Love and Brimstone

Chapter Twenty-One

The others sensed their shift in behavior and followed at a discreet distance back to the cabins. Inside, Taz leaned forward to kiss Matthias. He gently pushed her away.

“Not yet.”

He made sure the door was securely locked. He kicked off his shoes and sat, cross-legged and fully dressed, on the double bed. He patted the bed in front of him. “Come here.”

She sat, kicking her shoes off first.

“Relax,” he whispered. “Lean against me.”

She did, finding it easier to trust him this time.

As he put his arms around her she resisted the urge to reach out to him with her mind.

“It’s okay, go ahead. I want you to. Gently, please.”

She tried, remembering how she’d looked through his eyes earlier. Maybe she could use the same imagery.

“Why can’t I hear your thoughts?”

“Because you haven’t figured out how, yet. You’re still afraid to open up to me. You should be able to hear my thoughts, as powerful as you are.”

In her mind she stood in the darkened room, looking around. The windows were before her, revealing the inside of their cabin. She turned to a door at the far end of the room in her mind and made her way to it. It was large and heavy, the doorknob old and ornate.

He read her thoughts. “Open it,” he whispered.

In her mind she reached for it. She hesitantly traced the handle, then wrapped her fingers around it and pulled. A blazing glow too intense for her to look at flooded her mind.

Her back arched and she cried out, but felt his arms around her, holding her.

“It’s okay, Taz. It’s all right. You’re safe.”

But that wasn’t in her ear—it was in her mind.

She backed out of the doorway and slammed it shut, heart pounding. She couldn’t do this.

“Yes, you can,” his voice whispered in her ear. His arms still held her, protecting her. “Trust me, Taz. You have to learn how to trust me.”

He was right and she knew it. She reached for the door handle again. He wanted her to do this, and he wouldn’t have her do something dangerous. Robertson trusted him, and he would never let her come to harm.

She had to learn to trust him.

She closed her mental eyes against the glare and opened the door, feeling the warmth of his thoughts against her face.

“It’s okay, Taz. I’ve got you.”

She felt his strength and couldn’t take it, closing the door again. This time controlled, gently.

“That’s a start,” he whispered. She collapsed against him on the bed, spent, drained.

How does he do it? How does he touch my thoughts without going crazy?

He pulled her to the bed with him, rocking her as she trembled. “It’s okay,” he soothed. “It’s okay…”

She must have slept because when she opened her eyes, his arm was protectively draped around her, and he’d pulled the sheet over them. They were both still dressed.

“Hey,” he whispered. “You okay?”

She nodded, instinctively pressing herself against him. His body seemed to fit perfectly against hers. “That was intense.”

“Yes, it was.”

“Is that what it felt like when you started reading my thoughts?”

“I’ve been doing it a lot longer. Not just yours, but I can read yours easily because of…what you did for me.”

“You said you didn’t know if I could read minds.”

“I didn’t, not for sure. Not until tonight. After I realized how powerful you are, I assumed you could. I needed to see if you could do it without an established physical…connection.”

She rolled to face him, eyes closed. She kissed him, hoping he wouldn’t pull away.

He didn’t.

She thought about how warm his emotions had felt, knowing a lot of that was about her, his intense feelings. And she wanted him.

Really wanted him.

Pressing against him she kissed him harder, moaning when his hands worked under her shirt to the waistband of her jeans.

She helped him remove his shirt while he parted her from hers, and they kissed, bare-chested, exploring with lips and tongues, passion so strong both could barely breathe.

“I want you, Matthias,” she thought, trying not to make it a command. “I really, really want you.”

He smiled. “Anastazia, your wish is my command.”

They slipped out of their pants. She thought he would take her then, but didn’t. Instead, he ran his hands over her body. He felt smooth and strong, and his fingers explored every contour and curve as if he’d known her his entire life.

She gasped when his tongue traced delicate circles across her belly. He trailed lower, working his lips down her flesh, his breath hot on her skin. He gently pushed her legs apart with his hands. Softly, he blew on her clit, making her whimper.

She wanted him. Needed him.

“Please,” she whispered. “Don’t stop.”

She felt the heat of his breath on her just before he flicked his tongue up and over her clit. She closed her eyes and moaned. This was better than she’d ever imagined it could be.

And she’d spent plenty of nights before all this happened imagining what Matthias Hawthorne might be like in bed.

He lazily circled her clit with his tongue, making her throb and sending a flood of heat to her pussy. She wanted more from him.

She didn’t care if he was reading her mind or not when he sucked her nub between his lips and lightly sucked. At the same time, he slipped two fingers into her wet cunt and fucked her with them. An explosion ripped all conscious thought from her. She plunged her fingers into his hair, holding on as he relentlessly drew her orgasm out, made it seemingly last forever.

Taz gasped for breath as she recovered. Before he could do anything, she pushed him back to the bed, turned around, and straddled him. She moaned as she went down on him, her lips swiping across his cockhead. She enjoyed the salty taste of his precum and teased his slit with her tongue, trying to coax more out of him.

Matthias wouldn’t be outdone. He clamped his hands on her hips to keep her firmly in place and buried his face in her cunt. She moaned around his cock and took him even deeper into her mouth as he fucked her pussy with his tongue. She tried to hold back, but couldn’t against his relentlessly skilled tongue. She deep throated him as orgasm after orgasm washed through her.

And still, he held himself back.

When she couldn’t take it anymore, she pushed up and escaped him. “I can’t,” she gasped. “Please, fuck me!”

He laughed and rolled on top of her, teasing her, kissing her. He pressed the head of his cock against her swollen, drenched pussy lips, not quite entering, and whispered in her ear, “Do you really want me to?”

“Yes,” she begged. “Please!”

He kissed her again. “I want you to taste me. I want you to have all of me.”

“But I tried and you wouldn’t—”

He snickered. “Not that.”

Her eyes flew open. “What?”

“Fair is fair,” he said, kissing her again.

Suddenly, she knew. As she closed her eyes and kissed him, she knew she was more powerful, even though he was older. She knew what he was offering.

And she wanted him—all of him.

Propped on one elbow, he used his other hand, gently guiding her. He tipped his head to the side, his lips near her ear, positioning her mouth against his neck for the best access. She felt his warm breath against her cheek. Between her legs his cock pressed so firmly, tantalizingly close, but not entering. She wanted him inside her, to become one with him. He resisted her attempts to thrust against him. He cupped the nape of her neck with his hand. She flicked out her tongue and lapped at his shoulder, enjoying the salty taste of his flesh.

“Just feel it,” he whispered. Then he thrust his cock hard and deep into her, drawing another moan from her. He felt so large, so hard inside her she bit down at the base of his neck where it gave way to his shoulder.

He pressed her mouth firmly against his neck as he gasped, “Harder,” and thrust again. She did, feeling his flesh give way beneath her teeth. She tasted him, and he moaned in her head as he thrust—

“Do it—oh, God, Taz, take it all from me, you don’t know how long I’ve wanted—”

—his cock deep inside her pussy. Her head spinning, his blood tasted like warm, red wine. She wrapped her legs around his waist and dug her fingers into his back, trying to become one with him as his cock fucked deep inside her, deeper than any man had ever gone. As she met each thrust, she drank, Matthias moaning as he slid deep again, and for a second she thought there was no way she would climax again. She never had before, like this—

“Don’t stop, oh please don’t stop, Anastazia!”

—and his thoughts echoed in her mind along with a staccato tempo she instinctively knew was his heartbeat—

“I belong to you, Anastazia. I am yours, only yours, and I love you—”

—and she climaxed, her cunt walls massaging his cock as she bit even harder to stifle her scream.

His entire body stiffened. He thrust one last time, and she felt more than heard his cry as he exploded inside her. Eventually his breathing slowed, and he wrapped his arms around her, rolling to his side, taking her with him. Exhausted and spent, Taz fell asleep in the safety of his arms.