Page 58 of The Stallion & The Tigress
“I burn for you,” he whispered fiercely as hepulled back slightly.“I burn with you,” he groaned, pushing backin, licking his lips at the wet, hot friction of her.“We will burntogether, you and I,” he swore as the heat and friction increasedwith their dance.“We will scorch this earth we lay on—”
“And rise again,” she panted.
“And again.”Aleksi pushed hard and deep asshe moaned.“And again,” he ground out as she lifted her legs andwrapped them around his back, meeting him thrust for thrust, herinner muscles gripping and caressing his cock until, with one lastdeep thrust, he shuddered and broke, calling her name to theheavens.
He fell back to earth a boneless, bodiless,raw nerve, collapsing on her, still cradled inside her.When hecould think again, he rolled off and wrapped his arm around her,pulling her to his side.
When he could speak again, he nuzzled herear.“I knew it would be this way between us.”
She turned in his arms and pushed the lock ofhair from his forehead.“I didn’t know it could be this way betweena man and a woman,” she said, her voice thick with smoke.
He wiped the fine sheen of sweat from hercheeks and kissed the tip of her nose.“Only between a lucky few,”he told her.
Yet, he wasn’t feeling lucky.She may be hismatch physically, mentally, and sexually, but she was still aprincess and he a bastard.She would never be his, only his, forany longer than tonight.Tomorrow they would try to rescue Lasair,and capture Yago and Taweel, which likely meant a fight whereanything could happen.But tonight she was his, and he was hers,and he would make sure they made the most of it.
He ran his hands through the wild tangle ofher thick, curling mane and kissed her long, slow, and tender,tasting her essence of smoke and honey.He kissed and nipped andsuckled his way from her delicious mouth to her throat, herluscious breasts, soft and heavy in his palms.He explored herbody, worshiping every sleek muscle and round curve with his mouth,his hands, pressing his skin to hers, tangling and untanglinglimbs, pressing and rubbing, kissing and suckling.He claimed herbody as she claimed his, each branding the other, belonging only toeach other and this night.
Sahar woke in the graying dawn to thedeliciously tantalizing sensation of Aleksi’s big, warm handsroaming over her body.Another deeper sensation began to simmerbetween her legs, and she sighed with eager anticipation as heplied his talented fingers to stoking her fire.In truth, he seemedto know her body better than she did, but she was a quick learner,and had absorbed many things during their night of love-making, afew of which she fully intended to try again this morning.
Rolling over to face him, she placed herhands on his shoulders and pushed him onto his back, straddling hiships and earning a lusty grin in response.She bent over and kissedhim, tasting the salty maleness of him.She sucked in her breath ashis hands covered her breasts and his thumbs circled her nipples intime with his tongue in her mouth until she was squirming on top ofhim, rubbing herself up and down his hard heat as he moved beneathher.He broke their kiss and grasped her by the waist and liftedher up and held her poised over the tip of his cock.She moaned,her muscles straining with the need to close the chasm betweenthem.He held her in his vise-like grip until her body begged formore, and then he lowered her down over his rock-hard staff, slowlyand deliberately, groaning as she took all of him in.
They both stilled, and she reveled in thefullness of him inside her as her inner muscles tightened andrippled around him.Then he lifted her hips, but kept the head ofhis cock still inside her, and pulled her down over him again andagain, faster, deeper, and harder until she was riding him at awild, delirious pace, racing with him to the edge and plunging overthe cliff together.
Her passions and her sweat cooled in thebrisk morning breeze as she climbed off him and snuggled herbackside into his encompassing heat, her breath slowing as hewrapped his arms around her and pulled her tighter into hisembrace.
“You know,” he whispered into her ear, “wecould put off confronting Yago and Taweel another night.”
He nipped her neck and bumped his pelvis intohers, and she hardened her resolve, if not her still smolderinginsides.“No,” she said, refusing to turn and look him in the eyes.If she did, she would give into the promise of their unendingpleasures.“I cannot leave Lasair to their capricious mercy anylonger.”
“No,” he said, his voice distant, his armsslackening their hold.“I don’t suppose you can.”
“Would you wait if they had Zolotoy?”
“No, I wouldn’t.”
She sighed, and turned and held his gaze.“Aleksi, I…” She didn’t know what to say.“Thank you.”
“Thank you?”His brow quirked and his bodystiffened.“Thank you?”
“Yes,” she said.“Thank you for ridingdownriver of Lasair, for saving Munir, for coming after me, savingme from Yago and his curs.Thank you for helping me go afterLasair—”
“For last night.”
“Yes,” she said, reaching up and pushing thatstubborn lock of hair back from his forehead, and smiling as itfell down again.“Especially for last night, and this morning.Iwill remember them always.”
CHAPTER 13
Choices
Sahar lay belly down on the riverbank besideAleksi under the cover of night, both of them watching the glow ofthe campfire on the other shore, straining to see movement,shadows, anything.
“Do you think it’s a trap?”she asked.
“I think everything the Wolf does is atrap.”
“What’s the plan?”
“A cross wind blows the smoke of their fireour way, so we needn’t worry about their horses smelling us.But…”He met her gaze and held it.“We’ll have to swim across the riverto get to them.”
