Total pages in book: 126
Estimated words: 124077 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 620(@200wpm)___ 496(@250wpm)___ 414(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 124077 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 620(@200wpm)___ 496(@250wpm)___ 414(@300wpm)
“Please feel free to try soap and water first, if you don’t believe me,” Taurex said quickly. “You know where the bathing chamber is.”
She hesitated, then slowly shook her head.
“No, I believe you. You’ve never lied to me before.”
Taurex felt as though she’d stabbed him in the heart with her words. He had lied to her—or at least, he had been concealing the truth. He had yet to tell her they were fated mates. But now was not the time.
For now, what he needed was to heal her of the effects of the pleasure blooms.
28
TERRA
Terra couldn’t help the tremor that ran through her body as the big Monstrum leaned over her. It was a mixture of excitement, desire, and fear, she thought. She’d never been with a male as big as Taurex before.
The sheer scale of him, the width of his shoulders blotting out the dim glow-vine light, the twin shadows of his horns against the wall—it should have been intimidating. But the look in his golden eyes wasn’t predatory at all. He looked at her as though she was precious and he wanted to avoid hurting or breaking her.
“I will be as gentle as I can,” he murmured, his voice a low, gravelly vibration that she felt in her bones. “Tell me if you want me to stop. This is for healing, Terra—remember that.”
She nodded, unable to form words. Her throat was too tight. Healing…right. That was the only reason his face was inches from her bare breasts, which felt achingly heavy and sensitive, the dark red nipples throbbing with a dull, insistent heat and need.
Taurex didn’t touch her with his hands. He kept them braced on the bed on either side of her hips, holding his own immense weight off her. He simply lowered his head to reach her.
The first touch wasn’t his mouth—it was his breath—a warm, damp puff against her fevered skin that made her nipple peak instantly into a hardened, desperate point. She gasped, a short, sharp sound in the quiet room.
Then his tongue touched her.
It was broad and softer than she expected. It was warm but also somehow, blessedly cooling to her fevered flesh. Taurex didn’t flick or tease –instead, he laid the flat of his tongue over her entire nipple and the inflamed, reddened areola around it, and licked slowly, firmly upward.
The effect was instantaneous and shocking—a tingling, cooling sensation spread from the point of contact, like aloe on a sunburn, chasing away the painful throb.
A sigh of pure relief escaped Terra’s lips. But underneath the relief, another feeling was uncoiling—a sharp, sweet bolt of pleasure that arrowed straight down between her thighs, making her inner muscles clench with longing.
“Ohhh…” she breathed.
Taurex made a sound deep in his chest, a low hum of satisfaction.
“Better, lovely one?” Taurex rumbled.
“Much better,” Terra told him. “But please…don’t stop.”
“I won’t stop until you’re fully healed,” he promised.
Ducking his head, he repeated the motion, his tongue moving with a slow, deliberate thoroughness, painting her skin with wet, cooling strokes that eased her pain while sending sparks of pleasure through her body. He swirled around the peak, then sucked gently, pulling her nipple into the delicious heat of his mouth.
Terra cried out, her back arching involuntarily off the bed. It wasn’t just the relief that made her moan now—it was the pleasure he was giving her. His mouth on her felt amazing. His suction was perfect—strong but not painful—and the lazy, circling lap of his tongue over her sensitive peak was sending waves of sensation through her nervous system. The dual sensations—the dissolving of the irritating secretions and the building wave of raw pleasure—were becoming impossible to separate.
“Taurex…” she whimpered, her hands coming up to clutch at his muscular arms. “Oh, God…”
He didn’t say anything—only released her nipple with a soft, wet sound and immediately turned his attention to the other one, giving it the same meticulous, worshipful treatment. As he laved and sucked, Terra moaned and arched her back to give him better access.
Taurex seemed to love her reaction—he groaned softly, the sound vibrating through her entire body as he sucked even harder. At last he released her second nipple and looked up, his golden eyes half-lidded.
“By the Goddess, lovely one,” he rumbled against her skin, his voice thick. “You taste incredible. Salty and sweet and perfect.”
His words, growled against her sensitive flesh, sent another shiver through her. No one had ever talked to her like this. No one had ever treated her body like something precious to be savored. Jackson hadn’t believed in foreplay at all—he’d just grunted and panted and rolled off her. But this… this was something else entirely.
He spent a long time on her breasts, until the angry red had faded to a warm, rosy pink and the painful sensitivity had been replaced by a delicious, humming sensation. Every nerve there felt alive, singing with his attention. When he finally lifted his head, his breathing was uneven. In the faint light, she could see his massive chest rising and falling rapidly.