Total pages in book: 162
Estimated words: 165618 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 828(@200wpm)___ 662(@250wpm)___ 552(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 165618 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 828(@200wpm)___ 662(@250wpm)___ 552(@300wpm)
Only when we got there did Aleece turn on Laura.
“Did you know?”
Laura’s face fell. “I’m so sorry, honey. Aleksei made me promise not to say anything.”
Aleece twirled away from her and stomped to a window, peered out of it, declaring, “I cannot believe this fucking shit.” She whirled back and snapped, “Spellbound. For over a decade. It’s unthinkable.”
It was.
I’d be just as angry as her.
I might even be angrier.
“I’ll get you something to sleep in and bring in my spa-visor,” I said. “I’ll see if the staff can unearth a Denti-Clean for you, or at least a toothbrush. Do you want a sleeping draft?”
“Oh no,” she said scarily. “I’ll be happily nursing my snit until the end of fucking time.”
Totally always liked this female.
Laura and I made ourselves scarce.
Well, Laura did.
I saw to the things Aleece needed.
Once she was settled, I checked on Gayle.
She was sleeping soundly.
Good.
I knocked on Laura’s door to say goodnight.
I could tell she was unhappy, and I could sense Aleksei moving around in the room behind her, so my guess was her unhappiness centered around Aleksei making her keep a secret from her soon-to-be sister-in-law and current good friend.
I left them to it and headed to Tanyn’s chamber.
I’d changed into a nightgown and was in the bathroom cleaning my face manually (because Aleece had my spa-visor), when Tanyn strolled in.
Face wet and dripping, I looked at him in the mirror.
“Are the males settled?”
His attention shifted from the water dropping off my face to my eyes. “It always delights me when you demonstrate your very high capacity to be cute.”
Ugh.
I reached for a towel.
Tanyn pulled off his sweater before he shoved in his Denti-Clean.
I leaned a hip against the counter, crossed my arms and watched him.
When he took it out and wiped his mouth, I prompted, “Well?”
“I left Mac and Bain getting drunk. The guard is still posted, so if they get so drunk they try to do something stupid, they can’t do anything too stupid. So the answer to your question is yes…I guess.”
He then walked into the closet.
I sat on the bench to watch him change into his pajama bottoms, and while I did, I enjoyed the show.
Once he was ready for bed, I announced, “I think there’s something bigger at play here.”
“There is,” he confirmed.
But he didn’t share further.
He came to me, took my hand, pulled me up and summoned the lights to extinguish.
He then guided me into the bedroom, to my side of the bed.
While we were still standing together at the side of the bed, he beckoned for the light to extinguish there too.
“Tanyn,” I called.
Because…this was weird.
And we had a variety of things to talk about.
He didn’t respond to my call.
Not verbally.
He put his hands to either side of my head, threaded his fingers in my hair, then slid them through it, all the way down to the ends.
He did this again.
And again.
As he did, his demeanor finally hit me.
There was something…different about him.
Before I could get a lock on it, or ask about it, he kissed me.
There was something different about that too.
Different.
Revealing.
Extraordinary.
I fell into his mood as naturally as the sun set to reveal night.
He leaned into me, and we tumbled to the bed, and once we got there, that was different too.
The way he touched me. The way his lips skimmed my skin. The way his nose inhaled my scent. The way his energy hummed, calling to mine.
This wasn’t angry sex. Or wrestling sex. Or end-of-night sex.
This wasn’t fucking.
This wasn’t connection.
This was something deeper.
More profound.
And I was entranced by it.
Eventually, he kissed his way down my chest, my belly. He spread my legs and shoved up my nightgown, then his mouth closed over my panties between my legs.
I’d never felt anything so exquisite.
I arched into him, and he tongued the silk, the tease so beautiful, I was whimpering for more and clenching his hair in my fists.
He moved away only far enough to tug my panties down my legs, then he went back in.
This wasn’t eating me. It wasn’t ravenous.
It was worshipful.
Loving.
The effect was remarkable. Soul changing.
He took me close then kissed his way back up, but he didn’t take my mouth.
He worked my neck as he cupped me warmly between my legs.
And he let me roll him.
I did much the same with the kissing down the chest and stomach thing.
But when I got to the waistband of his pajamas, I simply trailed my lips along it, then pulled it down to free his cock.
It sprang up proudly, slapping against his belly.
I sat up and moved astride him, taking his cock in hand, positioning it.
Tanyn sat up too, winding his arms around me.
I glided down, slowly, taking him.
I rode him briefly, held in his arms, his mouth on my neck, mine on his, before he twisted us so I was on my back, and he was moving languidly inside me.