Meri (3 page)

At that moment, Meri shivered, not because she was cold—rather because she was suddenly hot. Very, very hot. Ademis was half naked in his traditional clan costume, and by all the seven hells, he was the sexiest man she’d ever seen. Like all Drakians, his skin was the color of warm ivory. He had a thin nose and lips and his ears were pointed without lobes. Unlike Char, who wore his silky brown hair as long as it would grow, brushing the tops of his shoulders, Ademis had his cut and styled at a much shorter length. As she’d noted earlier that day, he was taller than Char, at least seven feet if not more and much broader. Indeed, he was built more like an Aradab than any Drakian Meri had ever seen.

He had broad shoulders and a wide, hairless, muscular chest. He’d placed inch-wide copper armbands around huge biceps while thicker ones were wrapped around his wrists and muscular forearms. A thick belt of the same metal was cinched around his waist. The short leather kilt he wore displayed his muscular thighs. He wore high leather boots, but Meri had no doubt that his calves were just as muscular as any Aradab’s. No, he was not typically slender like many Drakians, which made him much sexier as far as Meri was concerned.

Meri dragged her gaze back up his body, stopping for a moment to stare at the leaping dol on his shoulder. Then she continued back up to his face and was once again caught in the heat swimming in his eyes. A shiver of desire danced up and down her spine as fire exploded outward from her stomach. Her nipples suddenly chafed against the stiff material covering them and dewy heat pooled in her groin, moistening the pearls that stretched between her legs from the front of her costume to the back. No man had ever looked at her like he was looking at her—as if he wanted to swallow her whole.

Another shiver raced up her spine at the thought of him swallowing her, eating her. Beneath the chafing material of her costume, her nipples felt as if someone were sticking pins in them.

After a few fits and starts, conversations started and her father signaled to the orchestra to begin playing again. A few couples began dancing. Ignoring everyone else around her, Meri stepped forward.

Swallowing thickly, Ademis watched as the princess glided toward him, the pearls of her costume swaying apart then back together, revealing glimpses of her breasts, her hips, her long, shapely legs. He swallowed again. When he finally dragged his tongue over her stomach, would her green skin taste as sweet as the apps in his orchards?

In the back of his mind, Ademis heard the music. Subconsciously, he knew couples were dancing with each other. He ignored them all and concentrated on the woman who stopped before him.

Grasping her hand, he lifted it to his lips.

She sucked in a deep breath when, instead of kissing her knuckles as he was sure she’d expected, he turned her hand over and kissed her palm, tickling the delicate skin with his tongue as he did so. “I am honored to meet you, Princess Merilinlalissa,” he murmured when he looked into her face. “I am Lillalistross don al’ Ademis.”

“Call me Meri,” she answered in a breathless voice. “And I know who you are.” She glanced at the tattoo on his shoulder. “Everyone on Mediria knows who you are.” Gently pulling her hand free, she stepped closer and traced his tattoo. “Why did you add the dragon?” she asked in a low voice.

“I scored higher on the engineering entrance exams to the Space Academy than anyone ever had,” he said matter-of-factly. “The Alalakans believed in me enough to fully pay for my schooling even though I wasn’t a member of their clan. As soon as I was commissioned, the clan hired me. Chardadon recently promoted me to his chief engineering officer. I owe them a great deal.”

She chuckled. “The Alalakans are one of the most astute clans on Drakan. They’ll get far more from you than you’ll ever get from them.”

Ademis lowered his voice so that only she could hear it. “Chardadon is responsible for me meeting you. Nothing I can do will ever equal the value of that.”

Her eyes widened as he laced his fingers through hers and tugged her toward the open balcony doors.

She did not try to pull away.

“Where…”

Before Meri could say anything else, Ademis pulled her around the corner and pushed her up against the wall of the palace. Resting the palms of his hands on either side of her head, he stared into her face.

Her nipples pebbling and warm moisture seeping between her legs, Meri let her gaze drift across his broad, naked torso and then looked up into his face. No man had ever been this aggressive with her. She tried to keep the excitement out of her voice as she pressed her hands against his hard chest. She was a Medirian princess and had met many of the most handsome and interesting men in the galaxy. Why then did she find this man so much more fascinating? “What do you think you’re doing?”

Lifting his right hand, he slid his fingers down along her cheek to her chin and cupped it. A smile curved his lips. “Kissing you.”

A small gasp escaped Meri as his mouth captured hers. Moaning deep in her throat, she opened her mouth against his and sucked on his tongue.

Lacing his fingers in her hair, he tilted her head so he could deepen the kiss.

Their tongues sparred.

Meri curled her fingers against his chest.

He slid his hand through the stings of pearls dangling around her legs and stroked her ass.

Her bare skin seemed to burn under his massaging fingers.

All the while, their mouths remained locked together as their teeth clashed, their tongues twisted, their breaths mingled.

Meri moaned. Never had she wanted—no, needed—to have a man so badly.

Their mouths locked together and their tongues danced with each other for what seemed like hours. She kneaded the hard muscles of his back then slid her hands up the smooth skin to bury her fingers in his hair.

Finally, he lifted his mouth from hers. As she gasped for breath, he nibbled on her chin then kissed his way along her jaw to her neck. His warm breath drifted across the delicate skin covering her gills and she shivered as prickles of heat rolled up and down her spine.

“Some…one will…see us,” Meri gasped as she canted her head to the side to give him better access.

“I don’t give a damn,” he murmured against her neck. “I want you now, right here.” He slid his hand from her ass around her hip to her stomach then slid his fingers into the hair on her mons. “Soft, so soft. Spread your legs for me.”

He didn’t care if anyone saw him making love to the king’s daughter? Meri shivered with anticipation. To her, that comment was far headier than any Drakian aphrodisiac. Biting her lip, she did so then sighed as he slipped his fingers into her wet slit. Dropping her hands from his head, she placed her palms flat against the wall behind her and arched into his hand. When he slipped his finger between the strings of pearls and pushed it inside her, she ground herself down against it.

When he brushed his thumb against her clit, she sobbed and buried her face against his shoulder.

He sucked on her neck below the delicate skin covering her gills and groaned. “By all the hells, you’re wet.”

Electric bolts of passion shimmied up and down her spine. When he pushed the pearl covering away from her already tender nipple and sucked on it, Meri pounded her fist against the wall, leaned forward and nipped his ear.

He responded by sliding a second finger into her.

Meri sobbed. By the Creator, when had she ever wanted a man so much?

Again Meri nipped his earlobe. “I want your cock, inside me, deep inside me, now!”

She spread her legs wider and lifted one to wrap around his thigh only to encounter the stiff leather of his kilt. Growling with frustration, she dropped her hands to his belt buckle and yanked. “Get this damn thing off!”

His growl was as frustrated as hers. Lifting his head from her nipple, he pulled his hand from between her legs and scooped her into his arms. “A room with a bed—where?”

Wrapping her arms around his neck, Meri nuzzled his ear. “The stairway around the corner, second door on the right.”

Grunting in acknowledgment, he sprinted along the balcony and up the staircase. Shouldering the designated door open, he kicked it shut once they were in the room and dropped her feet to the floor. Capturing her mouth with his, he kissed her long and hard. Breathing heavily, he raised his head and stared into her face. “If you do not want this, tell me to leave now.”

Panting, Meri shook her head and reached for his belt. “Get this off! Now!”

Hot passion leaping from his eyes, he grinned and jerked at the belt’s clasp. Then he yanked it again—and again after that—to no avail.

“Fucking belt!” Giving up on the belt, he slipped his fingers through the leather belt loops and jerked. In moments, the heavy leather kilt slid to the floor.

A shiver of anticipation rolled up and down Meri’s backbone as his heavy cock rose and nudged her hip.

“Oh gods, yes.” Sinking to her knees, she sucked it into her mouth.

As soon as her hot, wet mouth closed around his cock, Ademis’ balls contracted. When she nipped the tip, pleasure-pain simmered within him. Throwing back his head, he laced his fingers in her long hair, pulled it forward to brush against his stomach.

His tail twisted sinuously and he wrapped it around his calf.

His cock touched the back of her throat and Ademis shuddered. When he pulled back and thrust forward again, she took all of him. Fuck, but where did a Medirian princess learn to suck on a man’s cock like this?

Then when she swirled her tongue around his cock and sucked harder, Ademis stopped wondering where Meri learned her skill. As a matter of fact, he stopped thinking altogether and concentrated on maintaining control of his body so that he didn’t come when she sucked him deep in her throat again. His cock felt larger and harder than it ever had. His burning balls were tight against his body. His ass cheeks tightened and his stomach muscles shuddered. Even his nipples were tingling. Gods, but how he wanted to come deep in her throat. But it was too soon, too soon to come. He was Drakian! Drakians could always control their bodies and orgasms. Why was he so weak now? How was this woman able to push him to the limits of control?

Dragging her supple tongue along the bottom of his aching cock, she kissed the head, cupped her breasts and looked up. Her eyes were unfocused and her entire body was flushed. Shifting, she spread her legs. “I’m aching, Ademis. I need your cock inside me!”

A shudder racked Ademis’ body. The urge to bury his cock in her body and fuck her until she didn’t know which way was up was almost overpowering—almost. He would slow down, would calm himself! He would make this last!

Reaching down, he lifted her to her feet, turned around and pressed her back against the door. The damn bed was too far away.

If Ademis hadn’t pushed her against the door, Meri’s shaking legs wouldn’t have been able to support her body. Nor was she on her feet long before Ademis was leaning against her.

Gasping as the cold metal of the copper belt he still wore brushed against her stomach, Meri flattened her palms against his hard chest as he lifted her leg and cocked it around his hip. She shivered as he slid his cock back and forth against the slippery strings of pearls wet with the musky moisture from her cunt.

“Please, Ademis, I want you,” she moaned.

“Not as much as I want you,” he growled as he lifted her other leg. “Lock your legs around my waist.” Cupping her ass, he lifted her completely off the floor and dropped her onto his steel-hard cock.

Meri locked her hands behind his neck and sobbed into his mouth as she stretched to accommodate his thick cock. Her groan echoed around the room when he lifted her and impaled her again.

She threw back her head and banged it against the door. “Yes, oh yes. Harder. Harder.” Leaning forward, she nipped his shoulder.

He lifted her off his cock and dropped her back onto it—over and over and over.

Her ass rubbed against the door. The long strings of pearls wrapped and unwrapped themselves from his legs.

“Fuck, you’re wet. Twist your hips. That’s it. Faster.”

Meri rolled her head back and forth against the door. “Deeper! Harder!” she gasped. “Don’t stop!”

His fingers slid down the crack in her ass. The friction from the soft silk of her nipple coverings had her breasts tingling while the smooth pearls between her legs rubbed against her now overly sensitive clit. Her stomach roiled. Hot pressure built in her cunt. Her internal muscles sucked his rock-hard cock deeper and deeper into her body. It stretched her, filled her and, finally, overwhelmed her.

Meri screamed. “Now. Oh, now!”

Ademis swiveled his hips and thrust into her. His aching balls were tight against his body and his throbbing cock was ready to explode.

He tightened his tail even more around his calf when its base started to jerk. No way was he going to scare this woman away.

She was squirming and bouncing against him, the hot, wet muscles of her cunt grasping his cock far more tightly than any other woman’s ever had.

He couldn’t hold back.

When she screamed “now” he thrust into her one last time.

Stars exploded behind his eyes and whirled around his head as his hot cum erupted and spurted deep inside her—and spurted and spurted. Resting his head against the door, he leaned against her, his heavy gasps matched by hers as she shuddered against him.

His arms and legs felt like jelly when he finally lifted her off his cock.

When her feet touched the floor, she began to crumble until he pushed her against the door once more and propped her up with his body.

Her panting gasps tickled his chest.

The odor of sex and satisfaction surrounded them.

As his breathing slowed, Ademis lifted his head and looked down at his princess. Her forehead rested against his chest and her warm breath now rolled down his abdomen to his cock—his still rock-hard cock.

The memory of her mouth on it brought a smile to Ademis’ face. He owed her.