“Which is where? Sorry.” She grimaced. “I shouldn’t have asked that.”
“Of course you should. What’s mine is now yours.” Hunter kissed her gently. “Our dragon hoard is inside the mountain at the back of the castle.”
“Inside it?” she echoed.
He nodded. “We hollowed out the mountain so it could accommodate the bulk of our combined treasures. We also have smaller caverns where our more personal treasure is stored. When the time comes, the two of us will go there to mate.”
“Is that where Lachlan and Belle are now?”
“Yes. But our personal caverns are completely private from each other,” he reassured.
“That sounds amazing, and I look forward to going there with you, but for the moment… Can we just have normal sex—make love now?” She looked at him expectantly.
“It will be my absolute pleasure.” Hunter stood to lift her into his arms and carry her across the room to place her on top of the bed. “I hope that it will be yours too,” he murmured before joining her, and his mouth claimed hers.
“Whoa.”Zoey was surprised when she looked down minutes later to see they were both naked. “Don’t tell me, you can disappear clothes too.”
“I can do many things I haven’t yet told you about. Did I go too far?” A frown creased Hunter’s brow. “Would you rather I had asked first?”
She laughed. “Absolutely not. I’ve always thought how awkward it looks in films and TV when people try to continue kissing while attempting to rip off their clothes so they can be closer still. Besides…” She looked at him from beneath lowered lids. “The fact that you’re so breathtakingly gorgeous when you’re naked completely nullifies any awkwardness I might have felt at also being naked.”
Hunter had defined muscles in his shoulders and arms. His chest was as beautiful as a carved slab of marble, each ridge of muscle and the hollows in between clearly defined on the eight-pack revealed by his nakedness.
Zoey’s breath caught in her throat at her first sight of his cock jutting up from the dark curls surrounding its base.
Her first sight of any cock.
Hunter’s was long and thick, with a slight inward curve and pulsing blood vessels along its length. The balls beneath were lightly furred and drawn up tight beneath his cock.
His waist and hips were narrow, his legs long and as muscular as his chest and arms.
In other words, Hunter had the appearance ofa marble statue and was just as breathtakingly beautiful.
Zoey wasn’t sure how her own body would measure up to such perfection. But one glance at Hunter’s heated and mesmerized gaze as it ate up every inch of her naked body was enough to reassure her that to Hunter she was the most beautiful woman in the world.
That was a huge compliment considering Hunter was twelve hundred years old and admitted to having had “normal sex” during that time.
“Your breasts are perfect, my mate,” Hunter murmured throatily, his hands cupped beneath those twin mounds as he lowered his head to capture and then suck one of her ruby-colored nipples into the heat of his mouth. His tongue was a rough rasp across that sensitive flesh as he suckled deeper and harder, the soft pad of his thumb caressing her other breast.
Zoey arched her back, feeling even more pleasure by pushing her nipple deeper into that heat. Hunter squeezed its twin between his thumb and index finger, Zoey becoming even more lost as that pleasure shot straight to her clit.
She let out a protesting groan when Hunter lifted his head, releasing her nipple. But she needn’t have worried because he immediately turned his head and captured her other nipple, sucking on it hard and deep.
The hand previously squeezing her nipple now slid down over her belly, fingers seeking the slick nubbin beneath the auburn curls covering her mound. One of those fingers pressed down on her swollen clit, before stroking along one side and then the other, not quite touching that swollen nubbin again but still awakening previously unknown nerve endings and causing her clit to pulse and ache.
“Please.” Zoey lifted her hips up to meet the caress of those now-slick fingers. “Please, Hunter,” she pleaded.
Hunter lifted his head to look at her, revealing his gaze as being hot and fierce and his lips swollen, before he began to slide his body down hers. His lips and tongue kissed, sucked, and laved against her flesh on his journey down to where her restless thighs were already parted in invitation.
Zoey let out a soft scream when Hunter’s fingers parted her curls and his tongue licked against her pulsing clit. That scream turned to soft groans of pleasure as he sucked and licked that nubbin for long and pleasurable minutes.
The tension built to an unbearable pitch before it exploded in a climax so intense it was painful.
“Again!” he demanded gruffly before taking her to that height of ecstasy again, and then again. “So wet and ready for me,” he murmured his satisfaction long minutes later, his fingers stroking through that wetness.
“Yes, please,” Zoey begged, wanting him inside her, claiming her. She wanted to be physically joined to him and for him to become a part of her.
Hunter moved up onto his knees between her parted thighs, the top of his cock a fierce red and glistening with the release of his juices. “I don’t want to hurt you,” he admitted gruffly.
