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He set a punishing pace, and I loved every second of it. His cock felt so, so good plunging in and out of me, and I was doing nothing to quiet my screams. We hadn’t thought to spell the bedroom, but not even a trickle of embarrassment lanced through me at the thought of the entire cottage hearing the screams Nikolai was wringing out of me.

“I want to watch you ride me.” His voice was against my ear as he grabbed my hips, turning us over once more.

I sat up, my hands on his chest, my legs straddling him. His hands fell to my thighs, his eyes on me, reverent.

“That’s it, just like that,” he said as I began to move.

I slid up and down, rocking my hips forward with each movement so that my own pleasure crested. My mouth fell open, eyes squeezing shut.

“Not yet baby, not yet.” His voice was all breath now.

He watched me ride him, my breasts bouncing as he took them in his hand, squeezing. He leaned forward, capturing my nipple in his mouth. He swirled his tongue, biting at the sensitive tissue there. My head fell back in another cry of pleasure as he sucked.

I had half expected it to feel like a goodbye when we came together tonight, but this didn’t feel anything like that.

It felt like a beginning.

He leaned back against the bed once more, his lust filled gaze watching me as I rocked my hips, back and forth. Up and down. Back and forth. I increased my speed and his breaths were coming more rapidly. I leaned back, reaching behind me to cup him and he pressed his eyes closed, almost falling over the edge.

“Not yet.” I chuckled. Now it was my turn to tease him.

He laughed, his eyes still pressed together in concentration.

“You are so Goddamn sexy, do you know that?” he asked, sitting up once more and wrapping his arms around me.

My hands fell to his shoulders as I continued to ride him ruthlessly, the bed squeaking beneath us, my chest pressed up against his.

“I love you.” I breathed the words into his mouth as his hand captured my cheek.

“I love you.” He whispered back against my lips. “You’re mine.”

Those words had me breaking apart.

He slid his hand between us and worked against me as I finished, falling over that edge of pleasure and crying out louder than I ever had before. My hair was a mess, tangled and coated in sweat behind me. He gathered it in his hand and pulled my head back, exposing my neck to him as I came down from the high. He kissed me gently at first, then he bit the skin across my neck and I let him know how much I loved it with my cries and soft whimpers. He held my head back as his mouth captured my breast again, his hips driving up into me as he chased his own pleasure.

Each thrust was heaven. When he drove up into me for the final time, filling me with himself, I came with him again, my mouth on his shoulder, biting down. My fingernails raking across his back. We would be bruised and bloody tomorrow and would certainly need to administer some skin spells if we didn’t want anyone asking questions.

He had taken me rough before, but never like this. Ilovedit.Cravedit. Every inch he would give me, I would take. I slid off his lap and went to the washroom, casting my gaze behind me as I went.

He was against the bed, spent, his hair pushed back from his face, and I had never seen anything I had loved more in my entire life. I made quick work of using the washroom, fixing my hair and splashing water on my face to rejoin him in bed.

I curled against him, sleep taking him quickly with the satin sheets pooled around his waist.

I had thought that sleep would evade me with the amount of anxiety I had been harboring all day, but when I closed my eyes against Nik’s chest, his arm wrapped around me, all I felt was peace.

When sleep did finally take me, I didn’t dream of the battle to come.

My only dreams were of his hair.

His eyes.

His mouth.

And that wicked, wicked tongue.

Iwoke fully rested for the first time in months. Nik was curled around my side, the dawn sky softly illuminating the bedroom as we lay tangled in the sheets. We woke and dressed wordlessly, stealing kisses and touches here and there.

There was nothing to be said.