Page 22 of A Tempest of Intrigue (Tempest of Shadows #4)

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

Ellery

Leaning back, Ryker’s hands slid over my ass and up my back as he traced every contour with tender devotion. When he bent over me again, his breath warmed the small of my back as he kissed my spine up to my nape, and his cock slid between my legs.

“You’re so wet.” The head of his shaft slid inside me a little. “And so fucking tight,” he groaned. His other hand slid beneath me to cup my mound as he pushed deeper. “And you’re mine. This belongs to me .”

I whimpered when he rubbed my clit. It was still so sensitive from his tongue that my toes curled in response.

“No one else will ever know how amazing you feel,” he growled. “ No one .”

I sensed something more beneath his words, something savage and on the verge of control. The events of last night and whatever he’d discovered today had unsettled him.

While I would never willingly give myself to another, and would fight to the death to prevent it from happening, he was scared of losing me. It might be the only thing that frightened the Scourge of the Ghouls.

“No one,” I vowed.

“I’ll kill anyone who dares to try.”

And I felt the same way about him. If anyone harmed him, I’d pump them so full of lightning their heads would explode.

I would always be his, and he was mine. He knew that as assuredly as I did.

When he stroked my clit, I cried out. He made me feel so strong yet so weak and at his mercy; I loved the delicious contradiction.

His free hand skimmed up my body to my throat. In his large palm, he cradled it while lifting me a little.

He didn’t squeeze, but his hand on my throat was another symbol of his possession of me. He nipped my neck before kissing the place his teeth had marked.

His tongue traced my skin as he thrust deeper until I came apart with a cry that rebounded through the barn. Ryker growled as he drove into me once more.

Deep inside, I felt his cock pulse when he came. The sensation of him taking pleasure from me and the sound he made created another friction of power to rise within me.

This time, I couldn’t control it as lightning encompassed my wrists. I didn’t draw it from the earth or sky; this wave came from him .

When his fingers slid between mine, the power swelled as his ability joined with mine, and a white light surrounded us. “Are you drawing it from the earth?” I whispered.

“No. It’s coming from you.”

“No, it’s coming from you .”

Awe built within me as the light grew until it spun around us. Our powers had combined before, but this was different. It was almost mystical as little pops of white light danced around us like pixies in a garden.

“Ryker,” I breathed, “it’s coming from within us .”

“It is.”

“Has that ever happened to you before?”

“No. I’ve always had to draw lightning from the sky and earth; it’s never come from within me.”

“It’s never happened to me either.”

But it was happening now as something within us ignited the spark that created this energy. He rolled off, wrapped his arms around me, and pulled me against his chest.

“Living things generate electrical signals within their bodies,” he said. “In a sense, we’re all beings of electricity.”

“Yes, but why couldn’t we do this before?”

“Because we didn’t have each other before. Our powers are growing and changing; they’re becoming stronger because together we’re stronger. I don’t know what it is, but there’s a reason for us .”

“There’s a reason you’re mine.”

“Yes.”

As swiftly as it came, the power withdrew into us and vanished. I was strangely bereft without its beautiful glow, yet I still felt it simmering within me.

“The more our powers combine, the stronger they become,” Ryker said.

I didn’t know why, but I knew he was right.