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“Are you scared, Caspian?” His voice is low and raspy, sexy in a way that makes goosebumps rise over my body and when he looks up at me, his green eyes are twinkling.
“Not of you,” I lie, though he makes me nervous in a good way. “Just had a bad night.”
“Hmm,” he hums. He moves his hands higher on my back and pulls me so impossibly close that there’s barely a gap between us. He guides my body, moving me so that I’m subtly grinding against him.
My breath hitches and I bite my bottom lip, my eyes locked on his.
“I won’t hurt you,” he says.
“I know.”
Although this thing between us is new and we’re still learning about each other, I believe that with all my heart. Sterling moves me again and I groan. Then he slides me down his body and sets me on my feet.
“I’m going to dry you,” he says, taking the towel from around my shoulders and rubbing it over my chest and down my stomach.
“You don’t have to,” I say, my body already warming up, my eyes growing heavy. He takes each arm and wipes it down, then drops them back at my sides before he dips down onto his haunches and towel dries my left leg, all the way to my foot.
A whine falls from my lips when he ghosts the towel over my erection and rubs the water from my right leg.
“Do you need something?”
I look down at him, meeting his eyes. There’s a smirk playing on his lips. “I can smell your arousal.” He brings his nose to the crease at the side of my thigh. “Can scent the need on your skin.”
God, that is so odd and so fucking hot. Instinct has me threading my fingers into his hair, eliciting a deep growl from his chest. I have no fucking clue what I’m doing. I’ve never been with a man in this way and no amount of watching porn could have prepared me for this.
“Tell me what you want, Caspian.”
Make me come, Sir.
The thought steals my breath, the words trapped on my tongue. Sterling must sense my indecision because he drops to his knees, his hands landing on my hips.
“How about I give you two choices and you pick?” I like the sound of that, so I nod. “Okay. First choice is I’ll tuck you up in bed, put on the TV and sit with you until you fall asleep. Second choice is -” He kisses my inner thigh. “I touch you where you want to be touched, and then I tuck you into bed.”
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STERLING
My human is trembling, his arousal so potent my mouth is watering. My cock sits heavily against my trousers, but I ignore everything I’m feeling to focus my full attention on him.
He’s chewing his bottom lip, his brows furrowed.
“Or I can leave,” I offer. I hate that I scared him in the woods earlier, hate that I turned his delicious sweet fear into something sharp and bitter. I want to make him happy now, make him forget all about the farm, and the shadows and every other thing playing on his mind.
If he’ll let me.
If not, I’ll have to be content to watch him from the darkness. My infatuation with Caspian runs too deep for me to actually walk away.
“No.” He shakes his head. “I…” His eyes dart around the room, his next words delivered somewhere over my shoulder. “I want option two,” he says.
I grin. “Caspian.” My words are laced with command. “Look at me.” His eyes are dark, his pupils blown wide when they meet mine. “Tell me again.”
He huffs, and I lean in and lick a stripe up his inner thigh, then graze my teeth over the soft skin. I could break it so easily with my teeth or my claws. Could make crimson appear that I’d devour like the starved beast that I am.
Humanity is easy for me. I’ve perfected it over many years, but it is just as easily lost and buried under my true nature.
I breathe deeply, not only to drink in his scent but to calm myself, too. This only works if I stay in control. If I keep my teeth and my claws and my knot at bay.
“Two. I pick two.” He’s more certain this time, carding his hand into my hair as he answers. A growl rumbles from my chest as I rise to my feet and lift him. He laughs, his lips meeting my neck right over the place my gills are hidden beneath my skin. The pleasure is immense in that spot, and he licks over it as if he knows what it does to me.
