Free Daughters of Lyra: Heart of an Assassin by Felicity Heaton

The move put her off balance
and she crashed to the floor with him on top of her.

    “ Natalia?”
Ixion said in an urgent tone. She opened her eyes to see an
overwhelming amount of concern in his. “Are you hurt?”

    Natalia shook her head and
blushed when she realised that he was on top of her, between her
thighs, her leg still hooked over his backside.

    Before she could even
think of something to say, his mouth had claimed hers again, his
kiss fierce and demanding. She responded as violently, desperate to
taste him and feel him against her.

    His hand skimmed up her
thigh, pulling the skirt of her dress with it, and then moved down
again. The next time he touched her, it was with only her stockings
between them. His hand was warm as it stroked her thigh, making her
tremble with need. She responded by sliding her tongue along his,
brushing it over his teeth and then nipping at his lower lip. He
moaned again, his breath hot against her face.

    “ Natalia,” he
husked and a shiver danced through her.

    She liked the way he
normally said her name but she loved the way he said it in the heat
of the moment, breathed soft against her skin and telling her of
the depth of his passion and hunger.

    Natalia raised her knee
and his hand slid lower, grazing her backside. He propped himself
up on his other elbow and lowered his head to her breasts again.
The feel of his tongue swirling around her nipple was torture but
one she willingly submitted to. She tilted her head back and arched
her body into his, forcing her breast against his mouth. He wrapped
his lips around the pert nub and sucked.

    A moan escaped her, loud
in the empty club.

    “ Natalia,” he
whispered against her flesh again and she ran her fingers into his
hair.

    He disappeared. She
frowned and then her eyes widened when he pressed a kiss to her
inner thigh.

    Iskara.

    He was going to kiss her
there? Renie hadn’t mentioned anything about that kind of
thing.

    Natalia’s breathing
quickened, anticipation making her tremble, and she stared at the
ceiling. Waiting. Ixion placed a trail of kisses along her thigh,
marking his path to the centre of her flesh. She gasped when he
pressed a kiss to the thin silk of her underwear, directly over her
mound, and then groaned when he laved her clit through
it.

    A wave of pin pricks
chased over her skin and she couldn’t stop herself from reacting,
from lifting her knees and letting her legs fall open. He licked
again, rougher this time, and she flung her head back.

    “ Ixion,” she
whispered and her fingers scrambled for purchase on the
floor.

    He groaned against her, as
though the sound of her uttering his name so passionately had
thrilled him.

    A cold draft caressed her
backside when he pulled her underwear off and her heart fluttered.
He was really going to kiss her there.

    She tried to prepare
herself but nothing she could have done would have made her ready
for how it felt when his tongue found her slick flesh again. He ran
his tongue up the length of her and swirled it around her clit,
sending jolts through her and making her whole body tighten. The
warm feeling inside her abdomen turned to fire and an ache filled
her, a desperate need to find release.

    He licked down to her
opening and then back up again. It was maddening. She clawed at the
dirty floor, writhing against him, unable to stop herself from
thrusting herself against his mouth as he suckled and licked her
clit. The feeling within her reached bursting point.

    Ixion flicked her pert nub
with his tongue.

    Stars exploded in front of
her eyes.

    Her already rough
breathing turned choppy.

    Her heart
hammered.

    Ixion appeared above her,
licking his lips. She grabbed him around the back of his neck,
dragged him down to her, and kissed the breath out of him, tasting
herself on his lips. He moaned into her mouth and she answered with
one of her own. Her whole body felt lax but as she kissed him, his
hands moved over her body—skimming her thighs one