Seeing Danger (Sinclair and Raven #2)(59)

As if being abducted had not been traumatic enough, now she had to think about what her hands had done to Toby. What did healing a person without medicine make her? Was she a witch or a freak who should reside in a circus? The cheese suddenly felt leaden in her empty stomach.

Her thoughts were interrupted by the door opening. His head appeared first, followed by his body. Devon stepped inside and looked to the bed, then turned toward the fire. His eyes held hers and then he simply closed and locked the door behind him.

He wore a robe, his dark hair damp, bruises forming on his face. He looked almost savage and lord, he looked wonderful.

“You.... We.... You shouldn't be in here, my lord.”

He didn't speak, just advanced, his eyes running over her face and down her body. Lilly could feel each place they landed. Heat seemed to be spreading through her with speed.

“You should leave, Devon.”

“I know,” he said, dropping to his knees before her.

“Wh-what are you doing?” Lilly whispered, and then she shuddered as he ran the tip of his finger from her shoulder to her fingers.

“Touching you,” he said, his eyes holding hers as his hand moved back up her arm and onto her chest. “Looking at you like this drives every rational thought from my head.”

“This is wrong. We shouldn't—” Lilly moaned as he reached her breasts.

“I will leave if you ask me to, Lilly.”

She couldn't; the words would not form in her throat.

“Are you finished eating?”

With her lip trapped between her teeth, Lilly could only nod.

“Excellent,” Dev said, rolling up the sleeves of his robe. He slipped his hands into the water beneath her. Lifting her out, he reached for the drying cloth.

Lilly felt color heat her cheeks as he held the cloth at his side and simply looked at her. “Please, Dev, I—”

“I have dreamt of you every night since that first kiss we shared, yet nothing could compare to this. You are perfection, every lush inch formed to drive me wild. Let me love you, Lilly.”

Lilly didn't speak; instead, she climbed to her toes and wrapped her arms around his neck. “Kiss me, Devon.”

Their lips met in a fevered joining. When one kiss finished, another started; they drank from each other. He ran his hands over Lilly's spine, the large palms mapping her body, then cupped her bottom, urging her closer.

He lifted her into his arms and carried her to the bed. She reached for him as he set her on the edge. Lilly's fingers shook as she released the tie at his waist and slid the robe from his body.

Lord, he was magnificent, the muscles on his shoulders, the strength of his forearms, the ridged planes of his stomach… what lay beneath. The jut of his arousal stood proud between braced thighs, and Lilly knew what would follow, yet she felt no fear. With one hand she traced the length of his broad chest, twirling her fingers in the sprinkling of hair and then moving lower to run her hand over his ribs. Her fingers tingled from the contact, the sensations traveling through her body.

“Your touch is beyond pleasure,” he rasped, closing his eyes as she moved lower.

“To touch freely….” Lilly closed her eyes briefly. “It has long been a dream of mine. To feel another's heat. The texture of skin, the feel of hair, the curve of a cheek.”

“I am yours to feel, Lilly, my love. Whenever you wish it.”

“Only you,” she whispered, pressing her lips to his chest. “Anyone else causes me pain, but not you.”

She found a scar beneath his belly button and leaning forward she placed her lips on the small line and was rewarded with another groan, his hand fisting in her hair.

“H-how did you get this?”

His eyes were brighter than any jewel; the green depths ablaze with sensual heat. “Cam stabbed me with his toy sword,” he said, tugging her hair and urging her upright. He once again joined their lips and Lilly could only feel. He kissed her neck and shoulders, each touch of his mouth an exquisite caress, and then licked his way down the slope of one breast and took her nipple. Lilly cried out her pleasure. He feasted on her as she writhed against him, heat pooling deep in her loins as he slowly heightened her pleasure.

“It is almost too much,” she whispered as sensations caught and held her.

“We can never hurt each other, Lilly. Let me touch you, let me show you what is between us.”

“It scares me how much I feel when you touch me,” Lilly said honestly.

“Because you have never been close with another person before?” He looked into her eyes.

Lilly nodded. “The emotion is so strong, Dev. I don't understand these feelings between us.”

“I feel no different, and given time you will understand what they mean as I do.”

Before Lilly could ask what he meant, he lowered his head to kiss her once more.

Searing heat built inside her as his hands traveled to her waist, and then lower. He touched the soft hair and then eased a finger between her thighs.

“Oh my,” Lilly whispered as she shuddered at the wonderful sensation.

“Just feel, love,” he urged, leaning forward to place his mouth on her breast. He slowly stroked her as he laved her breasts with kisses.

“The sensations, Dev.”

“Let go, Lilly.”

She did, her body arching back as she felt the powerful release consume her.