Rising, Jared strode toward them, eyes still glowing golden from either pain or anger as the bones in his nose and face slipped back into place and healed. “Why did you summon me?” he asked Seth.
“Have you been posing as Immortal Guardians and tampering in their affairs again?” Seth didn’t think he had, but thought it worth asking.
Jared’s face lit with surprise. “No. I’ve been toeing the line and staying on the straight and narrow so the Others won’t realize I’ve defected.”
Instead of following Zach’s lead and fully joining the ranks of the Immortal Guardians, Jared had become something of a double agent, living life as usual with the Others to avoid suspicion while helping Seth and feeding him information.
Jared studied them. “Why? What’s going on?”
Seth smiled. “I’d like to conduct a little experiment.”
Aidan opened his eyes. He lay on his back, Dana’s head on his shoulder, her arm resting upon his chest, her thigh draped across his groin.
No sun shone behind the curtains, so it must still be night.
He sighed. While he had slept a deep healing sleep at Dana’s, now that he was at full strength, he was having little luck getting any rest. He hadn’t slept beside a woman since his days as a mortal and—much to his dismay—woke at Dana’s every movement, no matter how slight. Dana sometimes talked in her sleep (mostly incoherent mumbles he found amusing), and that woke him as well.
With a mental shrug, he cuddled her closer. It was worth it. He didn’t mind being a little tired if losing sleep enabled him to enjoy her warm body nestled up against his.
She shifted, tightening her hold on him. Tilting her head back, she raised her eyelids to half-mast and offered him a sleepy smile. “Hi, handsome.”
“Hi, yourself,” he returned with a grin. He loved seeing her like this. One cheek pink from resting on his shoulder. Her hair mussed and tangled.
She squinted at the window. “Did we sleep all day again?”
“No. We only slept three or four hours.”
“Hmm.” She shifted again, her smooth thigh teasing his erection. Her smile grew. “Ooh. Is that for me?”
“Hell yes, if you want it.”
Chuckling, she shook her head. “If I want it, he says.” Rising onto an elbow, she slid her lower body over on top of his, then sat up.
Aidan hissed in pleasure as she straddled him, her core settling atop his arousal. Clamping his hands on her hips, he arched against her.
Dana moaned as her head dropped back. “I just woke up and I’m already wet for you. How do you do that?”
He slid his hands up her thighs, his thumbs stopping just short of the dark curls at their juncture. He had enjoyed learning her body yesterday. How and where she liked to be touched. What drew the most gasps from her. What made her moan and writhe and beg for more.
When he slid his hands back down to her knees, she moaned a protest. “Tease.”
Smiling, he repeated the caress, coming just a bit closer to the heart of her, then withdrew. Again he smoothed his hands up her thighs, retreating without giving her what she wanted.
“Aidan,” she said, her voice hoarse.
“You want my touch?” he asked innocently.
She met his gaze. “I want your touch.”
Aidan caressed his way up her thighs again, this time giving her a light brush of his thumbs.
Dana hissed in pleasure.
Another light touch, just enough to tease and tantalize.
“More,” she pleaded.
Aidan obeyed, stroking her until she moaned and rocked against him, sliding along his shaft.
Lust hit him hard as he watched her slip a hand up her side and cup her breast.
She met his gaze as she toyed with her nipple. “Your eyes are really bright,” she whispered before another moan escaped her.
“They always will be with you,” he told her gruffly. Leaning up, he closed his lips over the other taut peak, took it between his teeth and teased it with his tongue.
Dana buried her hands in his hair, urging him closer, still rocking against him.
Heat flooded him. He would never get enough of her. Sliding his arms around her, he rose onto his knees, then pressed her back onto the bed.
She smiled up at him as he leaned over her. “I love feeling your weight on me. All that delicious muscle.” She practically purred with anticipation as she reached for him.
Aidan gave her a sensual smile. “Not yet.” Grasping her ankles, he eased her legs farther apart.
Her heartbeat picked up as her breathing quickened.
Sliding his arms beneath her knees, Aidan lowered his head and took her with his mouth.
Dana moaned, fisting her hands in Aidan’s hair.
He found her clit with his tongue, stealing her breath with licks and flicks and undulations.
So good.
He slid a finger inside her slick entrance, then added another. Curling them upward, he stroked her while applying more pressure with his tongue.
She bucked against him, crying out as she came hard, her inner walls clenching and unclenching around his fingers.
Aidan lunged up over her.
Her heart jackhammering in her chest, she met his intense, glowing gaze. How she loved seeing him like this, so hungry for her.
She slipped a hand down between them and curled it around his erection.
He groaned as she gave him a squeeze and teased the tip with her thumb. “You’re killing me, sweetheart,” he said, voice gravelly with need.
Grinning unrepentantly, she guided him to her entrance and arched up to embrace him.
He was so big, stretching her and sparking new heat as he sank deep inside her.
He lowered his lips to hers, took her mouth in a devouring kiss as he withdrew almost to the crown and thrust again. He slid a hand up to her breast. His touch grew rough as he drove inside her again and again, but she voiced no complaint. She liked it. Wanted more. Loved that she could make him lose control like this. So the rougher he got, pounding into her, the more she moaned and urged him on.
Aidan gladly delivered, quickly driving her to another climax but holding back his own.
Sparks of pleasure still dancing through her, Dana reared up suddenly and shoved him off her and onto his back.
He stared up at her in surprise, his erection jutting toward her.
Dana swiftly straddled him, curling a hand around his cock and taking him inside her again.
Groaning, he clamped his hands on her hips and arched up against her as she rode him.
Resting her hands on his chest, she gave his nipples a hard pinch as she circled her hips.
He groaned.
“You’re mine,” she told him.
He smoothed his hands up her sides to tease her breasts. “And you’re mine.”
Again she rotated her hips in a way that made him groan and sent sharp darts of pleasure through her. “No one else’s,” she breathed, her body on fire.
“No one else’s,” he rasped, tweaking her nipples.
Dana cried out as a third orgasm rocked her.
As her inner muscles clamped down around him, Aidan growled her name and stiffened as he finally allowed himself to climax and came inside her.
Breathless, Dana slumped down on top of him.
Aidan closed his arms around her, his heart pounding a rapid beat beneath her ear.
“Damn, you’re good,” she mumbled. No man had ever pleased her more.