Page 43 of Blood of the Sirens
I withdrew my hand. “What’s wrong? Did that hurt?” Leave it to me to assault the poor man just because it was my first merman tail!
He took a couple of deep breaths. “You’re going to make this very difficult if you do things like that.”
Oh.OH!
I held in my snicker only because he looked honestly distressed. He got turned on just from a stroke? And he’d been hard even before that! I felt like a sea goddess. A badass. Someone who mattered to someone. A sexy, desired woman.
I held one of his hands underwater with me, gently strokingthe webbing between his fingers. It felt rubbery, but incredibly smooth.
“Jesse,” he growled at me, his voice going darker than I’d ever heard it.
“Hmm?” I murmured back, as if totally disinterested. I hopped out of the water and awkwardly climbed back onto the rocks, and patted the spot next to me.
“What are you—”
“Come here,” I ordered, sounding way more confident than I felt.
Merrick gave me a look, but easily lifted himself out of the water and next to me, the cords of muscles on his forearms flexed as he moved.
I watched with fascination as the tail disappeared and faded into two muscled legs with his very …differentequipment.
I reached out and Merrick gave a long shudder as my hand touched him and explored his length with one long stroke. He wheezed at the sensation, unable to speak.
“I guess hand jobs aren’t a thing under the sea,” I muttered back, amused and flattered that I could make him feel this way. I glanced down, taking the time to examine him as he groaned with appreciation.
It was a dick, but clearly a special edition dick. While the rest of his legs and body looked normal, his dick was dotted with the same scales of his tail—a deep green-blue color that flashed gold depending on how the light hit it. The scales felt rough and textured as my fingers glided against it, but the underneath and tip were much smooth.
I wasn’t interested in any of that, though. I couldn’t take my eyes from the flared shape of the tip. I couldn’t help but wonder how that would feel inside me. If Merrick was near catatonicwith my hand on his dick, what would he do if I put my hot mouth on him?
Before I lost my confidence, I dipped my head down and took him as far as I could into my mouth. He hissed and dug his fingers into my hair, pulling roughly with no warning. Like the rest of him, his dick was cool in my mouth with sharp edges around the scaled bits that flattened obediently as my soft mouth covered them.
“Yes …” he growled, thrusting into my mouth viciously, unable to control himself. I didn’t flinch, loving how I gagged. I loved how he took control, moving my body as he fucked my mouth, losing his mind as he turned into a feral beast. The flared tip of his dick made it easier to keep him in my throat. I fucking loved it.
I glanced up at him with hooded eyes and a mouth full of dick, and he lost his mind.
With one hand, he pulled me off his dick with a ‘pop’ then yanked me up and smashed me against the wall, my hip harshly pinned to the stone. His other hand wrapped around my throat. His nose nuzzled against my cleavage as he moved up and down, inhaling my scent. His entire body shuddered, and he reluctantly pulled away.
“We must stop.”
I jerked, immediately letting go as shame overtook me. Merrick didn’t want me to touch him. Had I forced him, then? I didn’t think I’d imagined his desire. Was I any better than Archie or those crazed mermen on the boat?
“Sorry,” I whispered, my throat tight with emotion.
Merrick reared back, confused. “Siren, you have done nothing wrong. I just … you don’t understand everything fully yet. I won’t … I won’t take advantage of you until you do. It’s important you understand because the others wouldn’t wait. They wouldn’t give you a choice.”
I took this in. “The … others? There’s more of you. Oh! You mean the assholes on the boat?” I gasped, putting it all together.
Merrick nodded solemnly. “They are here for the spring break. They will try to find siren-born females like yourself. They will impregnate you, then abandon you and wait to see if the child is a girl or a boy. If it is a girl, they will leave you alone. If it is a boy, they will steal the child and raise it among our clans.”
I stared at him, waiting for the punchline to come or for him to smile and tell me he was joking.
He didn’t. He just … waited for me.
I leaned over the side of the pool and threw up.
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