Born of Silence (Immortal Guardians) (30 page)

The strange underwear they wore in this realm still covered her body, but he didn’t seem to care as he bent down and took her mouth with his. His hips grinded against hers, and her own body responded as she felt a flood of liquid rest between her legs. Her heart beat like a jackhammer, as though it was trying to leap from her chest. One of his hands cupped her breast as the other ran over her body and up
to her hair
, which
he gripped in his fingers
.

“Gods, Dani, you are so beautiful. The way your skin shimmers when I touch you.”

“Yes,” she moaned. “It’s because of you, Garrick. I need you.
Please
don’t stop.”

His face pulled away as he looked down into her eyes. “I’ll never stop.”

She nodded and shakily brought her hands up to the clasps on her underwear. Garrick stopped her with a shake of his head as his hand covered hers.

“Let me, my lady.”

He
lower
ed
his head to the
cloth
that still covered her body. His teeth latched on
to the button just over her breasts, the slight tickle making her squirm. The button popped loose and he kissed her newly exposed flesh, causing her breath to hitch.

“Oh, Garrick.” She shuddered.

He smiled before he set to work on the next one, his nose and chin nuzzling between her breasts as he loosened it. Once the fabric was separated, he kissed her again before moving to the next, his heated gaze clashing with hers. He continued downward, grinning as her legs scissored when he reached the last button.

Finally the last one was free, and he pulled the fabric back. Dani la
y
there, bare to him as his gaze raked over her. She shook, afraid that he wouldn’t find her attractive
,
that maybe she wasn’t what he desired.

“Y
ou’re so beautiful
,” he breathed.

She sat up then
and grabbed his head as she pulled him toward her for a kiss. He didn’
t fight her. He smiled
just before their lips touched. Garrick’s hands cupped her breasts, massaging them in his large palms. With their lips still melded together, she reached for his shirt, desperate to remove it. Her fingers fumbled over the small buttons, and she gave up after only unclasping two before she gripped the hem and pulled it over his head.

He went in for another kiss as soon as his shirt hit the bed, and he gently pushed her down onto her back. The hardness between his legs lay against where her body ached. The pain, pure agony that begged to be attended to. Her hands went up, gripping his broad shoulders. Garrick’s lips traveled past her cheeks and down her neck, where they latched on
to one of her nipples. She hissed again, her back arching as if her body wanted—
needed
—more contact. One hand held his head to her breast as her other one roamed between their bodies, down his hard stomach, until it reached the waist of his pants. After a few attempts at his buttons, and a little help as he lifted himself above her, she was finally able to wrench his pants down.

Garrick toed
off his shoes, which thudded on the floor, before he kicked his pants of
f
the rest of the way. Dani did as he’d done to her earlier, looking over the perfection of his perfectly toned body. He was magnificent, and so much more than she’d ever imagined
any
man could be. His skin was tan and taut; his pecks, smooth hardness. Even his stomach was flat and hard, and his shoulders…
.
Well, his strong arms and shoulders took her breath away. Though not as much as the smoldering look on his face as he looked down at her with so much desire that she wanted to cry out from elation as much as from fear.

She reached up and cupped
his face as they smiled at each other. Her eyes moved downward again, to the length of his sex as it hung straight and hard between them. She flushed, snapping her eyes back up to his.

He shifted to the side, lying against her rather than on top of her. His hand slowly stroked up and down her arm as he lea
ned on an elbow. “Have you ever?
”

“No.” She shook her head.

His expression grew soft
, but it also betrayed that he’d already known of her virginity
. “Do you want to?”

“I think so,” she replied. “I mean, yes. I do.”

His hand moved from her arm to her stomach, where he drew his fingertips lightly up to her breasts. “Are you sure?”

Her toes curled it felt so good, and a chill spread across her arms, breasts, and stomach. “Yes.” She grabbed his hand and pulled it to her breast, cupping herself with his palm.

He bent and pressed his lips to hers, darting his tongue inside her mouth as they both moaned. He rolled on top of her again, his hard erection resting against her and causing her to jump.

“I’ll go slow, sweetheart. If you want to go through with this, I’ll do anything I can to keep from hurting you.”

Dani nodded.

“
Y
ou’re so wet,” he groaned. “I can already feel you.”

She could feel it too. She wasn’t sure of a time when she’d ever felt so wet down there—or when she’d ever throbbed so much. She was shaking she was so terrified.

Garrick’s hand traveled down her body as his lips tickled her neck and chest. His hand skimmed over the curls between her legs and then cupped her. She bucked at the touch and he cooed her into stillness. His fingertips tickled her and she gripped his shoulde
r in an attempt not to cry out from sheer pleasure.

“Garrick,
please
.”

“More?”

“
Yes
.”

One of his fingers slid slowly into her and she stilled.
“
Oh!
”
He drew it out before plunging it deep inside her. “
Oh, yes
.”

He set to kissing her
again
as his lips speckled pecks on her chest and breasts, and lower on her stomach. The lower he went, th
e wetter she became, and soon
she felt the pressure inside her grow tighter as he
inserted another finger
.

“Does this feel okay?” he asked.

Dani nodded and sat up so she could place kisses on his skin as well. In and out Garrick’s fingers went. He’d started out slow at first, but started to speed up. Dani’s breath came out of her in rushes, and she was hardly able to keep silent as he tortured her in such a delectable way. She reached down and gripped his erection, sliding her hand up and down his length. He let out a pained gasp and she pulled back. “Did I hurt you?”

“Yes,” he moaned. “But not in the way you think.
Gods, I think you’ll make my heart stop.
”

“Wh-what did I do?”

“Just do it again. Put your hand on me again.”

She did, and slowly stroked him
with
the same rhythm as
the
thrust of his fingers, and soon the pained sounds that came from him w
ere
more than he could apparently stand.

He shifted, looming over her as the head of his penis touched
her wetness. His muscles flexed
and his erection jumped, sliding over her and causing her to laugh nervously.

“Are you sure? There’s no going back if you say yes now.”

In response, she wrapped her fingers around him again and stroked. “Yes,” she said. This
wa
s what she wanted. She wanted Garrick. Needed him.

He nodded. “Guide me in
.”

“
What?”

“Guide me in. If it hurts, just let me know to stop.”

“But I don’t want you to stop.”

Garrick
snorted
.
“I don’t want to stop either. B
ut if it hurts, I’ll wait until you give me the go ahead.”

Dani nodded quickly and positioned the head of his penis to where his fingers had just probed. To where she ached the most. Garrick was above her, his hands on either side of her head. He gradually brought his hips down, and his erection pressed against her skin. She tensed
, her knees tightening against him
.

H
e
s
topped.
“You okay?”

“Yes. Don’t stop.”

“You’re knees are sort of stopping me.”

Dani took a breath and eased her knees apart.
He pushed inside her more, the large head nearly completely inside her now. Her ha
nd clenched around his length.
“It hurts,” she said.

“Okay, let’s wait,” he replied,
though he was shaking
as if waiting would surely kill him right there.

When her body finally adjusted to the pressure, she unclenched her hand. Garrick took the cue and he pushed deeper inside her. “Holy gods
in the heavens
,” he moaned. “You’re so tight.”

Dani was finally getting used to the feeling of him when immense pain
coursed through her
. “Ow,” she cried. “No. Stop. Garrick, stop. It hurts.”

He did as she said.

“It hurts,” she repeated as tears stung her eyes. “You’re too big.”

“Baby,” he cooed as he lowered himself on her. “While my ego thanks you for that boost—and believe me, it does—it’s
probably
not true. It’s because you’ve never done this before.”

A laugh escaped her at the ego-boost comment and Garrick wiped her tears away. The pressure of him was still there, but he’d back
ed
off from the point that had caused her pain.

“I will have to break past that though, Dani.”

“Why?”

He rose up on his arms again and looked at where they were joined. “Do you see that?”

She
looked as well, seeing that there were still probably four inches of his erection that hadn’t made it inside her yet. She’d thought he was almost all the way in by now.

“I won’t be able to make love to you unless we get past that,” he finished. “Do you still want this?”

More than anything
.
She’d work through it
,
bite her lip if she had to. She’d do anything to make love with Garrick tonight.

He knew her decision as quickly as she did. “We’ll have to do this part fast,” he said. “Otherwise you’ll want me to stop again. Are you ready?”

“Okay. Yes.”

She’d expected pain immediately. Instead, Garrick bent and kissed her as he pulled his hips backward and shallowly moved in and out of her. His head caused a delicious friction inside her that had her panting and growing even wetter. She brought her hands up and gripped his hair, urging his tongue deeper inside her
mouth
. When they were finally moaning,
he
pulled away from th
e
kiss and
moved his lips to her neck, just under her ear. He nibbled and her body bloomed in response, her hips rising and her knees falling to the sides. The sensation overtook her, and she giggled in response, no longer able to sense what was up and what was down. Garrick
t
hrust into her hard and fast. He
broke through that painful barrier and groaned as she cried
out. The agony lasted only seconds, and when she finally felt pleasure again, she realized he was barely moving on top of her.

“I’m fine,” she said, drawing her fingernails over his shoulders. “
More.
”

He laughed and pressed deep inside her again before drawing back and pushing forward again, pressing both their hips into the bed. She could feel every movement inside her. Could feel the head of his erection and where it tapered off to the rest of his length. Yes. This was what she’d needed.

He was what she’d need
ed all along.

Dear gods, the woman was enchanting. Her skin shimmered with every movement she made, with every ram of his cock. And the sounds she made…
.
Jesus, he couldn’t get enough.

Garrick increased his tempo, driving into her more forcefully as her fingernails dug into his skin, and it wasn’t just the blun
t nails of her human form. I
t was her bright white claws that she had whenever she’d changed into
the
gilded
goddess
, which her body had been shifting to randomly. Her body was tight and wet around him, fisting
his shaft
as though she couldn’t get enough of him.

He couldn’t get enough of her.

Their mouths melded together again, muffling their sounds. Even with their moans quieted, Dani’s breath heaved in and out of her with every thrust of his hips.