Jade

by Valerie Ullmer

This sweet, delicious torture was almost too much for him and he opened his mouth to beg—for what exactly, he had no idea—but it came out as a choking gasp when her small hand palmed his naked cock for the first time.

  The moment she stood up to see his reaction, he slid his hands through her hair and brought her closer before he brushed a kiss against her lips. Even that minuscule touch stripped away a little more of his control.

  The chaste kiss was as powerful as anything he and Jade shared. “Touch me, mark me, make me yours.”

  “You don’t know what you’re fully asking, but I will touch you and bring you pleasure. I want to make you happy.”

  “Fuck, baby. You make me happy.”

  Jade smiled at him and stepped back, raking her gaze on his now naked body. He didn’t know what he expected, but when Jade’s eyes grew bigger and she clutched her hands into fists and then tucked them under her arms, he managed to regain some control. She looked nervous about touching him, but he wanted nothing more.

  Glancing over his shoulder, he found the sleeping bags a few feet from where he stood. He stepped backward until he felt the fabric and, without taking his eyes off Jade, he lowered himself down onto the makeshift bed and laid back.

  He sucked in a breath to steady himself and before he could blink, he spotted Jade kneeling between his legs. Her skin was hot when she ran her palms up the top of his feet to his shins. Since this was all about Jade, Noah held his hands near his sides.

  “How do you like to be touched?”

  Noah opened his mouth to speak, but the words stuck in his throat. This wasn’t a typical woman. She was Jade and his destined mate, and her touch set him alight. “However you want to touch me. My body is already humming from being able to kiss you. I have a feeling that any touch from you will bring me pleasure. But this is about you and what you’re comfortable with. I would say do what comes naturally.”

  Jade exhaled shakily and gave him a short nod. She continued with her touch of his legs, brushing her delicate fingers over his inner thighs, drawing a breath from Noah. But when her mouth followed the trail of her hands, his breathing pushed out a series of low, deep moans.

  Her tongue darted out and she tasted his skin and the sensation shot jolt straight to his cock, which pulsed visibly against his stomach. She started to crawl up his body but paused. He wondered if she wanted to stop, if they were going too fast. But instead, he almost choked on his tongue when she straighten up, still on her knees, and whipped her shirt up and over her head, leaving her beautiful pale skin with a smattering of freckles in full view.

  Noah stopped breathing. She was the most exquisite creature he’d ever seen before. He must have mumbled it aloud because a blush stained Jade’s cheeks.

  “It’s true. You are.”

  With movements that looked blurred to Noah’s human eyes, Jade stripped off the rest of her clothing, throwing them into the same pile she created with Noah’s clothing. His mouth watered at the thought of tasting each inch of her body, but all thoughts scattered when she moved up his body to kiss him.

  “Touch me,” she begged against his lips.

  He splayed his hands over her back and pressed her against his body for the first time, savoring her heat surrounding him. His hand caressed her back and down the curves of her ass, loving the gasp as his hands cupped her, pressing her against his cock for just a moment. Her breasts pressed against his chest and the feel of the hard tips against his skin almost felt surreal. Noah had never been as turned on in his life.

  Noah captured her lips and savored her taste. Each kiss was exploratory, but he noticed that she told him with each kiss what exactly she liked. When the sensations became too intense, she broke the kiss and buried her face against his neck. Each breath against his heated, slicked skin sent shafts of pleasure throughout and he held her tighter.

  “I’m going to taste you, all over. Is that okay?”

  Jade lifted her gaze and he made sure she could see his affirmative nod. She wasted no time straddling his waist and sitting on his stomach. He could feel her heat and groaned aloud as her tongue darted out and flicked a long lick against his right nipple. She paid attention to both before kissing down his stomach and across his hips. He was getting addicted to feeling her mouth there.

  “Can I touch you…here?”

  With her words, she drew her pinkie a small way down the head of his cock.

  “Yes, please. Touch me.”

  Jade reached out and wrapped her hand around his cock, both of them moaning at the movement. He watched Jade’s face and her fascinated looks as her hand traveled down his cock until she reached the base, before slowly sliding back up to the head. After a few strokes, a bead of pre-come pooled at the head and when Jade spotted it, her tongue darted out and tasted him.

  Noah thought she wouldn’t continue after she paused her actions, but he was taken by surprise when she swallowed the head of his cock, her tongue flittering on the sensitive skin and drawing a shout from Noah’s tight throat.

  “Is this okay?”

  “More than okay. You took me by surprise because I figured you would be put off by the taste.”

  Jade shook her head. “No, you taste wonderful, tangy and salty.” And to prove her point, she bent down and swallowed his crown before slowly moving down, taking more and more of him in her mouth.

  With no experience, Jade reduced Noah into a puddle of pleasure using only her mouth and tongue. Words were spilling out of his throat. He was torn between watching her mouth stretched over his cock or tilting his head back and trying to stay calm, breathing in deep and hoping he didn’t embarrass himself by coming too soon. He lost all sense of time and place as Jade drove him out of his mind.

  Noah felt the familiar throbbing of his release and fumbled with the words to warn Jade. Finally, he pushed the words past his tight throat.

  “Jade, baby, I’m gonna come. Move…your mouth…”

  Jade shook her head and sucked him harder, flicking her tongue along his slit. He allowed his body to take over and with a shout, Noah fell back as his body trembled through the best release of his life. Having her mouth on him throughout his orgasm had him shivering uncontrollably.

  When his mind had rebooted and his senses weren’t centered around the pleasure she’d given him, he felt Jade by his side and he curled an arm around her, bringing her closer, not leaving an inch between them.

  “Give me a few minutes, baby. I want to taste you now, but I don’t think my limbs will cooperate as of yet.”

  Jade’s laugh filled him with warmth, and when she kissed him, nothing could make him change his mind about this woman and he knew that she was meant for him alone.

  Chapter Seven

  Jade

  Jade felt the hum of satisfaction radiating off Noah as she lay next to him. Close to a week ago when they’d met, she couldn’t fathom Noah being interested in getting to know her, much less being so open about the fact that he was her mate and seemed to be accepting of his new reality.

  But she had spent the last few hours tracing every inch of his skin and still didn’t feel as if she knew him well enough. She savored the sounds she drew from his throat and whenever he moaned, she felt as though she’d been given a gift.

  Noah, by nature, was an observer. He learned a lot about people by the way they acted, and if he silently stood apart from everyone, they would eventually forget he was there and give way to their true selves. So when he trained with the assassins, she thought of him as standoffish and uninterested in her, but he needed time to process what she might mean to him in his life. She understood perfectly, and as the only sound in the cave was the humming of the heaters and their deep breathing, she found herself more content than she’d ever been.

  “What are you thinking about?”

  Jade brought her head up and met his eyes. “I’m trying to figure you out, I suppose. I can understand you not wanting to get involved with more immortals, especially what happened after Sam, but today, you
seemed to have…I don’t know, reconciled your feelings.”

  Noah turned toward her, still cradling her pliable body against his. When he caught her gaze, she noticed his eyes sparked with something unidentifiable.

  “My judging you and the assassins before I met them was a mistake. But the way everyone welcomed me and talking to them made me understand exactly how wrong I was. I know you kept your distance because you didn’t want to pressure me into anything. It gave me time to think about the feelings you stirred in me from the moment we met.”

  Jade opened her mouth to ask the question she wasn’t sure she wanted to hear the answer to, but Noah beat her to the chase.

  “And no, the feelings are partly because of how beautiful you are. Although you’re a highly trained and deadly assassin, your concentration on being the best in everything you do, whether it be with your family, or with Silas, or being the deadliest assassin out of the group—you do it with your whole heart. You put others before yourself and even though I hurt your feelings, you never held it against me.”

  She was stunned silent and he cupped the back of her head and kissed her.

  “I’m curious to see you with your red hair.” Noah moaned into her mouth as he deepened the kiss, until she shook in his arms from the pent-up desire. “Can I make you feel good?”

  Jade breathed, “Yes.”

  Noah rolled Jade on her back and when he pressed his body down on hers, she sucked in a breath as her nerve endings exploded with sensations. She wrapped her arms around his torso and begged him silently for more.

  He gripped her wrists in one hand and moved her arms above her head as he pressed his mouth against her neck and nipped the sensitive skin around her ear. Her hips jerked up and she felt his renewed hardness against her thigh and moaned aloud.

  The sound spurred Noah in movement and he kissed down her neck.

  She arched toward Noah’s mouth, wanting to feel his mouth on her breasts for the first time in her life. They ached for his touch and when he drew one nipple into his mouth, flicking his tongue against the hardened nub, the keening sound that left her mouth sounded so foreign, it took her several moments to realize it came from her. Instead of stopping, he continued between the two until she could feel her body shaking and she clutched Noah close.

  “Yes, I love being able to touch you.”

  Noah’s mouth trailed down her stomach and when he kissed around her belly button, she tensed.

  “What…what are you going to do?”

  “I’m going to make you come in my mouth using my tongue and fingers, and after, if you want, I’m going to make love to you.”

  Everything froze in that one moment. She opened her mouth to beg for exactly that but no sound came out. Noah, misunderstanding her silence, surged back up and cupped her face.

  “It’s okay, baby. We don’t have to do anything if you don’t want to.”

  Jade shook her head and forced herself to speak. “No, no, I want that, what you said, but I think my brain stumbled over itself when I tried to picture it in my head.”

  Noah chuckled and buried his face into her neck. “I love your innocent reactions. They are an unbelievable turn-on.”

  “Everything you do makes my body vibrate.”

  “Then you’re going to love this.”

  Noah kissed down her body again, but this time, he settled in between her thighs. “Let me know if you want me to stop.”

  She barely nodded when his head bent down and he licked a small swath of skin on her inner thigh. She sucked in a deep breath and waited for more. He licked the other one and without further teasing, pressed his lips around her clit and gently pulled it into his mouth. And if that wasn’t devastating enough, he swirled his tongue around it in a way that had her bucking her hips and moaning his name.

  “Oh, fuck.”

  Noah chuckled against her clit and the sensations exploded through her body. In the next few minutes, or it could have been hours since Jade lost all sense of reality, Noah brought her to the precipice of orgasm before backing away and making her growl his name. Her body was buzzing and without realizing, she had gripped a rock behind her head and it disintegrated in her hands.

  “Noah. I don’t…can’t…”

  Noah glanced up and when she spotted his lips coated with her wetness, her body shivered and she felt a surge of wetness pour down, soaking the bag underneath her and earning a groan from Noah.

  “Fuck, baby. I want to try something.”

  She didn’t care as long as he touched her.

  He slid one finger inside and she immediately clamped down on it, loving the feeling of him inside her, even if it was his thick finger. With slow, deliberate movements, he moved his finger in and out, searching for something she didn’t understand. After several minutes, he added another finger to the movement, and this time, when he crooked his finger to the right, Jade’s orgasm struck with a ferocity that left her breathless. She was aware enough, but barely, when she arched her back and her body released with a splash.

  “Oh, fuck.”

  His words sounded as if he was in awe, but her body was shaking with such desire that she could only beg for more.

  “Fuck me, Noah. I need you inside.”

  When Noah came into view, she noticed his hand was wet and when she dropped her eyes lower, so was his chest. He crawled up and kissed her with an intensity that brought back the need for him. She loved kissing him, it was something intimate she could share with him, but now she wanted to feel him inside.

  Noah braced himself on his left forearm and reached for his cock with his right hand. As he brushed his cock against her entrance, it took everything in her power not to lift her hips and demand more. And with a slow ease, his cock pressed inside and she held her breath as the sensations enveloped her.

  “Yes, more.”

  Noah brought both hands up to cup her face and when he leaned down to kiss her, he drove his hips forward, plunging his cock all the way inside her. Without thinking about it, she clamped down on his cock and drew a moan from deep in his chest.

  “You feel so good.”

  “So do you, baby. So tight and wet for me.”

  She wrapped her legs around his hips and forgetting the reason why she shouldn’t move, lifted her hips and fucked herself on his embedded cock. She knew he was large when she took him in her mouth, but the sensations having him in her were better than she could’ve imagined. And he hadn’t moved yet.

  As she opened her mouth to beg, if need be, he pulled his hips back until his cock was just inside before he surged back in, drawing a moan and had her clutching his back.

  “More.”

  He gathered her in his arms and with his mouth on hers, pulled out and drove into her, over and over again. He knew he didn’t have to be gentle and she was grateful he wasn’t.

  She leaned her mouth toward his neck and licked the sweat from the hollow of his throat, loving the taste of him. Having him inside her made her feel alive and when he hit a spot that made her see stars, it sent shafts of pleasure up her spine.

  His thrusts were relentless and she loved every minute of it. Her hands weren’t idle as she clutched at his back and when they moved to his ass, she could feel his muscles expanding and contracting as he drove into her.

  She tensed when he moved his hands from her head to her hips, and soon she found Noah on his back and her seated on his cock with her hands on his chest.

  “Fuck me, baby. Take your pleasure.”

  Testing her movements, she raised her hips and found the delicious slide of his cock inside her to be more intense. She raised herself a little more, in the same way he had before until just the tip was inside her, before she dropped back down.

  “Holy fuck that feels good.”

  Jade squeezed his cock and kept her muscles tensed as she drove herself onto him over and over again. She always wanted to feel this good, to have Noah inside her, but suddenly she felt guilty because she was taking her pleasure and not
thinking about Noah.

  “Is this…good for you?”

  Noah gripped her hips and groaned as she came down and gave her hips a little twist.

  “Better than good. I’m getting close.”

  Jade kept up the movements, but took a moment to glance down. Noah’s chest and neck were flushed and his eyes were glazed as he devoured the sight of her on top of him, taking her pleasure. His hands squeezed her hips when he spotted her gaze on him and she could tell that he tensed.

  His thumb came to rest on her clit and the next time she dropped down onto him, he flicked her clit with his thumb and that was all it took for her release to strike. Her spine tensed and she threw her head back, bracing her hands on his taut stomach as her orgasm left her breathless. Sensation exploded throughout her body, but his voice broke through her pleasure haze and she concentrated on what he said.

  “I’m going to come, baby.”

  “Yes, inside me. Come inside. I want to feel everything.”

  Noah wrapped his arms around her back and with a quick turn, she was on her back staring up at Noah’s face. He had a look of such intensity on his face, she shivered as the last of her orgasm waned. But once she relaxed, he slid his hands underneath her ass and drove into her, lifting her hips to meet his thrusts.

  “Fuck, baby, you’re perfect.”

  Her body started shivering with a new sensation of an orgasm lingering up her spine. With two more thrusts, driving him down into her body, he screamed her name and emptied deep inside. His throbbing cock set her off again and she found her muscles clenching down on him.

  Taking her by surprise when she spotted his corded neck as he dropped his head down onto her chest, her mouth watered at the urge to bite down and mark him as her mate. But as soon as the thought came into her mind, she dismissed it.

  They’d never spoken about transitioning and what it entailed. Now she had an inkling of what each of the assassins went through when they saw their mates go through the transition, in pain and not being able to do anything about it. She would never do that to him. And knowing how he felt about Sam’s death, she would never take his choice away from him. Instead, she licked the spot where she would have marked him, leaving an invisible mark that only she knew about.