Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Eighteen

Forever is in Reach

When Grace leaned in and licked along his backbone, he went ridged. For a moment, he closed his eyes. Concentrating on her touch. Raptor had waited for this... forever. His Keeper, touching him of her own free will. Wanting him as he wanted her. He took a deep breath and lost himself in the sweet scent of her arousal.

Forever was within his reach.

He wanted to take his mate to bed. To claim her, now! Before she had a chance to change her mind. But instead... he kept utterly still. Letting her lick and touch as much as she wanted.

"This is amazing. The Binding Pollen," she gasped. "I need more."

Raptor's body reacted to the whispered urgency in her voice. She needed him. Craved what only he could give her. The tight coil inside—unwound. He'd ignored that pain since he met her, worried that she wouldn't choose him. Again. "There is always more," he assured her.

Grace slowly moved around him. Trailing her fingers and tongue over every inch of his back. He held his breath until she moved her hands over his shoulders and around to his chest. The sensation of her flesh touching his body was driving him wild. His already erect cock jumped with eagerness, with centuries of pent-up longing. Watching with intense awareness as she again stood before him, he waited for something more as her hands continued to travel lovingly over his form.

"Amazing," she whispered and stood on her toes to nuzzle at his neck. Moving up, she licked his ear. And breathed warm air over his flesh.

He shuddered. Raptor wanted to savor this moment. To imprint everything on his memory. His Keeper was kissing him. Willingly and passionately losing herself in the scent and feel of his body.

At the sensitive hollow of his throat, she breathed deeply. Pulling in the heavily spiced aroma of the Binding Pollen. He was enjoying every moment. For now, keeping his hands to himself as she memorized his body. She couldn't miss his reaction to her ministrations. He was naked. It was hard not to notice that his cock jumped with every touch.

Grace slowly licked down Raptor's chest until she came to his nipples. The silver discs were darker than most of his skin and seemed to catch her attention. Sticking out her tongue, she flicked the nub and settled her mouth over the peak to feast. God! This was wonderful. Having her body rub against his felt amazing. Having her mouth on his flesh was even better. His woman was sin and comfort, all rolled into one. He couldn't get enough of her.

Her mouth shifted to meet his. Her tongue slipped between his lips to tangle and dance with his. She was sweet, so incredibly sweet. He lost himself in her soft caress. Mouth still fused to his, she moved her hands slowly down his chest, trailing fire. Finding the hard nubs of his nipples, she brushed her fingers over them. Slowly at first, then faster. She pinched him.

Grace cried out in pleasure as Raptor shifted his body against hers. Wrapping her legs and arms around him, she rubbed her skin over every inch of his flesh. She licked and sucked the glittering pollen from his fingers, his neck, and his back. He knew she was trying to take in all the pollen she could find.

Every so often, her mouth would seek his again. Her kisses were drugging. The spicy-sweet mixture of lust and need made him vibrate with tension. Then she found the small, raised bump on the roof of his mouth. The texture seemed to tantalize her. She caressed it with her tongue, over and over again. Pushed against it. And a deluge of liquid pollen rewarded them by pouring into their mouths. Her body shuddered against him in response. They both groaned. She gasped and swallowed the fiery mixture, unable to stop her silent demand for more as she plundered his mouth.

Raptor's cock pressed hard against her hip, pulsing and throbbing as his body shuddered against her. Grace's entire body clenched with frustration. He knew she needed more than just kisses.

Trembling, he pulled back from her and gazed into her eyes. "Next time, do that when I am buried deep within you," he whispered. "That little gland will provide incredible pleasure for both of us." He lowered his mouth to the soft skin of her neck.

Raptor knew Grace had ingested enough pollen to soothe her craving for a short time. But feeding one hunger exacerbated another. She swallowed more than she needed of the aphrodisiac. Now he could allow himself to enjoy her body and feed her other needs. Within moments, he helped her out of her clothing. Then he smoothed his hand down her arm, over to her soft belly, and up to cup her breast. He smiled against her throat as she arched into his touch. His Keeper was very sensual and loved being petted. And he planned to enjoy obliging her.

Grace moaned with pleasure as Raptor's hands and mouth moved lovingly over her body. His lips, tongue, and fingers played over every inch of her skin. Teasing every nerve ending, making her quiver and beg for more of his touch. His devoted attention snagged on her breasts, and he explored them, intending to drive her wild. Slowly, his thumb brushed one taut nipple while he suckled the other. His fingers closed and pinched, and his teeth tightened and bit. Too gently.

"More. Harder," she demanded. Her knees buckled, and he guided her to his bed. Their bed. It was theirs now. He lay her back and moved up beside her.

Raptor chuckled against her and when he whispered across her wet nipple, "Like this?" She gasped. He bent over her again, this time to pinch and bite harder. Pulling her nipple into his mouth, he sucked hard.

It wasn't enough for her. "More. Please," she begged and moved her head slowly back and forth on the pillow. "Please. More."

Every time he touched her, Raptor felt her body shudder, and her muscles tighten. Everywhere. Raptor moved away from her breasts and licked a path down her stomach. Every muscle clenched as he kissed circles around her belly button and dipped his tongue into its hollow.

"Please, I can't..." She sighed as he pulled her thighs apart and settled between them. She gasped when he touched the fiery center of her need with a light stroke of one finger. He loved all the sounds she made.

"You are so wet for me," Raptor growled. "You have readied your body for me to feast on."

Grace pressed her lips together and struggled to stop the mewling cries she made. Raptor only worked harder to ensure she couldn't stay quiet. His goal was to drive her completely insane. The first hint of touch from his tongue, as it swiped the crease of her body where her leg met her hip, had her rising to offer everything. He rewarded her with a long stroke directly down the center of her clit.

"Raptoooor," she keened, and her hand tangled in his hair. But her clutching and pulling didn't make him go any faster, nor could she pull him away from her center. He put his hands on either side of her and pulled her hips up to his mouth. Circling and swirling around her flesh. Dipping and plunging into her channel, then flickering over the tight bud of her clit.

Grace's body rocked with sensation. She pleaded with him to stop, to go faster, to do something. But Raptor kept his pace slow, kept her poised on the brink and unable to fall over. Kept her climbing higher. He could do this for hours.

Raptor loved the taste of her, the vanilla salty-sweet essence that was all Grace. He lapped at her sex, glorying in the strangled sounds she made, loving the incessant pulling at his hair and the frantic thrust of her hips. "Mine," he growled as he pushed her further. He ground his face into her, thrusting his tongue deep and abrading her swollen clit with his upper teeth. He held her captive as she screamed through her orgasm and struggled to get away from his feasting mouth as she simultaneously begged him for more. And he started all over again.

Grace was sobbing. He lost track of how many times he made her explode in ecstasy under his mouth. He couldn't get enough of her. But she was demanding even more.

Moving back, he climbed over her and fit his throbbing cock at the too-sensitive entrance to her body. She moaned as he breached her swollen folds with the thick head of his cock and slowly slid his long length into her.

Raptor pushed deep and pressed their bodies together. Then tilted his hips forward to grind against her. He could feel her spasm around his cock. Feel the beat of her heart against the hand he had wrapped around her neck. Her body clenched around him in a tight fist, and he threw his head back in ecstasy.

Raptor's body jerked. Grace's body was a furnace of wet heat. It was swollen and sensitive and demanding as she contracted rhythmically around him. Growling in need, he couldn't stop himself. He had to move. He started hard and slow. Thrust. Thrust.

"Harder," she cried.

He slammed against her. Slapping his balls against her ass. Pound. Pound. She felt so good. Tight. Hot. His.

"Please. Faster."

"Yesss," he hissed out. "Mine. Only mine. Forever mineminemine!" Each time he plunged into her, he repeated his claim. Her inner muscles pulled at him, clenching and relaxing with wet heat.

Grace screamed, her voice fading to a dark whisper as she pleaded for more.

"Kiss me," Raptor commanded.

He was happy Grace remembered. Her mouth fused with his, and her tongue plunged into him to seek and find the swollen little bump. When she raked across it, the release of liquid pollen had an immediate result. The savory essence seeped into every cell, and he was thrown higher, left hovering on the edge of madness. He felt her body tighten around him, heard Grace cry out as they exploded in a firestorm of movement and bright lights.

Oh God, the sex would kill her.

He laughed, knowing she didn't realize she had said that aloud. Her body went limp, and Grace was asleep in moments.