Chapter Seven
Jade
Jade felt the hum of satisfaction radiating off Noah as she lay next to him. Close to a week ago when they’d met, she couldn’t fathom Noah being interested in getting to know her, much less being so open about the fact that he was her mate and seemed to be accepting of his new reality.
But she had spent the last few hours tracing every inch of his skin and still didn’t feel as if she knew him well enough. She savored the sounds she drew from his throat and whenever he moaned, she felt as though she’d been given a gift.
Noah, by nature, was an observer. He learned a lot about people by the way they acted, and if he silently stood apart from everyone, they would eventually forget he was there and give way to their true selves. So when he trained with the assassins, she thought of him as standoffish and uninterested in her, but he needed time to process what she might mean to him in his life. She understood perfectly, and as the only sound in the cave was the humming of the heaters and their deep breathing, she found herself more content than she’d ever been.
“What are you thinking about?”
Jade brought her head up and met his eyes. “I’m trying to figure you out, I suppose. I can understand you not wanting to get involved with more immortals, especially what happened after Sam, but today, you seemed to have…I don’t know, reconciled your feelings.”
Noah turned toward her, still cradling her pliable body against his. When he caught her gaze, she noticed his eyes sparked with something unidentifiable.
“My judging you and the assassins before I met them was a mistake. But the way everyone welcomed me and talking to them made me understand exactly how wrong I was. I know you kept your distance because you didn’t want to pressure me into anything. It gave me time to think about the feelings you stirred in me from the moment we met.”
Jade opened her mouth to ask the question she wasn’t sure she wanted to hear the answer to, but Noah beat her to the chase.
“And no, the feelings are partly because of how beautiful you are. Although you’re a highly trained and deadly assassin, your concentration on being the best in everything you do, whether it be with your family, or with Silas, or being the deadliest assassin out of the group—you do it with your whole heart. You put others before yourself and even though I hurt your feelings, you never held it against me.”
She was stunned silent and he cupped the back of her head and kissed her.
“I’m curious to see you with your red hair.” Noah moaned into her mouth as he deepened the kiss, until she shook in his arms from the pent-up desire. “Can I make you feel good?”
Jade breathed, “Yes.”
Noah rolled Jade on her back and when he pressed his body down on hers, she sucked in a breath as her nerve endings exploded with sensations. She wrapped her arms around his torso and begged him silently for more.
He gripped her wrists in one hand and moved her arms above her head as he pressed his mouth against her neck and nipped the sensitive skin around her ear. Her hips jerked up and she felt his renewed hardness against her thigh and moaned aloud.
The sound spurred Noah in movement and he kissed down her neck.
She arched toward Noah’s mouth, wanting to feel his mouth on her breasts for the first time in her life. They ached for his touch and when he drew one nipple into his mouth, flicking his tongue against the hardened nub, the keening sound that left her mouth sounded so foreign, it took her several moments to realize it came from her. Instead of stopping, he continued between the two until she could feel her body shaking and she clutched Noah close.
“Yes, I love being able to touch you.”
Noah’s mouth trailed down her stomach and when he kissed around her belly button, she tensed.
“What…what are you going to do?”
“I’m going to make you come in my mouth using my tongue and fingers, and after, if you want, I’m going to make love to you.”
Everything froze in that one moment. She opened her mouth to beg for exactly that but no sound came out. Noah, misunderstanding her silence, surged back up and cupped her face.
“It’s okay, baby. We don’t have to do anything if you don’t want to.”
Jade shook her head and forced herself to speak. “No, no, I want that, what you said, but I think my brain stumbled over itself when I tried to picture it in my head.”
Noah chuckled and buried his face into her neck. “I love your innocent reactions. They are an unbelievable turn-on.”
“Everything you do makes my body vibrate.”
“Then you’re going to love this.”
Noah kissed down her body again, but this time, he settled in between her thighs. “Let me know if you want me to stop.”
She barely nodded when his head bent down and he licked a small swath of skin on her inner thigh. She sucked in a deep breath and waited for more. He licked the other one and without further teasing, pressed his lips around her clit and gently pulled it into his mouth. And if that wasn’t devastating enough, he swirled his tongue around it in a way that had her bucking her hips and moaning his name.
“Oh, fuck.”
Noah chuckled against her clit and the sensations exploded through her body. In the next few minutes, or it could have been hours since Jade lost all sense of reality, Noah brought her to the precipice of orgasm before backing away and making her growl his name. Her body was buzzing and without realizing, she had gripped a rock behind her head and it disintegrated in her hands.
“Noah. I don’t…can’t…”
Noah glanced up and when she spotted his lips coated with her wetness, her body shivered and she felt a surge of wetness pour down, soaking the bag underneath her and earning a groan from Noah.
“Fuck, baby. I want to try something.”
She didn’t care as long as he touched her.
He slid one finger inside and she immediately clamped down on it, loving the feeling of him inside her, even if it was his thick finger. With slow, deliberate movements, he moved his finger in and out, searching for something she didn’t understand. After several minutes, he added another finger to the movement, and this time, when he crooked his finger to the right, Jade’s orgasm struck with a ferocity that left her breathless. She was aware enough, but barely, when she arched her back and her body released with a splash.
“Oh, fuck.”
His words sounded as if he was in awe, but her body was shaking with such desire that she could only beg for more.
“Fuck me, Noah. I need you inside.”
When Noah came into view, she noticed his hand was wet and when she dropped her eyes lower, so was his chest. He crawled up and kissed her with an intensity that brought back the need for him. She loved kissing him, it was something intimate she could share with him, but now she wanted to feel him inside.
Noah braced himself on his left forearm and reached for his cock with his right hand. As he brushed his cock against her entrance, it took everything in her power not to lift her hips and demand more. And with a slow ease, his cock pressed inside and she held her breath as the sensations enveloped her.
“Yes, more.”
Noah brought both hands up to cup her face and when he leaned down to kiss her, he drove his hips forward, plunging his cock all the way inside her. Without thinking about it, she clamped down on his cock and drew a moan from deep in his chest.
“You feel so good.”
“So do you, baby. So tight and wet for me.”
She wrapped her legs around his hips and forgetting the reason why she shouldn’t move, lifted her hips and fucked herself on his embedded cock. She knew he was large when she took him in her mouth, but the sensations having him in her were better than she could’ve imagined. And he hadn’t moved yet.
As she opened her mouth to beg, if need be, he pulled his hips back until his cock was just inside before he surged back in, drawing a moan and had her clutching his back.
“More.”
He gathered her in his arms and with his mouth on hers, pulled out and drove into her, over and over again. He knew he didn’t have to be gentle and she was grateful he wasn’t.
She leaned her mouth toward his neck and licked the sweat from the hollow of his throat, loving the taste of him. Having him inside her made her feel alive and when he hit a spot that made her see stars, it sent shafts of pleasure up her spine.
His thrusts were relentless and she loved every minute of it. Her hands weren’t idle as she clutched at his back and when they moved to his ass, she could feel his muscles expanding and contracting as he drove into her.
She tensed when he moved his hands from her head to her hips, and soon she found Noah on his back and her seated on his cock with her hands on his chest.
“Fuck me, baby. Take your pleasure.”
Testing her movements, she raised her hips and found the delicious slide of his cock inside her to be more intense. She raised herself a little more, in the same way he had before until just the tip was inside her, before she dropped back down.
“Holy fuck that feels good.”
Jade squeezed his cock and kept her muscles tensed as she drove herself onto him over and over again. She always wanted to feel this good, to have Noah inside her, but suddenly she felt guilty because she was taking her pleasure and not thinking about Noah.
“Is this…good for you?”
Noah gripped her hips and groaned as she came down and gave her hips a little twist.
“Better than good. I’m getting close.”
Jade kept up the movements, but took a moment to glance down. Noah’s chest and neck were flushed and his eyes were glazed as he devoured the sight of her on top of him, taking her pleasure. His hands squeezed her hips when he spotted her gaze on him and she could tell that he tensed.
His thumb came to rest on her clit and the next time she dropped down onto him, he flicked her clit with his thumb and that was all it took for her release to strike. Her spine tensed and she threw her head back, bracing her hands on his taut stomach as her orgasm left her breathless. Sensation exploded throughout her body, but his voice broke through her pleasure haze and she concentrated on what he said.
“I’m going to come, baby.”
“Yes, inside me. Come inside. I want to feel everything.”
Noah wrapped his arms around her back and with a quick turn, she was on her back staring up at Noah’s face. He had a look of such intensity on his face, she shivered as the last of her orgasm waned. But once she relaxed, he slid his hands underneath her ass and drove into her, lifting her hips to meet his thrusts.
“Fuck, baby, you’re perfect.”
Her body started shivering with a new sensation of an orgasm lingering up her spine. With two more thrusts, driving him down into her body, he screamed her name and emptied deep inside. His throbbing cock set her off again and she found her muscles clenching down on him.
Taking her by surprise when she spotted his corded neck as he dropped his head down onto her chest, her mouth watered at the urge to bite down and mark him as her mate. But as soon as the thought came into her mind, she dismissed it.
They’d never spoken about transitioning and what it entailed. Now she had an inkling of what each of the assassins went through when they saw their mates go through the transition, in pain and not being able to do anything about it. She would never do that to him. And knowing how he felt about Sam’s death, she would never take his choice away from him. Instead, she licked the spot where she would have marked him, leaving an invisible mark that only she knew about.
Noah dropped down on her and she laughed, holding him close as he buried his face against her neck and used her hair as cover. Knowing they were both exhausted, she reached for the second sleeping bag and placed it over both of them. With the heaters in the cave, they didn’t need a lot of covering, and Jade was happy to have Noah on top of her, acting as a blanket.
“Is this okay?” Noah asked.
“Yeah, I like holding you. I know I’m smaller than you, but your weight feels so good on me.”
Noah chuckled.
“Well, now I know sex makes you giddy. I’ll have to use that to my advantage.” She let out an evil laugh that was spoiled when Noah joined her with a full, throaty laugh. That sound alone made her happy.
“I’m torn between sleeping or grabbing some food.”
“How about we take a nap and then eat dinner? We’re going to head out early tomorrow to miss the storm, so if we eat later and then in the morning, we’ll have enough energy to get there in record time. I estimate about a four-hour trek back from this spot.”
Noah nodded against her neck, not even managing to lift his head. “Sounds good.” His voice was slow and measured.
She pulled him closer and pressed a kiss to his forehead. “Sleep, Noah.”
“Okay.”
And as Jade closed her eyes, the steady breathing of Noah’s breath against her skin and his warmth pulled her under and soon, she was asleep.