Page 87 of Decadence

Ikriss’s big hands closed around hers, helping her to unfasten the damn thing.

His pants dropped to his ankles, revealing his erect cock.

Sienna’s eyes widened.

He was huge… and aroused as all hell. How long had he been holding back, putting on that severe, controlled façade while he was dealing with that underneath?

She knew that when human guys had an erection for too long, it could be painful… even dangerous.

So what about Kordolians, then? What did they do to cope with the…?

“Why are we even doing this?” she whimpered. “Maybe it’s better that I stay away from you until—”

“I can’t be away from you,” Ikriss rasped as he stepped out of his trousers. “I just can’t.” He kicked off his long boots. “The medic has no cursed idea how these things work.”

Now he was perfectly naked. She stared at his chiseled form; at the strange smooth black contraption that covered half his chest, at the veinlike black tubes that snaked across the surface of his neck.

She put her hand on his chest, waiting for a heartbeat…

But it never came.

He was so close… and yet so far, a beautiful mirage that she couldn’t quite have.

“To look and want, but not take right away; to inhale, to anticipate, to savor… that is what you humans do before consuming food that you particularly enjoy, is it not?” Through all the strain and tension, a devious smile curved his lips.

How does he even know that?

“Are you saying I’m like food to you?” She returned his wicked smile. “I thought you Kordolians didn’t enjoy your food the same way we frivolous humans do.”

“Normally, yes, but you have changed everything.” He took her hand into his and bowed slightly, before leading her toward the dark pool. It all felt strangely solemn, as if they were embarking on some important ceremony.

A ceremony with a fog of impossible lust stretching between them, driving them both into a delicious kind of insanity.

Sienna felt impossibly alive. Everything was more intense; her hearing, her sense of touch, her vision.

“Come,” Ikriss said simply, drawing her to the water’s edge.

She dipped her toes into the pool. To her surprise, it was only a little bit cool—not the icy cold she’d been expecting.

Ikriss drew her into the water, pulling her toward him.

Suddenly, she was weightless, floating on pure darkness. He pulled her against him so that she was floating with her head resting on his shoulder, her naked body stretched out in the water.

Her hair fanned out in the water. Ikriss ran his fingers through the blond strands, whispering something fierce and tender into her ear in his melodic native tongue.

The way he touched her—with such impossible tenderness—she instinctively knew he would never lay a hand on her in anger or betray her. She didn’t know how she knew it; she just knew.

“This is a fine curse indeed,” he said softly, switching back to perfect English. “Let me savor you for a moment, Sienna Adamo. “

She closed her eyes and let the gentle lapping rhythm of the water take her. Cool water flowed between her legs, but instead of dampening her arousal, it shifted her need into another dimension.

It consumed her.

She felt light; euphoric…

Nothing could touch her now.

There was only this sweet, fierce, complicated alien, and she was both ecstatic to have found him, and at the same time, terrified…

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