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CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

“The simplest pleasures are sometimes the most extraordinary.”

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Em

I was going to have sex. And not just some horrible “okay, I lost my virginity” sex. This was going to be amazing. I knew it in my bones. Saros looked at me like no one I’d ever known, as if I mattered.

“Let’s get this shirt off.” Saros sat up and helped me remove my T-shirt, his fingers trailing over my stomach until they reached my boxers. “These too.”

Okay, I was about to be completely naked. I could do this. I lifted my ass as Saros slowly lowered them, tossing them somewhere onto the floor.

“So beautiful,” he whispered almost reverently.

“I am?” I peeked at myself, and there were scars, but fortunately the bruising that had been there when Paulo checked me out had all healed.

“You’re art, Em.” His pointer finger danced over one imperfection, one of my ugliest. “These tell a story about a man who survived the worst this world has to offer and through the darkness it never made his light dim.” His eyes met mine, sparkling. “You’re brilliant.”

My mouth felt dry, but I swallowed anyway. What does someone say to that?

“Can you take off your clothes too?”

He grinned. “Oh, I will. But there’s something I want to do first.”

“What’s that?”

“Ravish you.”

“Ravish…oh, God.”

Saros took my entire cock in his mouth, right to the base, and…shit, he was swallowing me. I’d never felt anything like this before.

“Fuck, fuck, fuck,” I chanted and gripped his hair as he devoured me, pushing me closer to the edge. I’d never last, and I really didn’t want this to ever end.

“Saros, please.”

He pulled off and looked at me. “You’re delicious.”

“I…I want to feel you, inside, please?” I sounded like an idiot, I was sure, but Saros only smiled brighter and kissed me until I was dazed.

“We go slow, Em. I’ll try not to hurt you but the reality is, it does hurt a little, though I promise that only lasts a short time. And then I’ll make you forget.”

“Yes.” I gripped Saros’s arms. “I want that—make me forget.”

“There’s one thing.”

I blinked at him. “What?”

“Condoms.”

Oh, shit…right. “I don’t have any.”

“I know. I do, but…” He scratched the back of his neck, obviously nervous. “You’ve never been with anyone, and it’s been a while since I have, and I’ve been tested since.”

“You want to go raw, right? That’s what you’re asking, because if you are, then yes, I want that. If you’re not, please forget I said raw.”

Saros laughed. “Yes, that’s what I meant.”

“Good. Okay, yes please.”

He pulled his shirt off, followed by his boxers, and I couldn’t take my eyes off him. He had to know he was gorgeous. He took care of his body, and I was sure many people told him how beautiful he was.

“Wow!” My eyes couldn’t get bigger. “You’re fucking hot!”

“You’re good for my ego.”

I snorted. “Like you need anyone stroking your ego…this, though.” I reached out and grabbed his cock with my uninjured hand, and fuck he was hard, heavy, and hot.

“Damn, Em.”

“You’re huge.”

“It’ll fit; I just gotta open you up.”

I nodded. “Tell me what to do.”

“Lie back.”

I did, and Saros gently spread my legs. He bent them at the knees and pushed them to my chest.

“You okay?” he asked.

“Yeah, what are you doing?”

“You’ll see.” He cackled. Honest to God, like a villain in a cartoon.

“What do you mean I’ll see—oh, my fucking hell!” I shouted—screamed, really. There was no way whoever was sleeping in my old room didn’t hear me, but Saros swiped his tongue over my hole and… Fuck, he did it again .

“Yum.” Saros grinned and then shoved his face into my ass and ate me as though he were a starving man.

He was driving my body, making me feel things I never had before, and if I didn’t know the mattress was underneath me, I’d have sworn I was flying.

“Close,” I gasped.

“Ready for me?” He squirted lube on his hand and jacked himself…When had he gotten that? Was I so out of it I’d missed it?

“I wanted to blow you.”

“Another time. This is about you tonight, Em.” He lowered my legs and lay on top of me. “This good?”

“Yeah.”

So slowly, Saros pressed inside of me. The pressure was a lot but I bore down; I knew the basics. Inch by inch he filled me, and I breathed through the burn, through the pain, until he was all the way in, and I shivered.

“Damn you’re so tight, Em.”

“And you’re huge.”

“Are you okay?”

“Yeah, but…” But what? I needed something.

“I got you.”

Then he started moving, and a rush of immense pleasure washed through me, over me, in me.

“Holy shit.”

Everything in the world ceased to exist. All there was in this moment was me and Saros. His scent surrounded me, his touch anchored me, but with each thrust I was becoming undone. Sensations overwhelmed me, and I came with a sob.

Saros’s arms encircled me, and he wrapped himself around me as his orgasm exploded. I was surrounded by him, every facet of his being encompassing me, scent, touch, taste, sight, sound, all of it…it was perfect.

“Are you okay?” he whispered into my ear, and I melted.

“I’ve never…” My throat closed up as tears flowed freely down my cheeks. “That was the greatest…”

“Speechless, huh?” He chuckled and lifted his head so I could completely see his face. “Why are you crying?” He pulled an arm out from under me and wiped my cheek.

“Because I’ve never felt this way.”

“What way is that?”

“Cherished. You make me feel cherished, Saros.”

He smiled and tenderly pressed his lips to mine. “You are, Em.”

We kissed some more before Saros slipped free. I tried to get up, but he told me to relax. A few seconds later I heard the water running, and then he came out holding a washcloth.

“Let me clean you up.” He parted my legs as if I were fragile and wiped over my skin tenderly. When he deemed me done, he tossed the washcloth beside the bed and wrapped me close.

“Thank you,” I said as I kissed his forearm that was conveniently near my face.

“And what are you thanking me for?”

I shifted so I could look at his beautiful face. “My whole life—well, at least until I knew what sex was—I dreamed of what it would feel like to be with someone. I’ve seen sex used as a tool and a manipulation. I had no real reference, so I watched movies. After that, I wanted to find someone who would want to be with me without pain, just bliss, and you gave that to me.”

He kissed my forehead, and even that was intense. “You are worth all the good things in life, Em. Thank you for giving me this part of yourself.”

We’d been quiet for a beat when I asked something that had been niggling at the back of my brain.

“Was it…did you…was I good?”

He tilted my chin up, his blue eyes surprisingly bright in the darkened room. “You were amazing, and I can’t wait to do that with you a hell of a lot more.”

I released a breath I hadn’t realized I was holding. “I want that too…and next time, I’m sucking your sausage.”

He burst out laughing, which in turn made me cackle. I fell asleep with a smile on my face and a full heart. I wanted this moment to last forever.