The Dryad in Her Pool (8 page)

“I love you. I love everything about you. I love the way you look right now. Ass in the air, pussy dripping with your pleasure, but still desperate for my cock inside you.” The confession slipped out, but Reece couldn’t regret it. She was the only woman for him, the other half of his soul, and she would hold his heart until the day he died.

They both moaned when the head of his cock pressed into her eager pussy. Feeling the need to push all her barriers, he dipped a finger into her honey before teasing the tight ring of muscles never before breached. She jerked a little before relaxing in his hold.

“Not yet, my mate, but maybe one day we’ll work up to you taking my cock in your tight ass.” He rubbed the slick fluid around her tight hole with his thumb before pushing it past the rigid resistance. She cried out, arched her back and clamped her pussy down hard on the head of his cock.

“By the great oak, Quinn, I won’t last if you do that again,” he whispered. He slid in a little more, groaning at the different sensation from the angle and his finger in her ass.

She pleaded softly, begged him to stop, moaned for him to never stop while she shoved back trying to take his finger. Reece knew how close Quinn was, but he refused to increase his pace. For once he wanted to touch her with love—not that he didn’t do that all the time, but this one time he really wanted her to know his heart was completely involved, not just his dick.

Her greedy whimpers grew feverishly desperate as he slid a little more of his thick length into her, her hips grinding back on him, making him pant against the need to take her hard and fast. To distract them both, he pressed the thickest part of his thumb deeper into her asshole. The muscles released some of their tension.

Sweating, he slid the rest of his cock slowly into her eager pussy. Her whole body jerked at the double penetration. Her head flew up, hair swinging around her flushed face as she turned to look at him over her shoulder.

“More.” The one-word demand and the rush of liquid heat pouring over his cock broke his control. He couldn’t stop himself from thrusting into her deeper and harder. Quinn matched him thrust for thrust.

Before long, Reece had Quinn’s head flat against the bed while he drilled her ass as hard and deep as he could. With his release building in his balls, Reece reached for her clit and pinched the swollen bud between his fingers. He was rewarded by her wail of release, which increased as he used his thumb to fuck her ass in the same rhythm he used in her pussy.

The tension gathered until Reece felt his whole body might explode from the pressure building, then everything went supernova. He lost his grasp on reality as he came. Shooting stream after stream of hot seed inside her fisting pussy became his whole world.

The release after so much tension had Reece falling over Quinn’s back as his strength finally gave out. Before he allowed himself to fully relax, he pulled his finger from her slick ass and wrapped his arms around her waist. Careful to be gentle, he positioned them both on their sides, his cock still semi-hard inside her as they fought to catch their breath.

Chapter Six

The room had one moonbeam to lighten the darkness when Quinn finally managed to open her eyes. Afraid to twitch a toe, much less do the full body stretch her muscles ached for, she silently took stock of her surroundings.

Her muscles were cramped, and Quinn was sore in places she’d never expected. Thanks to Reece’s thorough lovemaking, she doubted she’d walk without looking bowlegged for a few weeks. Never had a lover treated her so… There really were no words to describe the way Reece had focused solely on her.

If being mated to a dryad was anything like last night, sign her up. Sex had never been soul-encompassing. Somehow she’d felt Reece, and not in the fucked-her-blind kind of way. Each time they came together, some sort of bond would tighten or strengthen between them until she knew his emotions at any given time. Was that normal? Did all bonded dryad couples experience that weird organic link?

As quickly as her mood lifted, another thought brought her right back down. If she died—no,
when
she died…
hello, still mortal here
—what would happen to Reece? Surely the fates weren’t such callous bitches as to let a good male suffer without some type of hope? Maybe he’d find his second mate a few years after she’d died. Yes, she wanted him to mourn at least two years—selfish maybe, but it was the human part of her, so immortals could just suck it.

“Think any harder over there and I’m afraid I’ll start smelling smoke.” Reece tightened his arm around her waist, drawing her even deeper into his embrace.

“Reece,” she groaned as her too-dumb-to-know-better, horny body curled against his solid frame. “I won’t be able to close my legs for at least a week. If you have any hope of me walking on my own ever again, you’ll take that monster and point him in another direction.”

The warmth of his laughter tickled the sensitive back of her neck. Just that quickly, she changed her mind. After all, how important was walking or closing her legs anyway? A little Velcro or packing tape and she’d manage…

“No,” Reece said when she turned onto her back, ready to take him up on any and all of his offers. “You are too sore. If it wouldn’t mean turning in my male DNA card, I’d confess to being a little sore myself.”

Instantly, pride inundated her. She’d worn out an immortal’s cock. How cool was that? “Wait, how did you know what I was thinking?”

Dread suffused her as memories of Reece’s drunken first night ramblings swirled through her mind, along with the sense of closeness they’d developed each time they’d come together.

“We are bound, Quinn—body, heart and soul.” The blue eyes gazing back at her were sincere, but she still sensed a kernel of fear buried within his confidence.

“What is it?” Taking a chance, she turned to the bond shared between them and focused on the fear—a tarnished bronze colour easily picked out. Mentally examining the strand, Quinn’s astonishment made her doubt herself for several moments until reality couldn’t be denied anymore.

Blinking open eyes she hadn’t realised she’d closed, she licked her dry lips before attempting to speak. “Sometimes fear takes on different faces,” she did her best to explain to this man who would move mountains just to make her smile. “I’m the type that gets sarcastic when I get scared. When I said those things to you originally, I didn’t really even know what I was saying. I only wanted to hurt you the way I thought you hurt me. Stupidity causes more fights than actual anger, at least in my opinion.”

Reece sat up, the cotton sheet dropping to his trim waist. “What are you saying, Quinn? Speak plainly, please. I want there to be no more mistakes or misunderstandings between us.”

Swallowing past her fear, Quinn opened her heart to the one man in the world she could openly trust. “You belong to me. You told me that the first night we met, when you were under the influence of Russian tree sap or whatever. You touched me that night too.” She wanted to stop as colour rushed to her cheeks, but she owed Reece the whole truth. “We kissed and then you wanted to…ah…you know…have your dessert.”

“I wanted to eat your pussy,” Reece said, no trace of embarrassment in his voice as he interpreted her sentence.

“Yep, that’s it. Anyway,” she rushed past what she considered the most embarrassing, but addictive portion of that evening, “we talked that night. I started falling for you before you even kissed me. The little things we had in common made up the big things we didn’t. I’ve never spent time with a man who could turn me on, make me laugh and engage my brain all in one sitting. You amazed me. Then when you woke up the next morning with no clue who I was or where you were, I kinda pulled a turtle in the shell move.”

She sat up as well, wanting to finish her explanation face to face though she was finding out that seeing Reece wasn’t necessary when she could read his emotions anytime she wanted.

Sliding an arm around her shoulders, Reece pulled her into a tight, one-armed embrace. “Do you know I remembered that while I showered earlier? At first none of it made any sense. You were so friendly in my memory, but in what I considered reality, you wanted nothing to do with me. Everything in me screamed that you were meant to be in my life, but I couldn’t get the first image out of my mind. I loved you then—that night, I mean—and I fell in love with you all over again. My heart was meant to be yours and nothing short of you eating small puppies and kittens while alive could possibly change the way I feel.”

“Oh, that’s just nasty.” The image alone had her stomach flipping with revulsion. “You couldn’t say ‘my feelings will never change’—you just had to add a qualifier, didn’t you?”

He shrugged. “I’m immortal fae. We always have qualifiers.”

Something tugged at the end of their connection. Something Reece wanted her to know, but hesitated to bring up. Touching the pale yellow strand, Quinn felt her eyes pop open in shock. “Your spunk is some magical fountain of youth? What the hell, Reece? A few blow jobs here and there and women are begging to suck you off? You’re better than Botox injections any day.”

Growling low in his throat, Reece tackled Quinn until she rested naked under his hard frame and very erect cock. “Woman, if you’re going to eavesdrop on my thoughts and emotions, you might want to read everything before jumping to conclusions.”

Huh
.
Damn it
. The man/immortal/sex god might have a point. She’d learnt just enough to get her into trouble, then jumped the gun, so to speak. Feeling the soapbox of justice she’d taken her stand on crumble under her metaphorical feet, Quinn graciously waved a hand for Reece to continue.

“My magical spurting cock, as you so kindly nicknamed it, is not a fountain of youth for the vain and stupid of your society. The energies we exchange while making love are unique to us alone and are only capable of changing my mate—my true mate—into an immortal dryad. You are that female.”

Did he have to sound so grumpy about it? Sheesh, she’d only asked a question. Who knew the man was so sensitive? When he growled in mock anger—at least she hoped it was mock—Quinn’s heartbeat picked up while her pussy clenched in emptiness.

Taking his handsome face between her hands, she stared straight into his gorgeous blue eyes. “I love you. I may have some issues with anger, and possibly a warrant for skipping some mandatory classes, but you complete me in a way that I can’t explain outside a Hallmark commercial. My soul knows you, my heart beats for you and my body craves you with every breath I take. I want you. Be with me. Love me,” she ended softly, gently scattering kisses over his cheeks, eyes and chin.

“You’re too sore,” he said as he slid between her thighs, his cock wet with pre-cum. “I don’t want you walking funny for weeks.”

Shrugging as much as possible while lying down with a hard man on top of her naked body, Quinn looked into his handsome face, smiled and told him the absolute truth.

“Walking is highly overrated. I’d rather be fucked by my mate.”

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Club Botticelli: Ordering Olivia

Allie Standifer

Excerpt

Chapter One

He made her panties damp when their eyes met and Olivia Paisley knew she should look away. After all, she was a respectable business owner, and respectable business owners did not fall into hormone-driven lust fits after strangers in their favourite sushi bars.

But there was something about him she couldn’t look away from. His looks were compelling, but that wasn’t what had her heart racing and her breath catching from just one heated look. With him sitting, she couldn’t quite measure his height, but the way he sat in the small chair had her putting him at over six feet.

His eyes were equally hard to determine. They looked brown from across the room, but somehow her mystery man didn’t feel like the brown-eyed type. Not that she knew what a brown-eyed type was, but still she felt his eyes would be more…

Then he slowly lowered one eyelid before flicking it back up.

He winked at her.

Livia shifted her gaze back to her meal, heat creeping up her cheeks. How embarrassing to be caught gawking at a good-looking man like she was fifteen years old. Feeling foolish and not a little bit horny, she turned her attention to her food, determined to keep her mind and other body parts off the handsome stranger across the room from her.

When she could endure it no longer, Livia slid her gaze over to the corner where the mysteriously hot stranger sat, only to find him gone. She let out a little disappointed breath.

“What did I expect?” she muttered to herself and gathered up the remnants of her lunch. “A declaration of undying love?”

With a shrug, Livia dismissed the entire thing from her mind. It wasn’t as though she would ever see the man again.

* * * *

Two days later

“Ticket, please”

Music teased Livia’s ears from behind the thick oak doors as she handed the requested paper to the geriatric usher.

With a mumbled “enjoy the show”, the red-capped employee crossed his arms over his concave chest, closed his wrinkle heavy eyes and proceeded to fall asleep.

“Thanks,” Livia whispered back and moved to the two massive doors. A slight tickle on her neck stopped all movement.

Without giving herself a chance to think, she turned her head and felt all the air rush out of her lungs.

He stood ahead of her, leaning casually against the wall. Wicked brandy-coloured eyes met hers and she flushed. There he was. The same man she’d gone giddy over two days ago. And that pissed her off more than anything else. Hardly a virgin, Livia had taken men to her bed before, but somehow looking into this man’s heady gaze made her forget all that, forget the successes in her life and all the accomplishments. This stranger’s melt-your-panty stare reduced her to the state of an untried girl.