Page 52 of A Tempest of Intrigue (Tempest of Shadows #4)
CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO
Ryker
He’d touched her. He’d kissed her. He’d tried to take what was mine , and I wouldn’t tolerate it.
Ellery was my heart. She was my soul. She was the piece I’d never known was missing until she fit perfectly against me.
And no one would ever take her from me.
My hand entangled in her hair, and I pulled her head back to expose her throat. When I kissed her, I tasted the saltiness of her skin and felt her blood pulsing through her veins.
When her hips made a circling motion as she rubbed my erection, she gasped. Her fingers dug into my shoulders, and she arched against me.
Grasping her thighs, I fell to my knees and lowered her to the ground. Rain soaked my clothes, but it didn’t sizzle and pop as it hit the fire anymore. The rain must have extinguished the flames already, but I was too far gone in her to care if the whole forest burned around us.
With deft movements, I tugged off her boots and pants before spreading her legs to expose her further to me. Running my hands along her thighs, I savored the silky feel of her while I worshiped her body.
The rivulets of rain landing on her legs ran down her body and to the forest floor. I couldn’t ignore their enticing trail as I bent my head to lick them away.
As I moved up her body, I pushed her shirt higher to expose her belly and bra. When her arms rose over her head, I pulled off her shirt and tossed it aside before tracing the edges of her simple, white bra.
The rain wet the material to expose her enticing nipple beneath. I drew the delicate bud into my mouth and sucked on it before sliding my hands beneath her to unclasp her bra.
I moved away enough to throw it aside before reclaiming her breast. I licked away the rainwater forming there.
Rising a little, I met her lightning-filled eyes as she reached for me. I pulled her hands over her head, pinning them to the spongy earth.
My lightning arced out to encircle her wrists. From there, I created a rope-like structure around a tree to ensnare her.
I should be marveling over how much my lightning was changing, becoming something different, stronger, and more malleable because of her, but it didn’t matter right then. All that mattered was her .
Rising, I left her chained to the tree as I pulled off my clothes. When I finished undressing, I stood over her as the rain dripped off my hair and fell to the ground.
She was vulnerable beneath me and so beautiful, with lightning in her eyes and her mocha hair clinging to her face and body. That vulnerability was only a show; she could break free of my lightning and was far more powerful than anything we knew, but she trusted me completely and wouldn’t break her bonds.
I sent out two more bolts of lightning that wrapped around her ankles and pulled her legs further apart before encompassing two trees. Ellery’s eyebrows rose a little, but she didn’t resist as I knelt before her again.
I held her gaze as I settled myself between her thighs and rested my hand on her belly before sliding lower. I found the bud of her clit and rubbed my thumb against it.
Ellery’s breath came faster, and the enticing scent of her arousal grew stronger than the ozone scent of the rain she’d brought forth. My mouth watered at the aroma, and unable to resist, I kissed her belly before sliding my fingers through her enticing wetness.
I continued to tease while kissing my way up her belly to her breasts before rising above her. I propped myself up with one hand to gaze down at her wild beauty.
The glow from the lightning at her wrists danced across her face in a golden-white hue. “Do you like this, love?” I asked as I stroked her clit again. “Do you enjoy being spread before me and at my mercy?”
A sexy smile curved her full mouth as she wiggled her hips beneath me. “I’d enjoy it more if you were inside me.”
I smiled as I caressed her clit again, and she gasped. “You do enjoy a good fucking, don’t you?”
“More than anything.”
“Just as long as it’s me who’s getting you off.”
The twinkle in her eyes should have warned me of her next words, but it didn’t. “What if it’s me?”
I growled at the image of her fucking herself. My cock jumped in anticipation. Lowering myself closer to her, I groaned when her nipples brushed my chest.
“And how often do you fuck yourself, love?” I whispered in her ear.
“Not as often as I used to before you entered my life, but I always imagine it’s you when I do.”
Grasping one of her wrists, I pulled it free of the lightning chaining her to the tree. I leisurely skimmed it down her body before slipping it between her legs.
“Let me watch you,” I commanded.
Leaning back a little, I watched as her hand slid between her legs. Her breath quickened, and her mouth parted as she explored herself before slipping a finger inside.
Unable to stand the ache in my cock anymore, I stroked it while watching her. The way she moved and the enticing sounds she emitted entranced me.
As she pushed herself closer and closer to orgasm, my sperm rose in my shaft, and I released my dick to grasp her wrist. She whimpered when I pulled her hand away and bound it to the tree again.
“Tonight, I’m going to be the only one to make you come.”
She lifted her hips toward me. “Then do it.”
I didn’t have to be told twice as I rubbed the head of my shaft against her wet entrance before pushing inside her sheath.
“Mine,” I told her as our gazes held. “Only mine .”
“Only yours.”
Reclaiming her mouth, I drove deeper as I claimed every part of her. While we moved together, her lightning entangled with mine as we took and gave, kissed, and fucked until she cried out my name and her muscles contracted around my cock as she came.
I didn’t hold back as I thrust into her once more and found my release. Her lightning intensified before dimming as she panted for air.
I retracted my lightning to release her from my bonds as I pulled her against my chest and rolled over. She settled on top of me and nestled closer.
My heart swelled as I enveloped her in my arms. I cherished the feel of her against me as the rain ceased and silence descended.