Tempting Flame (The Jendari Book 1)

by DJ Michaels

  Until now.

  Tallis had just given her the best orgasm of her life. She lay sprawled on the floor, breathless and satiated, her body buzzing with a kind of joyful wonder. Reaching down she stroked his thick, silky hair.

  "That was amazing." She whispered the words on a satisfied sigh.

  "You're amazing." Tallis rested his head on her thigh and stroked her pussy with the tips of his fingers. It felt divine to be petted as though she was something special, so Jaz just closed her eyes and soaked up the sensation.

  Gradually those fingers became more insistent. When Tallis pushed her pussy lips apart to circle her clit, Jaz's body came back to life in a rush. Flexing her hips against his too-light touch, she moaned his name.

  He pressed a little harder and rubbed a little faster. Then he bit her on the inside of her thigh. "I want my cock inside you."

  Jaz grabbed a fistful of his hair and tried to drag him up her body. "Good idea. I want that, too."

  Keeping his fingers on her clit, Tallis made his way up her body in a slow, maximum contact crawl. When they were hip to hip and breast to chest he removed his hand so he could press his cock against her pussy. Then he rubbed himself against her, using his erection to stimulate her swollen clit.

  Sliding her arms around him she clutched at his back, her fingers kneading and squeezing his rock-hard muscles. She tried to pull him closer, desperate to feel the heat of his skin and the weight of his body. He lowered himself just enough to rub his chest against her nipples, then he took her mouth in an incendiary kiss.

  Sealing his lips to hers, he took over. He licked into her mouth, fucking her with his tongue in what she hoped was prelude to the other kind of intercourse. His whole body seemed to rock in a sensuous, rhythmic glide. It was so erotic it was almost a religious experience.

  Her breasts were achy and heavy, and the throb in her pussy had turned into a need so powerful it hurt. Every part of her—body and soul—yearned for him. To be part of him. To be claimed by him in the most fundamental way possible.

  His lips left her mouth, and he trailed hot, sucking kisses along her jaw

  "Please, Tallis." She arched into him, begging with her body as well as her words.

  His hair trailed over her face as he paused to nibble on her ear. "Please what?" he rumbled.

  The deep, dark timbre of his voice seemed to stroke her from the inside out and she shuddered under him. "Please. I want you inside me."

  Changing positions slightly, Tallis rested his weight on his elbows and slid his hands under her shoulders. He loomed over her, holding her gaze with his midnight eyes. "Keep looking at me."

  Jaz didn't know how she could look anywhere else, between his size and his proximity he took up her entire field of vision. She stared up at him, trying not to be intimidated by being the focus of his intense gaze.

  Then he flexed his hips and she felt his cock press against her entrance. In that moment of contact her thoughts fled, her mind emptied of everything but the need to have him deep inside her. Tallis hooked his arm under her leg, pressing it higher, opening her up even wider.

  Without breaking eye contact, he started to flex his hips, each incremental press driving him deeper and deeper inside her. The stretch at her core was exquisite. Painful yet not, too much but not enough. Pleasure shot through her body like lightening and Jaz couldn't catch her breath. Tilting her head back she moaned and closed her eyes.

  "No." Tallis stopped moving, then leant down and bit her on the chin. "Eyes on mine."

  Awash with sensation, Jaz wasn't sure if she could follow his command. But she tried anyway.

  Forcing her lids to open, she had to blink a couple of times to bring Tallis into focus.

  "Good girl."

  He waited another moment, then he drove into her all at once, so hard and deep she grabbed at him for something to hold onto. He bottomed out, and the impact reverberated from her core, through her body, right down to her fingers and toes. The stretch made her pussy burn. It set every nerve ending she had firing in want. Tallis eased out and shoved back in again, a second time, a third.

  And then the inconceivable happened.

  Tallis shoved himself deep and came in a shuddering, body-convulsing wave. His orgasm was so powerful Jaz felt him pulse inside her, hot and strong.

  Just like that it was over, and the reality made her want to weep. On a sigh of unbearable disappointment, she closed her eyes.

  Tallis must have sensed something was wrong, because he didn't allow his body to slump on her in post-orgasmic bliss. "What is it?"

  "Nothing." They both knew that was a lie. But there was no way she was going to tell him she was pissed because he came too quickly.

  "Not nothing." He slid his hand up her back and fisted her hair. "Talk to me."

  Jaz could feel the blush of excruciating awkwardness heating her face. "It's nothing."

  "Jaz."

  The tone of his voice let her know she wasn't going to get away with her lie. Her moment of alien-sex-glory lying in ashes, Jaz opened her mouth and made the situation even worse.

  "When you made me come with your mouth, it was amazing."

  He nodded, but his eyes narrowed in wariness. "You said that."

  "Yes." She licked her suddenly dry lips. "And I'm not complaining. At all."

  "But?"

  "Well, I kind of hoped that the actual sex part of our encounter might have lasted a bit longer."

  Oh, my god. If only there was a hole in the floor she could crawl into. This had to be the worst conversation of her life, and she was undertaking it stark naked with a man lying between her legs.

  Tallis frowned down at her. "Well, it will, as soon as you let me get on with it."

  "What?"

  He rolled his hips, his still thick and hard cock rubbing her in all the right places.

  "You still have an erection." So shocked by the evidence of his arousal, she didn't think about how lame it was to state the obvious.

  "Of course I do."

  "But you came."

  "Yes."

  Now he looked as confused as she felt. Her face still flamed with embarrassment, but she was too far down the road of humiliation to turn back now.

  "Most human men hold off coming until the end of sex, and once they orgasm it takes a while before they can become erect again." Oh god, now she sounded like a sex-ed teacher.

  Tallis's frown deepened. "Truly? Just once and it's all over?"

  "Pretty much."

  He released his hold on her hair and started massaging her scalp. "Is that true for women as well?"

  "No. Most women are capable of multiple orgasms."

  After a moment, Tallis grinned. A wicked, melt your panties kind of grin. "Jendari males always have multiple orgasms during sex."

  "Oh." Jaz's tummy fluttered in hope and her pussy gave an optimistic squeeze.

  "Shall we see if we can have multiple orgasms together?"

  "Yes."

  Tallis slid out of her and pushed up until he was kneeling between her legs. "Roll over, Jaz, and get on your hands and knees."

  Having her big, fat butt in the air was not her favorite position, but Jaz figured she'd caused enough obstructions already. Trying to ignore her self-consciousness, she wriggled onto her stomach and got her hands and knees under her.

  Tallis placed his large, warm hands on her ass and rubbed and squeezed. He let out a low growl and slid his hands all the way up her back, pressing with palms and fingers until he reached her shoulders. Then he did the same on the way back down. Keeping one hand on the small of her back, he slid his other hand between her legs and pressed two fingers inside her pussy.

  "You look beautiful and you feel even better." His fingers pumped and then he twisted his hand so he could rub her clit at the same time. "I love how wet and hot you are for me. I love how your muscles contract to try to keep me inside you."

  His hands left her and once again Jaz felt his cock at her entrance. Tallis grabbed her hips
and pushed inside her in a long, steady glide. Then he leaned over her back, wrapped his arms around her, and sat back on his heels, taking her with him.

  Impaled on his cock, her back to his front, she was stuffed full and spread out all at the same time. Pushing her hair to one side, Tallis kissed her neck using little licks, sucks and bites to arouse her. His hands roved her body until they came to rest on her breasts, and as his hips began to rock he played with her nipples.

  He fucked her in shallow thrusts, his mouth busy at her neck while his hands played with her breasts. Three points of contact that felt more like a thousand. The neck kissing melted Jaz's bones, but the nipple play set her on edge, and being impaled on Tallis's cock created sensations she didn't even have a name for. Then one clever hand eased down her body, over her ribs and her belly, to settle on her pussy.

  Banding one arm over her breasts to hold her immobile, Tallis used his other hand to rub her clit fast and hard, bringing her to an orgasm so demanding it was brutal. Physically trapped, Jaz could do nothing to control the pleasure raging through her body. Her orgasm loomed high, speeding closer like a tidal wave, and when it crashed over her she screamed. Convulsing in Tallis's arms, she shuddered and bucked against his iron-hard hold.

  Still keeping one arm around her he leaned forward, taking both their weights on the other arm as he braced it on the floor. Jaz put one hand out to balance herself, but she was suspended—utterly dependent on Tallis's strength. And he didn't waiver. Not even when his hips pistoned into her and he fucked her hard and raw.

  He growled in her ear, nipped at her shoulder, and pounded into her as though he'd die if he didn't come inside her. It was wild, uncontrolled, and so erotic Jaz felt her own body quicken. Releasing her one-handed hold on Tallis, she moved her fingers to her clit and chased her own orgasm.

  She didn't have to run far. She came with an incoherent scream, her whole body winding tight before she exploded, her pussy pulsing around Tallis's driving cock.

  Then he came, too. Growling and snarling, latching onto her shoulder in a bite that was more possessive than sexual. Pressed as tightly together as they were she felt everything. The vibration of his growls, the quiver of his muscles, the jerk of his cock, and the hot pulse of his orgasm.

  He gripped her so tightly she couldn't breathe. And it was sublime.

  It took a while before Tallis eased his vice-like hold on her and lowered her to the floor. He gave a growl of protest as his cock slipped from her body and, strangely enough, that frustrated snarl only made her smile.

  Rolling onto her butt she smiled up at him, but when he swooped down to scoop her up in his arms she squeaked in surprise. "Tallis, put me down. I'm too heavy."

  "You're not too heavy. You're perfect."

  She was so far from perfect even the idea was laughable, but that didn't stop her snaking her arms around his neck and resting her head on his shoulder. Jaz had always been tall and way too curvy. She'd never been the kind of woman that men swept into their arms. Not as a young girl and certainly not as an adult.

  Being carried by someone strong enough to make her feel safe was extraordinary. But feeling soft and delicate was a miracle that defied description.

  Tallis maneuvered them through his bedroom doorway and strode to the bed. Holding her with one arm he pulled down the bedcovers and laid Jaz squarely in the middle. He came down right beside her so she didn't have to break the hold she had around his neck.

  Snuggling close to get maximum skin contact she reached up and stroked his cheek. "I love how I feel when I'm with you." The words just popped out unbidden, but Jaz didn't wish them back.

  "That's quite a compliment, thank you." Tallis ran his hand down her body, breast to hip. "I was worried I might have been too rough."

  Jaz chuckled. "Well, it wasn't tame, I'll give you that. But it was wonderful." So wonderful in fact, that she had no doubt this alien had just ruined her for any other man who might come along.

  Tallis raised an eyebrow. "Wonderful enough to do it again?"

  "What, now?" Good god, the man was a machine.

  "Yes." A shadow of doubt crept into his black eyes. "If you want to."

  Well, crap. Now they were back in Awkwardsville. "I do want to, very much … but … um … I'm a bit sore."

  Tallis said something in his own language but Jaz could tell by the tone it was a curse. "I was too rough. I knew it."

  "No." Jaz placed her hand squarely on his chest and looked into his eyes. "No. It was perfect. Intense, wild, passionate. It was all the things I'd dreamed of but never thought I'd have."

  "Truly?"

  "Yes."

  He scanned her face, looking for who knew what. Jaz kept her gaze calm and steady, trying to show him without words that she was telling the truth.

  Pulling her closer so they were hip to hip, Tallis leaned in until their breath mingled. "So, are you a little bit sore or a lot sore?"

  "Um, medium?" Jaz had no idea how to quantify her aches and twinges. It had been a while since she'd had sex, and never in her life had she experienced something so intense. Her emotions felt almost as pummeled as her body.

  Tallis's hand cruised over her butt and took up residence. "I can ease your hurts, if you'll let me."

  Wow. That had to be the best line ever. What was he going to do? Fuck her until she was numb? She offered him a wry smile. "And how will you do that?"

  "All rhe'hashan have some healing ability. Mine's modest, but I think it will serve our purposes." He cocked his head. "Will you permit it?"

  Jaz wasn't sure what to do. "Healing abilities" covered a lot of ground, and she had no desire to be Tallis's failed science experiment. If healing involved any kind of injection or alien technology she was going to grab her stuff and go. Fabulous sex notwithstanding.

  Tallis must have read her look of trepidation. He rubbed his hand up and down her back in a soothing gesture. "I won't do anything intrusive or unpleasant. Healing magic can be very peaceful for the patient."

  Okay, now they were getting into white coat territory. Not the lab kind, but the kind with the extra-long sleeves. "Magic?"

  "We call it magic, but it's more than that." Tallis pushed her onto her back and raised himself up on his elbow so he could look at her. "As far back in our history as records go, the Jendari have always been blessed by gifts from the Goddess. We call it magic because we have no scientific explanation for how it works, nor has anyone been able to replicate it artificially. It simply is. The gift comes from the Goddess, but it resides in here." Tallis placed his hand on the center of his chest. "It comes from love, and it emanates from the heart." Leaning down he placed a soft kiss on her nipple. "Let me share my gift with you."

  Jaz was nodding before she thought better of it. This soft, nurturing aspect of Tallis was even harder to resist than the sexy, commanding side of him. And look how well she did with that.

  "What do I have to do?" she whispered.

  "Nothing. Just lie back and relax."

  Jaz was okay with lying back, but relaxing was beyond her. She trusted Tallis not to hurt her, but there was no denying her vulnerability right now. And she hated feeling vulnerable. Fisting her hands in the sheets, she focused on keeping her breathing steady.

  "Are you ready to begin?" Tallis's sexy voice washed over her.

  "Yes." Or at least, she hoped she was.

  She heard Tallis take a deep breath, then he began to sing softly. Jaz didn't understand the words, but the melody was beautiful and every note seemed to resonate deep inside her. She felt Tallis's hands drift over her body leaving a trail of lingering heat wherever he touched. The heat started to build, like the warm comfort of a fire in winter, and as it spread through her body she was filled with a delicious languor.

  All too soon the song finished and the heat slowly dissipated. Blinking her eyes open she stared up at Tallis. "Don't stop. Keep singing."

  "I can't sing the healing song again. Once the healing is done the magic fades." He leaned
closer, dropping his voice to a whisper. "But I can sing you something else."

  There was a sexy tone in his voice that chased some of Jaz's lethargy away. "That sounds lovely."

  Grinning, Tallis rolled on top of her and wedged his hips between her legs. Nuzzling her neck he began to sing, his lips dragging against her skin as he gave voice to his song. Jaz automatically wrapped her arms and legs around him, and she sighed in pleasure as he filled her once again.

  This time was slow, tender, and sweet. Tallis sang to her between kisses, moans and compliments, stroking and touching her with deliberation and reverence. It was vastly different to their first encounter, but equally precious and wonderful.

  When Jaz finally drifted off to sleep, she was tucked in hard and tight to Tallis's body. It was a pity she was too worn out to stay awake and savor the sensation.

  Chapter Eleven

  Tallis felt Jaz stir and turn over, so he moved to follow her, spooning his body close to hers. Keeping his eyes shut, he breathed her in, allowing his senses to wallow in her intoxicating scent. Both man and cat were content, relaxed, and exactly where they wanted to be. Wrapped tight around Jaz as they lay in his bed.

  His bliss shattered when Jasmine screamed like she was being murdered. Scrambling out of his arms she scaled the length of his body, panting like she’d run a mile. Reacting instinctively to her fear-scent, Tallis jerked to a squat on the mattress. Pushing Jaz against the headboard he used his body to protect her from the threat.

  His night vision was almost perfect so it didn't take him long to identify the problem. Itohan sat the floor on Jaz's side of the bed, his eyes glowing a very deliberate and sinister green. Curling his lips, Tallis growled a warning.

  Which Itohan ignored. Human smells good. He flicked his up-curved ears. But she loud.

  Turning away from the me'hendra, Tallis pulled Jaz into his arms. His poor little human was shaking from head to foot. "It's all right, shamira. There's no danger."