Primals (Reverse Harem 1)

I manage to hold myself back, pushing inch by inch until I’m completely inside her. Then I stop, forcing air into my lungs as I savor the sensation of being inside the woman I love.

It’s incredible.

Absolutely. Fucking. Incredible.

Damn, I love her.

I brush soft tendrils of hair from her forehead so I can plant a kiss on it, then stroke her cheek as I let myself drown in her misty eyes.

“I love you,” I repeat the words I told her earlier, meaning them as much now as I did then, as I will each time I say them for the rest of my life.

She places her hand on my cheek as well, smiling. “You are the best thing that’s ever happened to me.” Then she pecks my cheek before whispering in my ear. “Now, get on with it.”

I chuckle. “Yes, ma’am.”

I jerk my hips, moving slowly at first, then faster as the passion builds up inside me.

Beneath me, she loses herself in our lovemaking, moaning and thrashing, hands gripping the sheets, her hair spread out in a beautiful mess around her head, like a halo.

Beautiful.

Just looking at her head thrown back, eyes half-lidded and heavy with passion, lips parted just so....and my chest threatens to burst but something else does first.

With one final thrust, I bury myself deep inside her seconds before my cock explodes, my entire body shaking with the intensity of it. Clarissa wraps her arms around me, squeezing me as she milks me of every drop, nails digging into my skin as her body quakes just as hard as mine, her head thrown back as she lets out a scream of pleasure that seems to go on forever.

Then she falls back on the bed and I fall on top of her, our bodies slick with sweat. Her fingers stroke my hair as her heart pounds beneath mine while I lie still, spent.

When I’ve caught some of my breath, I move off her, lying beside her and pulling her into my arms. I bury my face in her hair that smells like berries, a sea of that magic red-gold-brown that is her, under the sun that has begun to set.

She turns to face me. “We should’ve done that sooner, huh?”

I nod, grinning. “Still, it was worth the wait.”

“Yes, it was,” she agrees, tracing circles on my shoulder. “I just find it strange that something has to threaten to tear us apart before we realize we belong together.”

I can’t tell her the truth...that I’d felt this way forever. That I’d never stopped loving her since that failed attempt to tell her so many years before. What’s past is past. We have only now.

“I know. We had to get a feeling of losing each other in order to truly find each other.” I stroke her cheek. “We’re a pair of fools, huh?”

“Then we’re perfectly suited for each other,” she says.

I plant a kiss on her forehead then fall silent, simply staring at her. She turns her back on me again, pulling my arms more tightly around her as she snuggles against me.

As the sun sets, we lie still, caught in the moment and by the time night has arrived, I find Clarissa already asleep.

I kiss her shoulder and press my cheek to hers as I close my eyes.

I still can’t believe she’s mine. A part of me still thinks she shouldn’t be but I don’t care anymore. How can I, when I’m just happy that my best friend is finally my lover, my girlfriend, my life.

Whatever happens, I’m not going to let anyone take her away from me.

I’ll die before I lose her again.

Chapter Twenty-Seven

~ Theo

AN AIR OF DEATHLY SILENCE reigns over the chamber, all the seats beneath the tapestries empty.