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

moment and
caressing her breasts the next—reigniting the hunger she felt for
him.

    She wanted him.

    She wanted to give all of
herself to him.

    Her hands slid down his
sides and settled on his backside. It was taut beneath her fingers,
the muscular globes delighting her. She could easily imagine how
beautiful he would be when naked, but the room was cold even with
her clothes on. She definitely couldn’t imagine him wanting to
strip off for her.

    Gaining some courage from
the eager way that he was kissing her, she brought her left hand
down and around his hip. She tensed the moment her fingers found
the hard evidence of his arousal and then relaxed a little when
Ixion moaned. She kept her hand firm against him when he thrust,
rubbing his erect length against her palm. Bigger than expected.
Renie hadn’t said much about that either, only that males varied.
Her tutor had said even less than that. It was a miracle Natalia
even knew that some species’ males had parts like this.

    Ixion moaned and shuddered
against her, his lips leaving hers. His face was beautiful—his
eyebrows knit into a tight frown of concentration, his eyes closed,
and his lips parted as he breathed roughly. Whatever he felt when
she stroked his cock, it felt good enough to make him want to just
stop everything and take it all in, to relish the
sensations.

    Her fingers found the
clasps of his trousers and she struggled to undo them. He tensed
and she thought that he would stop her, but instead he leaned to
one side and helped her. She craned her neck, looking down the
length of their bodies, eager to see him in all his glory and to
see what she did to him. She had aroused him. She had made him want
her. Now all she had to do was make him go through with it. Renie
had warned her about that bit. It was going to hurt and he was
going to know.

    He startled her out of her
thoughts by taking hold of her hand and guiding it to him. She
wrapped her fingers around the rigid shaft and watched as he moved
her hand up and down its length, stroking him. It felt good.
Clearly it felt good to Ixion too because he moaned with each
stroke of her hand.

    Her gaze settled on his
hard cock.

    She wanted that inside her
now. She wanted them to be one at last.

    Bringing her hand down,
she forced him to follow, and raised her knees again. Ixion’s eyes
shot to hers and she stared into them, wanting him to see how much
she needed this and wanted him. She wouldn’t regret it. Her heart
was his and her body would be too.

    He lowered his hips,
removed her hand from his length, and guided himself to her slick
opening. She tried to relax but it all happened so fast that she
didn’t have a chance. Before she could even draw a deep breath,
Ixion had buried his length inside her. She bit her lip to stifle
her cry as pain shot through her and closed her eyes, squeezing
tears from them.

    “ Natalia.” He
sounded more than a little shocked.

    Did he think that she had
visited the pleasure planet like Renie had? Most of her family
either lost their virginity there or had some lovers from the
planet come to them. She hadn’t wanted that. She had wanted her
first time to be with someone she loved.

    “ Sorry,” she
said through clenched teeth.

    Ixion peppered her face
with kisses, erasing her tears with his lips and thumbs, and kept
still inside her.

    “ You should
have told me, sweet Natalia,” he whispered against her
skin.

    He would have stopped her
if she had. He would have started spouting stuff about her being a
princess and him not being worthy. She hadn’t wanted that. He was
worthy. He was the only man she would ever love.

    The pain began to subside
and she opened her eyes, finding herself staring into the beautiful
purple depths of his.

    Lifting her hand, she
stroked his cheek and then smiled. “You would have
stopped.”

    The look in his eyes said
that she was right.

    “ Don’t stop… I
want you to have this… me… like this.” She was close to