Then, all humor left her when she leaned forward and set her nose at the curve of his neck.She inhaled long and loud.“Why do you smell like that?”
His fingers constricted on her hips at the puffs of air as her words fluttered over his skin.“Like what?”
She sniffed again.“Roasted cinnamon, but sweet.Real sweet.It makes me want to eat you.”
Fuck.Aodh understood how a scent could make someone desire to eat someone because he felt the same way about Kai’s scent.
On the other matter she brought up, no one had ever talked about his scent.He knew it was because no one else could smell it.Once again, it was proof she was his mate.Like feeling a person when they were near, the scenting was another aspect of the mating lure.If his damn dragon didn’t get its stubborn ass on board, there would be hell to pay.
“Don’t let me stop you.Follow your desire.”He lifted a hand and cupped the back of her neck.Not to force her but more to brace himself for what was to come.
He felt the heat of her breath a second before the wet, delicate glide of her tongue followed along a pattern from his neck toward the center of his chest.
“Fuck!”The rumble of need was almost painful as it started in his stomach and tumbled up through his chest, over his vocal cords, and out his mouth.His hand went from her neck to fisting the thick, wild curls at the nape of her neck.
She hissed but didn’t stop her assault.Her body shifted and ground against his hardness as she licked all over his chest.Kai chased the looped designs from the center over his heart to his pecs, swiping each disk-like nipple as she passed them.When licking didn’t seem enough, she began flicking the tip of her tongue repeatedly in places to watch the ribbons go from azure to cobalt.
When she started moving south, he cupped her face between his palms and brought her up.If he hadn’t stopped her, then he would have ripped his pants open and had her face buried in his crotch as he showed her how to deep-throat him.He wanted to fill that lush mouth of hers in so many ways.
“Enough of that.”
Her golden-flecked gaze was a deep almond now.
“What else do you desire?”He couldn’t allow this to go on much longer.He thought about not giving her another choice for a moment, but he needed to do things differently with her.And he was trying his damnedest.
She held his gaze for a long moment, then said, “Kiss me.”
Aodh almost asked her to repeat it because she’d voiced one of the things he wanted.The one kiss they had shared seemed like it had happened days ago and had been all too brief.
He claimed her mouth.If any kiss could be called oral fucking, this one was it.Driving his tongue into her mouth, he went deep.He didn’t tease her tongue or attempt to draw it into his mouth but forced her to suck his.The thought that the kiss was too rough and demanding never entered his mind.Since he’d met Kai, he wanted her so intensely that he wouldn’t stop until she was a part of him and he, her.
This beautiful woman, with a curvy body and a big heart, drove him out of his mind.For the last several hours, all he thought of was what would happen when he was back in her presence, how many ways he wanted to taste her and take her.Now that he could feast on her mouth, he wouldn’t relent until he’d had his fill.
As the kiss went on, building in passion, a part of his brain tried to tell him she may need to breathe, but Aodh ignored it and fed her his air—just a trace amount of healing smoke.
Rarely did he eat fruit.His kind could survive on meat alone for years, but the taste of Kai was so sweet it reminded him of a fresh, ripe mango he’d picked from a tree in the old Caribbean Islands.The 30-meter trees were easy pickings for him in dragon form.
When he finally pulled away from her mouth, Kai followed him as if searching for more.
He caressed her cheek, loving the silky feel of her skin.
A haze clouded her eyes as she slowly opened them, his need reflected in her gaze.He continued to touch her, caressing around one of her ears and down her throat.
She swallowed.
Circling the dip above her collarbone, he commanded, “Part your thighs.I want to see how bad you want me.”
“Is that necessary?”
Arching a brow, he stared at her.She needed to get out of the habit of questioning him.“Yes.Now open, little flame.”He tapped one of her knees.
Trembling, she obeyed, slowly parting her legs.
He flicked away the far side of her robe to keep it from blocking his view.
Aodh saw Kai’s hands twitch as if she were prepared to drag the material back over her lower half.He growled.
She set her hands on the arms of the chair.
