My Panther Mate & Our Little Cub novel · Chapter 9 of 24

Chapter 9: Rain

Nobody said a word as Darek walked me out of the circle.

Hesper took Tuck on her hip and a basket on her arm, and said, to no one in particular, "He's staying at mine tonight, he is, and nobody wake the poor lamb."

I could have kissed her.

Darek had my hand, and I could not have let go of it if the sky had fallen.

We reached the den with the door barely shut behind us before he turned.

"Corina."

I'd already pulled his shirt out of his belt.

"I want you," I said, "and I would like to stop talking about it."

He made a low, rough sound and kissed me against the door.

My back hit the wood and his hands were in my hair and his weight pinned me, big and hard.

I was shaking with how much I wanted it.

It was Ila's body.

It was mine too, now, every nerve of it, and it had gone three years without being touched.

I felt it all.

"Bed," he said into my throat.

"Too far."

He laughed, a short dark breath, and swept the table clear with one arm.

The bowls rang on the stone.

He lifted me onto the edge of it and I wrapped my legs around his waist and dragged his mouth back to mine.

Rain started on the roof, soft at first and then a roar.

He pulled my tunic over my head and stopped.

His eyes ran over my bare skin in the firelight, the ribs I was still putting meat back on, the pale line of the bond mark glowing at my wrist.

"You're too thin," he said hoarsely.

"Then do something about it."

His mouth found my breast.

I arched into him with a cry I'd never made in my own life.

His tongue circled the nipple, slow and unhurried, until I was clawing at his shoulders.

His hand slid between my thighs, and I was so wet he groaned against my skin.

"Gods, Corina."

"Darek, please."

He pushed the skirt up my hips and stroked me through the fabric, hard, circling my clit with his thumb.

My head fell back against the wall.

I came apart in his hand in thirty seconds, shuddering, biting my own lip bloody.

He didn't stop.

He tore the cloth away and dropped to his knees on the stone floor and put his mouth on me.

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