Chapter 9: The First Night

His room was at the top of the east tower, and the fire was already banked low and red.

He shut the door behind us and leaned back against it.

I stood in the middle of the floor in his black coat and nothing else.

"Last chance to change your mind," Ronan said.

His voice was a rasp.

"I never wanted a last chance."

I walked up to him and took hold of his belt.

He covered my hands with his, and I felt him shake.

"Tell me what you want."

"You," I said. "Slowly, first. Then not."

He made a sound that was almost a laugh.

He lifted me in his arms.

He carried me to the bed and laid me on it.

He stood over me with the firelight on his scar.

Then he knelt and opened the coat.

He took his time with every inch it uncovered.

He kissed my collarbone, and the soft place under my ribs.

He kissed the curve of my stomach where nothing showed yet.

He stayed there a moment with his mouth against my skin.

My eyes stung.

"Don't," I said. "Not yet. Come here."

"Patience."

"I've had three years of patience."

He looked up at me, dark-eyed and serious.

"Then let me spend it properly."

He moved down the bed and put his hands on my thighs.

He spread me open, and he looked at me for a long moment, and I felt it.

"Ronan."

"Mine to pay," he murmured. "I told you. I always pay."

His mouth closed on me.

I cried out and my back came off the mattress.

He was slow, and then he was relentless.

His tongue was flat and hot, circling my clit and then pressing.

Then he dipped down to taste me, and went back again.

He held me still when I tried to arch away, one big hand spread across my hip.

I got my fingers into his hair.

"Don't stop," I said. "Don't you dare stop."

"I'm not going anywhere."

He slid two fingers into me, and curled them.

My whole body tightened.

I came with his name in my mouth and my heels digging into the quilt.

The sound I made was one I had never made before.

He didn't let me come down.

He kept going, gentler, until I was shaking and laughing and swearing at him.

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