After Dark (Between the Veils Series, Book One) by KRIS NORRIS Page B

levering herself up, sinking another inch inside her. “I promise not to burn you, baby. Not as long as you don’t tease me.”
    He chuckled, then sobered. “Damn. I forgot the fucking condom.”
    She held him tight when he tried to push to his hands. “No, Avery, please.” Her voice wavered and she looked away, her mouth pulled into a tight line.
    He furrowed his brow, drawing her face back to his with a single finger. “Temperance?”
    She sighed, the gentle movement clenching her pussy around his cock. “I know you probably don’t make exceptions, but…I haven’t been with a man for over a year and never without protection. I’ve been on the pill since I was sixteen for medical reasons and I…”
    Her gaze shifted again, as if she’d suddenly found something interesting about his chin. He tried to ignore the hot wash of juice along his cock as every movement sank him deeper inside her, focusing instead on how her eyes looked almost sad.
    He kissed her nose, finally drawing her gaze back to his. “I’ve never had sex without protection, either. And it’s been several months for me.” He leaned in closer, brushing his lips over hers. “But this isn’t just sex, and there’s nothing I’d like more than to feel every inch of your skin against mine. If you trust me.”
    Her smile made the room dim. “I trust you.”
    “Then let’s make love.”
    Tears pooled behind her blue eyes, but he knew she wasn’t sad. She leaned into him, claiming his mouth in a kiss that bound him to her as surely as the demon had marked her skin. He surrendered willingly, granting her access as he slowly thrust forward, taking her channel in a slow, steady tilt of his hips.
    He released her mouth, tipping his head back as her warmth engulfed him, making his heart clench tighter in his chest. Her mouth descended on his neck, her teeth nipping the corded muscle in the way he longed to bite her. The pressure felt good, felt right, mirroring the snug grasp of her walls around his shaft, threatening to unhinge him with only a single stroke.
    “God, Temperance. I’ve never felt anything as good as you.”
    She bit his shoulder this time, her teeth scraping against his skin. “More, Avery. I need more of you.”
    He forced his gaze to meet hers, regretting the decision when he saw the love reflected in her eyes. Whether she realized it or not, she wasn’t holding her emotions back, and he knew she was daring him to refuse her.
    He couldn’t.
    He sighed in defeat, knowing he’d never be the same, never be the man he was before she’d taken him inside her. Temperance seemed to sense his vulnerability, dropping kisses along his jaw as she whispered how much she wanted him…needed him.
    He clenched his jaw once, then claimed her mouth, dragging his cock back through her walls before plunging in, hilting his shaft in one firm thrust. Her voice sounded beside his ear, a raspy combination of his name and a word he couldn’t make out. Her heels flexed against his tailbone, silently begging him for more.
    He reared back again, slamming home as the wet sound of his entrance vibrated off the headboard. She growled in his ear this time, urging him on, begging him to take her harder, faster. He kept moving, pounding into her, shuffling her across the mattress, thankful no one was around to hear the bed crash against the wall. Her channel spasmed, and he knew she was close.
    Avery lowered his body, rubbing his skin against hers as he licked her neck, ending it with a firm bite to the hollow below her shoulder. She arched her back off the bed, shouting his name as her body tensed, then climaxed, warm cream coating his cock as her sex convulsed along his shaft, the rhythmic pulses sending him to the edge. He gritted his teeth, pushing through her clenching channel, fighting against the tight grip of her pussy until the fire shooting down his spine ignited, and he came, his cock jerking inside her as spurt after spurt of seed shot from the