He eased out from under her. His balls were so tight, he knew it wasn’t going to take much. But he wasn’t about to let go until he felt her come again. This time when he was deep inside her.
He slid his arms around her waist, lifted her off the steps. She was so light, he turned her easily. She gasped when his mouth found hers again, but then she was kissing him with urgency, wrapping her arms tight around his neck and her legs even tighter around his waist.
Gods, this was what he wanted. All he wanted. All he’d dreamed about since the first moment he saw her at the colony. Couldn’t believe she was here with him now. He palmed her ass, rubbed the length of his shaft up and down her wetness as he carried her the rest of the way up the stairs. Even though it brought him within degrees of boiling, he luxuriated in the vibrations that echoed through his chest when she groaned.
He dropped her on her back on the bed. Eased away just long enough to push down his jeans and kick them off. She reached for him when he came back. Kissed his forehead, his cheek, his jaw, then finally found his lips again. Shivers rushed over his spine as he settled in the vee of her body. As his cock brushed her wetness and the tip barely pressed inside.
“Gryphon…” She dropped her head back against the mattress, tightened around him.
“Sotiria, look at me.” He wanted to see her eyes when he filled her. Wanted to know what she was feeling.
She blinked several times, then finally opened those dark orbs to focus on him. And as he pressed into her, he watched those eyes widen, watched them haze over with pure lust. Watched her give herself to him.
No fear. No pain. Just trust.
Warmth unfurled inside his chest as he eased out, as he pushed into her again. As she trembled beneath him. And for the first time in his life, he felt completely whole. Not empty. Not the shell of the man he’d always yearned to be. Not the broken soul he’d been since the Underworld. With her, here, he felt…complete.
Emotions rolled through him. Ones he couldn’t define and was afraid to try to. So many, the combined power slammed against his ribs. The connection he felt to her now…it was different from before. It wasn’t bathed in darkness. It radiated light. A light that warmed him from the inside out. A light that shoved aside the voice until he couldn’t hear it anymore. Until the buzz he’d lived with the last four months was gone too. Until there was nothing but the two of them, rocking together on this bed, losing themselves in each other over and over and over again.
“Gryphon.” She lifted her head, kissed him, slid her hands down to his ass and pulled him closer.
He knew what she wanted. The same thing he wanted. He braced his hands against the mattress and drove into her deeper, kissed her harder, pushed her to the edge with every thrust. And when her climax rocketed through her, when she broke free of his mouth and groaned long and low, he didn’t let up. He plunged harder, faster, drawing out every last spasm and shudder and ounce of pleasure from her that he could.
Only when he knew she was spent, that he’d given her ecstasy no one else ever had…then he finally let go. And shook from the sheer force of his orgasm as it exploded through every nerve ending in his body.
He was shaking when he finally collapsed against her. She wrapped her arms around his sweaty shoulders, her legs around his damp back. His head fell into the hollow between her shoulder and neck, and her warm breath washed over his temple as she pressed her lips against his forehead. Her heart raced next to his, and he knew he had to be crushing her, but he couldn’t move. His body wasn’t working yet. He thought that orgasm on the boat had been the best of his life? It hadn’t even come close to this.
Aftershocks rippled across his body, sent electrical jolts through his muscles, keeping him immobilized.
Her chest rose against his as she drew in a deep breath. Lowered as she blew it out. “Gryphon?”
“Yeah.” His brain was slowly coming back online, even if his limbs still weren’t responding. “I…I’m hurting you. I’ll move.”
“No, it’s not that.”
He braced his hand against the mattress, started to push off her, but she tightened her pelvic muscles, stopping him.
He grew hard all over again.
She smiled against his temple. “Mm…that’s what I was hoping for.”
Arousal and desire and need rushed through him. A need more demanding than before, because now he knew how to sate it.
He eased up on his arm and looked down at her. She tightened her legs around his back and clenched her sex, drawing him back deep inside her, then smiled up at him with a wicked, sinful grin that made his blood run hot.
Her cheeks were flushed, her lips swollen from his kisses, her eyes filled with the same hunger coursing through him. But there was something else. Something more. Something…