Aleksei pulled a dishtowel off his shoulder, wiped his hands, tossed it aside, and was at the ready to cup my face in both hands and dip right in for a lip touch whenImade it to him.
He didn’t lift his head far nor take his hands from my face, when he asked, his voice straight to rich velvet, “Howwas your day?”
“Bodi, that’s my director, told meIdon’t have to bother with offering another direction for the costumes.He’sall in with where we are.Castingis almost complete.We’llstart fittings in a few weeks.Oh, and he congratulates both of us on our mating.”
“Mm,” he hummed, and he could have been doing that right between my legs, such was that area’s response to the sound.
So, whenIcontinued, it was breathy. “AndIfigured out how to make troll skin.”
His brows rose with heartwarming interest in my work. “How’sthat?”
“I was trying overlapping.Whenthat failed, gathering.ButIshould have been scoring.It’sperfect.”
“Excellent.”
“How are you?”
“Better, now that you’re home.”
Gods, this male, thisamazingmale, wasmymale.
For sure,Icould stand there, my face in his hands, his face allIcould see, andIsuspectedIcould do that for a long time.
Maybe years.
And definitely, that timidityIfelt was still there, low level, partly becauseIcouldn’t believe my luck.Mostlybecause he was just so magnificent.
But farg this noise.
I threw my arms around his neck, got up to the tips of my toes and kissed him.
My tongue darted inside to taste his heat and musk, but his forced it out to feast on mine.Together, they danced delightfully as his hands slid from my face, one going into my hair, the other trailing a delicious line of fire down my back.
I pressed closer, feeling his heat, his hardness, his strength, his immense energy, and when he nipped my lower lip between deep kisses,Iwhimpered.
At the sound, his head shot back.
Losing him,Iwhimpered again and dazedly opened my eyes.
It was then, hegrowled.
And that was whenIlearned he’d been keeping it light.
The kiss he came back with was greedy, hungry,devouring.
I’d never been kissed so thoroughly.
I’d never had any lover demand so much of me, while giving the world in return.
I pressed all the closer, practically burrowing into him, and moaned into his mouth.
He hauled me up his chest then smacked my behind, causing a ripple of decadent sensation to tingle over my entire body, andIknew instantly what he was demanding.
I wrapped my legs around his waist.
He turned, and all the while kissing, up the steps we went, into his room.
He lifted a knee, and then we were down on his bed.
