His eyes widened in surprise. Really, there was a lot of strength in those graceful arms of hers.
A sound that was somewhere between a growl and a wheeze escaped his lips as his erection sprung to life.
She was warm.
Soft.
His.
She buried her face in his chest and murmured nonsensical things. Her legs curled around him. Still naked, Ikriss had no choice but to surrender to her tight embrace, his cock pressing up against her soft skin.
She wasn’t yet fully awake, but she was definitely aroused. Her sweet scent filled his nostrils, drawing him into a perfect trance.
With uncanny strength—as if she were possessed by some divine, lustful spirit—she maneuvered herself upwards, one leg hooking over his torso, the other extending beneath him.
She wriggled her hips, and suddenly, he was…
Inside her.
What in Kaiin’s hells, my love?
Stunned and completely at her mercy, he eased himself inside her.
She had done this. While she was half-asleep and barely coherent, his mate’s body had reacted to his.
“Sienna,” he said gently, caressing the sides of her face. “Sienna.”
Brilliant grey-green eyes snapped open. A haze of confusion danced through them, but it was quickly replaced with crystal-clear recognition… and delight.
“Ikriss.” Her sweet, gentle voice was a salve on his scarred black heart. “Hello.”
“Hello,” he whispered, a slow smile spreading across his face. “You’re very beautiful, my Sienna.”
A delicate pink flush appeared in her cheeks and spread across her face to the tips of her ears. “So are you, Ikriss.”
He moved his hips back and forth, teasing his cock through her softness, eliciting a soft purr of pleasure from deep inside her.
He wanted to devour her, but he also wanted to enjoy her slowly.
This was pure bliss, better than anything he could have imagined in a mating.
He chuckled softly. “Nobody has ever thought of me as beautiful.”
“You are, though.” She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him.
He fucked her a little more, his rhythm becoming faster; more insistent. “I am honored that you think so,” he rasped, his control quickly slipping away, “and I only ever want you to think that of me. Nobody else. Ever.”
Her warmth was too delicious for him to stop. He closed his eyes and groaned as she curled her fingers around his horns. Goddess, it had been so long since he’d felt even the slightest twinge of sensation from his once-severed horns.
Now it felt as if there was a direct connection between his horns and his cock.
And her hands were pure molten bliss, sending ripples of pleasure down his horns and over his scalp, down his spine and into his core.
He fucked her harder, losing himself in her sweet essence.
She ran her hands through his hair and down his back, holding him tighter, even as she yielded to his demands.
Ikriss buried his face in the hollow of her neck. Her scent drove him insane. He kissed her soft, warm skin and went deeper, devouring every last morsel of her.