Chapter Ten

Rosie

She pushed him away.

“How dare you?” she asked, though there was no anger in her voice, no vehemence. Nothing. Because the truth was, she wanted this, and wanted it bad. Her entire body was on fire. Nerve endings cried out at her, telling her to get closer to him, to let her feel his touch across her body.

“How dare I?” he said, repeating her question, looking down at her.

The uncovered hunger in his eyes made her knees wobbly. She would have fallen if it weren’t for the tree-trunk like arm that snaked around her back and lifted her. Kassian brought her up until she was eye level with him, holding her there as if she weighed no more than a blanket. His arm didn’t shake, or even move as he held her still.

“Yes,” she whispered, licking her lips nervously.

“This is how,” he replied, and pulled her close to him.

The instant his lips pressed into hers, all resistance inside of her broke. She moaned through their kiss, her body seeming to melt until it just molded against his every curve. Kassian’s free hand came up to push several strands of curly black hair from her face, but never once did he stop kissing her.

A split second later she felt the heat. It was like a blazing wall of fire that just leapt out from Kassian and washed over her. She grew short of breath, and had to pull away from his face for a brief moment to gulp down some more air.

“What was that?” she asked.

“What? The kiss?” he asked, confused.

“No. That warmth. It’s like you turned on a fire inside of you,” she said.

Kassian frowned. “I didn’t feel anything.”

She saw him begin to fall from the moment, and shook her head. Oh no he didn’t. Her hands came alive from where they’d been dangling mostly useless at her side, and she cupped his face until he was staring back at her. Then she tugged on it. Hard.

Kassian’s face, and his entire body came with the movement, and they slammed into the wall. His arm took the brunt of the impact, but Rosie still felt a slight shiver of excitement as her shoulders bumped into it with a bit of force. He kissed her then. Hard. She didn’t fight it. That was useless. She’d only been fighting it so that he didn’t think she was an easy target, but now…now it didn’t seem to matter.

“Everything okay in—oh.”

She pulled back from her kiss at the sudden sound of another voice. Both their heads swiveled to the hole in the wall, just in time to see Mila’s head duck back around the corner. A moment later the sound of the fridge being rolled into place reached their ears.

Rosie looked back at Kassian. He was wearing the same sheepish, embarrassed look that she was certain was plastered all over her face as well. The two of them took one look at each other, and burst out into uproarious laughter that threatened her precarious position balanced on his arm and his body.

Kassian managed to keep it together long enough to deposit her onto the bed, but the two of them dissolved into giggles shortly after that, enjoying the tension-relieving moment. There was no need to speak. They both were thinking the same thing. They operated on a very similar mindset, which was something she was coming to appreciate more and more.

Almost as one their laughter died away, until they were left lying on their sides, looking into each other’s eyes. Rosie reached out, caressing the short beard that he was growing in. It was thick but not prickly, and she enjoyed the way it felt against her face. It wasn’t rough and scratchy, but it was just different enough from skin to be kind of fun.

“I’d like to kiss you again,” he said in a voice that seemed too soft and quiet to come from someone of his size and stature. If she hadn’t been in the situation she was, Rosie might have found it funny. But just then, it sent a shiver through her system, raising goosebumps down her spine.

“Then kiss me,” she invited.

Kassian didn’t need any more words after that. He rolled on top of her, covering her mouth with his own as he kissed her thoroughly. She tried to run her hands down his chest, but he took them and pinned them gently above her head. His fingers left plenty of room for her to wiggle them loose if she wanted to, but Rosie didn’t. She enjoyed feeling slightly helpless as he kissed his way across her jaw, then down over the sensitive areas of her neck. His teeth bit lightly into the skin there, and she moaned in response. It was just the right pressure, no pain, but more than just a kiss. Then he moved to her collarbone, and the heat of his breath washed over her.

Her body arched up toward his, her breasts pressing into his chest. Kassian growled in delight at that, and the vibration coursed through her body, hardening her nipples until they pushed through the stretched fabric of her garment.

“Let’s get this off of you,” he growled, and he released her, leaning back to lift her shirt over her head even as Rosie sat up to make it easier.

She was already fumbling with her bra before he’d finished discarding the top. The clasp fell away, and she bit her lip as Kassian removed it from her body, leaving her half-naked.

“You first,” she said as he began to look at her exposed skin. Her fingers tugged on his shirt, pulling it up and over.

Kassian growled in delight as she ran her splayed fingers over his chest, but he was already moving to her breasts, taking first one, then the other into his mouth, swirling his tongue around them, making her sigh from the tiny bits of pleasure that shot through her. He was so warm, she loved it! Now that there was no clothing between them, she could feel the heat more thoroughly as it transferred into her perpetually cold body.

Her hand slid down his stomach and pushed past his belt, until she found what she was looking for. The hard bulge in his pants was bigger than she had been expecting.

He is a shifter, though. And look at the size of him. Is it really any shocker he’s got a big dick?

Okay, so maybe it shouldn’t have been. But this was the first time she’d truly thought of it. Idle thoughts had strayed to the idea of having sex with him, yes. Never had she actually thought ahead to wonder just how big he was. Now she was about to find out, and the hardness she felt through his pants had her eyes opening slightly in nervous anticipation.

“Now these,” she commanded, fumbling with his belt, desire overwhelming any hesitation.

His strong fingers gently pushed her aside, undoing the belt and jeans. Rosie helped tug them down as he comically stood up on the bed itself, shaking his hips slightly to loosen them. Giggling, she gave him a once-over while he was still clad in his compression boxers, and then she peeled those down as well, giving herself a good view of him. He was big. There was no denying it. Her fingers wrapped most of the way around his shaft, which only seemed to grow harder now that she was touching it.

A spreading heat between her legs informed Rosie that she wanted him, and now. Without hesitation she pulled her own pants off, not waiting for Kassian to do it for her. She was eager and ready, just like he was. The shifter didn’t argue, instead just settling between her legs as she spread them slightly for him, until he lined himself up with her.

Rosie nodded as he gave her a last questioning glance, to ensure she wanted to do this. There was no way she could say no at this point. Her body was too turned on by him to stop. His muscles stood out in stark definition as he held himself easily in the air above her, so that his much larger form didn’t squash her. Biceps and triceps were flexed, but not showing any signs of strain.

Her tongue ran hungrily over her lips as she drank in the sight of his rippling stomach and powerful chest muscles. That had always been a week spot for her, and Kassian was drool-worthy in that aspect. He was nearly chiseled from marble, his body was so solid.

“I want you,” she all but panted, her breath coming in shorter gasps as that first moment of penetration neared. That initial burst of thickness filling her up that couldn’t be replicated until the next time. She wanted it, needed it. Her body begged her to fulfill its desires, beating at her until she caved and pulled on Kassian’s waist, trying to encourage him to push inside of her.

“No,” he growled at the last second. “Not yet.”

Rosie went cold. What was wrong? What had she done? He didn’t want to have sex with her all of a sudden? Her knees crossed, closing her off and her one hand wrapped across her breasts, even as she pulled at the covers, trying to conceal herself.

“What are you doing?” Kassian asked, frowning.

“I don’t know,” she replied, pausing for a split second. “You don’t want to have sex yet. Something is wrong. What did I do?”

She wondered if perhaps there was something wrong with her? Did she need to run to the bathroom to clean up? What was it?

“What? No,” Kassian growled, placing one of his hands on each of her knees, and gently working to uncross them.

She resisted.

“Why not yet then?”

He sighed. “I want to use my tongue first,” he said with mild exasperation, a pained smile on his face. “Nothing more.”

“Oh.”

Rosie felt kind of silly. Of course he might want to do that first. Get her nice and warmed up, to help prepare her before he entered her.

“Now, if you don’t mind?” he asked, pulling on her knees once more.

She bit her lip, all of a sudden unsure. But Kassian was persistent in a gentle, reassuring way. He leaned forward, kissing the little bit of the inside of her leg that he could reach, and sliding his fingers down between her legs, nudging them ever so slightly to try and get her to uncross.

“Would you like to stop?” he asked, pulling back as she didn’t uncross her legs.

It was a fair question. Did she want to stop this? To end things before they’d even really started?

“Kiss me,” she said.

Kassian smiled and leaned in toward her. The burning touch of his lips seared her skin as he kissed her with the same amount of molten need that he had earlier, despite her own trepidation. Almost immediately she felt her body uncoil and begin to wrap around him, the forge within her roaring back to life as if it had never paused.

“Take me,” she gasped, the air so hot around them it made it hard to breathe. “Now.”

He shuffled his knees slightly, pulling away so he could watch what he was doing. Rosie stared, her mouth hanging open slightly as he gripped his shaft and pointed it where they both wanted it to go. She gasped slightly when he first split her walls, and the gasp turned into a whimpered cry of delight as he began to rock back and forth against her, both teasing her and giving her time to adjust all at once.

It was an excruciating dilemma, and one that she wasn’t sure she could take for long. Now that she’d had a tease, all Rosie wanted was more. She wouldn’t stop until he was buried deep within her, their hips rocking against one another. A hungry moan slipped through her lips as she tugged on his back with her nails and pulled on his waist with her legs, trying to wrap them around his muscular everything.

“Oh fuck,” she moaned as he finally slipped completely inside of her. There was a momentary bit of pain, but a split second after it came it was obliterated by the pleasure of having him inside her. It felt so good. Kassian began to rock against her, and Rosie knew it would be moments, at best, before she came. The knowledge that she was going to orgasm simply from him being inside of her amplified everything.

“Fuck me. Now,” she instructed.

Kassian pulled his hips back, until he just about slid out of her, and then in one continuous slow motion, thrust back into her. Rosie felt every millimeter of him as he entered her, and when he was all the way in, she felt him flex. The sudden swelling of his cock was just too much. She began to shake and tremble as her body slid off the precipice. Kassian’s teeth dug into her neck and his one hand grasped her breast as she exploded.

Her eyes screwed closed as she gasped and cried out, her body shaking from head to toe. Her walls repeatedly tightened around his shaft. Kassian groaned, and that noise was the final piece of her puzzle as blistering ecstasy rushed through her body, inflating her  muscles as they all flexed at once, and then sending them into a brief spasm as it fled her.

Finally Rosie fell back limply onto the bed, struggling for breath. That had quite likely been the most powerful orgasm she had ever had.

“Kassian,” she began, but he pushed a finger to her lips.

“Hush,” he said before leaning in to kiss her.

She didn’t protest, both because she had no energy for it, and because he was already reminding her that she had orgasmed. He was still harder than steel, his thick shaft beginning to pump in and out of her like a steam engine that was working up to speed.

“Oh my God,” she whispered as the sensations built within her again. “Kassian. Oh fuck.”

Never before had she been overly vocal in the bedroom, but the groans and grunts from Kassian as he began to fuck her; the way his eyes simply drank in her body; and the obvious arousal he got from seeing her naked, all combined to release some inner inhibition she may have had. Her cries began to fill the room shortly as he fucked her harder and harder, picking up the pace every handful or double handful of seconds.

On and on it went for what seemed like ages, but what could only have been minutes at best. Kassian never stopped, never paused. Rosie began to shake, and she saw tightness starting to form under his beard.

“Yes,” she said, nodding up and down. “Please. Do it. I’m so close. We can…together.”

He leaned in to kiss her, a tight, pleasure-filled affair.

“Rosie, I’m going to cum soon,” he whispered in his ear. “I’m going to cum for you.”

“Do it,” she told him. “I want you to. I’m going to as well.”

“Where?” he grunted in her ear, his hips slamming into her with abandon now.

“My stomach,” she said. “Try to avoid the belly-button.”

Kassian grinned.

Rosie tightened her walls.

His expression went wide and she could tell he was nearly there. Her hand pushed between them just far enough so she could caress herself. The added stimulation was too much and she threw her head back.

“Kassian, now. I’m going to…I’m so close…oh fuck…yes…Now!”

He pulled out from within her, his hard cock shuddering. The instant the first thick rope of cum shot out, splashing her from neck to navel, she came again. The warmth of him as he shot streams of molten-hot seed across her breasts and stomach as well just added to the moment, making her orgasm even more powerful.

Her lungs tightened and she couldn’t breathe for several long moments as she shuddered, her index finger playing lightly across her clit over and over again, until she practically melted into the bed, completely spent.

Kassian collapsed next to her, looking equally finished.

She leaned in and kissed him on the nose before she could second-guess herself. The huge shifter gave her a smile more reminiscent of a huge teddy bear than the mean bad boy he purported to be, and then nuzzled his head in against hers. They lay like that for several minutes, simply catching their breath. Then he got up and grabbed a towel to clean her off, much to her surprise.

With the cleanup finished, she cuddled up tight into his arms. She’d originally had intentions of teasing him until he was ready for more, but the comforting warmth of his embrace promptly put her to sleep before she could follow through with her plan.

It didn’t matter. She had a feeling there would be other opportunities.