Free CarnalPromise by Elle Amour

wanted to laugh at the realization but he knew she
wouldn’t understand. He felt exposed, vulnerable, but he would never let her
know that. They had no trust between them. That was obvious. She wouldn’t
divulge her deeper needs to him and he’d be damned if he’d expose his. Yet,
here he was, a man disciplined by war, disappointment and logic, taking a woman
he hardly knew and he had allowed her to threaten his heart?
    Yet he had. And somehow it was more than his body that knew
this. From the first, his soul had touched, and had been touched, by hers. Yet
she couldn’t see that.
    Because she had something to prove. But what? And could he
really afford to give his love freely to her? He’d made that mistake once
before.
    She moaned against his mouth and placed gentle pecks on his
chin then his neck. He closed his eyes, savoring the touch, the sounds of her
satisfaction, the warmth of her exhalations on his skin. He rubbed his mouth and
chin against her temple then kissed the strands of hair that lay there. “The
way you feel in my arms is heaven.” His penis flicked against her.
    She glanced at him, an impish smile on her face. “I think so
too.” She nipped the skin of his chest and slid down him farther. Pressing her
palms against him, she asked him without words to raise his body to accommodate
her.
    He obliged, giving her just enough room, letting the warmth
of her body heighten his need for her as she slipped farther down.
    “Jinn.” He rose to his elbows to watch her, still wary of
her intentions, even though the binding need gripped him. His voice caught in
his throat as she grasped his rod and stroked.
    Her sultry breath caressed the underside of the tip. “You
remember when you claimed me?”
    “How could I forget?” he rasped. “You almost unmanned me
before I could properly complete the ritual.”
    She giggled. He liked the sound of her happiness. “I just
wanted to get away from you before you did. You were my enemy then. At least I
thought so. But I have no intention of doing that now. I like this piece of you
too much.”
    She gazed at him. Her lascivious smile made the blood rush
through his veins. His penis hardened and jumped in her hands.
    She licked the underside once, from the base to the slit at
the top. “Anyway, I told you I wanted to do this but I suppose we didn’t have
the time.”
    “Decidedly not.” He shot her a playful frown, remembering
how he’d cornered her in the Earther woods, claiming her with their people’s
shared rite, caressing her, fucking her, rushing as much as he could before any
of her compatriots found them.
    “’Course afterwards I had a taste but not enough to enjoy
it.” She giggled again then lapped the head. After circling the tender skin
with her tongue, she grazed her teeth over the slit on the underside and slowly
sucked the tip into her sweet mouth.
    His body quivered. “In all that’s holy…” That a wisp of a
woman could do this to him.
    No, not a wisp. Slender, yes, but she had a power of her
own, one that could conquer him if he wasn’t careful. More than that, she had a
reputation as a ferocious warrior. He’d seen her fight, felt the results of one
of her attacks. He wouldn’t forget that. As he couldn’t forget the point that,
at the moment, she had him by the balls. Literally. Even so, it was the gentle
part of her that could undo his soul—if he wasn’t careful. “I’m trusting you,
Jinn,” he croaked.
    She eyed him then a laugh burst from her lips. “A big man
like you worried about a little girl like me? That’s funny.”
    He arched a brow at her. “Not so funny when you’re on the
receiving end of your contempt.”
    The twinkle in her eye changed to a serious gleam. “I don’t
want to hurt you.” She ran her nails upward along the inside of his leg.
Grasping his scrotum, she massaged it and closed her lips against the tip to
his rod, slowly opening her mouth to suck down on it, her teeth kneading the
head with just