Total pages in book: 140
Estimated words: 131364 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 657(@200wpm)___ 525(@250wpm)___ 438(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 131364 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 657(@200wpm)___ 525(@250wpm)___ 438(@300wpm)
Eleri snuggled in. “Adam, I can feel everything.” Just like at the hospital, but without the anguish of a crushing mental pressure that made contact a grasping, rushed thing.
She pressed a kiss to his throat, shivered.
His nostrils flared, his pupils huge against his irises when their gazes met. “First,” he said, “we need to get some energy into you.”
Able to sense her own weakness, Eleri drank the concentrated nutrient drink he handed her, then washed it down with a few gulps of water. “No.” She waved off the other items he was picking out from the cooler to one side of the tent. “I’m really full.”
He put the food back without argument. “Naia told me to allow you to control your food intake, that it’ll take you a while to get back to normal.”
Eleri didn’t want to tell him this was her normal, but she couldn’t lie to him anymore, not even by omission. So she admitted how food had stopped holding any significance for her long ago, that she’d eaten only to function.
Adam pressed a kiss to her palm. “That just means I get to play bear with you and bring you treat after treat to see what you like best. Or I could drop them into your hands from the sky—that’s more the falcon way.”
That single kiss made her shiver.
Tugging her closer, then manhandling her—with her enthusiastic consent—until she sat on his thighs, her legs on either side of his body while he held her hips, he leaned in to press a kiss directly over the pulse in her neck.
Eleri sucked in a sharp breath, her thighs clenching around him.
“Shh.” A nuzzle of her neck. “Dahlia and Bram are sleeping.”
Sinking her teeth into her lower lip, Eleri whispered, “Can I touch you first? I don’t know if I can manage silence if you touch me.” The sensations were amplified a hundred times beyond anything she’d felt even when he’d been inside her, and her inner muscles spasmed with needy greed when she dared imagine what it might be like now.
Adam’s lips curved, a laziness to it that was somehow sexual in a way she didn’t understand. “I can’t wait to make you scream.” A rough whisper.
Lifting her hand to his chest, he placed it against a button in silent permission.
“I saw a woman screaming in orgasm in a memory once,” she told him as she slipped the small disk out of its hole to reveal the barest sliver of skin. “It wasn’t a bad read, that one. One of my starter reads—a case of a regular threesome where one of the two males got jealous and punched the other one in the testicles right after he brought the woman partner to orgasm.”
Adam winced. “I didn’t think Justice did reads for penny-ante stuff.”
“It’s just luck if your case hits when an apprentice-level J is doing reads as part of their studies.” She hadn’t known it then, but those had been the best days of her life when it came to her work as a J. “Because the supposed assault took place during sex, the read included the section with the orgasm.”
Still young at the time, with her emotions locked down well enough to pass for Silent, she’d just filed it away. “After the numbness, I found myself wondering how she could feel such pleasure as to scream.”
She ran her finger down the strip of skin she’d bared on Adam’s chest. The contact made her stomach tumble, her thighs clench again. Pushing the sides of his shirt apart as her pulse speeded up, she said, “I don’t wonder anymore.”
Adam groaned and leaned up to speak against her ear. “How wet are you?”
Breath short and jagged, she squeezed inner muscles that quivered with need. “Drenched.”
His hands clenched on her lower curves, his mouth at her throat again.
Barely holding back the whimpers that escaped her, she pushed him back. But he paused before his back met the canvas against the wall. “I want inside you.” A raw statement. “It’s fucking primitive, this need I have to claim you, mark you, but I don’t care.”
Eleri’s mind hazed. “Adam, I won’t be able to be quiet,” she said, moving her body on his thighs because she couldn’t stop herself.
“Scream into my mouth,” he said, before tilting her gently onto her back on the mattress.
Coming over her in a prowl that made her feel deliciously overwhelmed, his hair falling around his face and those wild falcon eyes glinting at her, he said, “Can I put my cock inside you, Eleri?”
Eleri’s entire body clenched. She hadn’t known that words could pump pleasure through her. Reaching down between them, she began to push down the elasticized pants she was wearing.
She pushed her underwear down with the pants.
“I can’t go further,” she whispered when she reached the limit of how far her arms would reach.