Part 28 (1/2)
Rooke clenched her fists. She needed to come.
”G.o.d, you're so hard. So wet.” Adrian licked her and Rooke shuddered. ”Easy. Easy, baby. Let me have you slow.”
Through half-closed lids Rooke watched Adrian kiss and suck and lick her until her abdomen cramped from holding in her o.r.g.a.s.m.
She felt herself swell, felt her control slip. She was going to erupt any second.
”I need you to make me yours,” Rooke groaned.
”You are mine.” Adrian funneled her lips and sucked.
”Adrian. Adrian, I'm going to come.”
”Mmm,” Adrian hummed. Never, never had it been like this.
Rooke's legs went hard as iron and her c.l.i.toris hammered between her lips. The power las.h.i.+ng through Rooke's wire-tight frame struck at Adrian like barbed lightning and she cried out, her teeth grazing the rigid shaft locked between her lips.
Rooke jerked, let out a hoa.r.s.e shout, and then she was exploding, shaking, burning up from the inside out. She came in Adrian's mouth a 248 a for a long time, until her legs gave out and she dropped to her knees, exhausted and drained.
”I love you,” Rooke gasped.
”I love you.” Adrian dragged Rooke fiercely against her, cradling her head on her breast. ”I've always loved you. I will always love you.””Adrian.” Rooke's voice was low, slurred, satisfied.
”Hmm?”
”Can you do that again?”
”Oh, baby,” Adrian breathed, guiding Rooke onto the bed. ”I can do it forever.”
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ChapTER TwEnTy-ninE.
Biting wind buffeted Adrian as she clung to the edge of a rough stone parapet beneath a midnight sky. Her thin cloak flailed behind her and her hair whipped free from its leather tie, las.h.i.+ng her cheeks. Tears gathered on her lashes and her heart thrashed wildly in her chest. Through stinging eyes, she willed the figure to appear, but she remained alone. When she'd nearly given in to the darkness slowly eclipsing her spirit, she saw the shadows distill into a tall, broad form.
Weary and bloodied, the warrior approached, and with her every step, the wind died and the raging storm receded. Adrian felt the fire in the great hearth leap to life.
”You've come back,” Adrian whispered. ”I was so afraid...”
”I promised I would not fail as long as you believed.”
”You're hurt.” Adrian touched the blood streaming over the bold contours of her face.
”No,” she said, holding Adrian hard against her chest. ”I am healed.”
Adrian gasped. ”Rooke?”
”Right here.” Rooke leaned over her and kissed her mouth, then cradled her breast and kissed the place where her heart pounded.
”I was dreaming.”
”Good dreaming?” Rooke rubbed her cheek against Adrian's breast and fondled the nipple.
”Yes. I dreamed of you. Of how much I love you.” Adrian traced the chiseled muscles in Rooke's shoulders and back, loving her strength.
Rooke's stone-roughened fingertips chafed her nipple, and she went wet. Grasping Rooke's hand, she guided it down her middle into the a 251 a valley between her thighs. Arching against Rooke's hard body, she curled her fingers over Rooke's and pressed them to her center. ”Inside me. Deep.”
”I love you,” Rooke said, obeying Adrian's command.
Adrian watched Rooke's eyes go black, felt her filling her body, her soul. She lifted her hips to take more and slid her hand over the firm ridges of Rooke's abdomen to cup her s.e.x. Rooke was wet and engorged, ready for her. Adrian gripped her, alternately squeezing and stroking.
Rooke moaned and thrust against her palm. An exhilarating surge of power arced between them and Adrian took Rooke's mouth hungrily, breathing her in. Rooke's hand, exquisitely demanding, pumped inside her and flames licked at her core. She would come soon.
”I love you inside me.” Adrian rocked the heel of her hand on Rooke's tense c.l.i.toris and then dove inside to tease the spot she'd discovered would make Rooke explode. In and out, in and out.
”You're going to make me come,” Rooke murmured against Adrian's mouth.
Rooke's eyes were hazy and unguarded. Fierce love pierced Adrian's soul and she tumbled into o.r.g.a.s.m without warning. She went rigid with the shock and her fingers spasmed, driving Rooke over with her. Adrian trembled in her arms, totally helpless, and totally unafraid.
”I love you...want you...so much,” Adrian cried.
”Never want you to stop.” Rooke collapsed with a shattering groan, dropping her head onto Adrian's shoulder.
”I won't stop.” Adrian caressed her damp cheek, stroked her quivering body. She loved knowing all that strength, all that power, was hers. ”I adore touching you. I love when you touch me.”
”I want you all the time.”
”Good.” Adrian kissed Rooke's temple. ”I need you to want me.”
Rooke kissed Adrian's throat. ”You'll have to go away, won't you.
For your work.”
”Sometimes. Baby-”
”Will you come back to me?”
”Oh, baby,” Adrian whispered, trying to hold in so much love that tears escaped. ”Yes. Yes, always. I won't go very far, for very long. I need you too much.”
”I can get a house, or I can come down here...”
a 252 a Adrian leaned back so Rooke could see her face, so she could read the truth. ”I don't care where we are, all I need is you. Tell me you love me.”