Born of Defiance

He was such a large, fierce beast and yet so incredibly gentle. She had a hard time reconciling this side of his personality with the Iron Hammer who fought so ferociously in the Ring. There, he was terrifying.

Here, he was all hers and gentle. Something that was all the more precious because it didn’t come naturally to him. He had to make an effort to be kind and sweet.

With an adorable half smile, he untied her panties and slid his hand over her hip and through the small curls until he touched her where she ached most for him. She hissed as he lightly teased her with his thumb.

Talyn swallowed hard as he stared into her eyes. The wetness of her body amazed him. The velvety skin, even more so. He’d had no idea how incredible a female’s flesh would feel. How very different her body was from his. Unlike him, she was so soft and supple. Smooth. Licking her lips, she held his gaze as she slowly rode his fingers.

His throat dry, he brushed the red lace from her, until she was fully exposed to his starving gaze. “You’re so beautiful,” he breathed as he returned to stroking her taut nipple.

She covered his hand with hers and pressed it flat against her breast. “I’m so glad you saw my profile. I can’t imagine doing this with anyone else.”

Before he could speak another word, she lifted herself up and slid onto his cock, taking him in all the way to the hilt. He growled at the unexpected ecstasy of being inside her.

Felicia couldn’t breathe for a second as he filled her completely. He was huge and her body wasn’t used to this. It took a full minute to catch her breath as her maidenhead tore to accommodate him. But once the pain receded, she was left with an incredible full sensation of holding him deep within, in the most intimate of embraces.

Worry lined his brow. “Are you all right?”

Smiling, she leaned down to kiss him. “All good.”

As she started to move against him the way she’d been trained, he locked his hands on her hips and held her in place.

She froze instantly. “Am I hurting you?”

Biting his lip until it bled, he shook his head. “I’m trying not to come just yet. Slap me.”

She gaped at his earnest request. Slap him? Was he insane? “I’m not going to slap you, Talyn.”

Talyn fought his body with everything he had, but he was quickly losing himself to the pleasure he felt. “Don’t move. Don’t even breathe.”

She didn’t listen.

Before he could speak again, she reached out and pinched his nipple.

“Ow! Hey! That hurt!”

She pinched his other one.

Scowling at her, he rubbed the offended area.

“Better?” she asked impishly.

He laughed as he realized it’d worked. And it was better than her slapping him. Kind of. While he was still hard inside her, he wasn’t quite on the verge anymore. “Thank you.”

With an adorable expression, she slowly rocked her hips against his. “No problem. But if you return that favor, I will get up and leave.”

Laughing, he ran his hands over her breasts as she rode him, slow and easy. “I would never do that to you.”

“Good.”

Felicia lifted his hand to her lips so that she could nibble his knuckle as she savored the feeling of him deep inside her. In all her dreams, she’d never imagined just how good he would feel there. Even with the pain of her virginity, she welcomed the sensation of his thick fullness. He was so gorgeous and sweet.

So adorably innocent and worldly.

The bruises and cuts on his body still made her want to hunt his commander down and skin the rotten beast. But the smile on his face as he watched her kept her focused on this one precious moment with him.

She shivered as he rose up to capture her lips. He sank his hand in her hair as he lifted his hips under her.

“Don’t hurt yourself,” she breathed. “I’ll do all the work.”

His gaze adoring, he dipped his head so that he could lave her breast. “You taste like heaven.”

She cradled his head to her breast as a wave of love for him tore through her. “I love —” She barely caught herself before she confessed her feelings to him. “How you feel.”

He sucked his breath in sharply an instant before he came. Groaning, he leaned back to look up at her. “Sorry.”

She leaned down over him to kiss his lips. “It’s okay, sweetie. I’m amazed you made it as long as you did.”

“Yeah, but I’m not done with you.” He flipped with her.

“Talyn! Don’t get hurt.”

Lifting himself up on his elbows, he grinned. “No worries.” Then slowly he began nibbling a blazing trail from her throat to her breasts.

“What are you doing?”

“I’m devouring you. It’s what I’ve been dying to do to you since the first time I saw your picture. I’m going to taste every single inch of your body tonight… until you’re begging me to stop.”

It was a promise he more than delivered on. And when he got to the part of her that ached for his touch, she thought she’d die on the spot.

Lifting her hips, she buried her hand in his braids as his tongue and fingers teased and delighted her.