Reborn (Shadow Beast Shifter, #3)(41)

Before I even had a chance to ride out that orgasm, he shifted positions, holding my body above him as he buried his face in my pussy. His happy groan as he tasted me properly was enough to have me crying out again, and as I thanked the fucking gods for this moment, I found myself flat on my back, Shadow crowding over the top of me.

Staring up at him, I felt the swelling of heat in my chest as all my feelings tried to make themselves known at once.

“Why did you cut your hair?” I asked softly.

I needed to know what he’d gone through when we’d been apart. I needed to fill in the blanks of what I’d been missing.

Shadow’s expression didn’t change, the flare of arousal in his gaze about as strong as I’d ever seen from him. “Nothing was the same without you. I didn’t know why, but I knew that I was missing something vital to my survival. I searched, and I destroyed. More than just the Solaris System. I stripped myself bare so I could build myself up again and find the fundamental part of my soul that was missing. Only you weren’t there.”

Fuck. He might not think the word “love” meant much, but he spoke a language of love without even realizing it.

“Never again,” I said fiercely, reaching for him, and for once, he allowed me to drag him down to my level. Our kiss was bittersweet and perfect.

A kiss to soothe and heal.

A kiss to cleanse our pain from many bitter nights apart.

A kiss to break the final dredges of Dannie’s spell.

A kiss of love. No matter what my beast might think.





23





Shadow always kissed like he never wanted to stop. It was part of what made up the beast, and his need to have his mouth on any part of my body… Yeah, I was here for it.

Just the thought that I might have never kissed him again almost broke me. Thankfully, when Shadow’s kiss turned harder, more passionate, as his tongue tangled with mine, it was all the distraction I needed to forget everything else.

Lifting me from the bed, he never broke the contact between our lips as he spun us around. I found myself with my back against the wall, his weight pressing into me. Opening my legs wider, I rubbed against him, surprised he was letting me. It was all explained when he slammed up into me, hard and fast. Even as ready as I was, he was so fucking huge that pain and pleasure were instantaneous. Fighting for dominance, both sensations danced on the edge of what I could handle.

Shadow was relentless, thrusting into me over and over. His long, sure strokes had the natural fires between us sliding into my center. My clit swelled and ached, each stroke of Shadow’s body against mine pushing me to higher levels of pleasure.

I opened my mouth to scream, but he cut me off with a growl. “No.”

It was a command. A domination of my body. “Shadow,” I whimpered.

“No, Sunshine,” he repeated. “You belong to me. Your body. Your soul. Your heart. Your orgasms.”

For a moment, I considered throat-punching him because he was stepping up the dominance thing to new levels, and I really wanted to come. Each time he stopped me, the swirls grew larger inside; he knew what he was doing, even if it was driving me insane.

Whimpers spilled from me as I arched, slamming my head into the wall as the pleasure continued to build.

“Mera,” he warned.

“I can’t help it,” I got out breathlessly.

He leaned down, his teeth closing on my shoulder, all the while he fucked me with animalistic savagery. A part of Shadow had not completely released his beast. And I didn’t mind one bit.

Just as the tremble started in my thighs, the one I was starting to recognize as a precursor to the sort of squirting orgasm that I’d never experienced until Shadow, his lips tilted up in a predatory grin. “That’s what I was waiting for.”

A vibration of his power into my clit sent me screaming over the edge, my body jerking as I came so hard, I lost consciousness for a beat. It went on and on, my pleasure going everywhere, sliding across our bodies.

His chest rumbled in satisfaction, and fuck, if that wasn’t one of the most intense orgasms I’d ever had. Before I could catch my breath, he shifted our positions, another classic move of his, since he had the sort of stamina that would kill a human. We ended up on the floor, the thick rug beneath us as his weight pressed against me.

Despite the head-spinning orgasm I’d just had, I was already ready for the next one as his hand slid up my right calf to my thigh. When he wrapped those long fingers around me, he lifted my leg so it was positioned over his shoulder.

I gasped as his hard cock came into contact with my pussy, like they were perfectly lined up and ready to mingle. Expecting him to push straight inside, I prepared myself by gripping the soft material on either side of my body. The thick tip of his cock stretched my entrance slowly, and even as I tried to arch up, his weight prevented me from moving more than a few millimeters.

Before I could ask him what the fuckery he was up to, he slid his other hand along my left leg, wrapping it around that thigh, and then it was over his shoulder in the same moment.

“Oh,” I gasped. I’d never had sex in this position before, but already, I was excited.

“Fuck, Sunshine,” Shadow rumbled as he continued to push inside me, his large size taking time to bury balls deep. As soon as he was fully seated, he was already drawing out his length, then sliding it right back inside, scraping along every damn nerve ending.