place, the key within his grasp, he was letting a hot body and a sexy smile distract him.
To hell with it. They would open the goddamn gate tonight and he would go home. He couldn’t afford to get emotionally involved with the woman who was his ticket back to his world. The woman he had to sacrifice in order to succeed.
It’s not really a sacrifice, a tiny voice whispered in the back of his head. But it was, he knew that all too well. He would take her to his world, stripping her of her own reality, everything she cared about. She could never come back, for he would have to return as well. Once they opened the gate, they would be inexorably linked.
“I’m ready.”
The sound of her soft voice made him pause. She was innocent in all of this. Could he ask her to make the sacrifice? Did he have a choice?
She moved beside him, her arms wrapping around his waist, and he wondered if she could feel the pounding of his heart.
Her hands slipped beneath his sweater, silky smooth against his skin. It amazed him he could want a woman this much, particularly a woman belonging to his enemy. It was forbidden.
“What’s happened?”
Her voice was like a lullaby, gentle and alluring. He turned to stare into her beautiful amethyst eyes, tried to lie and found he could not.
Instead, he cupped her face upward and tasted her mouth. Immediately, the taste of her sent him into a downward spiral. His rock-hard dick throbbed painfully against the zipper of his jeans, begging for release.
His kiss hardened and a moan slipped from her lips. Stroking his hands down her sides, he cupped her ass and pulled her up against him. She threw her head back, moaning as she wrapped her legs around his waist.
Still fully clothed, he walked with her toward the bed and slammed them into the mattress. His patience was wearing thin. He wanted inside her wet pussy.
Her clothes went flying as he yanked them off. His followed suit as her tiny hands pulled and tugged mercilessly.
When she was finally naked in his arms, he lifted and placed her farther back on the bed. He knew what he wanted and he was going to take it. He nipped at the soft skin beneath her neck absorbing the salty taste of her flesh.
She was a fantasy come to life, this woman who would save him. His mouth closed over one pebbled nipple and she jerked beneath him, a groan of pleasure slipping from her lips.
Unable to resist, he nipped at the sensitive spot, knowing it would send her over the edge. Indeed, he felt the spasm of muscles beneath him. Releasing her nipple, he pushed her legs apart, settling himself between them.
His tongue licked at her hot, damp pussy, in discovery of each fold, each sensitive tip. He sucked in her clitoris and she screamed with pleasure, spasms wracking her body. She was hot and wet with desire. Lifting up, he plunged his thick cock inside her, her warmth overtaking him. She was so soft and tight as he plunged, her screams of pleasure music to his ears.
Afterwards, their bodies still entwined, a haze of sexual satisfaction cuddling them in a thick cocoon of warmth, he tried to figure out what the hell he was going to do. Of all the situations he had envisioned, he had never imagined falling for the key.
It had been the most incredible sex of her life. Raven couldn’t stop thinking about it, even as Devlin shouted commands.
When they woke from their sex-induced coma, he had demanded they work on the gate. Knowing he wouldn’t let it rest, she had agreed.
He had been adamant they make no mistakes. Thus, she was enduring a lecture about the dangers of the cave and how to avoid the oozy monsters that lived in its depths.
Either the man liked to hear himself talk, or he was really worried. She was afraid the latter was true, not that she could blame him.
“Let’s just do this,” she finally interrupted. “I promise not to awaken the guardians. Believe me, I have no desire to confront them.”
For a few moments, his dark gaze searched her face.