Deadly Attraction
She added, “No matter how doomed we were from the start, I wouldn’t take any of it back. I know now what I really want, and even though I can’t have it, I understand that the reason I never gave Michael any encouragement over the past eight years is because I innately knew amiable companionship was all we’d share. Even if we’d married and had children, we wouldn’t have experienced this kind of passion.”
“I’m sorry you continually suffer because of me.”
She smiled sweetly. “Who says I’m suffering right now?”
He snorted. “You don’t always have to let me off the hook.”
“I don’t,” she was quick to say. “I’ve demanded explanations from you. But you’ve also freely given ones I have no authority to ask for. I appreciate that.”
He pulled her closer to him and kissed her. “I appreciate that you listen. And try to understand, although you can’t possibly reconcile in your mind the things I’ve done.”
With a nod, she said, “I have to remain true to my species. You have the same responsibility. But Darien, one thing I’ve always been taught is that humans have killed other humans for centuries. Demons have killed demons. How hypocritical would we all be if we said we fiercely protect our own kind and never turn on them?”
His eyes closed briefly. “Don’t try to justify or mollify my actions, Jade.”
She was quiet for several moments, then added, “I’ll never be able to condone them. But I can’t condemn you either. Not knowing how close my race once came to pushing a button that would reduce this planet to an even weaker state than it’s currently in. At least we have fresh air to breathe, rather than inhaling toxins from nuclear bombs that would likely kill survivors within years, if not sooner.”
“You’re well educated in human conflicts. Is that how you can stand to be around me?”
The expression on her face revealed shock that he’d made such a statement. Eventually, however, it morphed into something much less intense. Grinning at him—and taking him by surprise—she said, “Perhaps. In addition to the fact you’re so damn hunky. So irresistible.”
He kissed her again. The sensations she evoked with just a kiss seared his insides. When he dragged his mouth from hers, it skimmed over her jaw and down her throat. His hands gripped her waist and he urged her upward. Her dewy folds slid along his stomach, ratcheting his desire for her. His tongue flicked over her nipple before he sucked the taut peak into his mouth.
She gasped. Her fingers plowed through his hair. Her other forearm rested on the pillow alongside his head. His teeth gently scraped her tight bud. His tongue soothed it. All the while, she squirmed against him, her moist labia rubbing along his skin.
Gliding his hand over her backside, he stroked the cleft of her ass, then pushed two fingers deep into her pussy.
“Oh God,” she said on a spiked breath.
His other hand slipped between her parted legs and he vigorously worked the knot of nerves as his fingers pumped in and out of her, while his tongue and mouth toyed with her nipple.
A throaty moan fell from her lips. Her back arched and he used the extra leverage as she lifted off his lap to stroke her faster.
“Darien. Oh the things you do to me.” Her inner walls squeezed his fingers and a tremor rippled through her.
“I want you to come,” he said against her breast.
“So close,” she whispered. “So very, very close.”
He rubbed her clit as his fingers pushed deeper. Her flesh was slick and her body responsive. Her breathy pants drove him wild. He wanted to bring her the same satisfaction he’d derived from her intimate touch earlier. More than that, he had the burning desire to make her feel good.
She shuddered and, moments later, muttered, “Yes. Oh God, yes!”
Her pussy contracted around his fingers as her body shook. Fire roared
through him at her quick and vehement reaction to him. Every fiber of his being screamed to bury his now-hard cock in her dripping cunt, but he wasn’t done with her.
When she seemed a bit steadier following her orgasm, she kissed him. “You know exactly how to touch me.”
“Just getting started.”
She smiled once more. “Okay.”
His hands moved to her waist and he coaxed her upward until his head was between her legs. She gripped the ledge of the headboard as his tongue whisked over her swollen pussy lips. She was wet and it made him want her even more.
“Darien,” she whispered as he tongued her clit. “You are so amazing.”
Her hips lowered and he suckled the bud between her legs as he slipped a finger into her pussy again. She moaned provocatively, spurring him on. He loved how uninhibited she was with him. How easily she let loose of their differences and simply gave herself over to everything he did to her and every desire that gripped her.