Forbidden Embers (42 page)

He moved his hands to her waist, determined to be careful as he started to undress her. But he was strangely unsteady, and his fingers shook as he shimmied her jeans and panties down her legs. “I’ve missed you,” he whispered. “Missed this.”

“So have I.” She arched against him invitingly. “So hurry, won’t you? It’s been too long since you’ve been inside me.”

He sank to the floor at her feet, kissed his way up her beautiful calves to her knees and her inner thighs. “I want to play a little first.” He buried his face against her pussy, inhaled the amazing, spicy scent of her.

Her hands twisted in his hair, tugged hard. “Play later. Fuck me now.”

“Wow. You’ve really got that queen thing down these days.”

“I do. And remember, if you don’t please me, I can always have you thrown in the dungeon.”

“You don’t have a dungeon.”

“True. But I can build one.”

“I don’t think that will be necessary.” He contented himself with one long, lingering lick of her clit, then pulled her down on top of him.

“Since you like being in charge so much, you can take me this time.”

Her eyes widened as she stared down at him, knowing how hard it must be for him to offer her that. Logan lived to be in control—in the bedroom and out of it. For him to so easily offer to let her control things between them, even in bed . . . It meant more than she could tell him.

So she concentrated on showing him, lowering herself slowly onto his cock until he was buried all the way inside her. Until they were one.

She rode him slowly, sweetly, loving him with her body the way he always loved her. She wrapped herself up in him, immersed herself in the feelings and the heat that arced between them with each slow rise and fall of her body on his.

Deep inside, need was urging her to go faster, to take him harder, but she wanted this time to be languid, lazy, loving. She wanted it to be perfect.

His hands came up, caressed her breasts, played with her nipples, before slipping between her legs to caress her clit. He arched his back, drove himself deeper, did everything he could to get her to speed things ups.

But she wasn’t ready to come yet, wasn’t ready for this perfect moment to disappear. “Not yet,” she said, gasping as he stroked her higher. “Please not yet. I don’t want this to end.”

He laughed, and she felt it inside her, a little burst of sensation deep in her pussy.

“Cecily,
A Ghra
, didn’t we just decide that this was never going to end?”

She bit her lip, looked down at her lover with his gorgeous face and ruby eyes, which had turned the intense red of his dragon. “Promise?” she whispered.

His face turned serious. “I swear it.”

“Then take me, Logan. Make me yours forever.”

Logan didn’t need a second invitation as he pistoned his hips beneath hers, driving himself deeper, deeper, deeper inside her. Driving himself as deep as he could go, so deep that she could never get him out.

Her hands found his, her fingers tangling with his as they rose and fell against each other. Sweat poured off him, off her, and when her breath broke, he knew he wasn’t going to be able to take it any longer.

“Come for me, Cecily. Now! Come for me now!”

She did, her body clenching around his in rhythmic contractions that took him the rest of the way to paradise, and he emptied himself inside her in a series of long, shuddering pulses.

When it was over, she collapsed on top of him and he wrapped his arms around her, told himself he was never going to leave her again.

She was his. His woman, his mate, his home.

He laughed a little at the realization, pure joy flooding through him.

And when her lips met his, he reveled in the fact that after four hundred years and four continents, he had finally found a home.

 

Tessa Adams
lives in Texas and teaches writing at her local community college. She is married and the mother of three young sons.

 

 

 

L
ike all dragons, Dylan can procreate only with his destined mate—for whom he’s searched five hundred years. His dark, rampant sexual appetite has earned him quite the reputation, all in the pursuit of his one true match.

But his search is delayed when a deadly disease sweeps through the Dragonstars, and Dylan must venture to the human world to find a cure. He tracks down renowned biochemist Phoebe Quillum, never imagining the beautiful scientist will be the mate he’s been seeking for centuries. But no sooner do they meet than Phoebe and Dylan are besieged by obsessive, overpowering sexual desire.

Their passion turns to something truer—and they know in their souls and bodies that they’re in too deep to get out. And when Phoebe is kidnapped by Dylan’s oldest enemy, he must risk everything to reclaim the only woman he’s ever loved, or his clan will be wiped out forever.

 

“A sexy and intriguing new world. I’m looking forward to seeing where Tessa Adams takes her dragons next.”

—Nalini Singh,
New York Times
bestselling author

 

“A blistering-hot, fast-paced adventure that will leave readers breathless. Dylan and Phoebe have great chemistry and a romantic story that will captivate you and keep you turning pages long into the night.”

—Anya Bast,
New York Times
bestselling author

 

“A fantastic debut . . . there was even a moment I felt myself get teary eyed—in an erotica, people!”

—Among the Muses

Q
uinn Maguire, healer of the Dragonstars, has been unable to find a cure for the insidious disease killing off his people one by one. Yet even in such dire circumstances, Quinn can’t bring himself to approve when the head of the clan enlists Dr. Jasmine Kane for help. She is female. She is an outsider. She is human.

Decked out in black leather and a tough attitude, Jasmine clashes with conservative Quinn in more ways than one. But when he realizes she’s his destined mate, Quinn doesn’t know whether to rejoice or to rebel. While Jasmine makes him burn hotter than any woman ever has—dragon or human—their differences make a relationship impossible.

But when a rival clan infiltrates the Dragonstars, Jasmine becomes the first human infected with the disease. Now Quinn must do everything in his power to find a cure . . . before he loses the only woman he’s ever loved.

 

“This second installment in the Dragonstar series is a glorious continuation of the first, filled with a fiery passion that’s hot enough to set the desert sands aflame.”

—
Romantic Times
(4½ stars, Top Pick)

 

“A no-holds-barred epic romance where no emotion is left unscathed. . . . [Tessa Adams] is fearless as she rains down acute tragedy upon
Hidden Embers
. I’ve read some tragic scenes in romance but I’m thinkin’ that Adams takes the cake here. Girl had me in tears! From beginning to end, I was in love with this story!”

—Lovin’ Me Some Romance (4½ stars)

 

“A super thriller that contains three fabulous subplots.... The lead couple is a delightful pairing of opposites who heat the pages when taking a respite from their save-the-clan quest.”

—Harriet Klausner, Genre Go Round Reviews

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