’s melted goo.
I shift myself off Lilith and roll over, tugging on her so she comes with me and curls up against my side, her head on my shoulder.
We’re both sweaty and loose-limbed, and for the first time … ever, I feel like maybe I could sleep.
“Are you okay?” Lilith asks me. Her voice sounds scraped raw, like she’s been gargling nails, and a shiver ofwantrides up my spine despite the overwhelming orgasm I just had.
I gently trail my fingernails over her bare arm, forming patterns on her skin that I wish I could make permanent, even more so than her tattoos, like a brand that would mark her as mine.
“I didn’t steal any of that,” I whisper, so low I don’t think Lilith will hear it, but she does.
“No,” Lilith says, pushing impossibly closer to me as if she’s trying to fuse us together into one being. “You asked. That’s all you have to do. Just ask, and I’ll give it to you.”
There’s a short pause and then, “Can I have you?” I ask, careful and quiet. I’m nervous but not afraid. It feels too important for fear.
Lilith takes a breath and then another. Inhaling and exhaling slowly. She’s nervous too.
“What part of me?”
She isn’t afraid. Maybe it’s too important for her as well. I hope so.
“All of you,” I say too quickly and then amend it with, “Everything you’re willing to let me have.”
“I can give you everything.” Lilith tips her head to look up at me, to meet my eyes so bravely it leaves me in awe of her. “Can you give that to me?”
“I would. I’d give you every little piece of me. But. Some parts of me aren’t … here anymore,” I say, waving at my temple vaguely, alluding to the shards of my absent memory. “They stole them.”
Lilith’s jaw hardens, and her eyes cool to something dangerous and angry. She rises up to loom over me, looking sexier and more predatory than ever. “Then we’ll take them the fuck back.” Her mouth splits into a sharp grin. “No one gets to steal what’s ours and keep it without a fight.”
I surge upwards and capture her grinning mouth in a kiss that feels like a promise forged from diamond. Unbreakable. Beautiful. Eternal.
Ours.
