The Dryad in Her Pool (6 page)

“Is there anything I can get you?” Maybe there was something in her mortal home causing this sickness and feelings of nausea?
But she wasn’t sick last night
, his inconvenient conscience picked that moment to pipe up. Then again, how would he know she wasn’t ill yesterday? Most of his memories from last night were sketchy at best.

For all Reece knew, Quinn could be allergic to her world and the only way to save her life would be the natural, chemical-free existence of his colony.

“You can grab a whole dose of reality.” Her voice came out a bit muffled as she spoke with her head still down. “Whatever you’re on now is causing delusions of grandeur and self-importance.”

“What?”

Chapter Four

Slowly lifting her head, Quinn squinted at him. Even sitting down she seemed to look down her nose as she spoke in calm even tones. “There must be medical reasons behind your temporary insanity. It’s the only reason I can think of why you’d be crazy enough to think I’m leaving my life behind without a word of protest. Everything I’ve worked for, everything I’ve accomplished… You expect me to turn my back on it just to traipse off with you like some brain-dead bottled blonde? Here’s a big hint, oh, clueless one—I am not one of those females who doesn’t feel complete without a man in her life. If I need something done, either I do it myself or I hire someone to do it. No man is worth having around just to say there’s a man in my life. So once again I say, please don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.”

Feeling panicked, an emotion Reece had little experience with, he rushed to his mate’s side, frantic not to lose her. “Wait, please, Quinn, tell me what I did wrong and I will fix it. Whatever you want, it is yours. Whatever you need, I will provide. Please just stay with me and I know we can work everything out.”

The simple touch of his palms against her arms set off explosions jerking his cock to fullness in seconds. More than he needed to be breathing, Reece needed to be in her, fucking her until neither one of them knew where the other ended or they began.

“Why?” Quinn questioned while she leaned closer to him. “I’m pissed at you, but the moment you touch me, it doesn’t matter. I want to be mad at you… I
am
mad at you, but all I can think about is riding your cock until we both explode. Then going back and doing it all over again.” She shook her head as she rubbed her palms over his chest. “This is nuts, crazy, and we must be insane to even contemplate touching one another.”

Answers. His mate needed and deserved answers because otherwise she wouldn’t understand the draw, the compulsion. Mates had to be together—touching, making love—anything that would cement the mystical bond until one mate couldn’t, wouldn’t live without the other.

As she teasingly pinched the sensitive buds of his nipples, Reece anxiously tried to gather his thoughts. “The…ah…mating bond is strong… Oh, by the great oak, do that again.” Temporarily feeding the need to experience his female’s touch, he revelled in the sweet sting of Quinn’s teeth nipping his chest. Had any female ever made him feel half the excitement he knew in his mate’s perfect arms?

“Need you in me now,” Quinn panted as she stripped off her top. “We’ll take up the fight later.”

“Yes,” Reece hurriedly agreed, hungry to touch and feel every inch of the revealed flesh. With her scent filling his head, making him drunk with need, Reece was beyond coherent thinking. His responses were down to one-word sentences as longing and desire flooded him, leaving no room for logic or romance. “Need. Inside. You.”

Left only with the need to act, to fulfil his mate’s needs, Reece pulled her to his chest and took Quinn’s mouth in a searing, burn-down-your-tree kiss, unleashing all his built-up need and arousal.

Circling his arms around her waist, he swung her off her feet, needing the additional closeness of her skin against his. She wrapped her legs around his waist while hungrily moving her mouth over his. The damp heat of her pussy rubbed teasingly against the hard ridge of his cock where he ached and throbbed with the need to take her.

When Quinn sank her fingers into his hair and kissed him with the same frenetic energy running through him, Reece knew their first joining would be fast and furious. Their second and third as well, but by the fourth time, surely he would have come enough to at least get all their clothes off…

“Need you in me now, Reece,” Quinn demanded before she greedily took over his mouth again. Her responsiveness caused fissions of pleasure to bring a haze of moisture to his eyes. Feeling a little unmanned, he quickly blinked the salty liquid away. Starving to touch and taste her all over, he carried his woman to the bed and put her down in the centre of it. Then, with one long look at the silky glow of her skin, Reece followed her down. With her legs still wrapped around his waist, his cock remained lodged against her pussy. Reece couldn’t resist the temptation to rock his hips, groaning into her mouth with the sheer pleasure of it.

The need to breathe finally had Reece lifting his head. Staring down into Quinn’s lust-heavy eyes, he slid one hand over her full breast to tug on her beaded nipple. Desperate to find out if she tasted as sweet and as perfect as he imagined, but needing to know she was there with him all the way, he asked, “You want me? Want this?”

Thrusting her bra-covered breast into his hand, she answered, “Yes, I don’t know what’s happening or why, but I know you’re feeling the same way I am. I need you, so badly. Please, Reece, touch me, take me.”

A shudder shook his body at her words. She may not be a dryad or even an immortal, but Reece couldn’t imagine any other female complementing and completing him better than the woman in his arms. By the sky, how he wanted to feel her hands touching him, caressing him as he’d dreamed.

The thought hadn’t finished forming in his mind when Quinn reached between them to cup Reece through the material of his pants before teasing her fingers up his length. A quick flick of her wrist and she’d released his throbbing cock. He sucked in a sharp breath when his erection sprang free and her dainty palm cupped his heated length. Up and down she stroked him until he couldn’t stop the rumbles of need growling out of him.

When she rubbed a drop of pre-cum on the head of his dick, Reece focused on the plight of the rainforest to prevent himself from coming then and there. Quinn would soon learn that immortals rarely went soft when their mate was around, but he didn’t want his seed spilled in her hand the first time he came with her.

Needing her bare to him, available for his touch and tongue, Reece had the pretty silk bra off in seconds. When her beautiful breasts were finally naked, he wasted no time indulging his desire to touch and taste. He bent his head and sucked a berry-coloured bud into the heat of his mouth. The flavour and scent of her were familiar to him, as if he’d tasted her before.

Shaking the thought away, Reece rocked his hips deeper into her hold as she continued to stroke him. He took her neglected breast into his mouth and laved the nipple with his tongue before drawing hard on the sensitive flesh.

Afraid of rushing Quinn, but needing to be inside her before he lost his mind, Reece wanted to cry out in relief and thanksgiving when his wonderful female freed her hands in an attempt to yank his pants off.

The pants were ripped off his body so fast Reece had a brief thought of how many pieces they might be in before dismissing it from his mind. Other more delightful issues needed his attention.

“I can’t believe how soft you are,” Quinn marvelled as she took him in hand again. She squeezed him tight while stroking the sensitive flesh until Reece teetered on the verge of orgasm. The scent of his mate’s arousal filled the air, making him drunk with desire and forcing his cock to harden even more.

“You have to be naked, Quinn. Need to see and taste all of you.” He didn’t wait for her approval. Reece simply used his heightened strength to tear the remaining clothes from her body. With every second that passed, he lost himself to the inner beast that lived inside every predatory male. His mate allowed the show of dominance as he inserted a thigh to spread her legs wider before he settled his hips between them. He used one finger to test her readiness and groaned when it came back soaked. The scent of her need and passion perfumed the air until Reece couldn’t hold himself back any longer.

A low, hoarse groan escaped his lips as he aligned his cock to her dripping pink pussy and a hard, fast thrust seated him to the hilt in a single stroke. The wet inner walls clung to him, fisting his cock tightly until he swore the pleasure would stop his immortal heart. The pleasure built until it took over his movements, narrowed his focus until nothing existed outside their bodies. The unyielding hold of her pussy had him working his shaft in and out of her with short jabs, any thoughts of rhythm and pacing having flown out of his head.

Making sure his weight rested on his arms instead of his mate, Reece looked at Quinn quivering beneath him. “You feel incredible,” he panted out. “Mine, my mate.”

“Yes,” Quinn agreed on a low gasp of pleasure as her inner walls fisted down on his cock, making it even tighter around him. She cried out, whimpered and pleaded for more while she arched her hips to match his pace.

Helpless to do anything but please his mate, Reece pounded into her faster and harder. Racing to the explosive release just out of reach, he saw the shimmer of the mate bond extend from them both. When Quinn’s eyes popped open, he knew she saw and felt it too. With an almost audible snap, the bond clicked in place, connecting them for the rest of their now immortal lives.

They stared at each other in wonder. Quinn broke the eye contact first as she cried out in release. Her slick pussy milked his cock as he shoved inside one last time before his seed pulsed out of him. Tremors shook his frame as jet after jet of semen streamed into her hungry body. His strength drained, he collapsed on top of Quinn’s sweating body. He nuzzled her peaked nipple while her pussy continued to squeeze his hard length in aftershocks of pleasure.

“Well, shit,” she muttered, then fell silent.

And Reece couldn’t help but agree. Really, after the world had exploded and reformed around them, what else was there to say?

Arms wrapped firmly around Reece’s back, Quinn enjoyed the feel of his solid body covering her as her little aftershocks of pleasure rocked her. With his hard cock still deep inside her, she wondered if there was enough life left in her body for another round. While she had no clue how the man remained hard after she’d seen fireworks, she knew he’d come. She’d felt the hot splash of his release deep inside her…

“Oh shit!” How could she have been so stupid? A hard shove to Reece’s damp chest did nothing to move the man. He only moaned and gave a small thrust of his hips that had Quinn rethinking her plan to move him off. Finally, she resorted to the tried and true mom method of getting a male to move.

She grabbed his perfect earlobe and twisted the shit out of it.

“Ouch, woman!” Those sated blue eyes sort of glowed as he glared down at her. He used one hand to rub his punished flesh. “What was that for?” The offended tone would have made her smile in any other circumstance, but not now.

“Get off me, you overgrown tree branch.” Pushing for all she was worth didn’t move Reece a bit.

In a powerful show of his inhuman strength, Reece wrapped his arms around her, and easily flipped their positions until he was settled with her legs on either side of his hips. He kissed a path down her neck with his talented lips and pulled back his hips until his cock was almost free, only to slam back inside.

He groaned and she wanted to do the same. The slickness of her body doubled with the addition of Reece’s cum. And that brought her right back to the problem at hand.

Sitting up pushed his thick length deeper inside her and they both moaned at the connection. “Can’t yet,” she said, pressing a hand against his firm chest.

“What?” The man look astonished at her words. “I say we’re doing it damn well, better than anything I’ve ever felt before, that’s for sure.”

“Protection. You’re not getting me knocked up then leaving me with a little sapling growing in my belly.” The brief thought of carrying Reece’s child didn’t scare the crap out of her like she’d expect. Instead, the idea of a little boy or girl with his blue eyes and her dark hair made her yearn for something she’d never contemplated before.

“Sapling?” Blue eyes blinked in confusion and the haze of lust lifted slightly.

“Pregnant, genius,” she retorted, though she made no move to get off him. Her inner muscles acted independently of her—the slutty things squeezed and flexed over his hard length causing both of them to pant while they tried to focus on the conversation.

Gasping for breath, Reece finally answered her, “Not pregnant, not the right time for either one of us. Immortal means no disease, giving or receiving. You’re safe. Would never endanger my mate…”

Yada, yada, yada
… Quinn only heard the part about no pregnancy before her libido took over. She scooted farther up, almost purring when his cock sank even deeper inside her. Unable to stop herself, Quinn impaled herself on him over and over again, riding him as though she were a cowgirl in the rodeo finals.

“More,” Reece demanded. He pushed up into her hard enough to lift her knees off the bed. “Take all of me.” He surged up into her, slid one hand from her hip to the back of her neck and tugged her down. When she bent over him, her breasts swinging with the movement, he angled his neck in order to suck one then the other into the furnace heat of his mouth.

Then it was her turn to demand more. “Reece!” she cried out, not sure what she was asking for but knowing she needed it. She danced over the edge of pleasure.

Slipping a hand between their straining bodies, Reece flicked her clit before taking the swollen bud between his fingers and pinching hard.

The blurred line of pleasure/pain was just what she needed. She fell over the edge, screaming her release against his salty skin as the climax rocked her world. Reece came at the same time, holding her hips to his as his cock pulsed his release into her clenching pussy.