Even better, she didn’t recoil in revulsion of his scars. Her lips didn’t curl from disgust. There was nothing in her eyes but desire and hunger. She didn’t see him as unworthy or lacking.
She saw him.
No female had ever given him such a gift. In her arms, he felt worthy and whole. There was no judgement. No bitter past that made her hate him. It was just the two of them.
And she wanted him.
Throwing his head back, he roared as unimaginable pleasure consumed him.
Sumi hesitated at a sound the likes of which she’d never heard before. It was a wild, primal cry that quickly reminded her he wasn’t human.
Something driven home when he looked at her and she realized his eyes were now completely red. The color of blood. More than that, they glowed in the darkness.
Was he still him or did Andarions morph into something else whenever they had sex?
“Dancer?”
He answered her with a tender, sweet kiss that belied the ferocity of that cry. Rising up on his knees, he held her against him with an ease that was even more terrifying than those glowing eyes. Yet his touch remained gentle. He left her lips so that he could nuzzle his face against the crook of her neck. Ever so tenderly, he scraped his fangs against her collarbone.
“Touch me, Sumi, please,” he whispered in ragged need before he ran his tongue over her ear.
She wasn’t sure what he meant until he led her hand to the bulge in his pants.
Hauk ground his teeth as she cupped and squeezed him in her tiny, delicate hand. All his life, he’d wondered what it would be like to have a female touch him intimately like this.
Now he finally knew.
It was sweeter than any dream he’d dared allow himself. Unlike his callused hand, hers was gentle and questing. It gave him nothing but bliss. And when she dipped her soft hand into his pants to touch his cock, he had to fight to hold himself back as he panted with desire for her. For a full minute, he couldn’t see straight as she boldly stroked him and made him even harder. His body was both hot and cold. Fevered and chilled. He’d never known anything like this before. Every part of him was alive and far more sensitive than normal.
It was similar to what he felt in a good fight, and yet so much more intense.
So much sweeter.
Sumi smiled at the look on his face as he watched her while she ran her hand from the tip of his cock down the length of it to cup him in her hand. “I think you like this.”
Biting his lip, he nodded bashfully. He lifted his head and pinned her with a needful stare that wrenched her heart. But not nearly as much as the next words out of his mouth. “Will you grant me the honor of touching you?”
It was only then she realized that he had yet to move his arms from around her body. She’d forgotten what Thia had told her about Andarions. That they had to be granted the right to touch their partners.
“I’m all yours, Dancer. I grant you full rights to my body.”
Still, he hesitated as if a part of him was afraid she’d change her mind. Smiling, she pulled her poncho off and opened her shirt for him. Then she took his hand in hers and led it to her breast.
Hauk swallowed at how incredibly soft her skin was. How flawless. Amazed, he skimmed his fingers over the paleness of her large, full breast until he brushed his hand against her taut nipple. His throat went instantly dry. Dying for a taste, he dipped his head hesitantly, waiting for her to stab him for it, or slap him.
But she didn’t. Instead, she cupped his cheeks in her gentle hands as he suckled the sweetness of her skin and breathed her scent in. Wanting to bathe in that precious scent, he nuzzled his face between her breasts while her hands played in his hair.
In the back of his mind was his common sense that told him he would pay for this with his life. But honestly, he didn’t care.
He would die anyway, from something, eventually. And he could think of no better reason for it than being with Sumi.
Just once, he wanted to lie with someone who didn’t look at him like he was a piece of shit. Someone whose touch was loving and sweet. Kind. Gentle.
If he had to die to have it, so be it. It was worth it.
No, she was worth it.
When he brushed his goatee over her nipple, she jumped and laughed.
“It tickles,” she said, smiling at him. She ran her fingers along the arch of his brow.
Closing his eyes, he savored her touch before he reclaimed her mouth for another kiss. Sumi nipped at his lips then she pulled back and stood in front of him. He wasn’t sure what to expect until she toed off her boots then slowly undid her pants.
He couldn’t breathe as she slid them down her legs, baring herself completely to him. She was even more beautiful than he’d imagined.
Every part of her.
Sumi smiled at the famished look on his face as he stared up at her. He still hadn’t moved. It was as if he feared doing anything to offend her.
Cupping his face, she straddled his legs and sat down on his lap. Then ever so slowly, she removed his shirt before she pressed herself flush to his chest.
He ran his hands down her back until he cupped her buttocks. His fingers dipped and probed, making her even hotter and wetter. Unable to stand it, she opened his pants wider and slid herself onto him.
Hauk shook all over as she sheathed him fully with her body, all the way to his hilt. Then ever so slowly, she began to ride him while she stared down into his eyes with a fevered passion that matched his own. He sucked his breath in sharply as the most unimaginable pleasure racked his entire being. All the times he’d tried to imagine this…
Yeah, he was an idiot. No wonder the guys had all laughed at him whenever he’d downplayed the pleasures of sex.
They were right. For this, he’d forgo anything.
Everything.
There was nothing he wouldn’t do for the mere touch of Sumi’s hand against his skin.
Even die.
Right then, she could ask him for the entire universe and he’d gladly give it to her. Damn it. He was hers and he knew it with every part of his being. She owned him. Completely.
And he would have it no other way.
Sumi couldn’t get over the color of Dancer’s eyes as he watched her make love to him. This was something her sister had never told her about Andarions. And it thrilled her that she was the first one who’d done this to Dancer.
No other female had ever touched this part of him. No one had made his eyes glow. And as she rode him, she noticed something else different about Andarion males. He was growing larger inside her.
“Dancer?”
He bit his lip before he answered. “It’s all right, Sumi. We do that.”
“Get bigger?”
He nodded. “I won’t hurt you.”
It definitely didn’t hurt. Rather, it was incredible. He lifted his hips and drove himself even deeper into her body as he quickened their strokes. Breathless, she cupped his face in her hands and kissed him.
In a white-hot blinding wave of pleasure, she came. Crying out, she panted as she reveled in the warmth of him inside her body and surrounding her.
Hauk watched as Sumi bit her lip and spasmed around him. A beautiful smile lit her entire face. She licked her lips and continued to ride him with the sweetest of rhythms.
Gods, it felt so good.
Relieved he’d pleased her, he finally let go and surrendered himself to his own release. He shook all over from the ferocity of it. Never had he felt the likes of this. It just didn’t compare to what he’d known on his own.
His jaw quivering, he laid his head between her lush, pale breasts. Weak and spent, he cradled her against him.