“Do you?” Pyx’s voice is all sexy rumbly yet kinda cautiously shaky. “Do you wanna do all of that?”
My eyesāthe spineless wimpsāare still locked on the workbench. Which means that I catch the trembling in Pyx’s hand as he sets down whatever gear-shaft-looking thingy that he’d been holding.
“Because, you know, Luna,” he says, and it just cuts me when Pyx’s voice sounds like thisāuncertain and vulnerable, “I’ll do anything or try anything you wanna do.”
Sex. I wanna do sex with you.
“I⦔ he exhales heavily again, “really wanna do that, too.”
If you think I’m gonna stumble all over the place, trying to shoving my foot in my mouth because, once again, I’m talking out loudā¦
Well, you’d be wrong.
When I let my lips off the leash, they freaking race straight to the finish line. So excuse me while I give my subconsciously yammering jabber a hearty high-five for stepping up to the starting line and getting my butt into this raceā¦
ā¦a race to, um, get into Pyx’s pantsā¦
So, yeah. I’m gonna do sex with Pyx because all thisā¦
ā¦the distractionsā¦
ā¦the excusesā¦
ā¦the stallingā¦
ā¦needs to be freaking fixed!
I whip my dress over my head. “We’re doing this!”
Turning, I stride over to the stack of pallets in the corner⦠of the caveā¦
Why, yes. My freaking cave does have a freaking corner!
āOh!ā My shebits purr in approval. āShe’s serious this time. Just look at our butt. She’s shimmying our butt!ā
You bet I’m shaking and baking my backside. This is freaking it! I’m having sex with Pyx. I’m gonna get fully and officially mated so thatā
“Don’t move, Luna.”
I freeze.
Caught mid-crawl across the pallets, I’m on my hands and knees…
I am so excited to announce that my amazing critique partner will be joining me LIVE ONLINE to chat about Rein: A Tidefall Novel!
At the Abduct Me SFRCon last weekend, Rein was the one book that I didn’t get to talk about with readers. I kinda ran outta time because I ramble. A lot. But, good news! Since my critique partner will be joining us, she’ll be sure to rein me in.š
“Luna.ā Pyx squeezes his eyes shut and groans, sounding kinda in agony and definitely aroused. “Do all of that.ā
“All ofā¦?ā
“All of it. Everything you just said.ā
Everything I justā¦
Iām yapping out loud.
Again.
And thatās great. Wanna know why? Because Iām totally gonna do everything I just said. This is it. Totally. Freaking. It.
Iām already pulling up my dress, but my legs are getting tangled up in the skirt. Iām kinda kicking wildly at Pyx, which I really donāt mean to be doingā¦
Still, Iām determined that this time, itās so gonna happen.
“Move.ā I huff as I try to lift my butt off the mattress. “Up. Off.ā
Yeah. I suck at giving directions.
But Pyx, god bless him, rears up and scoots back.
As Iām wrangling with my stupid skirt, I rake my eyes over his chest.
I look at my hands, forcing them to not curl and compress the scutites of my armor again.
When Luna’d kissed me, I’d fought to remain hyperawareāto make the moment lastābut everything about her had been too distracting.
Too consuming.
I’d been determined toĀ lap upĀ every scent and taste molecule of her arousal, sucking greedily on her lips andĀ nipping atĀ the warm column of her neck. The more I’d devoured her, the more I wanted her. My appetiteādĀ spun into a frenzy, driving me to seek the tantalizing source of her arousal and feast from her core. Then the sound of ripping clothĀ hadĀ slammed into me harder than a pulse blast.
I yelp and spin around. Pyxās outta the bolthole. Heās staring at me, not as if Iām insane for bolting outta the bolthole, but with more of his resolve-weakening tenderness and concern.
Oh, and heās dressed in pants. Just pants. Nothing else.
Please. Someone. Help me.
I shake my head, trying to toss out thoughts of climbing him like a candycoated cliffside. āYou shouldnāt be up here!ā
Yeah, I sound kinda harsh, but Iām looking out for him. I mean, heās got on the soft, buttery pants that the Akupara wear when inside the Bale. Only, heās not inside the Bale.
Pyx shrugs. āBut youāre up here.ā
I gape at him. Blink. Gape some more.
That canāt possibly be his reasonāābecause Iām up hereāāfor being outta his armor, while being outside of the Bale, instead of being safely concealed in my bolthole. If it is, then he needs another dang reason!
I wait, tilting my head and raising my brows expectantly. Heās gotta have more for me than that. Heās just got to. Because Iām not worth risking his peopleās secrets.
He shifts his eyes away, then back to me. āSo, Iām up here, too.ā
Me. Heās up hereātaking an unbelievable riskāfor me.
Oh crap. I really do wanna climb him like a candycoated cliffsideā¦
Pyx runs his intense gaze over me. āYou wonāt hurt me, Luna.ā
Right. Back to the present. Thereās an Akupara warrior on his knees before meāstripped of his armor and begging me to touch himābecause itās something that Iād asked him to do.
Iām such a freaking idiot.
Heās right where I want him, but now I donāt know what to do with himā¦
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