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“S’okay. I, um, I liked it. That. I liked doing that.”

I pull her lower lip free from where she has it trapped between her teeth. She’s going to resurrect my body and be the death of me all over again saying shit like that. “You liked swallowing my cock?”

“I liked… I liked the power? Like that you… You know.”

A question. A question and she can’t finish that sentence. “Power is in your words, hummingbird. If you like something, you need to own it. Say it like you mean it. And say the word, yeah. You like that I what? Tell me?”

“That you…finished?”

I hoist a brow high and push at the curls tumbling around her face. “Try again.”

She takes a breath and then another, gathering herself for the task I’ve set before her. Jesus, it’s hard on both of us, because her discomfort has her squirming. On top of me. Her pussy rubbing against my dick.

She rocks her hips, gliding over me from root to tip, using me to make her feel good. She hauls her knees up until she’s got better leverage, the literal upper hand, and gasps, “I liked making you lose control. I liked that I did that.”

“Mm. Made you feel brave, powerful, yeah?”

She dips her chin as she slides along my length.

“And now? Does this make you feel powerful?” I plant my hands on her hips, not moving her. Not even guiding her, but the need to touch her is overwhelming.

Her back arches, thrusting her tits out and exposing the delicate line of her neck as she works herself up.

“You look so beautiful making yourself feel good. Pink is such a good color on your cheeks.” When she’s ready, I’m going to love seeing that pink on her ass.

Every slide of her pussy, every brush of her clit, has her panting and gasping and moaning. Her arousal coating me until my dick is shiny with it and hard as stone.

“You’re close, hummingbird, but not close enough, are you? What do you need? How can I help you get what you want?”

“More? I need more.” She grinds against me hard, and then slides up farther, pausing when my blunt head notches against her opening. She pauses, her eyes dart to mine, questioning, asking permission? Waiting to see if I’m going to go back on my vow and yank her control away. Slam into her and take and take and take.

I won’t do that. I already failed her by laying hands on her when I told her I wouldn’t, I refuse to take this choice from her no matter how badly I want to be inside her.

Chapter 17

Constellation

TRUIE

He is right fucking there.

My body is humming, pulled taut and ready to come apart. I rock back and allow Teague to slip just inside. Just a little and not nearly enough.

“Your rules,” he rumbles. “You’re in control. Take what you want and only what you want. You’re all that matters here, hummingbird.” His voice sounds like honey dipped in gravel, strained and rough, but so, so sweet.

I rock back and forth, barely taking him inside me. An inch, maybe two.

He said I was brave, that I’m not broken, only bent. I want to believe him. I want to think I’m powerful, that I’m in control. That I can ask for what I need, take what I want, and allow myself to feel without the darkness threatening to drag me under.

I stop. Stop moving. Doubting. Wondering. Wishing.

I hover above him, hands on the hard rounded muscles of his pecs, his cock just barely inside me, and stare into his warm brown eyes.

His chest rises and falls like he’s running a race, his lids are low, but he never breaks eye contact. “You have all the control This is all about you… what you want… what you need. All you have to do is take.”

The last word is barely out of his mouth when I allow myself to drop, to slide down his long, thick cock until my ass meets his hips. The air rushes out of me in a satisfied sigh. There’s not enough room in my body for his dick and my lungs. It’s okay. Perfectly okay, because I don’t need air anymore. I don’t need anything because this is it. The end of me. The end of him. The beginning of us.

I rock my hips, sliding up and down, desperate for the friction and scared as hell. My head tips back, and my eyes fall closed. The pressure that’s been building in me, filling me and making me feel empty all at the same time explodes. My mouth opens on a silent scream, and the world around me expands until I can’t take it anymore.