“I thought it hurt when he died, but this? This is betrayal and treachery and cruelty,” I growl. “I want it to go away. Make it go away, Tiana. Make it go away. I don’t want to feel this pain,” I say, clutching on to her like she’s my lifeline.
She shifts in my arms, her fur sliding through my fingers like water and then her arms are around me. I cling to her, holding her body against mine.
My body seems to register that she’s naked before my mind does. I begin responding to our closeness, the feel of her hard nipples against my chest, her evergreen scent intensified by our run through the woods. She smells like the forest. She smells like my salvation.
I pull back, looking at her, brushing my hand over her cheek. She doesn’t look away. She holds my gaze, like she’s willing to be my savior, the person who pulls me back from the brink of this darkness that is threatening to drag me under.
!
I lean forward and take her mouth in a slow, demanding kiss. I growl, deepening the kiss, needing more of her, needing to feel her, needing to wrap her around me so that there is nothing but her and I.
I push her back onto the forest floor, laying over her and beginning to run my hands over her naked body. She’s tight and muscular, just like I expected from the little bit of play we’ve had. Her breasts are firm as I rub my hands over them, her nipples tight. When I drag my thumb over her nipple, she gasps, and I use the opportunity to slide my tongue in
her mouth.
This, this is what I need. I need to feel. I need to feel something good,
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something positive. I need to know that there is still good in this world, something that is worth fighting for to keep the darkness and anger that is threatening to choke me at bay.
I gently roll her nipple between my fingers, and when she begins to moan. I pull away from her mouth, looking down to watch was I tease her nipple.
I growl again, watching her dark cycs go glassy with my attention, then I suck her nipple into my mouth and swirl my tongue around it.
“Shane!” she whimpers. I could get used to that sound.
I lick and suck her nipple as her hips press up against me. “Oh goddess, Shane, that feels so good.”
I growl and pull off, before moving to the other nipple, giving it equal attention. I slide a hand down her stomach and between her thighs, finding her soaked. She opens her legs for me and I begin to rub her clit the way she’s taught me that she likes.
“Shane,” she whimpers.
In the couple of times that we’ve been together, we’ve never been completely naked, just hands searching and teasing each other. This is so much more, but it’s not enough. I want more.
I slide a finger to her entrance and pull off her nipple to watch her face as I slide a finger inside her. She gasps again, watching me.
“Is this okay?” I ask her, my voice sounding choked but with desire rather than fury.
“Yes.”
“You’re very tight,” I say. Her body is clutching my finger like it’s
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desperate to keep me inside her. I slide my finger in and out of her,
watching her response to me, watching to see where and how she likes to be touched. Then I slide a second finger inside her, and her breathing becomes choppy, ragged.
