A Kingdom of Venom and Vows (Stars and Shadows #3)(41)

“Hey.” Her nose wrinkled as she looked up at me. “I was about to put that on.”

“Not yet.” I shook my head and pressed my knees to the bed in front of her. She spread her legs just enough to accommodate the width of me, but she clung to the sheet against her chest.

“You heard, Sorin. They are waiting for us.” She pushed against my bare stomach and her lips turned down into a pout when I didn’t budge.

“And they can keep waiting.” I pushed my fingers into her hair and tugged at the base of her scalp until she was forced to look up at me.

She bit down on her bottom lip, and I could see her warring with herself. She wanted me, but she also didn’t want to keep them waiting.

She was such a good fucking girl, and she deserved to be rewarded for it.

“What if it’s important?”

I leaned down until my face was level with hers, and I took a moment just to breathe her in. She smelled of sweetness and sin, and when I looked down in her eyes, all I could see was the warrior that I loved burning inside her.

“There is nothing in this world more important than you.” I brushed my lips against hers so lightly that it didn’t feed the need inside me, it only made it deepen.

Every part of me burned with my desire for her.

She leaned back from me, tugging on my hold, and her gaze darkened as she peered up at me. “He said he would come back.”

My knee nudged against hers, forcing her thighs farther apart, and a rush of breath escaped from her lips. “Then we should make this quick.”

I pressed my lips against hers again before pulling back as she went for more. I moved lower, kissing her jaw, then gently down her neck.

Her hand was still fisted in the sheet, her knuckles turning white from her hold, and I slowly rolled my tongue over them before dropping to my knees before her.

Her thighs tensed against my legs, an involuntary movement, and I could scent how badly she wanted this. It didn’t matter what she said, her need for me was as bad as my own.

There was nothing that could keep me from her.

“I can smell me on your skin,” I murmured against her as I ran my nose along her stomach. I slid my hands beneath her thighs, wrapping them around until they rested on top, and I spread her open before me. “Drop the sheet, princess. Let me taste you.”

She let out a soft whimper, her thighs jerking in my hands, but her hands didn’t move away from the sheet. I leaned forward, pressing my face against the sheet that still lay between me and her sex, and I ran my nose against it before giving her the briefest of kisses.

“Drop it, Adara, or I’ll rip it away.” I turned to the side, dragging my tongue against her supple thigh, against my mark on her beautiful skin. My hands clenched, spreading her farther, and I was rewarded by one of her soft moans.

“You wouldn’t dare.”

I looked up at her, and her eyes were hooded as she stared down at me. Her chest heaved as breath rushed in and out of her. She wanted this as badly as I did, but she wanted to play.

My beautiful, strong girl wanted me to prove to her that I was the one in control, and I would give her exactly what she needed.

It would be my fucking pleasure.

I nipped at her inner thigh, knowing she loved that edge of pain, and she hissed even as her hips surged forward toward my mouth. I didn’t give her time to adjust. I lifted my head and used my hands to jerk her forward until she hung precariously on the edge of the bed.

She still clung to the sheet, but her breasts peeked out from the fabric. I growled as I took in the view of her before me, and the surge of desire that rushed through me made my already hard cock strain painfully against my trousers.

I gripped the sheet in my hand near her hip before pressing my knee into the bottom of it that draped on the floor, and I pulled it taut against her body. I could see the outline of her perfect sex beneath the fabric, and I stared up at her as I slowly lowered my mouth.

She was watching me, her gaze not straying from mine for even a moment, and I held that gaze as I breathed her in. I slid my tongue against the smooth fabric of the sheet, and her body lifted from the bed, chasing the feeling.

“If you want to hide from me, then you can hide,” I murmured against the sheet again before pressing my tongue firmly against her nub that lay beneath. Her hips jolted off the bed, pressing hard against my mouth, and I rewarded her with sucking the sheet and her body between my lips.

“Evren,” she whispered my name and dropped the sheet as her hands tangled into my hair.

“Hold the sheet, princess,” I growled against her. “You drop it, and I stop.”

Her hands stalled in my hair, and her breath rushed out of her. “What?”

I turned my head, kissing the edge where her thigh met her bottom. She squirmed against me, but her hands didn’t move from my hair.

“Do as I said.” I nipped at her skin and felt her hands drop from my hair. I looked up at her, and she was staring down at me with both hands clinging to the sheet. A smirk graced my lips, and I pulled the sheet tighter against her sex.

She moaned, her hips jerking beneath me, and she spread her legs wider as I lowered my head between them.

“That’s a good girl.” I scraped my teeth against her before swiping against her sex with my tongue.

The sheet was soaked with her want and my mouth, and it drove both of us crazy for me to be so close yet so far away from her. It was the most delicious kind of torture.