Free NIGHT EMBRACE by Sherrilyn Kenyon Page B

life.
    "It wasn't so bad."
    "Ooo," she said teasingly, wrinkling her nose. "Mr. Tough Guy."
    "Would you rather I say it hurt?"
    "It never hurts to admit that you feel pain."
    "Baby," he said gently. "I don't feel pain. Ever."
    She looked at him in surprise. "Really? Not even a little?"
    He shook his head as he clamped his emotions down. He didn't dare allow himself to feel the pain of all he'd lost. Even after all these centuries, it would destroy him.
    "It's a waste of time and energy. It also drains the mind and makes it weary."
    "But without pain, you can't have joy. It's the balance that makes us appreciate the extremes."
    Now that was a deep concept. Very deep, considering they were sitting bare-assed on her bed. "Do you always philosophize while you're naked with a man?"
    She nipped his shoulder impishly with her teeth. "It's rather hard to find a man who's willing to do that."
    He dropped his gaze down to her breasts. "I imagine it would be a lot easier if you didn't look so damned good without your clothes on."
    She moaned as he dipped his head and took one of her breasts into his mouth. She lay back on the bed, drawing him with her.
    Talon sighed at the feel of her puckered areola under his tongue. He brushed his hand down the curve of her hip, over her soft thigh, and through the moist tangle of curls until he could touch the part of her he craved the most.
    She groaned and shivered as he carefully separated the tender folds until he could tease her cleft.
    Oh yeah, he wanted this part of her. Wanted to see her head thrown back against the pillows and hear her scream out loud while she came for him.
    Sunshine clutched his head to her breast as she opened her legs wider, giving him access to her body. She ached and throbbed at the feel of his hand stroking her. And when he plunged his fingers inside, she cried out.
    Her body burned for his in a most unbelievable way. It was hot and fierce and made her tremble with need. She'd never wanted a man as much as she wanted this one. She wanted to pull him close to her. Closer and closer until they truly melted into one being.
    Unable to wait any longer, she reached down between their bodies so that she could guide him deep inside her.
    They groaned in unison.
    Sunshine arched her back, drawing him in even deeper.
    He was so hard and hot, so full. She'd never felt anything better than him filling her.
    He sat back on his legs and pulled her hips so that he could slide into her, slowly, deeply. It was a rolling rhythm that made her writhe from the intense pleasure of his intimate strokes.
    She stared at him as he watched her with a tender look on his face.
    "You are beautiful," he breathed, rolling his hips against hers and thrusting himself even deeper and harder inside her.
    "You too," she said as she clutched at his knees.
    His eyes darkened as he watched her and he gave himself over to their union. She'd never had a man make love to her like this. It was as if he were nothing but sex. As if he could feel nothing but her body.
    He had such a way with his hips as he slid himself in and out, hard and deep. He teased her with his hands, his fingers stroking her in time to his thrusts. The pleasure of his touch permeated every fiber of her being.
    And when she came, the orgasm was so intense that she screamed.
    Talon growled at the sound of her ecstasy as her body clutched his. Crying out, she reached up and pulled him down on top of her.
    Then, she did the strangest thing of all… she nuzzled his neck and face, raining kisses all over his cheek and shoulder.
    Talon froze.
    Her arms held him tight against her as she wrapped her entire body around his. The tenderness of her touch and actions pricked him, breaking through the chokehold he kept on his emotions.
    It was as if she really cared for him. As if he meant something to her. As if she were making love
with
him.
    Only one woman had ever held him like this…
    He could barely breathe. For the first time in fifteen hundred