Each time he pinched, her mouth fell open and she moaned his name. She was right on the edge of her orgasm now. He wanted to watch as her body reacted to his touch.
“Come for me now, Ava,” he said.
Her entire body seized up. She let go of the bedspread and grabbed his hair, tugging at him. Her eyes squeezed shut, and she bit down into her full bottom lip. “Eli!” she cried out, panting as her climax rolled through her body.
Eli watched the ecstasy on her face as her entire body shuddered. Finally, the waves of pleasure subsided. He moved to lie next to her, kissed her.
She blinked up at him. “That was incredible.” She grabbed his collar and pulled. “We’re not done, though. I still want to feel you.”
“Do you have any condoms?” He didn’t carry them when he didn’t have a girlfriend. He also thought the wear and tear of keeping them in his wallet would be detrimental to them, so he usually bought them when he was planning to stay over at his girlfriend’s house. He had never engaged in one-night stands.
But Ava wasn’t his girlfriend, and she wasn’t a typical one-night stand. The fact remained that he had not planned ahead for this.
“I have some in the dresser. I don’t need them often.”
His dragon growled, and Eli did his best to stifle it. The human part of him knew he had no right to feel jealousy toward any previous lover Ava may have entertained in her home, and yet his dragon was rigid with it. He would like to tear apart any male that had ever come near her.
“I’ll get them,” he said.
She pointed out the correct drawer, and he found them under her neatly-folded athletic clothing. He’d never seen her in anything but her nice work clothes and her scrubs, depending on the work they were doing. And then tonight, he’d seen her resplendent in her formal ball gown, but he’d never seen her in workout clothing. He took a moment to picture her firm backside in yoga pants and her pert breasts in a fitted sports bra.
He picked up the condom and went back to her. He didn’t need fantasies when he had the real thing right in front of him, ready and willing to take him into her body. She put her hand on his thigh. “You have to undress, too.”
He kissed her once more and stood up, stripping off his dress shirt and then his undershirt.
Once his shirt was off, she ran her hand over his pecs and then down over his abs. “You look amazing. So many muscles.”
“Not too bad for a science geek,” he said. She didn’t need to know that he was built like this thanks to his dragon shifter genes and he did very little to maintain it.
“Not bad at all. You’re gorgeous.” She yanked on his pants leg. “Now the rest. I want to see you, too.”
He ran his hand over her bare leg, kissing her thigh. “And you’re beautiful.”
He couldn’t help but be flattered that she wanted to see him naked. He pushed his pants off and his boxers, too, letting her look at him. Her eyes glinted as they roamed over his body, but he couldn’t wait any longer. He opened the condom and rolled it on quickly.
“I’m ready,” she said.
So was he. He crawled back on top of her and positioned his cock at her still-slick entrance. He pushed his hard cock inside, going slowly. Even after her orgasm, she was still so tight. He watched her face again, gauging her reaction. He paused as soon as he saw her wince.
He brushed her hair back from her face. He did not want to hurt her. “Are you okay?”
“Don’t stop,” she said through clenched teeth.
“You’re sure?”
She nodded. She sucked in a deep breath. “Absolutely.” She put her small hands on his shoulder. “I want this with you. So much.”
He didn’t pull out, but he kissed her neck and pushed his hand between her legs, rubbing over her clit again. He needed to get her aroused again; it would help her relax.
She smiled at him. “Your cock is big.”
He grinned back at her. He’d heard that before from women. “Is it too big?”
“No.” She wrapped her fingers around his biceps. “Keep going.”
He moved inside her, pushing his erection further into her body until her walls began to relax enough to accept his length.
Being inside her was heaven.
Mine.
His dragon was insistent, but Eli was used to ignoring him. Eli was a scientist and an academic. He could control himself. He could control his dragon. For Ava, he could act like a human, even while making love to her. She was the first human he’d ever connected with like this, and the thought of her intoxicated him.
But she was human. And there was nothing he could do to change that.
He would enjoy their time together and quit wishing things were different.
He lowered his body closer to hers and began to thrust. The grimace was gone from her face, and now she looked blissful as he kept up a steady pace, moving inside her. She lifted her legs, wrapping them around him.
Feeling her smooth skin against him set him off. “Ava,” he breathed, and then he went over the edge, too. His climax slammed into him, sending sparks throughout every nerve in his body.
8
Ava
She woke up suddenly, aware all at once that she wasn’t alone.
Next to her lay a gorgeous man.
Eli.
Her boss.
She’d slept with him.
He had his back to her, and she took a moment to just stare at him. His dark hair lay on the pillow. His tan skin glowed against her stark white bedsheets. He had slept bare-chested and, wow, the sheet was pooled at his waist, showing off his sculpted back.
She’d had no idea the chiseled body he’d been hiding under his lab coat every day.
Last night,
