Page 62 of Temptation Unleashed (Talaenian Fae #3)

Rori bared her teeth, pulling at her arms. “Release me. ”

His gaze lowered, drawing a scorching path as he trailed down her throat and came to rest where her breasts swelled at the neckline of her gown. When he dragged that heady gaze back to hers, a wicked smile formed over his mouth. “Nay.”

His mouth swallowed her protest with a deep, sweeping kiss that sucked the breath from her lungs, the will from her playful fight, and poured lava-hot desire through her marrow.

He released her braid, and within moments, the bodice loosened and sagged over her breasts. His deft fingers hooked on one narrow sleeve and lifted it up to where he continued to shackle her wrists, releasing one to tug the sleeve from her arm.

She took advantage of the freedom, swinging her arm back, looping it around his neck, and pulling him into her.

God, the man could destroy a woman’s will with his smile.

An intoxicating blend of mischief and sensuality.

Unspoken desires and promises of immense pleasure.

She held him close, but he resisted her pull to close the gap between their mouths.

“Stubborn, Rori.” His fingers caressed the side of her exposed breast, trailing beneath the heavy mound until his thumb crossed over her nipple. She gasped, a fierce tremor stealing more of her strength. Thaddeus chuckled, the sound pure sin.

“I’m nothing if not stubborn.” Her voice thickened, her breaths shallow.

“Shall we see how stubborn you can be?” His free hand slid along her arm, unhooking her hold from his neck and raising it to the bedpost. “Show me”—he drew her other arm down, low enough for the remaining sleeve to droop to her elbow—“how stubborn you wish to remain”—he manipulated his hold on her wrist, lightning fast, to relieve her of the sleeve.

The gown billowed around her feet, leaving her completely naked except for a pair of thin silk panties—“as I taste every inch of your beautiful body.”

He lifted her hand to the bedpost once more, but this time, guided her fingers around the post.

“Hold tight. The moment you let go shall be the moment I cease my feast.”

Rori swallowed against the knot in her throat.

He held her gaze as his fingers brushed down her arms, her chest, her breasts, her belly, tickling her skin, fanning her fire brighter, hotter.

He caught the edges of her panties with his thumbs and didn’t hesitate to pull them down her legs, leaving them at her ankles as he settled on his knees.

He pressed close to her, his palms curving to the backs of her thighs, rising to crest the globes of her ass. She stared at him, unable to speak, breathe, her heart racing so fast her head felt light. Arousal dampened her core, leaked against her thighs.

With a little pressure against her ass, he tipped her hips forward. “How long can you withhold your pleasure, sweet queen?”

“Can’t.”

She shook her head, digging her fingers into the bedpost as his hands dipped down to her thighs again, curled between her legs, and opened her to his starved gaze.

He spread her arousal over her skin while licking his lips painfully slowly.

Only with Thaddeus did she feel no shame being so exposed. Being herself. Embracing her desires.

“My first taste of you, I was addicted. You’re an elixir I can’t live without.”

One of his hands came around to the front of her body, dipping into the wet crease of her core.

She hissed as his fingers pulled across her aching clit.

He chuckled, the damn beast. Chuckled as she suffered.

Those cruel fingers pulled away, glistening wet, and he brought them to his mouth.

He inhaled deeply first, his eyes fluttering closed, before his fingers disappeared within his mouth.

Raw, carnal pleasure crossed his face, and he released a deep, guttural sound that shook her foundation.

The man was the epitome of eroticism and seduction, determined to drive her insane.

His eyes opened to slits. The curl of his lips lifted.

Then he pulled her hips forward and drove his mouth between her legs, drinking from her core like he’d die of thirst.

Slow, deep, light, quick.

Rori cried out, bowing off the bedpost, opening herself to be unraveled completely by his hungry mouth and skillful tongue.

She rode each deep probe of his tongue inside her body, the need for more mounting faster than she could control.

He teased her with his teeth, gentle scrapes along her folds, only to lap at the new rush of arousal he produced.

The moment his tongue flicked over her clit, her knees threatened to give out. Those merciless lips sealed around her nub.

Sucked.

“Thaddeus!”

Rori grappled for his hair, fisting tight, pulling him closer.

Thaddeus lifted her from his mouth and sat back on his heels. He watched her as she tried to comprehend what just happened, drawing a thumb across his bottom lip and chin, glistening wet.

“Mm, so little willpower.”

“Why…did you…” Her gaze flitted to where she held a handful of his hair. Thaddeus chuckled, untangling her fingers from his hair, and rose to his feet. The onset of a mind-blowing orgasm wracked through her body, tremors and quak es threatening to drop her to her knees. “Ohh, you’re fucking mean.”

“Mayhap had I used magic to bind your hands, you would have come to orgasm on my tongue. Alas, I’m quite disappointed to have such a delicious meal end prematurely. Pity.”

Rori scoffed, shoving him back. He laughed until she grabbed his pants and tugged them down.

The sight of his thick cock dripping at the tip unleashed her own beast. His short-lived humor morphed into insatiable hunger.

A hunger that consumed her as she shoved him again, pushing him onto the bed.

She crawled over him, mindless with need, ready to explode.

“I’m about to pity you,” Rori murmured, wrapping her fingers around his cock, dipping her head, and taking him into her mouth.

Oh, sweet heavens!

The sound that filled her ears from his lips, his chest, his soul.

He sank his fingers into her hair as she enjoyed the salty taste of his pleasure, milking more with each pump of her mouth, each swirl of her tongue.

She listened to his responses when she took him deep, applied a little more suction, hummed her own delight.

“ Rori , easy .”

His fingers tightened against her scalp, lifting her away and pulling her up to him. He damn near panted, his gaze roving over her face for precious seconds.

“Sly vixen.”

Thaddeus flipped her onto her back and tucked her beneath him.

He climbed over her, spread her legs wide with his powerful thighs, cupped the back of her head, and pulled her up for a crushing kiss as he filled her body straight to the hilt.

She clung to him, desperate to bring him deeper.

The fervent heat he’d built with his mouth blossomed ten-fold, rushing her, pooling within her core, sparking along her nerves.

Rori tore her mouth away as white heat coiled tighter and tighter.

Thaddeus ravaged her neck with desperate kisses while soft mewls came from her, faster and faster, until, at last, the coil snapped.

Blinding light exploded behind her eyelids, pure, unhindered pleasure stole her conscious mind.

Euphoric bliss carried her high, shattering her entire world.

Within the muffled hum of her climax, she heard Thaddeus’s roar. Warmth filled her in strong pulses as she descended from her heavenly peak, sapped of strength.

Thaddeus lowered to her side and drew her close, tucked securely in his embrace.

For a long while, they lay entangled together, listening to the soothing sounds of rapid heartbeats and labored breaths in perfect tandem.

The rush of pleasure gave way to the reaffirming golden light within her chest. The bond that entwined with the Faery man beside her, glowing bright and alive.

Now more than ever, she was determined to find a way to save her soul mate and keep that precious bond from being severed.