“This is the most honest thing we can do between us, Lilly. This. You and me. Together. This is the most basic, honest thing in the world.”
The stark tone of his voice drew her eyes to his. She saw the emotion there that neither could find words to voice.
“Take me, Luc.”
He searched her eyes. “Are you sure?”
She nodded. “Take me now. I want to be yours. I want to feel you inside me. I want to feel you come inside me.”
“Stars! Lilly!” Luc pushed her hips upward just enough to move into position, but he wouldn’t let her come down hard and fast the way she half-wished she could. No, he controlled her descent until his tip was lodged inside her, stretching.
By the stars! How he stretched her. Luc was wide around and longer than any man she’d seen before. This position allowed her to take him in increments, and she realized in a flash that was why he’d moved them just so. He had to know she’d find this first joining difficult. He’d arranged them so she could take him at her own pace.
And she was doing the best she could. She pulsed lightly upward, spreading her lubrication on him as she moved a little lower on the return. Little by little, her body opened to admit him. Little by little, he filled her channel in a way it had never been filled before. And, little by little, she fell in love with Luc Adain, the man she could never have.
Luc couldn’t believe how tight and hot Lilly was around him. When they were, finally, fully joined he breathed deep, filling his lungs with her enticing scent.
“Sweet Mother of All,” he breathed, loving the way her body welcomed him, gripping him as if it would never let him go. He felt as if he’d found home for the first time in all the intimate experiences he’d shared with other women. This one fragile human woman blew all his other experiences away. Lilly was more woman than any other he’d ever known, and her lithe body was made for his.
He began to move, unable to control the little thrusts up into her welcoming heat, but she seemed ready for him. Ready and eager. She whimpered as he began to move faster, driven by the need to possess and enrapture. He wanted to drive her to the stars. He wanted to bring her more pleasure than she’d ever known. And he wanted to bind her to him forever.
That startling thought alone gave him pause to collect his wayward emotions. He had to keep control or he’d overwhelm her. That was the last thing he wanted to do. He’d promised to protect her and never hurt her. It would kill him if he hurt her when she’d already shown him more pleasure than he’d ever felt with a woman.
His cock felt as if it were being massaged by her passage. It was being given a hero’s welcome by her tight body. Her sighs and moans were like cheers of victory to his dazed mind. Luc pinched her nipples as she rode him, participating more now as she found and joined his rhythm. Her beautiful breasts bounced in time with their motions, enticing him, beguiling him, making him want to remember this moment for all time.
She cried out as her body reached a small climax. He knew she was capable of more, and he’d made it his mission to wring all the pleasure he could from her body before he let her rest this night.
“Squeeze me just like that, Lilly. Stars! You have no idea how good that feels.”
Lilly grabbed his shoulders and redoubled her efforts as she rode him to another, slightly bigger climax. He loved the way she clenched around him, daring him to lose control and shoot his seed deep inside. But he wouldn’t do that. Not just yet.
“Luc, I can’t take much more.” Her words were a breathy moan, and he knew the time had come to take charge of this tempestuous loving.
“You will, Lilly. You’ll take all I have to give you and more.” He rolled with her so that she was under him, still joined to him. He smiled down at her in triumph as her clearly dazed mind fought to catch up with the sudden turn. “I like this, Lilly. I’ve been dreaming for days now about having you under me.”
She cleared her throat before she was able to speak. “I like being under you, Luc. I like the feel of you inside me.”
“Only like?” He dared her to speak the word that danced on the air between them.
“I love the way you feel inside me, Luc. You know I do.” She gave in, and he felt a moment of pure, unadulterated triumph.
“And I love being in you, Lilly. I want to stay here for hours.”
“Hours?” she peeped.
“Hours,” he promised with a devilish grin. “As long as it takes to make you come over and over for me.”
Her eyes lit with pleasure. “You know by now that I’m easy where you’re concerned. Don’t make me wait, Luc.” Her voice turned needy as his temperature rose. He could feel her insides contracting around him again, and he knew she was close once more.
Luc began moving again, deeper now that he was in full control. He lifted her legs, and she followed his lead, moving her thighs up impossibly high on his body, giving him any access he wanted to her slick depths.
He thrust long and hard, digging in as she convulsed around him. He’d hold on through one more of her releases and then go with her, he decided. They had all night. He would pleasure her many times before the dawn.
That thought firmly in mind, he drove harder, answering her cries for more with increased pressure and a faster pace. He slipped his hand between their bodies to tease her nub and pinch her nipples, gratified to hear her scream his name as she came again.
This time, he joined her, flying right over the edge into oblivion with her, emptying his seed into her receptive womb in long, hot bursts until he was empty, body and soul.
“Sweet Mother of All,” Lilly whispered. “What in the world was that?”
“That, my dear, was the earth moving.” Luc kissed her shoulder, cuddling up beside her on the large bed. They’d both needed time to recover after that tumultuous climax. Luc had moved to her side to spare her his weight.
She answered with a sexy, soft chuckle and stroked his arm where it rested across her middle. “It sure felt that way, didn’t it?” she mused. “But I can’t help feeling that I’ve made a terrible mistake.”
Her words stilled his amusement. He leaned up on one elbow to look down at her. “Something so beautiful could never be a mistake, Lilly.” He searched her eyes, hoping to find some emotion to answer the almost euphoric feelings rising in his own soul.
“Luc.” She looked truly worried as she met his gaze. Her voice lowered again to a whisper. “I could so easily fall in love with you.” Luc felt his heart lighten, then dip low again as she continued. “But there’s no future for us. I knew there wasn’t. It’s why I tried to stay away. But now…” Her delicate fingers stroked over his cheek as a kind of melancholy swept through him.
He understood. Her regrets were too close to his own fears. There really was no way for a human and one of his people to share their lives. Such pairings always ended in tragedy. Luc knew that best of all from his brother’s example. Detlif had tried to break the long-standing pattern. He’d been the first in centuries to take a human to mate for more than just an evening or a few days. He’d also been the first in centuries to have his life turned upside down and his heart crushed by a fickle human’s ability to fall out of love just as easily as she fell in love.