out instinctively to taste the air then lingered to savor the scorching-hot , sweet tang of her arousal. His mind went blank for a long moment, the world narrowing to that one sense, his entire being focusing with exquisite intensity on her flavor. He’d never tasted anything like it. He felt a sense of sharp dislocation, as if the universe had just rewritten itself. Or him.
“I need you,” she whispered .
H e was across the room before he’d even thought about moving. She startled to her feet but he didn’t hesitate, dropping to his knees and grasping her slim hips to hold her still. Her inner thighs were damp, labia swollen and beaded with her juice. Her hands clamped on his shoulders, extended claws snagging his scales in warning, but he barely noticed, tongue flashing out to dive between her lips and sink into that intoxicating tangy sweetness.
She came with a full body jolt and a strangled shout, falling back against the wall. He held her up with absent attention, the rest of him intensely focused on the gush of liquid bathing his tongue and mouth as he pressed closer and drank like a desperate man in a desert.
He speared his tongue into her channel then dragged it out to swirl over her clit, again and again, while she bucked against his face and climaxed over and over. He lived it with her, hardly hearing her mewling cries or his hoarse grunts, hardly aware of his hips jerking in rhythm with hers as he shot his loads.
Most of him was with her, in her, feeling his own tongue tunnel with ruthless flicks inside her pussy and tug on her clit with a rough rasp that sent sharp shards of pleasure slicing through her in all directions. The taste of her blended it all together, merging them in a hazy sea of sensory bliss while some possessive animal deep inside him growled in fierce satisfaction.
Wh en it became too much, he eased his pressing hold on her hips, letting her quaking body slide down the wall to sprawl across his thighs. He leaned forward, resting his forehead on the wall next to her ear, listening to their ragged breaths with dazed amazement as his mind slowly started to function again.
What the hell had just happened? He hadn’t thought about being a test subject or whether he should “participate,” hadn’t even asked her what she wanted. He’d taken one taste of her and had come undone. He’d practically attacked her. What was wrong with him?
Neeri, he whispered contritely in her mind. Neeri, I’m so sorry, are you all right?
“ Oh, Adin,” she moaned, hands clutching his arms. She still trembled all over, buttocks quivering on his knees, thighs twitching with spasms that mirrored the aftershocks in her channel. He felt it with her, felt her nearly incoherent relief and hazy delight. “More than all right.”
He smiled his own relief before her words fully registered. Then his eyes popped open, slow tension filling his muscles. He sat up carefully, fingers tightening on her hips. How did you know my name?
She winced, visually and mentally. He felt her quick spike of dismay, heard her think whoops , and he pulled back with his mind and body. He scooted out of touching distance and stared at her.
You’re one of them.
She grimaced a little, folding her legs in to her chest and wrapping her arms around them in an oddly vulnerable gesture. “Technically…not really. I’m just the hired help.”
Hired to do what?
Her eyes flicked around the room, lower lip caught in her nibbling teeth. Her brows pulled together in a quick frown as she snatched a breath and let it out on a rough sigh. “I can still smell her in here. I suppose you had fun with Shells.”
He shook his head, distracted for a moment by her disgruntled tone. Hired to do what, Neeri? he repeated in hard demand.
She cleared her throat, still not looking at him. “Don’t suppose you’d believe me if I said I’m just the cleaning lady.” Then she slanted him a look both ruthful and amused.
He was suddenly, shockingly