by Jaye Shields
The room was suddenly ten degrees hotter. She unfastened the top two latches of her tight corset. Her cleavage breathed a sigh of relief and Seph’s hand went to massage the tiny beads of sweat into her skin. The contour of her own curves lying against Axel’s bed made her achingly aware of her own sensuality. Letting the black, spider-silk sheets on Axel’s bed melt against her skin, she recalled the way his tongue had expertly pleasured her to the point where she thought she’d never need another climax again. Or die without having another one delivered by him.
She unfastened the top button of her leather pants. The space between her legs was already trembling with need after remembering the ecstasy Axel had wrought upon her. Her hand slid down until her fingertip found her soaking wet heat. Her clitoris throbbed against the sensation of her soft skin gliding against the swollen nub. Her fingers circled the tingling organ just as Axel had done with his tongue. She moaned as her own massage worked up a fit of pleasure within her. Just the night before, the quetzalem had teased her with his tongue, stroking and suckling on every inch of her.
“Gods, what have I done to deserve this gift?” A breathy, masculine voice penetrated the darkness.
Sephina bolted upright. As she did so, another notch of her corset came undone and she all but spilled out. Despite her mortification, the hungry glint in the man’s eyes was nearly enough to make her come. His body covered hers before she could breathe. His scent enveloped her and his hands went not to the cleavage spilling over her top, but to cup her cheeks so he could take her lips. He seized her with enough passion to send her back against the bed once more.
He halted his perfectly frenzied kiss to capture her bottom lip with his teeth. “You make me tremble. I need to have you like nothing else in this world.”
She gasped in response as electricity shot like fire through her veins. “So have me.”
Axel knelt before her and stripped her pants off in an easy move. As he collapsed over her, his hand continued the massage she’d started. Her tongue met his and she savored the taste of him, stroking him slowly until she could only gasp as his fingers found her clitoris.
“It’s not fair,” he groaned against her lips. “You’ve already started this for me.”
His wicked words made her moan. “I’m sure you can think of a way to even the playing field.”
“You’re right. I can.” He thrust two of his fingers deep into her core. The slippery walls allowed him deep enough to reach the hidden knot that made women explode with ecstasy. And she did, she shattered for him. Her body became a thousand different pieces of euphoria, every inch of those pieces tingling with delight.
When she thought he was going to release her, the trembling of her thighs and the rushing of liquid onto his fingers making her orgasm evident, he brought his mouth to taste her. He suckled her still throbbing clitoris and dipped into her with his finger, causing a second explosion. Her body became a stone, heavied by the trance-like state of constant, dizzying pleasure.
* * * *
The scent of Seph’s ecstasy was nearly enough to make Axel come. When he’d walked in on her lying in his bed, his mood had been dark. Despite his impending heat, he couldn’t have another. Sephina had laid claim to his mind and body. To return home to find the object of his desire arching into his bed… He’d not let this memory go. He’d make the image last forever. “You are the most spectacular creature I’ve ever beheld. You should know that I won’t let you go.”
She reached for him. “C’mon, dragon boy, I’m ready for this heat thing. Let’s do it.” Her wicked smile beckoned him, as if he needed further enticing, to cover her body and drive into her. He’d been dreaming of it every night, and he didn’t need quetzalem blood to induce the erotic dreams.
“First, I must tell you something.” As he stood from the bed to address Sephina, the brows between her bright amber eyes furrowed with impatience.
“Yeah, yeah, I know there’s the possibility of being set on fire. But you’ve already set my body aflame.”
Gods. The bright pink hair framing her devilish expression was nearly enough to ignite the brimstone within him. “When you left last, I traveled to another realm in search of a woman, a succubus or quetzalem.”
Silence. He could have sworn hurt simmered in her yellow gaze. She offered a half-smile. “In case you didn’t know, sex demons aren’t much of a jealous breed.”
“I’m not worried about your jealousy,” he professed. “I’m worried that my forthcoming admission will frighten you away once more.”
“I’m intrigued.” She crawled up the bed so that she was kneeling in front of where he now stood. Her hands caught his cheeks and tilted his face down so that their lips nearly met. “Haven’t you heard the phrase ‘curiosity killed the sex demon’?”
Her sweet expression made him laugh. He couldn’t help himself around her. The air around her was light, lifting him up into the clouds without need of his wings. “I have heard that saying, I will not keep you in suspense.” He caught her arms so she wouldn’t be tempted to run. Instead, her back arched against him and he nearly cast aside the words to throw her on the bed and take her in that very moment. “I found a succubus, but I could not have her.”
“Wow, really? A succubus is usually a pretty sure thing.”
He caught the teasing glint in her eye and punished her joking lips with a kiss. He lingered in the embrace, sweeping inside her mouth to let her know he worshiped every word that escaped it. “You’re right, she was easy. But she was not you. You are the only one I can have…you’re the only one I want to fuck all night long. The only one I want to pleasure and taste every crevice of. The only voice I want to hear screaming my name.”
“And the only woman that will make you scream mine.” In a flash, she caught him off guard and pulled him down to the bed by his pants. The buttons were ripped loose in her haste and he sprang free. “I take my job very seriously, dragon boy. I’m going to light your fire and get you healthy very soon. Your heat may not be on you yet, but I have plans to tease it out of you.”
Hellplane this woman is hot. “What will you do with me, succubus?”
She pushed him backward on the bed. “Stay there.”
He watched her shapely ass disappear from his room and return moments later with the silk ropes he’d once tied her with. “Pay back is a devil, isn’t it?”
She quickly bound his hands and legs and he wondered about her ease and experience with bondage. The thought of her with another man made him ache. His hard on began to deflate, but she slapped it. The sudden erotic sensation made him steel once more.
“I know what you’re thinking, dragon. Don’t.” She wrapped more silk over his eyes.
“I want to see you.” Damn the woman.
“You will. But not yet. Not seeing will allow you to…feel.”
He jerked in surprise as her warm wetness surrounded him. Her lips closed around him tightly and slid up and down his length until he groaned with need. All too soon, her lips retreated. Her soft footsteps moved away from the bed once more. He struggled within his bonds to loosen the blindfold, but her knots held strong. Damn, she was good.
“Uh-uh. No trying to escape. Not that you will.” Her soft, sensual voice was followed by the flick of a lighter. “I hope you don’t mind, I found this in your pocket.”
Axel inhaled the scent of a flame dancing near his skin. Before he could contemplate the aroma, searing heat splashed against his naked torso. Her hands smeared hot wax across his flesh. The burning sensation, a slight mix of pleasure and pain, became a dizzying aphrodisiac. The bones beneath his skin warmed. She was igniting his embers already and the heat hadn’t even begun. Perhaps she was teasing it from him, successfully beckoning the heat to begin.
“How does that liquid fire feel against your skin, dragon?” She didn’t wait for a response. More scorching wax dripped onto him. This time it hit his nipples, already hardened from anticipation.
The hot liquid burned into his sk
in for a moment before she finally wiped it away. The next dollop of burning wax landed perilously close to his dick. Just when he anticipated her wiping it away, she lapped it up with her tongue and quickly covered his shaft with her mouth. The scorching heat covered his flesh and made him jerk into her. The desire was too much. The pleasure was quickly turning to torture. He had to have her.
Her tongue traced every vein bulging on his thick manhood. As she did so, he moaned, an honest admiration of the most sensual woman he’d ever lain with. With every moment that passed, his body scorched from within. Even without the heat, she was making him stronger. Her mouth clenched tighter around him and she milked him until he neared climax. Then she stopped.
“Fuck!” His own needy response escaped.
“I told you. I’m going to tease the heat, command it to arrive so we can get you healthy. After all, seems only fitting that I return the favor since you healed me.”
“This isn’t healing, woman. This is torture.”
“Torture in the best way.” Although he couldn’t see it, he heard the smile in her voice.
“Free me of this blindfold. I need to see you.”
Instead, her mouth captured his balls. He shuddered as she juggled them against the soft, wet comfort of her tongue. She moaned and it sent vibrations against his sensitive sack. The slow ripple against his skin sent goose bumps over his flesh. The blood coursing through his veins turned to molten lava.
Just when he least expected it, another hot dollop of wax found its way between his legs. Seph continued massage his balls with her tongue as she wiped the hot liquid against his skin with her hand. He fought against the restraints, not because of the scalding hot wax dripping down his skin. Gods no. The pleasure and pain of the heat sent desire scorching through his body. But he needed her. Had to have her.
The sound of tearing fabric cracked through the room as he freed himself from the bond around his left wrist. He immediately tore the scrap of fabric from over his eyes and took in the sight of Sephina kneeling between his legs.
She smiled up at him, her hands wrapped tight around his cock. “So impatient,” she purred.
He tore free from the remaining bedpost. The knot she’d tied around his wrist held strong, but his determination rendered the silk to nothing more than scraps. “Come.”
“Yes. You will.” She flashed a grin of white teeth before her mouth disappeared over his hard shaft once more. She milked him, wrapping her lips tight around his wide girth, her tongue tracing a line up and down his cock.
Gods, it felt good. But it was about to get better.
With his legs still tied to the bedposts, he leaned up and grabbed Sephina. Her mouth released him. He pulled her backward onto his chest until his lips met the sensitive flesh between her legs. She screamed but immediately brought her mouth back down up his shaft. Soon they were devouring each other, their bodies molded against each other as one. He was only seconds away from coming, so he dove into her with his tongue and moaned against her flesh so the sound would send powerful vibrations against her clit. She groaned in response and it had the same effect on him. As her lips massaged him, the low moan caused his swollen head to throb with pleasure.
Climax came barreling toward him so he suckled on her clit, using his teeth to graze her sensitive hood. She cried out, but continued sucking him off. She shook from the orgasm racking her body. As her sweet nectar flooded his lips, Axel too exploded with ecstasy. He continued to taste her intimate flesh as the last tremors of pleasure were sucked dry from his cock. Sephina released him and rolled over on the bed beside him.
A knock came from the front door. Axel groaned. “Ignore that. Be very quiet and perhaps they’ll leave us be.”
Sephina sat up in bed and raised a brow. Her neon pink hair was in a mess around her face, but only succeeded in making her look even hotter. He wanted to grab her by the hair and bring her in for another kiss. The kiss would linger and he’d slide his fingers in between her slippery folds to—
The knock sounded again. “Axel, it’s me. Rosey.”
“Rose, huh?” Sephina shook her head, but thankfully, didn’t seem pissed at the female arrival on his doorstep. “So is that the succubus you told me about?”
“What? No.”
“Axel. I brought you some gingerbread.”
Seph’s eyes swirled with gold at the young woman’s proclamation. “I love gingerbread!”
Axel grabbed her when she tried to leave the bed. “I’ll buy you some from town. I don’t feel like dealing with her right now.”
“So what’s she want? Drugs? You trade ’shrooms for baked goods, or what?”
“No. I healed her the other day.”
“You… Oh.” For the first time, he thought he detected a jealous glare pass through her gaze. “Well, why don’t you go get that gingerbread and send her on her way? Then perhaps we can have some gingerbread and commence round two.”
“Don’t do that.”
“Do what?” She feigned an innocent expression.
“Turn to sex instead of examining how you really feel. Like how you don’t like thinking about another woman fantasizing about me.”
Her jaw dropped. Casting him a glare, she tossed her pink locks behind her and began pulling on her clothes. “Don’t flatter yourself. I happen to love gingerbread and it’s quite the aphrodisiac. And in case you didn’t know—I’m a succubus!”
As she fled his room, Axel heaved a sigh and pulled on his leather pants. Hopefully Rosey was at the door to stop Seph so he could ease her apparently tainted ego. Her response to Rosey made him wonder if she cared for him more than she let on. “Seph!”
She turned from her place at the door and glared at him. Luckily, she appraised his bare stomach with a flicker of fire in her bright amber gaze.
Gods, she’s beautiful. “Be mad at me, woman. But know that I think you’re even more stunning when you embrace your inner hellion.”
Chapter 8
“Damn it. She’s already gone and she took the gingerbread with her.”
Sephina stepped out of the home, but didn’t go far. Axel’s hand encircled her waist and spun her so she was only inches away. His lips hovered just above hers as if they weren’t yet done with her. “I want to show you something.”
Her heart rate spiked, sending warmth throughout her body. Before she could answer, his grip on her tightened and wings sprang from his back. The giant, blue-scaled wingspan flapped downward, jetting them high up into the air. Thank gods she didn’t scream like a complete wimp. Instead, her fingernails dug tiny semicircle caves into Axel’s skin as she clung for dear life.
“Are you okay?” He grinned down at her as they continued to soar straight up into the clouds.
The sight of his boyish smile made the rest of the world melt away. It was obvious that flying made him very happy. She grinned back. “I should ask you the same thing.” She released her death grip and revealed five tracks of blood.
“I’ll wear those with pride.” The smile faded from his lips, but it lingered in his stare. Never before had words given her such a buzz.
His embrace tightened and their flight pattern suddenly dropped back toward the ground. Sucking in a breath, Seph became pretty sure her heart had fallen somewhere deep into her stomach. The fear of being so far off the ground only made her more aware of the strong man standing between her and sudden death. And she knew he would never let harm come to her. The realization caused her to open her eyes and gaze upon him. Axel’s face shone with pure joy as he swept them toward the ground in a graceful arc. Instead of being afraid, Seph embraced the serenity of his expression and let the aerial dance become the thrill of a lifetime. She was flying.
Axel carried them upward. “We’re almost there.”
“Felt like a bunch of random zig-zags to me. You mean we were actually heading someplace?”
He laughed over the wind sailing past them. “Yes.” His lips kissed her forehead in a gentle, lingering caress. A flap of
his wings righted their bodies and a moment later, their feet touched the ground.
The unmistakable sound of water crashing against rock had Seph whipping around within Axel’s grip. “Oh my.” Her heart stilled its beating when she focused upon the image before her. How could she have missed this from the air?
“My reason for the death-defying plummet whence I received my prized war wounds.” He glanced at the bloody tracks from her fingernails and grinned. “I wanted to surprise you.”
She turned back and laughed. Her hand found his like a magnet and she pulled him closer to the lavender pool of water. As the falls crashed against the surface, a thick, white spray cast silky moisture against their skin. “Is my shock and awe that obvious? It’s beautiful.” Her smile was unstoppable. “Drug dealer, town healer, and romancer extraordinaire…you’re quite the demon of all trades, aren’t you, dragon boy?”
“You forgot travel guide and lover eternal.”
“Eternal, huh? Well, we can start with lover of the moment anyway…” Both thrilled and scared shitless by his easy sweet talk, she let go of his hand and stepped closer to the water’s edge. When she reached the glimmering, lavender pool, she unfastened her pants. Keeping her back to Axel, she took her time, sliding the tight leather down the curve of her ass, bending over to offer him a view she hoped he’d appreciate. Kicking the garment away, she turned to face Axel once more and drank in the ravenous glint in his glacier blue stare.
“Gods, you’re stunning.”
Hoping to further tease him, Seph toyed with a lock of her neon pink hair and held his steady gaze to build suspense. Finally, she reached to unfasten her corset. She took her time, enjoying the sight of Axel’s expression of raw hunger. This was going to be good.
She backed into the water and was surprised when the lagoon splashed warm against her skin. “Now it’s your turn.”