“I thought you said you were a virgin?” she asked when he lifted his head, her hands sliding over the broad width of his chest and shoulders.
He chuckled as he thrust a hard thigh between hers. “Virgin, yes. Innocent, no. I watch… things.”
“Things?”
Her breath caught as he shoved her up onto her tiptoes, making her ride his thigh. Her clit throbbed as it was caught between them and she bit back her whimper.
He paused, pulling back to look down at her and pinning her with passion-darkened eyes. “No hiding. I want to hear your pleasure, Elise. All of it.”
She nodded, caught by his spell as her hips rocked automatically against him. “What things do you watch?”
He caught her hands, pressing them against his skin. It was hotter than hers, and she wondered if that was his natural running temperature or a result of the arousal she felt pressing against her stomach.
“I watched all the instructional recordings about sex between humans,” he said, then frowned. “Some of it seemed… extreme. I didn’t like all of it.”
She paused and frowned.
“Instructional recordings?”
“Yeah… we picked them up from your databases.”
“Do you mean porn?” she asked carefully, hiding her smile.
“Yes,” he murmured as he ran her hands down his cobblestone abs. “At least I think that’s what it was labeled.”
She chuckled. “Oh, hon, those weren’t instructional. Those were… yeah, let’s just say, some of it is good. Better than good, actually. But some? Well, it goes too far for most people.”
He let go of her hands as he speared her with a look. “Are you most people?”
She nodded, shucking in a breath as he pulled her top free of her waistband. She’d worn a simple blouse and a pair of wide-legged pants to combat the heat today. The fasteners at her waist were no match for his determined fingers.
“Good.” He smiled as he leaned back in to claim her lips. “Because as much as you beg or plead, there’s no way I’d ever hurt you like some of those women wanted.”
She reached up, sliding one hand into the nape of his neck to hold him down where she could kiss him. “Perfect, because I don’t do pain. I’m all about the pleasure… for both of us.”
He slid his hand into her pants, fingertips flirting with the lace edge of her panties. “Good. Because I plan on seeing your pleasure this time. Many times before the sun rises.”
Oh holy hell, yes please. She managed to hold in the whimper this time, her head falling back against the wall as he pushed her panties to the side.
“Fuck, you really paid attention to those recordings. Didn’t you?”
Her breathing caught as he swept his fingers through her pussy lips. She was soaked for him already and the feeling of his fingers against the slick, slippery folds made them both groan.
“I like to excel at everything I do.”
He found her clit and stroked. Her eyes rolled back in her head as pleasure rolled through her. He had just the right amount of pressure—not too hard, nor too fast—to bring the fire simmering in her veins to a full-blown inferno.
“Oh… fuck…”
Yeah, he definitely excelled.
“Do that more, just like that,” she begged, her hands on his shoulders again as he drove her insane with his clever fingers. Each circle and stroke sent her higher and higher, until she was almost on the edge. Yearning for that next touch, that next stroke, to send her over the edge.
Then he stopped.
“What the… why did you do that?”
She whimpered as he pulled his hands free of her panties. Then he lifted his hand, fingers glistening with her arousal and… licked them.
Fuck. Heat washed over her, her pussy clenching hard.
“Because I want you naked under me,” he rumbled, his deep voice doing things to her that should be illegal. “Because I want to feel you around my cock when you come. I want to feel and know that I did that to you.”
He stepped back, holding out his hand, and she managed to stagger toward him to take it.
“You,” she told him breathlessly, “are a danger to womankind.”
His lips curved in a sexy little smirk she instantly wanted to kiss off his face. “I only want to be a danger to your womankind.”
It was cheesy but she couldn’t help the grin. A thrill rolled through her veins as he turned her and backed her up toward the bedroom. With each step, he peeled another item of clothing from her as well as shedding his own, stealing kisses between each item hitting the floor.
By the time the bed hit the back of her legs, they were both as naked as the day they were born.
He paused for a moment, cradling her face in big palms. “Tell me you want this, Elise. I would not take an unwilling mate.”
She swallowed her nerves and all the nasty little voices inside that said she was too old for him, that he’d be part of the mate program and find someone as young and beautiful as he was. Someone who wasn’t ineligible like her. For a moment her heart broke but she locked the feelings away and concentrated on the here and now.
If this… tonight… was all she was going to get with him, it would be enough. She would make sure it was enough.
“I want this,” she said softly. “I want you.”
He nodded, a deep growl in the back of his throat as he swept her up against his chest. Their gazes locked for an eternity as he searched her eyes. Then he moved and kneeled on the bed to lay her in the center.
Before she could protest his loss, he was there, bracing himself over her as he slid a knee between her legs. She parted them automatically, watching the expression on his face.
It was feral, tight with desire, but the way he looked at her… she felt like the most beautiful woman alive. He swept a possessive hand up her curves, teasing her taut nipples with a whisper of touch before cupping her throat gently.
“Good,” he whispered, his voice a deep rasp of sound that made her pussy clench. “You’re mine. You’ve been mine from the moment I scented you.”
Altering position, he fit himself against her and her eyes widened. She’d been right. He was huge. She moved slightly, rocking her hips for the best angle, and his cock slipped away from her. It poked at the seam between her pussy and thigh and Cade froze. The movement broke the tense spell and she giggled.
“Draanth,” he grumbled, leaning his forehead against her shoulder. “I was trying to be so smooth and experienced about this. Like I know what I’m doing so you won’t think I’m useless.”
The soft admission stole her heart and she pulled his jaw around so she could whisper against his lips. “You’re not useless, far from it. If you don’t get inside me in the next thirty seconds, I’m going to lose my mind. Just follow your instincts.”
Reaching down between them, she wrapped her hand around his cock to guide him to her. His breathing caught as he fit against her, eyes darkening as he pushed slightly. Her eyes might have crossed a little but she bit her lip and silently urged him on.
“Goddess, you’re so tight,” he ground out, bracing himself above her.
She managed the ghost of a smile, clinging to him. “That’s because you have a huge alien peen. Not my fault at all.”