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He rose to his knees awkwardly. Gazing down at the woman before him, Gavenas marveled at how swiftly his mood went from that of a giant, invincible and powerful, to that of a green sapling fearful of a torrential rainfall. He grasped the sides of his robe and lifted the fabric high, but it was with trembling fingers that he tossed his garment aside. Presenting himself nude before her, he had to straighten his posture to appear somewhat confident under the scrutiny of her gaze, which seemed to have stolen all his former dominance. “I am afraid. I will not last long, Shoraya. You have very nearly undone me already.”
    Her gaze drifted over him, lingering at his slick, jutting sex. She opened her arms to him. “Then hurry,” was her command.
    Obediently, he leaned forward. As he helped her out of her gown, he attempted to buy himself time to calm the panicked beating of his heart, to slow the staggering flow of his pulse by some measure, and yet as he lay partially atop her, the heat of her skin, brief glimpses of their contrasting skin tones—ivory against red-hued brown—taunted him further. Just feeling his naked cock against her thigh caused his balls to ache with the need for release.
    Gavenas leaned his head against her chest, distracted and praying for a moment more of gluttony. He sought out her breast, attempted to get his lips upon the hardened peak of a nipple, but her fingers tugging upon his locks prevented him from his intent.
    She slid her other hand over his back and grabbed his ass, squeezing firmly. “Gavenas. If you continue to toy with me, you— No, you will be punished. Faeyanin or no. The second you spend yourself within me, and you will, I will suck you until the very idea of walking causes you to faint.”
    Gavenas understood her words, and despite the threat of embarrassment that he felt sure would come, he moved to cover her lips with his own and to do her bidding. As his tongue slid against hers, he wedged a hand between them and gripped his cock, guiding it between her silken folds where it so longed to be.
    His kiss was a wild, desperate thing made all the more crazed as he was engulfed by her soft yet steel walls. He was no virgin, but within Shoraya’s body, he might as well have been. Unable to recall when he had ever experienced an embrace so hot, so wet, and so tight, Gavenas was sure that every nerve in his body had lit up. So this is what it must feel like to stand against a dragon’s flame, was his only thought as he lost all control of his body.
    Somewhere in the back of his mind and surely in the countless daydreams he had nurtured imagining his first time with her, Gavenas had considered slow, masterful lovemaking.
    His body, however, would allow nothing leisurely as he began to thrust hard, deep and greedily. That she rose to meet every downward press with her own upward push only brought him closer to unraveling.
    He lasted longer than he’d thought he might but nowhere near as long as he wished, and yet there was no shame to be had in that glorious moment when he finally broke, exploding with jet after jet of his essence as she too cried his name in completion.
    Long moments after both of them had managed to achieve some normalcy of pulse, Gavenas was shocked to discover that she had meant every word of her former threat, despite his insistence that they actually needed to address their forgotten dinner.
    Meat and vegetables would suffice for breakfast or a late lunch, he resolved, as all thoughts of leaving the bed, of standing, dissolved with the press of her kiss upon his belly.

Chapter Nine
    Shoraya had never been the type to enjoy lingering in bed, but then she had never had such a good reason to. Gavenas woke first but left the comfort of her side only long enough to reheat the meal from the night before and to bring it to the bedside. She ate her breakfast from his fingers and he from hers along with a few sips of wine before the ease between them gave way to yet